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Good news, New Yorkers: You may no longer need $1 million to buy a middle-of-the-road Manhattan apartment.

But just barely.

Lest the financially average among us get too excited, the median price only fell to $999,000, dipping below $1 million in the last quarter of 2018, according to a report from Douglas Elliman.

It was the first time the median price fell below seven figures since crossing the million-dollar listing threshold in 2015. A report from another firm, Brown Harris Stevens, noted a similar decline, but found the median apartment sale price to be $1,050,000.

Still, taken together, the end-of-the-year data in both reports suggested that New York City’s real estate market continued the gradual slowdown that had characterized it for most of the year.