Mr. De Niro also has the Barrow Street listing.
Mr. Phillips liked a duplex co-op on West 15th Street listed at $999,000.
So they settled on a high-floor apartment at Connaught Tower on East 54th Street, listed at $465,000.
Last summer, he saw a large studio in an elevator building on West 23rd Street, listed at $265,000.
That was the problem at a 520-square-foot studio on West 93rd Street, listed at $440,000.
Last weekend, a studio at 67 East 11th Street, listed at $214,000, had 43 visitors and two offers.
Tracey Lundberg, a sales associate with Prudential Douglas Elliman, spent $292 for two images to market a studio apartment at 225 West 70th Street, listed for $399,000.
When she did, she saw a two-bedroom on East 36th Street, listed at $799,000, down from a high of $859,000.
The Wall Street listing war appears to have opened a new source of revenue for media companies: list with the stock exchange that will pay the most.
Last winter, when Mr. Frank first saw a home farther west on MacDonough Street, listed at a little over $800,000, he was doubtful.
