There were 180 transactions totaling $310 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
🏆 Residential: The top home sale to hit records also marks a record for Brooklyn so far this year. A full-floor penthouse and three parking spaces at the Fortis Property Group’s Olympia Dumbo at 30 Front Street for $16.3 million. The buyer was NY Gramps, LLC. The unit spans about 5,000 square feet and has five bedrooms, four full bathrooms and a home office, along with 360-degree views and a private terrace. The initial asking price for the unit, back in 2022, was $19.5 million; its last asking price was $17.5 million.
🏆 Commercial: A Bank of America branch at 166 Berry Street, also known as 103 North Fourth Street, in North Williamsburg was the top CRE deal to come online in the Big Apple. The 6,200-square-foot, one-story store sold for $33.5 million. The seller was an LLC tied to Jeff Sutton’s Wharton Properties, and the buyer was an LLC tied to Efficiency Capital Advisors, a Japanese firm. Wharton Properties had owned the building since 2019, when the company purchased the property for $20 million. The firm then sold a stake in it in 2021 to a group of Korean real estate investors.
📊 Commercial: A commercial condo at 126 Waverly Place in Greenwich Village traded for $23 million. The sellers were companies tied to Great Neck, New York-based Philips International. The buyer was an LLC linked to DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners.
📊 Commercial: In Soho, a vacant plot of land at 144 Spring Street sold for $14 million. The seller was an affiliate of Azzurro Capital, which had acquired the site in 2012 for $24.7 million. The buyer in the latest sale was an LLC tied to City Urban Realty. Sitting at the corner of Wooster Street, the lot has been vacant for about eight decades and measures 1,600 square feet.
📊 Commercial: A one-story commercial building at 481 Kings Highway in Gravesend traded for $6.8 million. The seller of the 6,800-square-foot property was an LLC managed by Jeff Sutton’s Wharton Properties. The buyer was 481 Kings Property LLC. The building last sold in 2020 for $3.2 million.
📊 Residential: Anthony Roncalli parted with a 1,900 condo at 39 West 23rd Street in the Flatiron District for just under $5 million — the asking price — or roughly $2,600 per square foot. The buyer was Yuchen Fu. Roncalli had owned the unit since 2024, when he purchased it for $4.6 million. The half-floor pad has three bedrooms and three bathrooms; it went on sale in January. Compass’ Ian Slater, Eduardo Martinez and Michael Koeneke had the listing.
By the Numbers: These are the largest U.S. counties with the greatest housing risks
While the country grapples with an affordability crisis, some regions are more at risk than others. Among the counties with more than 1 million residents, a cluster of residential markets in California, Pennsylvania and Illinois has surfaced as the nation’s most vulnerable.
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