In New York City, there were about 231 deals recorded, totaling about $417.8 million.
🏆Residential: The top residential deal recorded was in Lenox Hill. Andrea Brooks, via a trust, scooped up a penthouse at 4 East 62nd Street for just under $9 million. The seller was Duke Capital Limited, which bought the duplex in 2006 for $6.4 million. The three-bedroom unit has about 2,500 square feet of interior space and a 625-square-foot deck. Brown Harris Stevens’ Susan Greenfield and Matthew Merdinger represented the seller, who put the unit on the market in September 2024 for just under $10 million.
🏆Commercial: The top commercial deal recorded was the $100 million sale of Chetrit Group’s Hotel Bossert at 98 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. The new owner of the 12-story property is a company tied to Someraroad, Inc. Investment firm Beach Point Capital won a foreclosure auction against the property for about $1 million; it was the only bidder. The firm had $177 million in debt on the building.
📊Commercial: A commercial condo unit at 111 Mercer Street in Soho traded hands for $6.5 million. The unit is in Veracity Development’s condominium conversion tower and had been part of a foreclosure action that recently ended in the lender’s favor in April. The new owner of the unit is TZ 111 Mercer Street LLC.
📊Commercial: In Flushing, an office building at 158-6 Northern Boulevard, home to Vantage Medical Group, sold for $6.4 million. The seller was a holding company linked to medical doctors Howard Williams and Joseph Monge. The buyer was Northern 158 Holding LLC.
📊Commercial: The Rabsky Group shed a commercial condo at the mixed-use project 342 Wallabout Street in East Williamsburg for $5.5 million. The buyer was Dvash Lefy LLC. The development has a project sellout of $95 million, making it one of the priciest condo filings in Brooklyn and Queens last year.
📊Residential: Dailey and Gordon Pattee, via a trust, scooped up a co-op at One Sutton Place for $5.5 million. He is an executive at Map Capital Corp. and she is a psychologist. The seller was the estate of Sahra Lese, a pageant queen who died in 2023 and was the wife of real estate investor and commercial broker William Lese. The unit went up for sale in August 2023 for $8.5 million. Sotheby’s International Realty’s Phyllis Jaeger and Sharon Buckley had the listing.
📊Residential: In Greenwich Village, the trust of the late George and Rosemary Lois, an art director and artist, parted with a co-op at 37 West 12th Street for $5.1 million. The buyers were Kevin Kawasaki, an executive at Palantir Technologies, and Claire Moses, founder of a hair care line. The four-bedroom home hit the market with Corcoran’s Meris Blumstein and Diane Lois for $6 million in 2023.
