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151 East 78th StreetRecorded sales & closing prices
151 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075
18 recorded closings, 2012–2023. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded closings
- 18
- Date range
- 2012–2023
- Median $/sf
- $3,326
- Listing discount
- -1.8%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $2.12
- Price range
- $1.24M – $14.3M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, from the raw yearly medians — too few standardized single-line units here to adjust to an average-floor basis, so which apartments happened to trade moves these alongside price. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
The recorded initial conveyances were concentrated in roughly nine weeks. The offering plan was accepted for filing in March 2014 and declared effective on June 2, 2015, with twelve of fourteen units — about 86 per cent — under signed contract with bona fide purchasers. All fourteen residences then closed from the sponsor to separately named buyers between February 16 and April 19, 2016 — a complete sellout in roughly nine weeks. Every transfer is recorded as a condominium deed under ACRIS property type SC. The recorded names alone do not establish unrelated beneficial ownership or current sponsor-affiliated holdings. Confirm the current ownership crosswalk before certifying the sponsor’s position.
Since 2016 the recorded activity divides into two kinds. There have been a handful of genuine arm's-length resales, including full-floor residences in 2022 and the combined maisonette position in 2023. There has also been a run of no-consideration transfers into and among family trusts — several on a single unit — which appear in a raw deed count but are not sales. Anyone reading a transaction count on this building from public records without separating those two categories will materially overstate its turnover. The honest description is that the building has traded lightly since sellout, based on the recorded arm’s-length resales, rather than the unit count or an assumption about owners’ holding intentions.
Pricing here is best read against the internal comparable set. Floors 3 through 11 are the same plate, so floor height, light and renovation condition drive almost the entire spread among them; the maisonette, the studio and the three penthouses each sit in a category of one and have to be valued on their own terms. Against the surrounding market, the building's position is the new-construction premium over prewar cooperative stock on the same blocks, set against a roll that shows no tax exemption — check the apartment's tax bill, and model the carry rather than the headline. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The complete recorded-sale history for 151 East 78th Street, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library.
Price per square foot over time
14 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.
Recent closings
The building’s 10 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | $/sf | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2023 | MAIS1A | 7 BR · 7 BA · 4,300 sf | $14,300,000 | $3,326 | — |
| Feb 14, 2022 | 6 | 5 BR · 5 BA · 3,966 sf | $11,300,000 | $2,849 | -9.6% |
| Apr 19, 2016 | 8 | 3,966 sf | $11,149,837 | $2,811 | — |
| Apr 19, 2016 | 9 | 3,966 sf | $11,404,400 | $2,876 | — |
| Apr 14, 2016 | PHB | 3 BR · 3,381 sf | $10,800,000 | $3,194 | -0.5% |
| Apr 14, 2016 | 3 | 5 BR · 3,966 sf | $10,182,500 | $2,567 | +1.8% |
| Apr 1, 2016 | MAIS | 6 BR · 4,493 sf | $13,135,687 | $2,924 | +3.0% |
| Apr 1, 2016 | 1A | 523 sf | $1,236,300 | $2,364 | +3.0% |
| Mar 8, 2016 | 11 | 5 BR · 3,966 sf | $12,500,000 | $3,152 | +0.0% |
| Mar 3, 2016 | 4 | 5 BR · 3,966 sf | $10,487,975 | $2,644 | +1.8% |
The retrade record
Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Every recorded sale
Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance. Every sale sits in one of three states: counted in the building’s medians and trend; shown but excluded as a non-arms-length or nominal transfer; or shown and ⚑ flagged for review — a possible duplicate filing or an extreme $/sf outlier, held out of the statistics pending manual verification rather than allowed to move them.
| Apartment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2023 | MAIS1ASponsor Sale | 7 BR · 7 BA | 4,300 | $14,300,000 | $3,326 | — |
| Feb 14, 2022 | 6 | 5 BR · 5 BA | 3,966 | $11,300,000 | $2,849 | -9.6% |
| Apr 19, 2016 | 8Sponsor Sale | 3,966 | $11,149,837 | $2,811 | — | |
| Apr 19, 2016 | 9Sponsor Sale | 3,966 | $11,404,400 | $2,876 | — | |
| Apr 14, 2016 | PHBSponsor Sale | 3 BR | 3,381 | $10,800,000 | $3,194 | -0.5% |
| Apr 14, 2016 | PHSponsor Sale | 3 BR⚑ Flagged for review — Possible duplicate filing of the same recorded sale — held out so it counts once | 3,381 | $10,800,000 | $3,194 | -0.5% |
| Apr 14, 2016 | 3Sponsor Sale | 5 BR | 3,966 | $10,182,500 | $2,567 | +1.8% |
| Apr 12, 2016 | PHCSponsor Sale | 6 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | 6,924 | $27,500,000 | $3,972 | +0.0% |
| Apr 5, 2016 | PHASponsor Sale | 5 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | 6,975 | $30,038,375 | $4,307 | +1.8% |
| Apr 1, 2016 | MAISSponsor Sale | 6 BR | 4,493 | $13,135,687 | $2,924 | +3.0% |
| Apr 1, 2016 | 1ASponsor Sale | 523 | $1,236,300 | $2,364 | +3.0% | |
| Mar 8, 2016 | 11Sponsor Sale | 5 BR | 3,966 | $12,500,000 | $3,152 | +0.0% |
| Mar 3, 2016 | 4Sponsor Sale | 5 BR | 3,966 | $10,487,975 | $2,644 | +1.8% |
| Mar 3, 2016 | 10Sponsor Sale | 5 BR | 3,966 | $12,168,087 | $3,068 | +1.8% |
| Feb 17, 2016 | 5Sponsor Sale | 5 BR | 3,966 | $10,997,100 | $2,773 | +1.8% |
| Feb 17, 2016 | 6Sponsor Sale | 5 BR | 3,966 | $10,997,100 | $2,773 | +1.8% |
| Feb 16, 2016 | 7Sponsor Sale | 5 BR | 3,966 | $11,404,400 | $2,876 | +1.8% |
| Oct 23, 2012 | — | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $6,100,000 | — | — |
The latest qualifying transfer in our compiled records for this building is from 2023. The dataset is current through September 2026; that does not by itself establish that no later sale occurred.
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01413-7503; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans. Storage, parking, and commercial units are excluded from all figures. Floor- and line-level $/sf are time-controlled (each sale measured against the building’s going rate at the time of sale) and expressed at today’s pricing, so they isolate the floor or line premium rather than blend two decades of market movement.
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