HARLEM

327 West 101st Street Three-bedroom, 5.5-bath townhouse Asking price: $3.9 million Selling price: still in contract Time on the market: three weeks

MOVIN’ ON UP This gut-renovated single family home was built in 1892, and has skylights, chandeliers, oak floors, original pocket doors and staircase, and moldings. The home, between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, also has a landscaped garden and roof access.

The sellers were a family who had been living downtown before moving to the townhouse and deciding to return. The buyers, also a family, relocated from the Upper West Side.

It is under contract for “a fraction under” its asking price, said Myrick Ferguson of Massey Knakal, who represented the seller with Karen Garber. The buyer’s broker was Sandra Smith of Fenwick-Keats.

CHELSEA

148 West 23rd Street Two-bedroom, 1.5-bath cooperative Asking price: $1.095 million Selling price: $1.025 million On the market: two months

DIVORCE THYSELF The sellers of this duplex penthouse between Sixth and Seventh avenues were getting a divorce and were interested in selling the home – fast. The first asking price was $1.2 million, but it dropped to $1.095 million to entice a buyer. “They really wanted to sell it for over $1 million, and they got their money,” said Marc Lawrence of the Corcoran Group, who had the exclusive. The wife, an artist, moved to Brooklyn with their daughter. The husband, a partner at a major New York law firm, moved to New Jersey. The buyer, a single woman who works in the nonprofit sector, owned a smaller two-bedroom in the building. The 1,200-square-foot apartment, which has northern exposures with views of the Empire State Building and eastern exposures of 23rd Street, also has expensive finishes, crown and base moldings, new wood flooring, and 14-foot ceilings. There is also a 900-squarefoot private rooftop terrace.

PARK SLOPE

121 Sterling Place Three-bedroom, 2.5-bath condominium Asking price: $1.195 million Selling price: $1.18 million Time on the market: two weeks

BANG FOR THE BUCK

The Manhattan couple who bought this 2,300-squarefoot apartment moved to Brooklyn because a dollar would go further there.

“They moved to Brooklyn because a property of this size would have cost at least triple in an equivalent neighborhood in Manhattan,” said the exclusive broker on the deal, Adam Pacelli of the Corcoran Group.

The loft building was a former parking garage, and the apartment included stainless steel appliances and granite countertops in the kitchen, a Jacuzzi bath with a separate shower, high ceilings, and northern, southern, and eastern exposures. The common room, which includes living and dining areas, is more than 1,000 square feet in size. The master suite is more than 600 square feet in size. The apartment also has a private terrace.

The buyers are lawyers, and the sellers, who own a business, are moving to the country. UPPER WEST SIDE

109 West 70th Street One-bedroom, 1.5-bath cooperative Asking Price: $3 85,000 Selling Price: $3 85,000 Time on the market: two months

BROWNSTONE BEAUTY

The buyer of this duplex apartment “flipped for the charm,” said a Century 21 William B. May agent, Jane Goldberg. The buyer, an investment banker in his mid-20s who had been renting with roommates, convinced his parents to guarantee the deal and upped his offer. “We knew he was bidding against a young lady whose parents were guaranteeing the apartment, so we were aggressive,” Ms. Goldberg said. The apartment is off Columbus Avenue and is part of a cooperative consisting of four brownstones. On the first floor, it has original moldings, an exposed brick wall, and a renovated kitchen and bath. Andrew Phillips of Halstead was the listing broker.