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235 West 71st Street (The Lucania)Recorded sales & closing prices
235 West 71st Street, New York, NY 10023
25 recorded closings, 2006–2025. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded closings
- 25
- Date range
- 2006–2025
- Median $/sf
- $1,421
- Listing discount
- 5.1%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $2.51
- Price range
- $595K – $9.85M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, on a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. This is a different method from The Roebling Index, which publishes plain medians and applies no floor adjustment; the two are not interchangeable. Floor adjustment standardizes for floor only. It does not control for condition, size, exposure, renovation or the mix of what happened to trade. This standardized trend is a separate series from the latest median above, which is the raw recorded sales. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
As a condominium, 235 West 71st Street prices on a price-per-square-foot basis, with the higher floors and best-exposed residences carrying the building's premiums. Turnover is light in a seventeen-unit building; both resale and owner-rental activity occur, but this is an ownership condominium, not a rental building. Apartment-level context — floor, exposure, layout, ceiling height, and condition — drives pricing far more than any building average, and the prewar character combined with condominium flexibility supports pricing for well-presented residences.
The complete recorded-sale history for 235 West 71st Street (The Lucania), compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 5.1% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2024 | PH | 5 BR · 4.5 BA · 5,876 sf | $8,350,000 | $1,421 | -23.7% |
| Sep 19, 2023 | 1B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 980 sf | $1,100,000 | $1,122 | -6.4% |
| Jun 29, 2023 | 3 | 6 BR · 5.5 BA · 4,761 sf | $8,250,000 | $1,733 | -2.9% |
| Apr 17, 2023 | 5 | 5 BR · 4.5 BA · 4,771 sf | $8,700,000 | $1,824 | -3.3% |
| Oct 13, 2020 | 6A | 4 BR · 4 BA · 2,841 sf | $4,700,000 | $1,654 | -14.5% |
| Feb 21, 2020 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 747 sf | $925,000 | $1,238 | -22.9% |
| Mar 1, 2017 | 7 | 5 BR · 4 BA · 4,771 sf | $9,000,000 | $1,886 | -3.7% |
| Oct 5, 2016 | 4 | 6 BR · 4 BA · 4,800 sf | $8,700,000 | $1,813 | -2.8% |
| Dec 21, 2015 | 1B | 1 BR · 980 sf | $1,087,500 | $1,110 | -9.3% |
| Dec 20, 2012 | 2A | 746 sf | $1,350,000 | $1,810 | — |
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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2025 | 6A | 4 BR · 4 BAnon-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | — | $4,500,000 | — | — |
| Nov 12, 2024 | PH | 5 BR · 4.5 BA | 5,876 | $8,350,000 | $1,421 | -23.7% |
| Sep 19, 2023 | 1B | 1 BR · 1 BA | 980 | $1,100,000 | $1,122 | -6.4% |
| Jun 29, 2023 | 3 | 6 BR · 5.5 BA | 4,761 | $8,250,000 | $1,733 | -2.9% |
| Apr 17, 2023 | 5 | 5 BR · 4.5 BA | 4,771 | $8,700,000 | $1,824 | -3.3% |
| Oct 13, 2020 | 6A | 4 BR · 4 BA | 2,841 | $4,700,000 | $1,654 | -14.5% |
| Feb 21, 2020 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA | 747 | $925,000 | $1,238 | -22.9% |
| Mar 1, 2017 | 7 | 5 BR · 4 BA | 4,771 | $9,000,000 | $1,886 | -3.7% |
| Oct 5, 2016 | 4 | 6 BR · 4 BA | 4,800 | $8,700,000 | $1,813 | -2.8% |
| Dec 21, 2015 | 1B | 1 BR | 980 | $1,087,500 | $1,110 | -9.3% |
| Dec 20, 2012 | 2A | 746 | $1,350,000 | $1,810 | — | |
| Oct 26, 2012 | 1A | 1,039 | $865,512 | $833 | — | |
| Jul 31, 2012 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA | 746 | $595,000 | $798 | — |
| Jul 26, 2012 | 1B | 1 BR | 980 | $860,000 | $878 | — |
| Feb 3, 2012 | 1C | 3,744 | $4,800,000 | $1,282 | — | |
| Oct 6, 2011 | PH | 5 BR · 3.5 BA | 4,778 | $9,850,000 | $2,062 | — |
| Jun 25, 2010 | 6C | 3 BR | 1,930 | $3,100,000 | $1,606 | +0.0% |
| May 17, 2010 | 4 | 6 BR · 4 BA | 4,766 | $6,458,462 | $1,355 | — |
| May 13, 2010 | 3 | 6 BR | 4,761 | $6,458,463 | $1,357 | +2.5% |
| Jan 12, 2010 | 6A | 4 BR | 2,841 | $4,022,087 | $1,416 | -19.4% |
| Jan 4, 2010 | 5 | 6 BR | 4,733 | $4,806,000 | $1,015 | -36.3% |
| Aug 26, 2009 | 8A | — | $4,425,006 | — | — | |
| Feb 2, 2009 | 6C | 3 BR | 1,930 | $2,985,509 | $1,547 | -3.7% |
| Jan 2, 2009 | 7 | 5 BR | 4,772 | $9,000,000 | $1,886 | — |
| Jan 31, 2006 | — | — | $30,500,000 | — | — |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01163-7502). 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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