For example, she said, a ground-floor eight-room prewar apartment with a maintenance of $2,800 a month on Park Avenue recently sold for $1.25 million.

For the 135 sales of seven- and eight-room apartments surveyed for the report, the price increase was 31.9 percent, to $1,494,975, from $1,133,517.

"If you look at a six-, seven- and eight-room apartment, the seven and eight are going to have larger-scaled rooms," she said.

Miller and his wife, Ruth, live in an eight-room apartment on Fifth Avenue.

A period renting brochure indicates that the building's eight-room apartments rented for up to $1,000 a year.

The eight-room apartment occupied by the Mozarts from 1773 to 1781.

"But it was like an eight-room apartment - like a house."

At the time, a large eight-room apartment on Park Avenue rented for less than $200 a month.

Her eight-room apartment was now too large for her, she could not afford to keep it all up, so she let two of the rooms.

Also, who remembers that it was an eight-room apartment?