STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 If you have a new neighbor, odds are strong that they may have hailed from Brooklyn. According to a new study, out of the 2,669 Brooklyn residents who purchased property this year, a whopping 315 of them \u2013 or 12% \u2013 have decided to relocate to Staten Island.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile 77% of buyers stayed in Brooklyn, about one in eight bought in Staten Island \u2014 the highest inter-borough movement in the city,\u201d noted the report, which was penned by Eliza Theiss for Property Shark<\/a>. \u201cThat trend likely reflects space-seeking and affordability-driven shifts across the Narrows.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Theiss\u2019 research, the Brooklyn-to-Staten Island migration came from just four neighborhoods \u2014 Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Bay Ridge \u2014 and was most likely fueled by a disparity in real estate prices. Redfin\u2019s data showed that Brooklyn\u2019s median home sale price hovered at $850,000 in the first five months of 2025, while the average Staten Island home fetched approximately $712,000 during the same span. <\/p>\n And that pricing could also be the reason why most Staten Islanders stayed put. The study noted that 97% of Staten Islanders who purchased a home in the first half of 2025 stayed within their home borough.<\/p>\n But despite this trend, Theiss also noted that the NYC housing market is far from insular. Instead, purchasing patterns reflect \u201ca dynamic mix of inter-borough moves, statewide demand and a spread of out-of-state buyers \u2014 with a small but suggestive layer of international activity at the margins.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cRather than a single trend, the overall picture points to parallel buyer patterns playing out across boroughs, budgets and buyer types,\u201d the report concluded. \u201cOwnership in NYC today is not monolithic: It\u2019s layered, uneven and increasingly defined by how people buy as much as where.\u201d<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 If you have a new neighbor, odds are strong that they may have hailed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-169795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115079534628344994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}