The first three levels of this deep dive narrowed New York from a metro to a borough to a single neighborhood. Each of those is an average of homes. This last level looks at the homes themselves, and finds that two condos in the same neighborhood, bought and sold in the same years, often finished far apart.

How far homes landed from their neighborhood

We took every Manhattan condo in our records that was resold after three years or more, 16,451 resales in all, and compared its yearly price change with its own neighborhood's index over exactly the years between its two sales.

The middle half landed anywhere from 1.6% a year below the neighborhood to 1.9% a year above it. The top tenth finished at least 4.4% a year above the neighborhood, and the bottom tenth at least 3.3% a year below it. In all, 44% finished at least 2% a year away from their neighborhood in one direction or the other, and 2% a year compounds to about 10% of the price over five years.

One neighborhood up close

Upper West Side-Lincoln Square is the neighborhood with the most resales in our records. Its condo prices rose 9.1% from 2019 to 2024, among the strongest on the Manhattan neighborhood chart. Inside it, the middle half of the 1,800 condos resold after three years or more ran from 1.8% a year below the neighborhood to 1.7% a year above it, a spread of 3.5% a year between owners in one neighborhood.

Rank the home inside its market

Good Investment works at this level. It scores a home against the other homes in its own local market and ranks how that home is positioned to appreciate there, with a confidence flag on every score. The figures in this deep dive describe the market around a home, and the score ranks the home within that market.

Start with your own address

Type an address below and see where that home ranks within its market. Your first analysis is free. For how the score is built, see what a property appreciation score is.

How we measured it

Each neighborhood's index is the Good Investment comparison index from the previous level of this deep dive: a repeat-sales index with Case-Shiller weighting, fit on Manhattan resales in our records and placed by NYC Planning's 2020 neighborhood boundaries. A resale whose neighborhood is pooled with its community district is compared with that pooled index. The chart's end bins hold everything beyond 10% a year in either direction.