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We love nothing more than a good market report. Our friends at PropertyShark passed along all sorts of fun numbers regarding home sales in Queens. There are graphs looking at the number of residential sales and the median sales prices yearly and per quarter since 2008 — pictured above and after the jump. They also compiled the top ten residential sales of 2013 and the top five sales of the fourth quarter of 2013.

Overall it looks like sales prices are on the steady incline as we head into the new year. (Other recently-published market reports showed a considerable boost in sales for the fourth quarter compared to last year.) As for the top ten sales of 2013 and the top sales of the fourth quarter, 72 Tennis Place topped both lists, selling in November for $4,300,000. The second highest sale for the year was 31-08 Linden Street in Flushing, selling for $3,250,000. Third place goes to 531 51st Avenue, selling in Hunters Point for $3,054,750.

Check out all the numbers goodness after the jump!

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Our friends over at PropertyShark are back to crunching numbers, this time regarding sales in Forest Hills. We used the rough neighborhood boundary of Horace Harding Expressway/62nd Avenue to the north, Flushing Meadows Park to the east, Union Turnpike to the south, and Yellowstone and Woodhaven Boulevards to the west. As you can see in the graph above, the median residential sales price in the neighborhood has remained relatively stable since 2005. The highest median price recorded, just over $300,000, was in 2010. Last year the number of sales decreased but pricing remained consistent. After the jump, more graphs show an equally stable price for condo and co-op units in the neighborhood, which level out around $250,000. 2012 saw a dip in the median price, but it was back on the upswing in the first quarter of 2013. Single- and two-family sales trends are a little less predictable, with significant sales spikes in 2008, 2010 and 2011. Since the beginning of 2012, prices for one- and two-family homes are on a steady rise, with a median price around $800,000 in the first quarter of 2013. The most expensive neighborhood sales are 105 Greenway South for $3,775,000 in 2009, 35 Greenway North for $3,500,000 in 2012 and 147 Greenway North for $3,200,000 in 2007.

Currently, the cheapest properties on the market are a studio at 97-07 67th Avenue for $100,000, another studio at 1 Station Square asking $99,000 and yet another studio at 102-12 65th Avenue also asking $99,000. The priciest properties on the market are 40 Markwood Place asking $3,300,000, 80 Slocum Crescent asking $2,380,000 and 120 Puritan Avenue asking $2,150,000. Click through to see more graphs and numbers. Check out all our previous market snapshots here.

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For our second round of the Queens Market Snapshot, our friends at PropertyShark compiled sales numbers on the Jackson Heights real estate market. (We used the following borders: Grand Central Parkway to the north, 94th Street/Junction Boulevard to the East, Roosevelt Avenue to the south, and BQE/Broadway to the west.) As you can see above, the median sales price for all residential sales took a sharp dip back in 2005 and has been trading in a fairly narrow range since then. While the median price remains stable between $200,000 and $300,000, sales volume has been relatively subdued for the past three years.

The median price for condos and co-ops is currently around $200,000. Similar to the overall market, the number of sales in the past three years has been roughly half of what it was in the 2005 to 2008 period. Single and two-family home prices saw less of a percentage decline than other areas of the market, hovering around $500,000 for most of the past four years.

PropertyShark also dug up numbers for the priciest sales in the neighborhood, as well as the cheapest and most expensive units on the market. The most expensive sale happened back in 2008, a one-family house at 34-40 86 Street for $995,000. A current property on the market hopes for much more than that — 37-21 75th Street is asking $2,900,000. The cheapest Jackson Heights apartment on the market now is a studio at 108-05 Astoria Boulevard asking $75,000; in the Brownstoner Marketplace the cheapest unit is a 700-square-foot studio at 90-11 35th Avenue. Click through to see lots of graphs and more numbers.

Market Snapshot: Astoria [Brownstoner]

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PropertyShark compiled some numbers for us to create a market snapshot of Astoria, looking at residential sales trends in the neighborhood since 2005. Above, you can see the median price for all residential sales hovers around $400,000, despite the boom in 2007 and the expected drop in early 2009. Despite a steady number of sales last year, prices fluctuated from just under $400,000 to just over $500,000. After the jump, check out graphs for the condo and co-op sales trends, as well as the single- and two-family sales trends. Condo and co-op prices also saw huge drops in early 2009. Prices, however, are on the rise this year with a median sales price of $325,000 in the first quarter of 2013. Prices of single- and two-family homes are more stable, mostly in the $600,000 to $700,000 range. The most expensive residential sales in the neighborhood, according to PropertyShark, are 31-30 38 Street for $1,650,000 (purchased in 2006), 30-53 35th Street for $1,350,000 (in 2008), and 25-34 31st Street for $1,300,000 (this April). Currently, you can get an apartment in Astoria for as cheap as $99,000 and a home as expensive as $2,175,990.

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PropertyShark put together a list of the top commercial deals in Brooklyn in the second quarter of the year, and the biggest sales were in Williamsburg and Clinton Hill. The most money paid for a building this spring was $27.2 million for the Williamsburg rental 44 Berry Street, which ING Clarion Partners purchased. The second-biggest buy was a group of investors’ purchase of the Clinton Hill development 163 Washington Avenue for $22 million; the building has since been launched as a rental. Rounding out the top five: 268 Bay 38th Street, a 140-unit Bensonhurst rental, sold for $20.5 million; 350 Hicks Street, a garage Continuum Health Partners owned while it operated LICH went to SUNY Downstate for $17.2 million; and a 113-unit apartment building at 2440 East 29th Street in Sheepshead Bay fetched $16.3 million.

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PropertyShark has mapped all Brooklyn condo and co-op sales from last quarter—an interactive version of it lives here—and the larger circles above show that a lot of those sales happened in North Brooklyn, Downtown and the Heights. (No big surprises, in other words.) Meanwhile, most of the sales on the map are either in the $500- to $750-a-foot range (the dark green circles) or below $500 a foot (the blue ones). There’s a smattering of big-ticket sales, in the $750- to $1,000-a-foot range, shown in Dumbo, the Heights, Cobble Hill and Park Slope.
Broklyn Apartment Sales Q2 2011 [PropertyShark]