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.