Queens • New York
Forest Hills Gardens Real Estate
A Garden Suburb Inside the City
Homes in Forest Hills changed hands at a median of
$474,500
across 692 recorded sales in the rolling 12 months ended June 30, 2026.
- Condominium
- $987,703115 recorded sales, 16.6% of the total
- Co-operative
- $363,500458 recorded sales, 66.2% of the total
- One-Family House
- $1,325,000119 recorded sales, 17.2% of the total · $845 per sq ft
- Recorded sales, not listings. A deed reaches the public roll weeks to months after the parties agree: this file ended June 30, 2026 and was read on August 17, 2026. It is not a reading of the market this week.
- A co-operative transfer conveys shares in a corporation, not real property, so it is not a deed and reaches this file only through the transfer-tax filing. DOF’s coverage of co-ops is correspondingly inconsistent: the consideration is not always stated, and the square footage never is. 105 of the 563 co-op rows filed here (18.7%) carry no usable price and are absent from this sample. Co-ops are most of the recorded activity in this neighbourhood, so that gap moves the pooled figure above, not just the co-op line.
- No neighbourhood-wide price per square foot is published. DOF records gross square footage as zero for condominium and co-operative units, so only 119 of 692 sales here carry a usable figure — houses, in a market measured in apartments. A per-foot median drawn from them would describe 17.2% of the sales and read as though it described all of them.
- Conveyances at or under $10,000 are excluded as non-market: deeds into a trust or between relatives, corrections, and $0 transfers. 244 rows were dropped on that basis.
- Deeds conveying more than one home are excluded — a bulk or sponsor sale is one transaction, not one home’s price. None were found in this window.
- No active-listing count and no days on market. Both describe live inventory, which exists only in an MLS; neither can be derived from recorded sales, so both render as an em dash rather than as a figure we inferred.
- Drawn from ZIP 11375, then narrowed to the sales DOF itself labels FOREST HILLS. A ZIP is a mail route, not a neighbourhood. A further 98 recorded sales in that ZIP carry another label — 76 in REGO PARK, 17 in GLENDALE, 5 in FLUSHING MEADOW PARK — and are not counted here.
- Forest Hills Gardens is roughly eight hundred houses inside Forest Hills, and the City does not report it separately: DOF publishes no label for the Gardens, so the narrowest sound measurement available is Forest Hills as a whole. These figures therefore cover a market that is mostly co-operative apartments in buildings the Gardens does not contain. The One-Family House line is the closer read on the Gardens itself, and even that includes houses well outside it.
- Only the ownership forms above are counted. 107 other recorded sales in this area are out of scope — chiefly 55 condo parking, 18 two-family houses, 17 condo co-ops, 6 three-family houses. Condo co-ops (DOF class R9) are a unit in a condominium whose shares are held by a co-operative — both forms at once — so they are counted as neither rather than misfiled into one.
NYC Department of Finance Rolling Sales, rolling 12 months ended June 30, 2026.
About Forest Hills Gardens
Forest Hills Gardens was laid out in 1909 by the Russell Sage Foundation to demonstrate what a planned suburb inside a city could be: Grosvenor Atterbury designed the buildings, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. the landscape, and the streets curve on purpose so that no view runs straight for long. The houses are Tudor Revival and English cottage in stucco, half-timber and variegated brick, under clay tile and slate, with leaded casements and tall chimneys. The streets are privately owned to this day and maintained by the residents’ corporation rather than by the city, which is the single fact that most changes how a purchase here works. Around it, Forest Hills proper is a far larger apartment market on public streets.
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Getting to Forest Hills Gardens
- Subway
- The E and F run express from 71st Avenue–Continental with the M and R local; Midtown is roughly twenty-five minutes. The station sits at the northern edge of the Gardens rather than inside it, so the walk from the southern streets is a real ten to fifteen minutes.
- LIRR
- The Forest Hills station on the Port Washington branch puts Penn Station about fifteen minutes away, and Grand Central about the same by way of the East Side terminal. It is among the shortest rail commutes into Manhattan from any address on this site, and it is a large part of what the Gardens is worth.
- By Car
- Queens Boulevard, the Long Island Expressway and the Grand Central Parkway are all close, and either airport is under half an hour outside peak. Inside the Gardens the streets are private and parking is governed by the residents’ corporation rather than by the city, so a household with more cars than driveway should establish the rules before contract rather than after.
Local expertise, brought to Forest Hills Gardens
Anthony Clemenza leads Luxury Realty International's representation in Forest Hills Gardens, advising buyers and sellers on positioning, pricing, and the channels through which a residence here actually reaches the market. Anthony holds an active brokerage license in New York.
