Manhattan • New York
Upper East Side
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Homes in Upper East Side changed hands at a median of
$1,477,500
across 2,020 recorded sales in the rolling 12 months ended June 30, 2026.
- Condominium
- $2,350,000617 recorded sales, 30.5% of the total
- Co-operative
- $1,150,0001,362 recorded sales, 67.4% of the total
- One-Family House
- $10,450,00041 recorded sales, 2% of the total · $2,033 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. 314 of the 1,676 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 41 of 2,020 sales here carry a usable figure — houses, in a market measured in apartments. A per-foot median drawn from them would describe 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. 572 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. 2 were dropped.
- 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 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075, then narrowed to the sales DOF itself labels UPPER EAST SIDE (59-79) and UPPER EAST SIDE (79-96). A ZIP is a mail route, not a neighbourhood. One further recorded sale in those ZIPs carries another label — 1 in HARLEM-CENTRAL — and is not counted here.
- Only the ownership forms above are counted. 368 other recorded sales in this area are out of scope — chiefly 181 condo co-ops, 56 special condominium billing lots, 28 condominium storage units, 19 condominium store buildings. 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.
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