Barbara Streisand’s former Upper East Side townhouse snagged the priciest signed contract in Manhattan last week.
The mansion at 49 East 80th Street, asking $16 million, was the most expensive of 22 homes in the borough asking $4 million or more to land inked deals between Aug. 18 and Aug. 24, according to Olshan Realty’s weekly report. The total was on par with the previous period, which logged 23 pending deals.
Streisand paid $420,000 for the 9,200-square-foot home in 1970. The five-story, 25-foot-wide property hit the market last June asking $18 million.
The Art Deco-style townhouse, built in 1930, has eight bedrooms, five bathrooms, a landscaped garden and three terraces. It also features an elevator and six wood-burning fireplaces.
Corcoran’s Cathy Franklin and Alexis Bodenheimer had the listing.
The second most expensive home to find a buyer was a co-op in Carnegie Hill, with an asking price just under $13 million. The pending deal price was down significantly from its last sale price of $16.5 million when retired advertising executive Dick Tarlow and his wife, Kristin Kehrberg, bought it roughly nine years ago.
The 19th-floor apartment at 1050 Fifth Avenue was once two separate units, which were combined and renovated in 2011. It hit the market last March asking $17 million, and though it spent more than a year searching for a new owner, the signed contract came after a bidding war.
The home spans 4,000 square feet and has four bedrooms and four bathrooms. It also features three terraces and views of Central Park.
Douglas Elliman’s Anne Easton had the listing.
Of the 22 properties to find buyers, 17 were condos, three were co-ops and two were townhouses.
The homes’ combined asking price was $151 million, for an average price of $6.9 million and a median of $5.6 million. The typical home spent more than two years on the market and was discounted 17 percent from the original listing price.
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