Brooklynites are finding greener pastures – on Staten Island.

A whopping 12% of Brooklyn residents snagged their new home in the forgotten borough — marking the biggest cross-borough migration of 2025, according to a PropertyShark analysis of homebuyer data . 4

The trend was largely a product of sky high real estate prices in Kings County. The borough’s median home sale price hovered at $850,000 in the first five months of 2025 – 17% higher than the average Staten Island home, which fetched $708,000 during the same span, report author Eliza Theiss told The Post.

Another 6% of Brooklynites bought in Queens and 4% moved to Manhattan. By contrast, 94% of Manhattanites, 95% of Queens residents, 97% of Staten Islanders and 94% of Bronx denizens bought elsewhere in their home borough,

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