240 East Houston Street (Houston Place)
240 East Houston Street, New York, NY 10009
BBL 1003977502 · BIN 1084885
- Year built
- 1920
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 18
- Floors
- 5
240 East Houston Street (Houston Place) sales history: 24 recorded sales
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2024
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,565
- Listing discount
- 3.3%
- Recorded sales
- 24
- On record
- 2003–2024
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240 East Houston Street — marketed as Houston Place — is a boutique condominium formed in 1988 when four adjoining early-1920s buildings at the corner of East Houston Street and Avenue A were combined and gut-converted into a single residence. It sits on the seam between the East Village and the Lower East Side, a corner that today anchors one of downtown's most active retail and nightlife stretches.
The conversion produced loft-scaled homes that are large for the neighborhood — layouts commonly exceeding 1,000 square feet, with high ceilings and preserved period detail. One portion of the assemblage, the 12 Avenue A frontage, was historically a speakeasy and dancehall before its later life as a multi-level luxury home.
Architecture and building operations
The five-story pre-war building presents as a unified brick frontage wrapping the corner, with alternate addresses along Avenue A and East Houston. Interiors read as lofts: deep floorplates, tall ceilings, and original character, including a large duplex among the mix. The residence carries 18 homes.
Operations: elevator, renovated lobby, and roof-deck/private-terrace access for upper units. Pet-friendly.
Policy framework
- Type: Condominium
- Pets: Permitted
- Pied-à-terre: Permitted
- Subletting: Permitted
- Financing: Standard condominium LTV
- LLC/trust/foreign buyers: All permitted
- Right of first refusal: Procedural only
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $20,666/yr
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $41,880/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $96 – $194
- Modeled exposure split equally across 18 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
Recent closings at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. Prices are the transfer amounts recorded with the NYC Department of Finance; apartment-level detail is checked against the building’s own file in The Roebling Research Library before publishing.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2024 | PH5C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,086 sf | $1,700,000 | $1,565/sf | -2.6% |
| Nov 15, 2022 | 5E | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,090 sf | $1,470,000 | $1,349/sf | -9.5% |
| Jun 7, 2022 | 4E | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,037 sf | $1,580,000 | $1,524/sf | +0.0% |
| Feb 11, 2021 | 5A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,082 sf | $1,400,000 | $1,294/sf | -8.2% |
| Jan 21, 2021 | 5D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,087 sf | $1,750,000 | $1,610/sf | +0.0% |
| Jun 29, 2020 | 5E | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,090 sf | $1,625,000 | $1,491/sf | -1.5% |
| Feb 4, 2020 | 4EE | 2 BR · 1,040 sf | $1,448,000 | $1,392/sf | -3.3% |
| Feb 5, 2019 | 4E | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,037 sf | $1,305,000 | $1,258/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $1,565/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 3.3% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00397-7502). 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.
Buying here? Condo closing costs with a mortgage typically run 3 to 6% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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Comparable buildings
- 103 Avenue A — nearby East Village condominium peer
- 89 Avenue A — East Village boutique condominium
- 75 First Avenue — nearby East Village condominium
- 196 Orchard — Lower East Side condominium peer
- 215 Chrystie Street — nearby Lower East Side condominium
Sources: The Roebling Research Library (offering plans, house rules, financial statements, board minutes, internal transaction records); NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers; publicly recorded NYC building data.
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- 242 East 7th Street — 1908 co-op
- 253 East 7th Street — 2018 condominium by Isaac & Stern Architects
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across East Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to East Village.
How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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