998 Fifth AvenueRecorded sales & closing prices
998 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028
14 recorded transfers, 2006–2025. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recent range
- $37.5M – $37.5M
- Avg vs. ask
- -18.8%
- Recorded transfers
- 14
Not enough recent activity to price (shown for completeness, not quoted): 2BR — last traded 2006; 3BR — last traded 2016; 4BR+ — last traded 2025.
The complete recorded-sale history for 998 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. Priced by apartment type — the honest unit for a co-op, where square footage isn’t officially recorded.
Latest closings
The line premium — where you sit sets the price
Same-4BR+ prices, time-controlled to today’s dollars, split by line — exposure, light, and layout vary stack to stack within a building.
Bar = today’s 4BR+ price for that line; right column = premium vs. an average 4BR+.
And by floor
Same 4BR+, time-controlled to today — higher floors, higher clears.
The 4BR+ trajectory
Every recorded 4BR+. The building trades thinly year to year, so the story is the long arc, not any single year: 4BR+s have moved from roughly $27.5M in the mid-2000s to about $27.2M today.
Each dot is one recorded sale, by close date and price; the line is the median for each year.
Lines that traded more than once
The building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment — recorded prices, exact.
Every recorded sale
Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Apartment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2025 | 6W | 4 BR · 5 BAClosed Sep 12, 2025 at $37.5M (recorded transfer; off-market trade reported in trade press). William Lauder, the Estée Lauder Companies executive chairman, sold to a private buyer. 4 BR / 5 BA. Lauder acquired the same #6W in August 2017 at $23.5M — a 59.6% nominal appreciation across 8 years on this specific full-floor apartment, one of the steeper same-apartment comp curves at the building's apex tier. | $37,500,000 | — |
| Sep 21, 2021 | 11W | 4 BR · 5.5 BA · 11 rmClosed Aug 25, 2021 at $22M (recorded transfer; no public public listing data listing on record at this closing — typical 998 Fifth off-market trade through private broker networks). 11th floor W-line full-floor apartment with Central Park exposure. The same #11W previously had a $0 ACRIS recording in April 2013 (zero-value transfer, likely intra-family or trust transfer); the 2021 trade represents the first arms-length transaction on the apartment in the modern dataset. | $22,000,000 | — |
| Sep 8, 2017 | 6W | 5 BR · 14 rmClosed Aug 29, 2017 at $23.5M (recorded transfer). William Lauder's acquisition of #6W; the same apartment subsequently resold off-market in September 2025 at $37.5M — a 59.6% appreciation across 8 years on this specific full-floor W-line apartment. | $23,500,000 | — |
| Jun 27, 2016 | 3W | 3 BR · 6+ BA · 12 rmClosed Jun 16, 2016 (recorded Jun 20) at $21M — 17.65% under the $25.5M asking. 3rd floor W-line full-floor at 5,500 sqft = ~$3,818/sqft. The 17.65% ask-to-close gap on a marquee Fifth Avenue full-floor documents that even 998 Fifth's apex inventory negotiated meaningfully against the broader 2016 luxury-co-op correction. | $21,000,000 | -17.6% |
| Jun 25, 2014 | 5/6E | 5 BR · 5 BAClosed May 14, 2014 (recorded Jun 19) at $16.5M — 5.71% under the $17.5M asking. 5/6E duplex E-line spanning floors 5 and 6. The same E-line duplex had recorded a $18.5M transfer in December 2012 — the $2M decline across 18 months on a substantially-the-same configuration suggests either a renovation regression, distress repricing, or component disaggregation between the two transactions. | $16,500,000 | -5.7% |
| Jan 4, 2013 | 1W | 5 BR · 9 rmClosed Dec 21, 2012 at $18.5M (recorded transfer). 1st floor W-line — substantial ground-floor or maisonette-level trade in the post-2008 recovery. Same #1W previously sold at $9.4M in June 2006 — nearly doubled in 6.5 years, an unusually steep appreciation for the W-line ground floor. | $18,500,000 | — |
| Jan 16, 2013 | 5-6E | 5 BRClosed Dec 18, 2012 at $18.5M (recorded transfer). 5/6E duplex E-line. Same configuration subsequently re-recorded at $16.5M in June 2014 (-10.8% across 18 months) — see annotation on 2014062000736001. | $18,500,000 | — |
| Apr 5, 2012 | 5W | 5 BR · 5 BA · 14 rmClosed Mar 23, 2012 at $27,222,500 — 19.93% under the $34M asking. 5th floor W-line full-floor. Among the largest 998 Fifth ask-to-close gaps in the modern dataset; the ~$6.78M absolute-dollar gap from initial pricing reflects the building's specific apex-pricing-vs-clearing-price tension that recurs across cycles. | $27,222,500 | -19.9% |
| Mar 9, 2012 | 3-4E | 5 BR · 4.5 BAClosed Sep 23, 2011 (recorded Jan 3, 2012) at $16M — 15.79% under the $19M asking. 3/4E duplex E-line spanning floors 3 and 4. The same E-line had originally been listed as #999 at $17.5M (August 2011) and then as #3/4E at $19M before clearing at $16M; documents the building's price-discovery dynamics on duplex E-line inventory in the early 2010s recovery. | $16,000,000 | -15.8% |
| Dec 12, 2007 | 2WEST | Closed Nov 13, 2007 at $18M (recorded transfer). 2nd floor W-line — late-cycle pre-Lehman trade at the building's apex tier. | $18,000,000 | — |
| Jan 31, 2007 | 4W | 4 BR · 14 rmClosed Jan 17, 2007 at $27.5M (recorded transfer). 4th floor W-line full-floor — pre-Lehman cycle peak trade on the W-line. The W-line is the building's most coveted exposure (Central Park + Metropolitan Museum sight lines); $27.5M in early 2007 established the cycle peak for the building's mid-floor W-line inventory. | $27,500,000 | — |
| Aug 17, 2006 | 5/6E | 4 BR · 5.5 BAClosed Aug 7, 2006 (recorded Aug 11) at $15.75M — full-ask, 0% off. 5/6E duplex E-line. Same E-line duplex subsequently traded at $18.5M (Dec 2012) and then $16.5M (May 2014) — extraordinary turnover for a marquee Fifth Avenue duplex, with the 2006-to-2014 window showing only ~5% nominal appreciation across 8 years. | $15,750,000 | +0.0% |
| Jul 12, 2006 | 1W | 2 BRClosed Jun 28, 2006 at $9.4M (recorded transfer). 1st floor W-line — pre-crisis trade at the ground-floor tier. Same #1W subsequently sold at $18.5M (Dec 2012) — 97% appreciation across 6.5 years on the W-line ground floor, an unusually steep curve. | $9,400,000 | — |
| Apr 4, 2006 | 8W | Closed Mar 14, 2006 at $20M (recorded transfer). 8th floor W-line full-floor — mid-2000s trade on the W-line. Provides a useful comp for the 8th floor at the cycle peak. | $20,000,000 | — |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01493-0001) and verified listing data. Co-op apartments are priced by unit type (bedroom count) rather than per square foot — square footage isn’t officially recorded for co-ops, and room counts carry some agent-entry inconsistency, so bedroom type is the reliable spine. Non-arms-length transfers and storage/parking are excluded; line and floor premiums are time-controlled to today’s pricing. Where transaction volume is too thin to support a figure, none is shown.
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