The average sales price of an apartment in Manhattan is expected to top $2 million this year for the first time, but prices are seen leveling off in 2017 after nearly doubling over the past decade. Prices were pushed higher by a jump in sales of condominiums valued at $10 million or more, which skewed results.

• The opening of 432 Park Avenue, a 96-story tower marketed by developers as the tallest residential building in the Americas, had an outsized effect on prices. Fifty-two of the 75 units sold at the tower overlooking Central Park fetched more than $10 million – with some units going for more than $40 million.
• An increase in new developments and a rise in the price of existing units also lifted the market.

Prices have climbed every year since 2011 but are expected to flatline next year. A lack of expensive, large new buildings will act to keep prices in check in 2017, CityRealty said.

The average co-op and condo price in Manhattan excluding Harlem and nearby areas rose to $2.2 million in 2016 from a record $1.9 million the year before, CityRealty estimated. For all of Manhattan, the average sales price was $2.1 million.

A condo is owned directly, but the buyer of a co-op obtains shares in a corporation that owns the building.

The median price for apartments, or the middle of all sales considered, also set a record at $1.2 million, up from $1.1 million last year, in the area examined. A decade ago, the price of new condo units was almost the same as existing ones, but prices at new developments since 2008 have outpaced those of existing ones. The average price for an apartment in the area of Manhattan examined was 91% higher than in 2006.