There were 227 transactions totaling $385 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, July 21.
🏆Commercial: Aston of Bowry LLC bought the apartment building at 312 Bowery in NoHo for $16.7 million, representing the priciest commercial sale to hit records. Bremen House Inc. was the seller. The four-story building has 22 units covering nearly 22,500 square feet.
🏆Residential: The most expensive recorded home sale was on the Upper West Side, where a sponsor unit at Naftali Group’s The Henry at 211 West 84th Street sold for $14.8 million. RYA Holdings LLC was the buyer. The five-bed, five-and-a-half bath home measures nearly 5,000 square feet. Alexa Lambert, Alison Black and Shelton Smith with Compass had the listing.
📊Residential: Naftali Group sold another sponsor unit, at 255 East 77th Street on the Upper East Side, for $10.4 million to HJ77 LLC. The condo spans 3,300 square feet and has five bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms. The unit went on the market in October 2024 with an asking price of $10.2 million. Compass’ Alexa Lambert, Alison Black and Shelton Smith had the listing.
📊Residential: In Gramercy Park, the home at 143 East 19th Street changed hands for $8.8 million. Alan Boss and his wife, Helene Rottblatt, were the sellers and 143 E 19th LLC was the buyer. Standing three stories tall, the home is 4,100 square feet with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
📊Residential: Mario De Benedetti and Alessandra Dacco, founders of restaurant and florist boutique Il Florista, parted with a co-op at 52 West 9th Street in Greenwich Village for $7.2 million. The buyer was Shrimp Interests LLC. The unit, a triplex, occupies the top three floors of a 25-foot-townhouse and has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a private terrace. The co-op’s most recent asking price was $7.8 million. Sotheby’s International Realty’s Harry Nasser had the listing.
📊Residential: Amy Falls, the chief investment officer of Northwestern University, and Hartley Rogers, executive co-chairman of private-markets asset manager Hamilton Lane, scooped up a co-op at 770 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side for $7 million. The seller was the estate of Marsha Von Mueffling Crawford. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom unit went on the market in February with an asking price of $7.8 million. Jill Roosevelt with Brown Harris Stevens represented the seller.
By the Numbers: South posts greatest mortgage rate drop amid cooling housing market
Mortgage rates have climbed steadily for five months, but they’re still below where they stood a year ago. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the South.
On average, Southern states experienced a more than 2.2 percent decline in their average 30-year mortgage rate, according to a TRD Data analysis of 30-year mortgage rate data as of July 15, 2025 and July 16, 2026 from Investopedia. (Rates are for new purchase loans with a down payment of at least 20 percent and a credit score of 680-739.)
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