The High End

Jim Steinman spent years transforming his Connecticut house into a kind of rock ‘n’ roll museum. Now his friends are trying to sell it — with his belongings intact.

The Upper East Side mansion, which has been divided into three luxury units, narrowly avoided foreclosure and sold for $32.2 million, the top sale in March.

One of them was the longtime residence of the accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It sold for $51 million.

Pandemic fears, and a few discounts, helped the sales of single-family homes in New York, including one once owned by Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

And despite an overall slowdown in New York City closings in the final weeks before the presidential election, October’s biggest sale was a $65.6 million Central Park duplex.

Some of the closings in September went into contract before the coronavirus surfaced and the presidential election moved into full swing.

The seven-story brick and limestone mansion at 29 Beekman Place was bought by a real estate company for $11.5 million, a fraction of its original asking price.

The condo, at the pinnacle of the limestone tower, is the year’s most expensive sale. It was one of three big purchases there during July.

The artsy town of Todos Santos has long been a quiet alternative to the resorts of Los Cabos, but new demand and development is raising its profile.

The condos, though, had been in contract years before the coronavirus outbreak. Going forward, fewer sales are expected to be recorded in New York City.

More than a dozen sales took place at 53 West 53rd Street, although the city’s biggest, at $32 million, was a Park Avenue penthouse.

A high-end complex with condos and rentals and a private courtyard will replace a three-acre parking lot owned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Álvaro Siza designs his first high-rise in the United States on the far west side of Manhattan.

A large-scale condo joins the Brooklyn neighborhood’s century-old townhouses and rental buildings.

The latest in rental and condo amenities include streaming fitness devices and meditation rooms.

A minimalist home in the Hudson Valley designed by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, an 1883 Tudor in Evanston and a medieval-style castle in Kansas City.

The Rockefeller Group is building its first apartments in Manhattan: a new 605-foot condo tower on East 29th Street.

A triplex designed by the architect-owner Cary Paik goes on the market for $13.5 million.

The month’s biggest purchase, however, was once again at 220 Central Park South.

A 42-story tower rises on the site of the flagship Syms discount clothing store in Lower Manhattan.

The first of 10 apartments at the 18-story building adjacent to the condo’s main tower sold for $34.4 million.

The 12-story building that will replace the Church of the Redeemer in Boerum Hill borrows from Japanese architecture and gardens.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has designed a 32-story luxury condo to replace a 12-story office building on the Upper West Side that it built in 1966.

More than a decade after the train yards were first leased to Related Companies for development, $5 million luxury apartments come on the market.

The first project in the long-awaited Halletts Point mega development in Queens will finally be available for rent this month.

A former warehouse in West Chelsea, once the domain of a famed Broadway set designer and now home to a fashion studio, goes on the market.

The 67-story condominium won’t be completed until 2021, but already has nearly 700 buyer inquiries.

A 2008 condominium in Atlanta, a walk-up loft apartment in Manhattan and a French Provincial-style house in Houston.

A new condominium in Long Island City has sections that feature distinct architectural styles: industrial metal, old-school brick and curtain wall glass.

The Park Row site, a piece of the J&R Music and Computer World empire, is being developed into a luxury tower.

The Brooklyn neighborhood is lined with rowhouses, but is now getting some new midsize apartment buildings.

A new 42-story rental near the United Nations will be the first Manhattan tower built from scratch by Lloyd M. Goldman, a national landlord.

Tishman Speyer builds its first condo on the site of a Macy’s parking garage.

A townhouse development and a refurbished inn are poised to bracket the Shinnecock Canal and provide a “renewed gateway into the Hamptons.”

A triplex atop 419-421 Broome Street in SoHo, where the actor Heath Ledger rented a loft when he died 10 years ago, is on the market for $65 million.

The architect best known for his African-American history museum in Washington creates a 66-story condo with a nod to New York’s history.

Developers converting prewar buildings into condominiums have turned to historians to help bring the historic cachet to life.

