SoHo

Manhattan

SoHo is the cast-iron district south of Houston, a compact grid of nineteenth-century loft buildings that became the city's template for industrial-to-residential conversion. Housing is dominated by those lofts: high ceilings, big windows, and wide-open floor plans, mostly as co-ops and condos at a premium. It is one of Manhattan's most architecturally consistent and most expensive neighborhoods.

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The Lay Of The Land

SoHo runs south of Houston Street to Canal, a small grid famous for the largest concentration of cast-iron architecture in the world. The buildings went up for manufacturing in the nineteenth century, which is why they share their tall ceilings, columned facades, and oversized windows, and why the loft became the neighborhood's defining apartment. The cobblestone blocks of Greene and Mercer Streets are among the most photographed in the city.

The housing is loft-dominated and skews to ownership. A typical home here is a converted floor in an old manufacturing building, with open layouts, high ceilings, and original cast-iron or timber detail, sold as a co-op or condo at premium prices. Renovated rentals exist but are fewer, and full elevator-and-doorman buildings are limited by the historic fabric.

Transit is strong for a downtown neighborhood. The 6 runs under Lafayette at Spring and Bleecker, the N, Q, R, and W stop at Prince Street, and the B, D, F, and M reach Broadway-Lafayette on the eastern edge, putting four trunk lines within a few blocks. Most of downtown is walkable from here.

The ground floors are retail almost without exception, which makes SoHo busy with shoppers by day and quieter at night than its neighbors. SoHo suits someone who wants the loft itself, the light and the space and the architecture, and who can pay for one of the most distinctive housing types in the city.

Market Pulse

What renting in SoHo looks like right now, from listings active on Sidewalk.

Median asking rent$6,750/moup $1,602 vs Oct 2026
Active listings7on Sidewalk today
Days on market30median, listings leaving in the last 90 days
1 BR$4,995/mo median2 BR$15,000/mo median3 BR$19,500/mo median
Median asking rent by bedroom, Jun to NovEach month, the median of what listings on the market that month were asking, from their price history on Sidewalk.
$0$5k$10k$15k$20kJunJulAugSepOctNov
  • Studio$3,750/mo
  • 1 BR$5,000/mo
  • 2 BR$10,700/mo
  • 3+ BR$19,750/mo
  • Hollow: fewer than 5 listings that month

Asking rents among listings active on Sidewalk, updated November 14.

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Buildings In SoHo

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