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434 West 20th StreetRecorded sales & closing prices

434 West 20th Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, in Chelsea

10 recorded transfers, 2008–2024. Sortable and searchable below.

Co-ops are normally measured by price per room, since square footage is not officially recorded for them. This building is shown in price per square foot because most of its sales carry documented footage, which makes the sharper measure the honest one here.

Recorded transfers
10
Date range
2008–2024
Median $/sf
$1,896
2024 · recorded
Listing discount
1.4%
median, from last ask
Monthly carry/sf
$1.71
≈ $1,721/mo · recent
Price range
$735K – $3.05M
Price shift · median $/sf · raw yearly
Since 2008
▲ +26.7%
10-Year
▲ +6.5%
Since 2022
not enough data
1-Year
▲ +0%

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 complete recorded-sale history for 434 West 20th Street, 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 1.4% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.

Price per square foot over time

7 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.

$1,240$1,593$1,945'08'11'14'17'20'23'24PH9 · $1,496/sf · 20082 · $1,344/sf · 2011PH9 · $1,278/sf · 20124 · $1,907/sf · 2015PH · $1,885/sf · 20174 · $1,703/sf · 20198 · $1,896/sf · 2024
Each dot is one recorded sale with a known interior square footage, plotted by closing date against price per square foot. The line is the median $/sf each year, adjusted to a floor-standardized (average-floor) unit — so it reflects price movement, not which floors happened to sell that year. Individual sale prices in the table below are unadjusted — and you can click any dot to jump straight to that sale.

Recent closings

The building’s 10 most recent market sales.

DateUnitApartmentPrice$/sfvs. Ask
Sep 25, 202481 BR · 2 BA · 1,005 sf$1,905,000$1,896-4.7%
Dec 15, 202091 BR · 1 BA$883,000+0.9%
Jun 28, 201943 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,600 sf$2,725,000$1,703-0.9%
Jun 6, 201781 BR · 2 BA · 1,004 sf$1,835,000$1,828—
Jun 6, 2017PH1 BR · 2 BA · 1,000 sf$1,885,000$1,885+0.0%
Aug 17, 201543 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,600 sf$3,051,000$1,907+3.4%
Aug 16, 2012PH91 BR · 575 sf$735,000$1,278-1.9%
May 26, 201123 BR · 1,600 sf$2,150,000$1,344-2.1%
May 25, 20114$2,150,000—
Mar 13, 2008PH91 BR · 575 sf$860,000$1,496-4.3%

The retrade record

Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.

4 · 1,600 sf-11%
$3,051,000 ($1,907/sf) 2015 → $2,725,000 ($1,703/sf) 2019
PH9 · 575 sf-15%
$860,000 ($1,496/sf) 2008 → $735,000 ($1,278/sf) 2012

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.

10 recorded sales
Apartment
Sep 25, 202481 BR · 2 BA1,005$1,905,000$1,896-4.7%
Dec 15, 202091 BR · 1 BA—$883,000—+0.9%
Jun 28, 201943 BR · 2.5 BA1,600$2,725,000$1,703-0.9%
Jun 6, 201781 BR · 2 BA1,004$1,835,000$1,828—
Jun 6, 2017PH1 BR · 2 BA1,000$1,885,000$1,885+0.0%
Aug 17, 201543 BR · 2.5 BA1,600$3,051,000$1,907+3.4%
Aug 16, 2012PH91 BR575$735,000$1,278-1.9%
May 26, 201123 BR1,600$2,150,000$1,344-2.1%
May 25, 20114—$2,150,000——
Mar 13, 2008PH91 BR575$860,000$1,496-4.3%

The most recent eligible transfer recorded at this building is from 2024. Our records run through August 2026; no later qualifying sale has been recorded here, which for a small or tightly held building is common rather than a gap in the data.

Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00717-0061). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate. 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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