The Royal ElizabethRecorded sales & closing prices
80 Elizabeth Street, at Hester Street, Chinatown, near the Lower East Side
50 recorded closings, 2005–2026. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded closings
- 50
- Date range
- 2005–2026
- Median $/sf
- $1,583
- Listing discount
- 3.8%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $2.15
- Price range
- $300K – $1.2M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, on a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. This is a different method from The Roebling Index, which publishes plain medians and applies no floor adjustment; the two are not interchangeable. Floor adjustment standardizes for floor only. It does not control for condition, size, exposure, renovation or the mix of what happened to trade. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
The complete recorded-sale history for The Royal Elizabeth, 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 3.8% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
45 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.
Recent closings
The building’s 10 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | $/sf | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2026 | 2Q | 2 BR · 1 BA · 636 sf | $900,000 | $1,415 | -29.7% |
| Apr 3, 2025 | 3A | 713 sf | $885,000 | $1,241 | — |
| Dec 23, 2024 | 2P | 1 BR · 1 BA · 671 sf | $760,000 | $1,133 | -7.9% |
| Mar 18, 2024 | 3C | 1 BA · 556 sf | $678,000 | $1,219 | -0.1% |
| Dec 7, 2023 | 2L | 1 BR · 1 BA · 700 sf | $850,000 | $1,214 | +2.7% |
| May 6, 2022 | 2A | 2 BR · 1 BA · 713 sf | $1,180,000 | $1,655 | -1.6% |
| Jul 23, 2020 | 3G | 879 sf | $990,000 | $1,126 | — |
| Jan 6, 2020 | 6B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 633 sf | $965,000 | $1,524 | -3.3% |
| May 17, 2019 | 7M | 636 sf | $800,000 | $1,258 | — |
| Feb 6, 2019 | 6B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 633 sf | $800,000 | $1,264 | — |
The retrade record
Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
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.
| Apartment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2026 | 2Q | 2 BR · 1 BA | 636 | $900,000 | $1,415 | -29.7% |
| Apr 3, 2025 | 3A | 713 | $885,000 | $1,241 | — | |
| Dec 23, 2024 | 2P | 1 BR · 1 BA | 671 | $760,000 | $1,133 | -7.9% |
| Mar 18, 2024 | 3C | 1 BA | 556 | $678,000 | $1,219 | -0.1% |
| Dec 7, 2023 | 2L | 1 BR · 1 BA | 700 | $850,000 | $1,214 | +2.7% |
| Oct 30, 2023 | 8A | 1 BR · 1 BA⚑ Flagged for review — recorded 713 sf disagrees with this line's 548 sf across other sales — the square footage looks mis-recorded; pending manual review | 713 | $705,000 | $989 | -15.9% |
| May 6, 2022 | 2A | 2 BR · 1 BA | 713 | $1,180,000 | $1,655 | -1.6% |
| Jul 23, 2020 | 3G | 879 | $990,000 | $1,126 | — | |
| Jan 6, 2020 | 6B | 1 BR · 1 BA | 633 | $965,000 | $1,524 | -3.3% |
| May 17, 2019 | 7M | 636 | $800,000 | $1,258 | — | |
| Feb 6, 2019 | 6B | 1 BR · 1 BA | 633 | $800,000 | $1,264 | — |
| Oct 18, 2018 | 6H | 1 BR · 1 BA | 656 | $1,055,000 | $1,608 | -5.8% |
| Apr 16, 2018 | 5F | 2 BR | 856 | $1,200,000 | $1,402 | +0.4% |
| Mar 20, 2018 | 6L | 1 BR | 677 | $1,055,000 | $1,558 | -18.8% |
| Nov 1, 2017 | 3R | 2 BR | 803 | $1,100,000 | $1,370 | -7.6% |
| Aug 29, 2017 | 3D | 2 BR | 396 | $450,000 | $1,136 | — |
| Jun 16, 2016 | 8G | 636 | $920,000 | $1,447 | — | |
| Mar 11, 2016 | 2K | 1 BR · 1 BA | 700 | $770,000 | $1,100 | — |
| Jun 2, 2015 | 6F | 867 | $650,000 | $750 | — | |
| Sep 29, 2014 | 6D | 396 | $552,800 | $1,396 | — | |
| Jul 18, 2014 | 6K | 2 BR | 800 | $925,000 | $1,156 | -2.6% |
| Jul 19, 2013 | 2G | 879 | $885,000 | $1,007 | — | |
| Jun 14, 2013 | 2Q | 2 BR · 1 BA | 636 | $700,000 | $1,101 | — |
| Jun 5, 2013 | 6L | 1 BR | 667 | $854,000 | $1,280 | -5.1% |
| Apr 30, 2013 | 3LSponsor Sale | 1 BR | — | $680,000 | — | -6.7% |
| Apr 17, 2013 | 3K | 700 | $500,000 | $714 | — | |
| Dec 31, 2012 | 7G | non-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 668 | $225,000 | — | — |
| Nov 23, 2012 | 2F | 2 BR | 1,050 | $845,000 | $805 | -6.1% |
| Mar 8, 2012 | 3D | 1 BR | 396 | $300,000 | $758 | — |
| Feb 10, 2012 | 8C | 1 BR | 699 | $800,000 | $1,144 | -5.8% |
| Dec 19, 2011 | 5E | 1 BR | 724 | $524,000 | $724 | -19.3% |
| Jun 27, 2011 | 3P | 1 BR | 671 | $570,000 | $849 | — |
| Apr 5, 2011 | 2G | 879 | $759,000 | $863 | — | |
| Apr 5, 2011 | 2F | 2 BR | 856 | $759,000 | $887 | — |
| Apr 4, 2011 | 5M | 700 | $550,000 | $786 | — | |
| Sep 18, 2009 | 6D | 396 | $380,000 | $960 | — | |
| Jul 31, 2009 | 7A | 2 BR | 900 | $780,000 | $867 | +0.0% |
| Apr 27, 2009 | 6L | 1 BR | 677 | $680,000 | $1,004 | — |
| Nov 26, 2008 | 8A | 1 BR | 548 | $550,000 | $1,004 | — |
| Sep 16, 2008 | 6K | 2 BR | — | $800,000 | — | -2.4% |
| Jun 11, 2008 | 5J | 1 BR · 1 BA | 691 | $680,000 | $984 | — |
| May 28, 2008 | 8A | 1 BR | 548 | $625,000 | $1,141 | -0.8% |
| Mar 20, 2008 | 6H | 2 BR | 656 | $879,670 | $1,341 | -0.9% |
| Aug 25, 2006 | 6K | 2 BR | — | $702,500 | — | -3.8% |
| Mar 17, 2006 | 3G | 879 | $780,000 | $887 | — | |
| Nov 3, 2005 | 6D | 396 | $310,000 | $783 | — | |
| Apr 11, 2005 | 5F | 2 BR | 1,089 | $800,000 | $735 | +0.6% |
| Feb 18, 2005 | 2P | 1 BR · 1 BA | 671 | $470,000 | $700 | — |
| Jan 18, 2005 | 5A | 713 | $515,000 | $722 | — | |
| Jan 11, 2005 | 5K | 700 | $435,000 | $621 | — |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00239-7501). 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. 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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