There were 180 transactions totaling $1.2 billion filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27.
🏆 Residential: The most expensive home sale recorded in New York was for a sponsor unit at the Reuben Brothers’ 20 East 76th Street on the Upper East Side, known as The Surrey Residences. The nearly 5,000-square-foot pad sold to Uptown Fun, LLC for $24.3 million, the unit’s asking price. It has three bedrooms, four and a half baths and a terrace. Douglas Elliman’s Lauren Muss and Michelle Griffith had the listing.
🏆 Commercial: Soho was home to the priciest commercial transaction that hit records in the city. A two-story store, occupied by shoe company Birkenstock, at 120 Spring Street changed hands for $18.5 million. The seller was an LLC tied to Icon Realty Management, and the buyer was Fukuru Co., Ltd., an ultra-high-net-worth private investor from Japan, according to Adirondack Capital Partners, which represented the seller.
📊 Commercial: In the West Village, an affiliate of New York-based Centra Management picked up a five-story walk-up at 44 Perry Street for $8 million. The seller was an LLC tied to Larry Warsh and Marlene Yanalom. The property has 17 units and was built in the mid-19th century. It went on the market in March with Serhant’s Dominique Florio for $9.2 million, according to StreetEasy.
📊 Residential: Willow Stowe, an attorney, and Matteo Vesprini-Heidrich paid $3.6 million for a co-op at 118 East 25th Street in the Flatiron District. The seller was Alissa Levin, founder of creative studio Point Five, who had owned the 4,000-square-foot residence since 2011, when she purchased it for $400,000. Douglas Elliman’s Josh Rubin represented the seller. The unit went on the market in September for just under $4 million.
By the Numbers: These were the most expensive neighborhoods in Brooklyn in 2025
Brooklyn’s residential market grew in 2025, thanks to a record-smashing deal in Gravesend and strong appetite for homes in tree-lined, brownstone-heavy neighborhoods close to Manhattan.
Cobble Hill led the charge, as it did in 2024, with the highest average home sale price last year, according to a TRD Data analysis of deeds filed with the city last year. However, Cobble Hill’s average of about $2.9 million was about 5 percent lower than its average of $3.1 million the year before.
Neighborhoods closer to Manhattan dominated the top 100 home sales in Brooklyn last year. For instance, the second-priciest deal was for a Brooklyn Heights townhouse at 35 Remsen Street that went for more than $18.4 million.
Here is where Brooklyn’s top home sales were located last year.
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