238 East 55th Street (Sutton Place)Recorded sales & closing prices

238 East 55th Street, New York, NY 10022

27 recorded transfers, 2005–2024. Sortable and searchable below.

1BR
$663K
median of 2 recent · '23–'24
Recent range
$660K – $665K
all types, last 4 yrs
Listing discount
5.2%
median, from last ask
Recorded transfers
27
2005–2024 on record

Not enough recent activity to price (shown for completeness, not quoted): Studio — last traded 2023; 2BR — last traded 2021; 4BR+ — last traded 2018.

The complete recorded-sale history for 238 East 55th Street (Sutton Place), compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records and verified listing data, then enriched apartment-by-apartment by The Roebling Team research desk. Priced by apartment type — the honest unit for a co-op, where square footage isn’t officially recorded.

Latest closings

2025-10 · 1BR
PHA  $745,000
2024-08 · 1BR
12B  $660,000
2023-10 · 1BR
PH15C  $665,000
2023-09 · Studio
15C  $665,000
2023-09 · 4BR+
LA  $2,800,000
2021-05 · 2BR
14C  $595,000

And by floor

Same 1BR, time-controlled to today — higher floors, higher clears.

Floors 11–15 3 sales
$791,403
+19%
Floors 6–10 3 sales
$638,409
-4%

The 1BR trajectory

Every recorded 1BR. The building trades thinly year to year, so the story is the long arc, not any single year: 1BRs have moved from roughly $515K in the mid-2000s to about $663K today.

Each dot is one recorded sale, by close date and price; the line is the median for each year. Click any dot to jump straight to that sale below.

$450K$575K$700K'10'17'2412B · $660,000 · '24PH15C · $665,000 · '237E · $505,000 · '192E · $550,000 · '179H · $555,000 · '173G · $550,000 · '1710D · $530,000 · '1614A · $530,000 · '1414C · $515,000 · '10

Every recorded sale

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27 recorded sales
Apartment
Oct 18, 2025PHA1 BR · 1 BA$745,000
Aug 8, 202412B1 BR · 1 BA$660,000-17.0%
Oct 10, 2023PH15C1 BR · 1 BA$665,000-2.1%
Sep 28, 202315CStudio$665,000
Sep 12, 2023LA4 BR · 4 BA$2,800,000-6.5%
May 3, 202114C2 BR · 1 BA$595,000-8.3%
Apr 8, 2019PHC1 BR$630,000-9.9%
Feb 8, 20197E1 BR · 1 BA$505,000-8.2%
Oct 15, 201811H5 BR · 1 BA$510,000-14.3%
Sep 26, 2018LA4 BR$2,730,000-2.5%
Dec 28, 20172E1 BR$550,000
Nov 10, 20176C5 BR$555,000-6.7%
Oct 13, 20179H1 BR$555,000+0.9%
Sep 25, 20173G1 BR · 1 BA$550,000+6.0%
Jun 19, 2017LC1 BR$635,000-2.3%
Dec 28, 201610D1 BR$530,000-3.6%
Aug 4, 201511A5 BR$517,500-1.4%
Feb 26, 20159/10B2 BR$830,000-2.4%
Sep 9, 201414A1 BR$530,000-5.2%
Mar 8, 2013LABH4 BR$1,775,000-9.0%
Mar 8, 20131A$1,715,000
May 10, 20117GH4 BR$1,525,000-4.4%
Jun 10, 201014C1 BR$515,000
Sep 17, 200712DStudio$605,000
Dec 20, 2006LC1 BR$540,000
Dec 11, 2006PHC1 BR$539,000
May 27, 2005910B2 BR$755,000-5.5%

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01328-0030) and verified listing data. Co-op apartments are priced by unit type (bedroom count) rather than per square foot — square footage isn’t officially recorded for co-ops, and room counts carry some agent-entry inconsistency, so bedroom type is the reliable spine. Non-arms-length transfers and storage/parking are excluded; line and floor premiums are time-controlled to today’s pricing. Where transaction volume is too thin to support a figure, none is shown.

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