There were 218 transactions totaling $401 million recorded in New York City in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025.
🏆 Residential: A Billionaires’ Row condo once again nabbed the top spot among the city’s recorded home sales on Thursday, Nov. 13. Blue 50 West 48S LLC dropped just under $23.5 million on a sponsor unit at Extell Development Company’s 50 West 66th Street in Lincoln Square. The unit has four bedrooms and four and a half baths. It spans roughly 3,500 square feet, pricing the deal at about $6,700 per square foot.
🏆 Commercial: The top commercial deal was in Dumbo. A rental building at 177 Front Street traded for $85 million. The seller was an affiliate of the Carlyle Group and the buyer was an LLC tied to HUBB NYC, led by John McCarthy. JLL Real Estate Capital took over a $43.3 million mortgage on the property, which stands 12 stories tall and has 105 apartments. It also has ground-floor retail. Carlyle entered a partnership with Megalith Capital Management and Urban Realty Partners to develop the property, previously vacant, in 2014. The project opened in 2018.
📊 Residential: Another condo at Extell’s 50 West 66th Street sold for $23.2 million. The buyer was Peaceful Streamlet LLC. The four-bedroom sponsor unit has four and a half bathrooms. Spanning 3,400 square feet, the apartment’s price per square foot came out to about $6,800 per square foot.
📊 Residential: Guillaume and Anne Bebear — he is senior director at Centre Partners Management — also scooped up a condo at Extell’s 50 West 66th Street, for $18.1 million. The three-bedroom unit has three and a half baths across about 2,800 square feet. The transaction pencils out to roughly $6,500 per square foot.
📊 Residential: A sponsor unit at the Dajia US-developed Waldorf Astoria Residences at 301 Park Avenue in Midtown changed hands for $5.6 million. The buyer was an LLC managed by Alexander Rojas. The 1,600-square-foot unit has two bedrooms and two and a half baths. It went on the market in February, with an asking price of $6 million. Douglas Elliman’s Loretta Shanahan, Kai Wong and Jade Chan had the listing.
📊 Commercial: In Astoria, a 3,300-square-foot retail property, home to a Rite Aid pharmacy, at 33-01 30th Avenue traded for $10 million. The seller was 3301 Properties LLC, which had owned the building since the late 1990s. The buyer was 3301 30th Avenue Realty LLC, managed by Gaven Leib, who is the owner of Man-Dell Food Stores.
By the Numbers: New mortgage, refinancing applications surge in October
The share of homeowners looking to refinance their mortgages or take out new ones continues to rise, as the typical mortgage rate has hovered in the low 6 percent range in recent months.
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s weekly index of refinanced mortgages surged 147 percent year over year this week, while its measure of new purchase loan applications was up 31 percent. New loans were also higher than they were last week, by 3 percent, though refinanced
mortgages had dipped 3 percent week over week.
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