Regent House

Completed at the close of the 1930s, Regent House carries the restrained Art Deco vocabulary of its moment — a clean masonry shaft with period detailing rather than ornamental excess. At 11 stories and 70 apartments, it is a mid-rise building of moderate scale, dense enough to support full staffing and an amenity program while keeping a residential, low-key character on a busy block.

The homes are pre-war in plan, with the layouts and proportions typical of late-1930s construction. Floor, exposure, and renovation quality drive value within the building: upper-floor homes and those with open light over 54th Street or toward MoMA command a premium, while the larger combined or renovated apartments sit at the top of the building's range. As with any pre-war building of this size, the stock is varied, and the specific apartment matters more than any single price-per-foot figure.

Regent House is a full-service cooperative with a 24-hour doorman, a large resident roof deck, central laundry, bike storage, and private storage available on a rental, waitlisted basis. The building permits pets. Its sublet policy is structured to keep the building primarily owner-occupied: shareholders must reside in the apartment for at least one year before requesting to sublet, board approval with documentation is required, and a unit may be leased only once in any five-year period for up to two years, with the right to extend for one additional year. That measured approach is typical of well-run Midtown co-ops and supports the building's stability.

With 70 apartments, Regent House sees a steady but unhurried cadence of resales — typically several closings a year. Pricing is set far more by floor, light, and condition than by a building average, and the location premium is real: there is very little owner-occupied residential product on these blocks. The live /sales record for this BBL captures recorded transfers as they occur; for current value, the right approach is to compare against the building's own recent closings and the nearest full-service co-ops in the Fifth Avenue / Midtown corridor.

This is a co-op purchase, so plan for a board package and interview. The sublet rules are worth understanding up front — this is an owner-occupant building, not an investor vehicle — and the one-year occupancy requirement before subletting should factor into any longer-term plan. Pets are permitted. Diligence should focus on the co-op's financials and reserve, the status of storage waitlists, and the specific apartment's floor and exposure. We help buyers underwrite the home, prepare a clean board package, and benchmark against the right Midtown comparables.

The location does most of the work: across from MoMA, steps from Fifth Avenue and Central Park, in a corridor where residential co-op inventory is thin. The selling job is to present the specific apartment's light and condition and to lean on the roof deck, the full-time door staff, and the address. The comparison set is the small group of full-service co-ops in the Fifth Avenue and Midtown East corridor — pricing to the building's own closings and positioning the home on its location and pre-war character produce the strongest results.

If you're considering Regent House, also evaluate these nearby Midtown and Fifth Avenue–corridor buildings:

• 17 West 54th Street — a neighboring West 54th Street building
• 205 West 54th Street — a full-service West 54th Street building
• 33 West 56th Street — The Centurion, a luxury condominium two blocks north
• 150 West 56th Street — a Midtown high-rise

The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the full-service co-ops and condominiums of Midtown and the Fifth Avenue corridor, where value turns on the specific building and apartment rather than a neighborhood average. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers at 25 West 54th Street deserve building-specific intelligence: the architecture, the co-op's policies, and where each home sits in a corridor with very little residential supply. A 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.