Uniqueness is not something most people seek in Upper East Side luxury condos, or at least it's pretty far below luxurious amenities, spacious floor plans, an Upper East Side location and a bunch of other factors. But of all the things that an Upper East Side condo listing can make itself unique, Isis, a new construction condo at 303 East 77th Street, picked a pretty savvy one. By building just 32 condominiums across its 17 floors, Isis made itself one of the most private condominium listings on the Upper East Side. As distinguishing marks go, a spacious condo without a ton of neighbors works pretty well. Now, though, Isis has another unique attribute to its name: where other luxury condos are confidently raising prices, as we reported last week, Curbed reports that Isis is cutting prices dramatically, for the second time since February.

If you're reading the New Construction Manhattan blog, there's a decent chance you're looking for a condo or apartment in Manhattan. Which means that there's a decent chance that you've probably noticed at least two things while searching for a condo or apartment for sale in New York City. The first is that everyone out there is quick to tell you that the market for NYC condos and apartments is currently tilted in the buyer's favor; the second is that the asking prices for those Manhattan condominiums and apartments don't really seem to have come down all that much. The operative word there is "seem" -- as we discussed in an earlier post to the New Construction Manhattan blog, the asking prices for NYC condos at the moment are notably different than the amounts that people are actually paying for NYC condos. In a post at Curbed, Sara Polsky uses Upper East Side luxury condominium 300 East 79 (no points for guessing that 300 East 79 is indeed located at 300 East 79th Street) as a lesson in the difference between the asking price for a Manhattan apartment and the actual price of said Manhattan apartment.