Lily Allen’s townhouse tops Brooklyn’s luxury market

27 January 2026

Lily Allen and David Harbour’s breakup townhouse topped the most expensive contracts signed in Brooklyn last week.

The deal for the Carroll Gardens home asking $7.3 million was the priciest of 20 contracts — eight condos, one co-op and 11 houses — signed from Jan. 20 to Jan. 25 for a total contract volume of $69 million, according to Compass’ weekly report of contracts for homes asking at least $2 million.

Last week, Brooklyn’s luxury market saw 10 deals signed for a total contract volume of $33 million.

Allen and Harbour bought the home for $3.4 million in 2021 and listed it for $8 million on Oct. 26, 2025, two days after Allen released “West End Girl,” an album detailing the dissolution of her relationship with Harbour. The pair dropped the price to $7.3 million at the start of this year.

Compass’ Carl Gambino had the listing and Compass’ Todd Lewin brought the buyer.

The late 19th-century brownstone spans 22 feet wide and has five bedrooms, three full bathrooms, three fireplaces and a gym in the finished basement. The full-floor primary suite has a fireplace and dual walk-in closets, while the garden level has another guest suite.

The private backyard has a sauna and cold plunge.

The second priciest contract signed last week was for a Carroll Gardens townhouse at 16 2nd Street asking $5.5 million.

The home spent just 14 days on the market, a seeming testament to over two decades of tweaks and renovations that seller, architect James Biber, had undertaken since 2002.

Biber and his late wife Carin Goldberg, known for designing Madonna’s debut album cover, gut renovated the house, which Biber described as “kind of a wreck” in an interview with Robb Report about the work.

Later, they converted the top floor to an open-plan living space and updated the facade and landscaping of the front and rear gardens. Two more rounds of refreshes took place in 2020 and 2025. “It is now as nearly perfect as it can be,” Biber said.

The work kept intact much of the home’s 1875 character, including pine hardwood floors, window moldings, plaster work and a central staircase, while air rights mean the future owner can expand even further on Biber’s work.

Corcoran’s Dana Power and Falcon Griffith had the listing.

The homes put into contract last week had a median asking price of $3.3 million, spent an average of 181 days on the market and had an average discount of 3 percent.