There were 253 transactions totaling $894 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026.
🏆 Residential: The top home sale to hit records was on the Upper West Side. Gary Barnett’s Extell Development Company sold another sponsor unit at its ultraluxury tower at 50 West 66th Street for $18.1 million. The buyer was Rise Park LLC. The 2,800-square-foot pad has three bedrooms and three and a half baths. The sale works out to about $6,500 per square foot.
🏆 Commercial: The top commercial deal recorded in the Big Apple was in the Bronx, where the City of New York offloaded its golf course site along Hutchinson River Parkway to Bally’s for $156.6 million. The site is where Bally’s plans to construct a casino with 3,500 gaming machines and 250 table games, a 500-key hotel and a 2,000-seat entertainment venue. The New York Gaming Commission late last year gave Bally’s the OK to build a casino along with two others, Steve Cohen’s Metropolitan Park and Resorts World.
📊 Commercial: In Washington Heights, a 19-story, 138-unit apartment complex at 1384 Riverside Drive along the Hudson River traded for just over $24 million. The buyer was an LLC tied to David Brecher, CEO of FM Home Loans. The seller, an LLC tied to Vincent Garrow, purchased the property in the 1970s.
📊 Commercial: A 0.4-acre development site at 1038 45th Road in Long Island City sold for $15 million. The seller was RD Management, and the buyer was George Xu’s Century Development Group. The vacant parcel falls within a newly re-zoned section of the neighborhood spanning 54 blocks, according to its listing, which was held by Greiner-Maltz Real Estate.
📊 Residential: Financier George Raffini and his wife, Patricia Raffini, parted with a co-op at 45 East 66th Street in Lenox Hill for about $9.9 million, its most recent asking price. The buyers were John and Madeline Hooper. The Raffinis had owned the unit since 2012, when they paid $6.3 million for it. The pad has four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms. It also has a staff room and views of Central Park. Amanda Jordan with Sotheby’s International Realty had the listing, and Fritzi Kallop with Brown Harris Stevens brought the buyers.
📊 Residential: In Park Slope, a 21-foot-wide townhouse at 839 President Street changed hands for $9.5 million. The seller was an LLC linked to David Slaven and the buyer was a trust tied to Jennifer Kurtz. The property, which last sold in 2024 for $4 million, has six bedrooms, four full bathrooms and three powder rooms. It went on sale in September for $10.9 million. Douglas Elliman’s Nadia Bartolucci and Brandon Moore represented the seller.
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