A decade of ultra luxury condos. The New York Times published this story over the weekend talking about how the luxury condo boom of the 2010s transformed New York City, and in particular Brooklyn.

Below are two tables from the article: (1) The number of units built between 2009 and 2019 across the five boroughs and the city's top neighborhoods, and (2) the neighborhoods with the highest median sale price increase.

The overarching theme is that New York built too many "super-high-end condos" geared toward global capital flows. According to one developer interviewed for the article (Gary Barnett of Extell Development), it was unprecedented.

Apparently, the problem segment remains the $5 million to $10 million market. There's simply too much inventory, and that has developers both delaying launches and going with much smaller (and hence more affordable) unit mixes.

One stat that stood out for me was the new condo premium over resales. In 2011, the average sale price of a new condo in the city was about $1.15 million, which represented about a 9% premium over resale pricing.

While it is typical to see a premium over resales (the same is true in Toronto), the average price of a new condo in 2019 rose to $3.77 million, representing a 118% premium over resales.

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