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820 Fifth AvenueRecorded sales & closing prices
820 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10065
7 recorded transfers, 2003–2025. 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
- 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 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.
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 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 December 16, 2009 single-day cluster is the defining historical datapoint: two full-floor apartments closed the same day in the immediate post-Lehman recovery window, producing the largest concentrated trade activity in the building's modern history.
The 2025 wave brought closings across both the maisonette and full-floor tiers, including an off-market trade in January.
Read the public record with care. At 13 apartments, turnover can be limited, and some recorded transfers may not reflect market price; review the recorded sales individually.
The complete recorded-sale history for 820 Fifth Avenue, 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 3.4% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Recent closings
The building’s 4 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% |
| Mar 23, 2023 | 2S | 3 BR · 4 BA | $10,000,000 | +17.6% | |
| 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 | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $27,500,000 | — | — |
| Mar 23, 2023 | 2S | 3 BR · 4 BA | — | $10,000,000 | — | +17.6% |
| Dec 16, 2009 | 12 | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $40,000,000 | — | — |
| Dec 16, 2009 | 4 | 6 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | 6,500 | $33,000,000 | $5,077 | — |
| Nov 3, 2003 | 4 | 6 BR | 6,500 | $24,500,000 | $3,769 | +0.0% |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01378-0001). 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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