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50 Madison AvenueRecorded sales & closing prices

50 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010

21 recorded closings, 2005–2024. Sortable and searchable below.

Recorded closings
21
Date range
2005–2024
Median $/sf
$2,457
2024 · recorded
Listing discount
4.1%
median, from last ask
Monthly carry/sf
$3.00
≈ $7,937/mo · recent
Price range
$2.8M – $9M
Price shift · median $/sf · raw yearly
Since 2005
+99.3%
10-Year
+18.8%
Since 2022
+12.5%
1-Year
+8.5%

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 building has traded thinly since the sellout. All nine residences were sold by the sponsor to nine separate, unrelated purchasers between September and November 2005, and ACRIS records only a modest number of resales since — several lines have changed hands once or twice in twenty years. That is the profile of a small full-floor building rather than an investor pool, and it has two consequences for pricing.

Same-building comparables are thin: with nine residences and no meaningful volume, a valuation built on a building average is not worth much, and the useful work is line-specific and condition-specific. And the absence of an abatement means the headline price and the monthly carrying number sit further apart than they do in abated new-construction inventory nearby. Full-floor prewar-base conversions in NoMad and Flatiron are the right comparable set, not the recent ground-up towers on Fifth Avenue and East 22nd Street, whose amenity loads and tax postures are structurally different. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.

The complete recorded-sale history for 50 Madison Avenue, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records and verified listing data, then enriched apartment-by-apartment by The Roebling Team research desk. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 4.1% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.

Price per square foot over time

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

$977$1,795$2,613'05'09'13'17'21'247 · $1,220/sf · 20055 · $1,123/sf · 20052 · $1,065/sf · 20056 · $1,191/sf · 2005RU8 · $1,258/sf · 20054 · $1,365/sf · 20051 · $1,154/sf · 20053 · $1,142/sf · 2005RU · $1,426/sf · 2006RU · $1,806/sf · 20128 · $1,795/sf · 2012RU · $2,205/sf · 2013RU · $2,134/sf · 20179 · $2,134/sf · 20172 · $1,644/sf · 2021RU8 · $2,201/sf · 2023PH · $2,525/sf · 2023RU7 · $2,457/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
May 21, 2024RU73 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,646 sf$6,500,000$2,457+0.0%
Dec 8, 2023PH4 BR · 3.5 BA · 3,564 sf$9,000,000$2,525-14.3%
Mar 31, 2023RU83 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,630 sf$5,787,500$2,201-12.0%
Aug 20, 202123 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,646 sf$4,350,000$1,644-3.2%
Oct 4, 201793 BR · 2,630 sf$5,612,500$2,134-3.2%
Oct 2, 2017RU3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,630 sf$5,612,500$2,134
Dec 9, 2013RU3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,630 sf$5,800,000$2,205
Mar 16, 2012RU3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,630 sf$4,750,000$1,806
Mar 16, 201283 BR · 2,646 sf$4,750,000$1,795-4.9%
Feb 3, 2011RU$4,400,000

The retrade record

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

RU8 · 2,630 sf+75%
$3,309,312 ($1,258/sf) 2005$5,787,500 ($2,201/sf) 2023
2 · 2,646 sf+55%
$2,800,187 ($1,065/sf) 2005$4,350,000 ($1,644/sf) 2021
RU · 2,630 sf+50%
$3,750,000 ($1,426/sf) 2006$4,750,000 ($1,806/sf) 2012$5,800,000 ($2,205/sf) 2013$5,612,500 ($2,134/sf) 2017

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.

21 recorded sales
Apartment
May 21, 2024RU73 BR · 3.5 BA2,646$6,500,000$2,457+0.0%
Dec 8, 2023PH4 BR · 3.5 BA3,564$9,000,000$2,525-14.3%
Nov 1, 2023RU⚑ Flagged for review — recorded 3,564 sf disagrees with this line's 2,630 sf across other sales — the square footage looks mis-recorded; pending manual review3,564$9,000,000$2,525
Mar 31, 2023RU83 BR · 3.5 BA2,630$5,787,500$2,201-12.0%
Aug 20, 202123 BR · 3.5 BA2,646$4,350,000$1,644-3.2%
Oct 4, 201793 BR2,630$5,612,500$2,134-3.2%
Oct 2, 2017RU3 BR · 3.5 BA2,630$5,612,500$2,134
Dec 9, 2013RU3 BR · 3.5 BA2,630$5,800,000$2,205
Mar 16, 2012RU3 BR · 3.5 BA2,630$4,750,000$1,806
Mar 16, 201283 BR2,646$4,750,000$1,795-4.9%
Feb 3, 2011RU$4,400,000
Jan 17, 2006RU2,630$3,750,000$1,426
Nov 17, 2005RU⚑ Flagged for review — recorded 3,564 sf disagrees with this line's 2,630 sf across other sales — the square footage looks mis-recorded; pending manual review3,564$5,040,337$1,414
Oct 25, 200533 BR2,630$3,003,837$1,142
Sep 30, 200512,646$3,054,750$1,154
Sep 29, 2005RU83 BR · 3.5 BA2,630$3,309,312$1,258
Sep 29, 200543 BR2,630$3,589,331$1,365
Sep 28, 200563 BR · 3.5 BA2,630$3,131,118$1,191
Sep 23, 200553 BR2,630$2,952,925$1,123-16.2%
Sep 23, 200523 BR2,630$2,800,187$1,065
Sep 21, 200573 BR2,630$3,207,487$1,220+6.0%

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 1-00856-7501) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. 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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