There were 104 transactions totaling $121 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14.
🏆Residential: Tribeca had the priciest recorded residential deal in New York. Andrew and Helen Dyson sold a condo at 30 Park Place for $6.4 million to Hunter Hughes and Anya Chaudri. The Dysons had purchased the 2,600-square-foot unit in 2018 for $8 million. The latest sale breaks down to $2,500 per square foot.
🏆Commercial: The most expensive commercial transaction to hit records was on the Lower East Side, where Anchor Realty Corp. shed the Bowery Grand Hotel at 143 Bowery for $8.4 million. The buyer was 143 Bowery LLC, tied to real estate investor Shaul Ashkenazi. Anchor Realty Corp. had owned the 12,100-square-foot, five-story property for decades.
📊Residential: Gregory Buhay, a financial executive, sold a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath condo at 565 Broome Street in Hudson Square for $4 million. The buyers were Andrew MacArthur and Millie Perry. Buhay had owned the unit since 2019, when he bought it for $3.5 million. The condo measures 1,700 square feet, pricing the latest deal at $2,400 per square foot. Its last asking price was $4.2 million. R New York’s Jacques Cohen had the listing.
📊Residential: Paul and Jennifer Diamond parted with a 1,700-square-foot condo at 1438 Third Avenue on the Upper East Side for $3.2 million — its asking price. The buyer was RH & MK LLC. The Diamonds had owned the pad since 2007, when they purchased it for just under $2 million. The unit, which has three bedrooms and three bathrooms, went on the market in April with Compass’ Adrian Radomski, Nicholas Lounsbury, Justin Hopwood and Julio Izquierdo.
📊Residential: Attorney Andrew Rotstein and writer and professor Stephanie Browner shed a co-op at 296 Sterling Place in Prospect Heights for $2.5 million. The buyers were consultants Frazer Dorey and Breanna Paynter. The sellers paid just under $2 million for the unit, which measures 1,300 square feet and has three bedrooms and two bathrooms, in 2019. Matthew Tully with Hauseit LLC had the listing, which went live in April for $2.3 million.
By the Numbers: Manhattan leads NYC retail recovery as vacancy rates dip
New York City’s retail real estate market is continuing its slow rebound after the pandemic caused sky-high vacancy rates, with progress varying wildly across the Big Apple.
Manhattan saw the greatest year-over-year drop in its retail vacancy rate, of 105 basis points, to 13.2 percent in the second quarter of 2026, according to a TRD Data analysis of metrics from LiveXYZ, a New York City retail real estate database. Manhattan’s vacancy rate has grown closer to 12.8 percent, what it was in the first quarter of 2020, right as the pandemic took hold around the globe.
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