{"id":245000,"date":"2026-05-27T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:16:11","slug":"new-york-top-real-estate-deals-tuesday-may-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245000\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Top Real Estate Deals: Tuesday, May 26, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were 143 transactions totaling $361 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Commercial: Soho logged the top commercial real estate deal recorded in New York City, where an LLC tied to Capstone Equities took over a six-story office property at 140 Crosby Street in a deal valued at $51.4 million. The prior owners were an affiliate of Madison Capital and Vornado, which had purchased the 32,300-square-foot building in 2016 for $38.8 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/new-york\/2025\/08\/26\/capstone-equities-foreclosing-on-vornados-140-crosby-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capstone had taken<\/a> over the debt for the property last summer and foreclosed on it. The case was dropped earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Residential: The top recorded home sale was on the Upper East Side, where David Rogers and Elizabeth Dexter scoop up a co-op at 778 Park Avenue from <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/new-york\/2025\/09\/22\/william-lauder-sells-fifth-avenue-co-op-for-38m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Lauder<\/a>, chair of the board of the Est\u00e9e Lauder Companies. The price tag was $21.3 million. The full-floor unit has five bedrooms, five full bathrooms, two half bathrooms, four staff rooms and three wood-burning fireplaces. Its last asking price was $22.5 million. It went on the market with Corcoran\u2019s Cathy Franklin and Alexis Bodenheimer in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Commercial: Gary Barnett\u2019s Extell Development Company purchased the American Jewish Committee office building at <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/new-york\/2026\/05\/26\/gary-barnett-buys-ajc-building-at-165-east-56th-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">165 East 56th Street<\/a> for $39 million. The AJC had marketed the 60,000-square-foot, eight-story building as a candidate for residential conversion. The purchase is near another Extell development site a couple of blocks away on Park Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: Miki Naftali\u2019s Naftali Group sold two townhouse units, each measuring about 7,700 square feet, at The Henry at 211 West 84th Street on the Upper West Side for $17 million a piece, slightly above their asking prices. Adam and Suzanne Zimbler purchased one of the townhouses, and a trust purchased the other. Each is 42 feet wide with six bedrooms. Compass\u2019 Alexa Lambert, Alison Black and Shelton Smith had the listings.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: In Lenox Hill, Michael and Edith Blair parted with a co-op at 535 Park Avenue for $8.6 million. The buyers were hedge funder <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/new-york\/2026\/05\/08\/new-york-top-real-estate-deals-thursday-may-7-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Feirstein and Julienne Kuttel<\/a>, who recently purchased another co-op in the same building for $8.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>By the Numbers: <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/data\/national\/2026\/us-home-prices-rise-but-cool-in-major-metros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National home prices inch up as major metros slide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. home prices are sending mixed signals.<\/p>\n<p>At the national level, home prices are steadily creeping up. That runs counter to what is happening in more than half of the nation\u2019s most populous areas, where pricing is falling back to pre-pandemic norms.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the year before, housing prices in March were up 0.7 percent, according to the S&amp;P Cotality Case-ShIller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index. However, that annual growth rate was slightly under that of the month before, which was 0.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1033117\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>If you like this digest, you can get it even earlier \u2014 every evening \u2014 by subscribing to TRD Data, <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/data\/latest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 143 transactions totaling $361 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,5452,11,10],"class_list":["post-245000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-real-estate-deals","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}