820 Fifth AvenueRecorded sales & closing prices
820 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10065
7 recorded transfers, 2003–2025. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded transfers
- 7
- Date range
- 2003–2025
- Median $/sf
- $2,967
- Listing discount
- 3.4%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $3.13
- Price range
- $10M – $27.5M
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 a constant-quality (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.
820 Fifth Avenue's publicly-recorded turnover is among the lowest of any Fifth Avenue trophy co-op — only 8 RPTT records across the 2005-2025 window (15 years) for a 13-apartment building, reflecting both the building's institutional culture (multi-decade tenures, off-market private-broker disposition) and its tier-one selectivity. The recorded transfers, however, bracket the building's apex pricing across cycles.
The December 16, 2009 single-day cluster is the defining historical datapoint: #4 at $33M and #12TH at $40M closed the same day in the immediate post-Lehman recovery window, producing the largest concentrated trade activity in the building's modern history and establishing 820 Fifth's $30-40M full-floor tier coming out of the 2008 crisis.
The 2025 wave documents the building's contemporary pricing. The Jan 2025 #1E off-market trade at $27.5M (no public listing — typical 820 Fifth private-broker-network discipline) calibrates the lower-floor apex tier, while three near-simultaneous maisonette / ground-floor closings in spring 2025 — #M-1 $10.5M (recorded Apr 15), #MAISONETTE $14M (Jun 15, off-record), and #3 $29.5M (Apr 2, off-record, 7,000-sqft 6BR full-floor) — bracket the building's full ground-to-trophy pricing band in a single quarter.
The 2023 #2S close at $10M (ACRIS-recorded; trade-press reported $8.5M with no government record found — the $1.
Two structural realities define the building's transactional record. First, the public record substantially understates actual annual activity. The building's 13-apartment scale combined with multi-decade tenures means publicly-recorded transfers materially understate the actual transactional volume — most marquee inventory transacts off-market through private broker networks, and many recorded transfers occur at stipulated values rather than market price. Second, the building's $30-40M apex tier set in 2009 has remained reasonably stable across 16 years. The 2025 #1E at $27.5M and #3 at $29.5M cluster near the historical $33M (#4 2009) benchmark — modest nominal appreciation that reflects the building's stable institutional pricing rather than the broader luxury market's volatility.
The complete recorded-sale history for 820 Fifth 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 3.4% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Recent closings
The building’s 7 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | $/sf | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2025 | MAIS | 4 BR · 5.5 BA · 5,240 sf | $10,500,000 | $2,004 | -34.4% |
| Jan 29, 2025 | 3 | 6 BR · 8 BA · 7,000 sf | $27,500,000 | $3,929 | -6.8% |
| Jan 29, 2025 | 1E | $27,500,000 | — | ||
| Mar 23, 2023 | 2S | 3 BR · 4 BA | $10,000,000 | +17.6% | |
| Dec 16, 2009 | 12 | $40,000,000 | — | ||
| Dec 16, 2009 | 4 | 6 BR · 6,500 sf | $33,000,000 | $5,077 | — |
| Nov 3, 2003 | 4 | 6 BR · 6,500 sf | $24,500,000 | $3,769 | +0.0% |
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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2025 | MAIS | 4 BR · 5.5 BA | 5,240 | $10,500,000 | $2,004 | -34.4% |
| Jan 29, 2025 | 3 | 6 BR · 8 BA | 7,000 | $27,500,000 | $3,929 | -6.8% |
| Jan 29, 2025 | 1E | — | $27,500,000 | — | — | |
| Mar 23, 2023 | 2S | 3 BR · 4 BA | — | $10,000,000 | — | +17.6% |
| Dec 16, 2009 | 12 | — | $40,000,000 | — | — | |
| Dec 16, 2009 | 4 | 6 BR | 6,500 | $33,000,000 | $5,077 | — |
| Nov 3, 2003 | 4 | 6 BR | 6,500 | $24,500,000 | $3,769 | +0.0% |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01378-0001) 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 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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