The Metropolitan Museum of Art is trading a pair of townhouses on the Upper East Side.
The museum snagged an inked deal for the two homes on East 82nd Street last asking $28 million, according to Olshan Realty’s weekly report. The duo were the priciest of 25 Manhattan properties asking $4 million or more to find buyers last week, down from 29 in the previous period.
The buyer signed a contract just 16 days after the homes, Nos. 6-8, hit the market. The buyer won a bidding war and agreed to pay above the asking price for the properties, which the buyer plans to convert into one single-family residence. The combined townhouse would stretch 41 feet wide and span 12,600 square feet.
The Met has owned the Gilded Age mansions for nearly 50 years. No. 8 also once belonged to George Schaefer, a brewing mogul who purchased it in 1890. The Schaefer family began producing beer in Brooklyn in the 1840s.
Corcoran’s Carrie Chiang and Andres Perea-Garzon had the listing.
The second most expensive home to enter contract was a condo at JDS Development and Property Markets Group’s 111 West 57th Street. Unit 54 last asked $21 million, down from the just under $27 million the developers sought when the building began marketing off floor plans nine years ago.
The apartment spans 4,200 square feet and has three bedrooms and three bathrooms. It also features 14-foot ceilings and views of Central Park. Amenities in the supertall include a fitness center, pool, terrace and private dining room.
The Billionaires’ Row tower has notched 49 closed sales out of 60 units for an average of $4,500 per square foot. Unit 54 is the 12th condo in the building to land among the top two contracts in weekly reports so far this year.
The Nikki Field Team with Sotheby’s International had the listing.
Of the 25 properties, 16 were condos, six were co-ops and three were townhouses.
The homes’ combined asking price was $217 million, for an average price of $8.7 million and a median of $6.5 million. The typical home spent more than a year and a half on the market and was discounted 9 percent from the original listing price.
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