There were 175 transactions totaling $1.2 billion recorded in New York City over the previous 24 hours as of 4:00 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 5.
🏆 Residential: The priciest residential deal recorded in New York was in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill. An affiliate of Jersey City-based Dixon Advisory offloaded a townhouse at 272 Lafayette Avenue for $4.8 million. The buyer was Lafayette Asset Holdings LLC. The six-bedroom, five-and-a-half bath brownstone, which has a wet bar and hot tub/cold plunge on the roof, hit the market in June for just under $5 million. Brown Harris Stevens’ Ari Harkov, Kerrie Lynch and Warner Lewis represented the seller.
🏆 Commercial: The top commercial transaction recorded in the Big Apple was in Midtown. Aya Acquisitions took over the Cassa Hotel at 66 West 45th Street, which was in foreclosure, for $54.7 million. The former owner was HNA Group, which had taken out $63 million in financing from Chang Hwa Commercial Bank and Hua Nan Commercial Bank. The Chinese banks filed a foreclosure case in 2021.
📊 Commercial: In the Flatiron District, where a six-story office building sold for $13.2 million. The sellers of the property at 174 Fifth Avenue were a trust tied to Willy and Carol Sander and Ida Tice. The buyer was an LLC. The property spans about $21,500 square feet, pricing the deal at roughly $600 per square foot. The building appears to have been in the Sander and Tice families since at least the 1970s.
📊 Commercial: A roughly 15,000-square-foot parking lot along South Second Street between Wythe and Kent Avenues in South Williamsburg traded for $9 million. The seller was a company tied to Stephanie Eisenberg that had owned the property for decades. The buyer was an affiliate of Iconiq Capital.
📊 Commercial: In East Williamsburg, a two-family townhouse at 47 Orient Avenue sold for $3.9 million — its asking price. The four-story property is 23 feet wide and has a landscaped garden. The buyer was Dono 47, LLC, and the seller was an LLC managed by Daniel Zuckerman. Douglas Elliman’s Nadia Bartolucci and Alex Tsao had the listing, which went live in May. The building last traded in 2013 for $1.8 million.
📊 Residential: Charles and Tamera Pompea — he was once CEO of Primary Steel — parted with a three-bedroom duplex condominium at 140 East 63rd Street for $4.1 million. The buyers were Travis Epes, retired general counsel at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and Laurel Coben, an investment banker, The unit spans just over 2,900 square feet; the transaction pencils out to just under $1,400 per square foot. The Pompeas, who purchased the pad in 2007 for $6.1, put the condo on the market in May for $4.3 million. Corcoran’s Nathalie Wang, Nicole Hechter and Asaf Bar-Lef had the listing.
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