TOWN Residential, New York’s leading luxury real estate services firm, has released The Aggregate – the firm’s quarterly residential market report. During the fourth quarter, the overall Manhattan market saw an average sales price increase of 7.6% to $2,139,116 on the year-over-year performance, despite a median sales price decrease of 6.1% to $1,079,955. The report reveals that on a quarter-to-quarter basis, those average and median sales prices reflect an increase of 3.1% and .3%, respectively.
Market-wide, the median price per square foot decreased 3.1% over the year to $1,357, which is 1.7% higher than the price paid during the third quarter. Market-wide gains in median sales prices were reported in virtually all categories, with the 3+ bedroom segment showing the largest increase, rising 29.2% from the previous quarter to $4,490,150.
Examining the luxury market specifically, 43 transactions were recorded for condos over $10,000,000 and 10 for co-ops of the same price-point, registering average prices of $18,608,137 and $12,883,333, respectively. The median days on the market was significantly higher at 232 for condos and 270 for co-ops, compared to 61 market-wide.
Auditing the individual asset classes, Manhattan condos saw a significant year-over-year change, with the average price increasing 19.8% to $3,042,859, and the median price increasing 3.8% to $1,695,000. These average and median prices represent an increase of 3.4% and 2.7%, respectively, on a quarter-to-quarter basis. In contrast, the co-op market saw an average sales price decrease of .13%, dipping just slightly from $1,262,249 in 2015 to $1,260,613 this year. Although also virtually unchanged, median co-op sales prices fared slightly better, moving from $750,000 to $760,000 and reflecting a 1.3% increase.
Within the individual neighborhoods, The Aggregate revealed a mixture of increasing and decreasing price trends during the fourth quarter, with the Upper East Side and Downtown markets showing the most volatility.