Brooklyn real estate agent list: how many agents, and where to find them
April 22, 2026 · 6 min read
Brooklyn has roughly 3,200–3,600 practicing residential real estate agents in 2026. That's about a third of the NYC agent pool, concentrated in a much smaller set of firms than Manhattan. If you're building an outreach list for Brooklyn specifically, the map looks very different from the one for Manhattan.
Here are the firms actually placing agents on the ground in Park Slope, Williamsburg, Bed-Stuy, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Heights, and the South Brooklyn belt, ranked by Brooklyn-dedicated headcount.
Top Brooklyn firms by agent count
| Corcoran Brooklyn | ~450 | Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene |
| Compass Brooklyn | ~500 | Williamsburg, DUMBO, Park Slope, Bed-Stuy |
| Douglas Elliman Brooklyn | ~250 | Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Williamsburg |
| Brown Harris Stevens Brooklyn | ~180 | Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Park Slope |
| Ideal Properties Group | ~170 | Park Slope, South Brooklyn, Bay Ridge |
| Bohemia Realty Group | ~90 (Brooklyn arm) | Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy |
| Keller Williams NYC (Brooklyn offices) | ~220 | Bay Ridge, Sheepshead Bay |
| Nest Seekers Brooklyn | ~160 | Williamsburg, Greenpoint |
| BOND New York (Brooklyn) | ~120 | Williamsburg, Downtown Brooklyn |
| Realty Collective | ~35 | Red Hook, Carroll Gardens |
Corcoran was the original Brooklyn power. After the 2026 Compass-Anywhere merger, Compass and Corcoran now sit under the same corporate roof, which makes Compass-plus-Corcoran the single largest Brooklyn operator with roughly 950 agents combined. Elliman is still the largest true independent in the borough.
Brooklyn vs Manhattan: five real differences
| Average sale price | ~$900K in Brooklyn | ~$1.8M in Manhattan |
| Rental share of agent income | ~25–35% | ~40–55% |
| Average agent tenure at firm | ~3.1 years | ~2.4 years |
| Share of co-op inventory | ~35% | ~65% |
| Typical commission split | 50/50 new agents | 60/40 to 70/30 veterans |
The practical implication: Brooklyn agents tend to close fewer, slightly smaller deals per year, but they stick with a firm longer and do more sales-to-rental crossover. They also cover wider geographic territories per agent, because Brooklyn is physically bigger than Manhattan below 96th.
Where the Brooklyn-native firms sit
Unlike Manhattan, Brooklyn has a cluster of mid-sized firms that were born in the borough and never crossed the bridge. Ideal Properties, Realty Collective, and Bohemia Realty Group all started in Brooklyn neighborhoods and kept their center of gravity there. If you're pitching a Brooklyn- specific product — a Bed-Stuy co-op lender, a Prospect Heights staging company, a Gowanus flood-risk tool — these are the firms to prioritize.
Rental-heavy brokerages in Brooklyn
Williamsburg and Greenpoint run on rentals. Firms like BOND, Nest Seekers Brooklyn, and the newer wave of Compass rental teams concentrate heavily on one-year lease transactions. Their agents tend to be younger and higher churn — roughly 22% annual turnover — which means your list goes stale faster than Manhattan sales-side lists. If you're reaching Brooklyn rental agents, refresh your data every month or two.
How we keep the Brooklyn list current
We scrape every Brooklyn office directory for the firms above every Sunday and run SMTP verification before we ship. Compare the full borough-level breakdown at brokerlist.ai/nyc/brooklyn. For the full 10,000+ NYC roster including all five boroughs see the complete list of NYC brokerages.
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