GRAMERCY
200 E. 24th St.

Last asking price: $459,000
Sold price: $420,000
Square footage: 650
Time on market: 12 weeks
Studio coop

NEWLYWEDS MOVING IN Most of the people above and below this newly bought fifth-floor studio have converted their apartments into one-bedrooms, and the newlyweds who recently bought the space weren’t about to buck their co-op’s trend. “They make really cute, nice one-bedroom apartments,” a Halstead Property broker, Danica Cordell-Reeh, said. The unit — with a renovated kitchen and bathroom, large dressing room, and views of Second Avenue — hadn’t been occupied for about a decade, she said, and it’s teeming with young couples like these purchasers. He is in retail sales, she is a human resources consultant, and both grew up in the New York metropolitan area. Ms. Cordell-Reeh worked with Richard Lech.

CHELSEA
325 W. 21st St.

Last asking price: $698,000
Selling price: $685,000
Square footage: 755
Time on market: 4 months
1 bedroom coop

A WELL-HIDDEN GARDEN The fact that this former tenement, built in the early part of the 20th century, still looked like a tenement helped keep this apartment on the market. Before the apartment was staged — at a cost of several thousand dollars — the space was dirty and run-down. Its dinginess concealed the private garden that Tim Cass of the Corcoran Group said was key to selling the place. “The space had great potential,” Mr. Cass said. “It just wasn’t being used to its full potential.” The staging plan oriented the bedroom and living room furniture towards the garden.”You really felt like you were in the country. It was like having a little country oasis in the middle of the city,” Mr. Cass said. Once they staged the apartment — bringing in a professional designer to spruce up the space — potential buyers started calling. The seller, who worked in the costume department of the Metropolitan Opera, “was ready for a change.” He sold it to a young professional, the broker said.

UPPER EAST SIDE
403 E. 62nd St.

Last asking price: $1.595 million
Sold price: $1.4 million
Square footage: 1,663
Time on market: 4 months
3-bedroom condo

NATURE ON VIEW Broker Shelle Sklarsh of Halstead Property says the new owners of a three-bedroom condo duplex will “see the sun, moon, and stars” from their private roof terrace of Le Domaine. Even when they are not outdoors, they will have stunning views of the East River and the 59th Street Bridge. The 18th-floor apartment, sold in “mint condition” by a family originally from China went to a television producer and a bodybuilder who already lived in the building on a lower floor. One of the Chinese sellers is living across the street in short-term rental space, but she’s bought into a new construction downtown where she’ll move once it’s finished.