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08/28/2025

The NYC Home of the Week is 49 East 80th Street, in the Upper East Side 👇 It was one of only four homes built in Manhattan in 1930, and may be the borough’s only remaining Art Deco private residence. Built for an Italian immigrant who went on to become a board member at Bank of America. Then sold to Walter Edward Sachs, grandson of Goldman Sachs founder Marcus Goldman. Walter was also helped develop the NAACP! In 1970, Barbra Streisand bought the house for $420K (1/36th its current asking price). She didn’t even want a townhouse, but bought this one after being rejected for two different Park Avenue apartments, despite a personal reference from Governor Rockefeller. She thought her struggles were related to her religion and profession. Really terrible, if true. She sold the house just 2 years after buying it and moved to California.The house is 25’ wide, almost 9,200 sq ft, and has an elevator, private garage, and over 2,000 sq ft of outdoor space. It’s asking price this time is $15.9M. Follow Sean Devine NYC Luxury Real Estate for more on NYC’s top homes.

08/15/2025

Wondering how much your Manhattan or Brooklyn townhouse is worth?

Curious how much it might cost to buy one?

Here are the newest median sales price figures!

Median sales price is helpful, but keep in mind this often means homes sold significantly above and below these numbers! The specifics for each individual house really matter and can dramatically impact its value.

Reach out with any questions. I’m always here and happy to help!

Follow Sean Devine NYC Luxury Real Estate for in-depth market analysis and videos on NYC’s top homes!

08/13/2025

Know anyone curious about the value of their NYC home? Or someone wondering how much it costs to live in certain areas? Here’s your chance to help them out! These slides provide the most recent median sale prices by home size and location.

Keep in mind, these are median sale prices. While a really helpful data point, 50% of homes sold above these numbers and 50% below.

08/07/2025

If you like data and you’re curious about the NYC real estate market, our monthly report is for you!

This snapshot has lots of real time macro and micro information about what’s selling where in Manhattan. Things really sped up after two months in which the resale market was ok but overall market was relatively slow. Part of that was a tremendous amount of activity in the lower end of the market.

NOTE! We also track lots of information about the Brooklyn market. Because of the small size of many of those neighborhoods, we’re always working on way to present it similar to our Manhattan report. That may be coming relatively soon, but in the meantime feel free to reach out with any Brooklyn questions!!

Two things I found particularly mind-blowing about Brooklyn, last month: (1) it was the 2nd slowest July in 6 years for signed contracts for Brooklyn homes; and (2) 43% of the Brooklyn homes that went into contract were townhouses! My guess is #1 has more to do with supply than demand. For context on #2, in Manhattan last month only 1.3% of the homes that went into contract were townhouses!

Know anyone thinking about selling or buying a home in NYC? Let us know! We’re always here and happy to help!

Follow Sean Devine NYC Luxury Real Estate for in-depth market analysis and content about NYC’s best homes!

04/06/2025

NYC, right now!

First 2 in Union Square, next 3 in Gramercy Park

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12/10/2024

📍Greenwich Village, NYC

😍 sights & sounds 🎶

06/13/2024

IN CONTRACT!!📍101 West 12th Street, 11R • Last Asking $3.3M

Our team prides itself on succeeding where others have struggled. We took over this listing the NEXT DAY after another agent had it for 180 days without getting any offers. We immediately got to work upgrading the marketing, from professional pictures and video, to a strategic social media campaign, to in-person events. Within 65 days, we were in contract with an all-cash offer very close to the asking price!

We’re not bringing this up to embarrass anyone. The agent before us didn’t do a bad job. Their images weren’t bad. Their approach was fine. We’re in a very difficult market, a huge number of properties struggling to sell all at the same time. There’s no shame in that.

The reality is we are crazy people and we love a challenge. We’ll obsess about every single detail, every angle, every opportunity to help our clients succeed. We will not stop until that happens.

Every detail matters. Follow up matters. How you show a home matters. Negotiation skill matters. All of these things add up, not only to get your home sold, not only more quickly, but ALSO for a higher price. This is why who you choose to work with truly matters. That’s true regardless of the strength of the overall market, but it’s MOST obvious and important in a difficult market.

Very happy for our seller clients and for the lucky prospective buyers!! It’s a truly outstanding home, we’re grateful to have had the opportunity to help sell.

Know anyone thinking about selling or buying a home in NYC? LET US KNOW!! We’re always here and happy to push like crazy until the job is successfully done ✅

05/02/2024

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