UES Townhouse Tops Slow Week For Manhattan Luxury Deals

An Upper East Side townhouse and Noho condo once owned by actor Jonah Hill topped another sluggish week for Manhattan’s luxury market. 

Buyers signed contracts for 15 homes in the borough asking $4 million or more between Aug. 17 and Aug. 23, according to Olshan Realty’s weekly report. The total was lower than the previous period, when 18 properties found buyers. 

Inked deals for luxury homes in Manhattan have continued to dip this month, as is typical for late summer. The decade average for the third week of August is just 17.

The priciest property to snag a signed contract was a 20-foot-wide townhouse at 111 East 81st Street, asking just under $14 million. The home, which last sold in 2022 for $13.3 million, hit the market in May with an asking price of $15 million. 

The townhouse has five bedrooms and four full bathrooms spread across 6,500 square feet and four stories. It also features an elevator, roof terrace, back garden and finished basement with a kitchenette and gym. 

Douglas Elliman’s John Giannone, Jac Credaroli and Lauren Muss had the listing.

The second most expensive home to snag a signed deal was a condo at 36 Bleeker Street, with an asking price of $11.5 million. The 3,300-square-foot apartment last traded four years ago, when actor Jonah Hill sold it for $10.6 million to a buyer whose identity is shielded by a shell company. 

Unit 5A, which asked $12.4 million when it hit the market in April, has four bedrooms and four full bathrooms. It also features 12-foot-high, barrel-vaulted ceilings, a chef’s kitchen and windows overlooking a landscaped courtyard. 

The condo is one of 20 in the building, known as the Schumacher, built in 1885 and once home to the Schumacher & Ettinger lithographic printing company. The seven-story building was converted into apartments after developer Stillman Development bought it for $45 million in 2012. Sales launched the following year, and construction was completed around 2015. 

Amenities in the Morris Adjmi Architects-designed conversion include doormen, a fitness center and concierge.

Corcoran’s Noble Black, Jesse Feldman and Jami Gagliano had the listing. 

Of the 15 homes to find buyers, eight were condos, four were co-ops and three were townhouses. 

The properties were priced at a combined $99.2 million, averaging $6.6 million and a median of $5.7 million. The typical home spent more than two years on the market and was discounted by 11 percent.

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