As people who are priced out of the Hamptons continue to explore the North Fork, once quiet hamlets are becoming livelier and more upscale.

The Hamptons may be known for its party circuit, but it is also a haven for boaters, many of whom want to be able set sail straight from home.

This week’s properties are five-bedroom homes in Sagaponack, N.Y., and East Hampton, N.Y.

For those who can put up with inconveniences like a lack of shopping, Shelter Island offers any number of charms.

The oddly shaped house in the Hamptons was dated, but also strangely appealing. Maybe all it needed was an update.

Richard Rogers, an architect for Paris’s Centre Pompidou, designs his first apartment building in the U.S. on a kite-shaped piece of land downtown.

Deborah Berke, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, has designed a 19-story condo that fits with Yorkville’s local architecture.

After serving in top executive roles at places like Merrill Lynch, John A. Thain is making another big move: He’s selling his Park Avenue penthouse.

Designers are redefining terraces; instead of plain rectangles tacked onto the sides of buildings, they’re becoming more like outdoor rooms.

The Bjarke Ingels Group has designed towers near the High Line that twist as they rise to maximize views of the city and Hudson River.

A five-bedroom condominium in Brooklyn, a neoclassical revival home in Orlando and a renovated midcentury-modern house in Boulder.

Sales in the inland district of Cayo have increased in recent years, especially for riverfront properties.

For most people, remodeling is stressful and disruptive. But for a few homeowners, it’s a passion.

The next generation of a New York real estate family steps up to play a much bigger role in an apartment tower on the east side.

Renovation disasters almost always involve missed deadlines and cost overruns — and when you’re building a mansion, the problems are magnified.

The estate of Christine Beshar, one of the first female partners of a Wall Street law firm, is selling the East End Avenue home where she lived for 47 years.

On the less-hyped western side of the Italian Riviera, you won’t find tourist hot spots like Portofino, but you won’t pay as much either.

A cedar-shingled home in Old Lyme, a Victorian house in Ann Arbor and a renovated 1901 home in New Orleans.

A Victorian condominium in San Francisco, a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Pleasantville and an 1809 Greek Revival home in Braintree.

Clem Labine, the founder of “Old-House Journal,” bought this Brooklyn brownstone for about $25,000 in the 1960s.

Cuernavaca has long been a favorite with luxury buyers. But these days, the American dollar goes a long way there.

As TreeHugger’s founder, Graham Hill, discovered when he built a home in Hawaii, a sustainable house can be more luxurious than a conventional one.

The greater Glasgow housing market is very active, with an inventory shortage driving up prices — but not when it comes to castles.

The interior designer and her husband, John Rosselli, an antiques dealer, are selling their longtime home for $3.995 million.

A Saudi prince sells his triplex at Heritage at Trump Place for $30 million; Jon Bon Jovi and Seth Meyers each sell West Village condos.

Gary Barnett, the developer behind Manhattan’s most expensive tower, is starting his first project in Downtown Brooklyn, complete with rooftop pool.

The Lower East Side’s redevelopment continues with new rentals that start at $3,150 a month on the site of a tenement that was home to this saxophonist.

A new building in Downtown Brooklyn includes micro units and a lending library of household goods like plates for a dinner party and a sewing machine.

The property market on the Croatian coast is recovering from the 2008 recession, with moderate price growth and renewed interest from foreign buyers.

This new 20-story tower will use sustainably grown lumber and windmill-generated electricity.

The developers of a 40-story condominium on East 31st Street used Manhattan’s iconic skyscrapers for inspiration.

A developer has designed a new building to mimic existing SoHo structures, with an unusual cornice and loft-like apartments.

Developers have stitched together eight different lots, with air rights, to allow a 130-unit condo to reach 55 stories.

The rents are no bargain — and the area is still transitional — but developers seem confident about demand.

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

The Villa Cornaro, one of the most influential buildings in the world, is being sold by an American couple.

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

The riverfront area around West 59th Street has been a work in progress for decades, but the final three apartment towers are now under construction.