UPPER EAST SIDE

130 E. 67th St.
Three-bedroom co-op
Asking price: $2.35 million
Selling price: $2.17 million
Time on market: about a year

THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM A sprawling three-bedroom, 2,400-square-foot, pre-war apartment at 130 E. 67th St. closed last week for $2.17 million. It was originally listed about a year ago but remained on the market until now despite strong interest. Two prospective buyers were turned down by the coop board before the third group – a married couple with two young children – were finally approved.

“This building turns people down left and right,” Jill Sloane of Halstead, who represented the seller, said. She says that since she started working on this deal, the board had issued five rejections.

“I was excited when I got the exclusive,” she said. “But all of this was not very exciting at all.”

The first offer received and rejected by the difficult board had been for $2.4 million, or $225,000 more than the final sale price. Jason Walker of Prudential Douglas Elliman represented the successful buyers.

UPPER EAST SIDE

60 E. 88th St.
Two-bedroom condo
Asking price: $1.99 million
Selling price: $1.92 million
Time on market: 90 days

FELL IN LOVE A 1,700-square-foot condo at 60 E. 88th St. sold recently for $1.92 million. The seller, a New Jersey man, owned the apartment for about eight years and loved it, but had never lived there. He had been renting it out for about $7,500 a month, Rumi Yasuda of Corcoran, who represented the seller, said.The buyer was a European man who had been looking for an investment, but after finding the quiet, thirdfloor property, he fell in love and decided to make it his home.

There were multiple offers on the spacious two-bedroom condo, which had initially hit the market at $2.295 million.”That was a mistake,”Ms.Yasuda said. “I asked him to list it at about $2 million, but he wouldn’t. Eventually he asked $2 million and finally got an offer. But if we had priced it correctly from the beginning, I think it would have attracted more interest, more bidders, and a higher price.”

FLATIRON DISTRICT

21 E. 22nd St.
One-bedroom co-op
Asking price: $1.47 million
Selling price: $1.42 million
Time on market: three weeks

ONE AMAZING CLOSET A one-bedroom, one-bath co-op at 21 E. 22nd St. has sold for $1.42 million – a record price per square foot for the building. The seller was a lady in her late 30s who was trading up to a larger space in Chelsea.The buyer was a young female professional.

There was a lot of interest in the 1,000-square-foot apartment, according to Barbara Licalzi, senior vice president at Halstead. “Twenty-second Street between Broadway and Park is considered the best tree-lined Flatiron block,” Ms. Licalzi, who specializes in Flatiron property and lives nearby, said. But the real attraction? “It had an absolutely amazing closet,” she said. “Every woman who looked at it was impressed. It was a room in itself.”

MIDTOWN

347 W. 57th St.
One-bedroom condo
Asking price: $775,000
Selling price: $795,000
Time on market: five months

An 807-square-foot one-bedroom apartment with a terrace at 347 W. 57th St. has sold for $795,000 – $20,000 more than the asking price.The sellers, a couple in their 40s who live in Westchester, bought the property two years ago as a pied-a-terre and had spent some time renovating it, according to Dan Danielli of Halstead who was the exclusive broker.

The buyer was a resident of the Sheffield, a rental building across the street that is being converted to condos. Tenants are required to vacate as their leases end, and Mr. Danielli said that several had inspected no. 347. There were two interested parties by the end, and a bidding war ensured a top price for the happy sellers.