NYC Luxury Market Watch: Week of March 30, 2026

A single townhouse reset the top of the Manhattan market in the first week of April. 31 contracts above $4 million were signed between March 30 and April 5, 2026, worth $367,333,000, and the week's leading contract, $75,000,000 at 105-107 Bank Street, was the largest of the year to that point. It never appeared on the open market.

The trend: two deals, a third of the volume

Thirty-one contracts is a middling count, close to the week before and well short of the 43 signed in early March. The volume figure is not middling at all. Two properties, 105-107 Bank Street at $75,000,000 and the 21st floor of 175 Fifth Avenue at $58,500,000, accounted for roughly a third of the week's $367 million between them.

Three contracts cleared $20 million, one of them above $50 million and one above $70 million. Eleven of the 31 deals, 35 percent, were in new or recently built buildings. Inventory was effectively flat, at 5,909 units available in Manhattan. Compass noted that all of this happened in a week when Passover usually produces a brief seasonal slowdown.

Compass also reported that Bank Street entered contract after being shopped quietly off market, and that a small but notable inventory of townhouses asking above $100 million is circulating the same way. None of that appears in a weekly contract count until the day it signs.

Top 5 deals of the week

1. 105-107 Bank Street

$75,000,000 · 6 BD, 8.5 BA, 13,000 SF

The largest contract of the year to that point. A double width West Village townhouse of approximately 13,000 interior square feet with a further 3,000 square feet of private outdoor space, architecture by Robert A.M. Stern. Roughly $5,770 per square foot, and shopped entirely off market before it signed.

2. 175 Fifth Avenue, Floor21

$58,500,000 · 5 BD, 5.5 BA, 7,408 SF

A full floor inside the Flatiron Building at roughly $7,900 per square foot, close to double the rate the 7th floor of the same building signed at eight days earlier.

3. 500 West 18th Street, PH33B

$24,600,000 · 4 BD, 4.5 BA, 5,160 SF

A penthouse at One High Line, at roughly $4,765 per square foot, and the third contract of the week above $20 million.

4. 16 Fifth Avenue, 18

$17,500,000 · 4 BD, 4.5 BA, 3,727 SF

The second contract at this Greenwich Village address in a month, at roughly $4,695 per square foot, well above the $3,420 per foot an identically sized residence signed at in mid March.

5. 354 West 20th Street

$13,999,999 · 5 BD, 4 BA, 6,200 SF

A Chelsea townhouse at roughly $2,260 per square foot, priced one dollar under $14 million.

The Elevated take

Thirty-one contracts and $367 million is a lopsided week, and the lopsidedness is the point. Two properties carried a third of the volume. At this end of the market, weekly volume is not a measure of breadth, it is a measure of whether one or two very large things happened to sign, and treating it as a demand indicator will mislead you most of the time.

The two Flatiron Building floors are the cleaner read. Two full floors under the same roof, signed eight days apart, at roughly $3,965 and $7,900 per square foot. Fourteen floors and a different floor plate produced a doubling in rate. Building averages are close to meaningless at this level.

For anyone holding a large West Village or Chelsea townhouse, the Bank Street trade is both a genuine comparable and a genuine warning. It cleared $75 million after being shopped quietly rather than listed, which is the route most properties at that number take. If your plan assumes a public launch will surface the buyer, it is worth pressure testing that assumption first.

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