502 East 81st Street

Recent sales

Recent closings at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.

Market read. Most recent trades (2007) cleared a median $871/sf across 1 sale.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01577-0049) 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.

This is a small new-development condominium, so a purchase is a new-construction transaction rather than a resale. The defining advantages are flexibility and scale: a full-floor, four-bedroom home with private elevator-landing entry, contemporary systems, and the option of on-site parking — a package that is essentially unavailable in the surrounding pre-war and post-war stock. Buyers should weigh floor, exposure, and outdoor space, and review the offering plan's common-charge and tax projections, which in new construction set the long-run carrying cost.

Because the building is so small, inventory is thin and each home is distinct — there is no large stack of identical lines to negotiate against. That scarcity rewards buyers who move decisively on the floor and layout they want.

The condominium structure and new construction are the marketing core. Full-floor four-bedroom homes, private elevator landings, on-site parking, and contemporary systems distinguish a resale here from anything in Yorkville's older stock, and condominium ownership itself — financing latitude, ownership flexibility, a faster closing path — is a durable draw for the buyer this building attracts.

Benchmark a resale to the limited set of new and recent East Side condominiums rather than to the neighborhood's co-ops, and lead with what is scarce: new construction, full-floor scale, and parking on the far East Side. A resale clears through a right-of-first-refusal rather than a co-op board, a faster and more predictable path that is itself a selling point. With so few homes, available inventory will be thin, and a well-positioned resale benefits from the building's limited supply of comparable product.

If you're considering 502 East 81st Street, also evaluate these nearby Upper East Side and Yorkville buildings:

• 401 East 84th Street — Yorkville full-service building nearby
• 515 East 79th Street — East End cooperative a few blocks south
• 112 East 81st Street — pre-war East 81st Street co-op to the west
• 140 East 81st Street — established East 81st Street cooperative peer
• 163 East 81st Street — East 81st Street co-op on the corridor

The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the Upper East Side, Yorkville and the East End, and the broader Manhattan new-development market. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers evaluating boutique new construction on the far East Side deserve building-specific intelligence — the ownership structure, the full-floor program, the parking, and where the pricing sits against the limited new-condo set nearby.

If you're considering a purchase at 502 East 81st Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point — we'll walk the plan, the pricing, and the comparison set with you.