The national real estate market may be struggling, but apparently high-end townhouses on the Upper West Side are doing just fine.
The neighborhood is seeing an “unprecedented” rise in townhouses with asking prices over $10 million.

This week’s “unattainable” apartment is a brownstone located at 12 West 83rd.
Newly renovated and located just steps from Central Park on a tree-lined street, it features 5 BR, 4.5 BA, a terrace, private backyard, and massive storage space.

Last month MUW featured an absurdly awesome $16.4 million townhouse at 116  W. 71st as the UWS “Unattainable” Apartment Of The Week.
Shortly after the post went up, I received an e-mail from Jason Haber, the CEO of Rubicon Property and the agent for the listing. He wrote that because of the LEED certification process [...]

This week’s “Unattainable Apartment” is a six-story, 20-foot wide townhouse located just steps from Riverside Park at 317 W. 77th.
Completely gut-renovated, it features six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, two terraces, a balcony, a garden, a finished roof deck, a custom chef’s eat-in-kitchen, multiple wood-burning fireplaces, a 1,000 bottle climate-controlled wine cellar, and a new elevator.
The floor-by-floor [...]

This week’s unattainable apartment is an absolutely ridiculous townhouse located at 116 West 71st.
With 6 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 10 wood burning fireplaces, a terrace, 2 balconies, a sauna, 500-bottle wine cellar, and a commercial grade elevator, this 8,200 sq ft townhouse might just be the nicest I’ve ever seen.