UPPER EAST SIDE

1441 Third Ave.
2-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath condominium
Asking price: $1.5 million
Selling price: $1.5 million
Monthly cost: $2,100
Time on the market: one day

CITY VISTA This 1,500-square-foot condo in a building called Le Trion was snatched up on its first day on the market. The buyer – a single, young ear, nose, and throat surgeon – saw quite a few places before he settled on the property, said Phyllis Stadler of Dwelling Quest, who represented him in the sale. Le Trion’s in-house gym, storage units, and garden – complete with a waterfall – were just three of the condo’s selling points. The 20-year-old mid-rise, red-brick building, between 81st and 82nd streets, also features a newly installed children’s playroom.

The condo itself has “very nice views,” said Jean Segal of the Corcoran Group, who represented the sellers, a couple with a baby who are relocating to the Midwest. While the balcony faces east, it has “a very nice city vista that really twinkles in the evening,” Ms. Segal said. “The living room-dining room faces due west with the Carlyle Hotel,” making for another great view. The living room also has a bay window that juts out, making it more like a greenhouse window, she said.

Dwelling Quest’s Ms. Stadler said the property was in very good condition and a good value in today’s market.

220 E. 67th St.
Studio cooperative
Asking price: $350,000
Selling price: $333,000
Monthly cost: $761
Time on the market: five weeks

FIRST HOME This third-floor alcove studio between Second and Third avenues proved to be the perfect first-time property purchase for the buyer, a single woman in her mid-20s who works for Bank of America. She especially appreciated the 12-story postwar building’s 24-hour doorman, said Tonia Moore of Citi Habitats, who represented the buyer in the transaction with Carly Holzmacher. “Her parents were happy about that [doorman] as well,” said Ms. Moore.

With the studio’s quiet location on 67th Street, the subway close by at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, a Sephora on a nearby corner, and lots of other shops in close proximity, it’s “a great Upper East Side location,” Ms. Moore said.

The 550-square-foot alcove’s traditional “L” shape – with the living area and galley kitchen at one end and the sleeping area around the corner – is even more pronounced than in most studios of this kind, featuring built-in cabinetry separating the living area. “It felt like a one-bedroom,” Ms. Moore said.

Though the parquet hardwood floors are hidden under carpeting, the buyer found the wood to be in excellent condition and plans to take up the wall-to-wall shag. The kitchen has a dishwasher and is also in fine shape, said Ms. Moore, as is the studio’s single bath. A southern exposure provides plenty of natural light.

So why was the apartment on the market for five weeks? The owner, a late-20s bachelor who had lived there for five years and was moving in with his girlfriend, tried to sell it on his own, without a broker, Ms. Moore said. However, after weeks of hosting open houses and seeing a few offers from nonqualified buyers fall through, “he was getting ready to list it with a broker,” she said.

In the end, he let the brokers from Citi Habitats take care of the paperwork and paid a fee of 3% instead of 6%.