Carroll Gardens has more than twice as many condo units as co-op units, and in Q2 2026 condos made up 12 of its 18 recorded sales. The headline median tells you almost nothing about an apartment here.
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Carroll Gardens is a Brooklyn neighborhood in ZIP 11231, between Cobble Hill, Red Hook and Gowanus. PropertyShark counts 2,801 owner-held residential properties there: 1,287 two-to-four family houses, 914 condo units, 417 co-op units, 177 single-family homes and 5 townhouses. Condo units outnumber co-op units by more than two to one, which is the reverse of much of brownstone Brooklyn.
The Carroll Gardens condo median was $1.8 million in Q2 2026, up 37.8% year over year, on 12 sales, according to PropertyShark's property-type table. Co-ops recorded only 2 sales, at a $2 million median, which is too few to call a price. The blended neighborhood median was $2,024,000 on 18 sales, pulled up by 4 house sales at a $7.1 million median. Redfin, measuring the three months ending August 2026, puts the all-types median at $1,824,120, down 8.3%, with a median of 44 days on market and a 100.3% sale-to-list ratio.
Because the samples are tiny and the windows differ. PropertyShark's Q2 2026 page shows the blended median up 64.9%; Redfin's June-to-August window shows it down 8.3%. PropertyShark's own published ranking of the priciest NYC neighborhoods quotes a different Q2 figure again, $2.68 million, built on a different set of sales. None of them is wrong about its own sample. For an apartment buyer the only number that matters is the recent sales in the same building or in comparable buildings with similar common charges, and that is where Joseph Ranola starts every co-op and condo price conversation.
In Carroll Gardens the market mostly answers this for you: with 914 condo units against 417 co-op units, condos are the larger and more liquid pool. A condo is real property with a deed and usually no board approval of the buyer, so resale and renting are simpler. A co-op is shares plus a proprietary lease, with a board interview, financial requirements and often sublet limits, but co-ops can carry lower prices per square foot for comparable space. Joseph Ranola is a real estate broker and not an attorney; the offering plan, proprietary lease and bylaws belong in front of your real estate attorney before you sign.
Very little of it. PropertyShark reports that 16 of Carroll Gardens' 1,625 residential buildings are in a flood zone and 26 are in a hurricane evacuation zone. Among condo buildings the count is 5 of 127 in a flood zone, and none of the 66 co-op buildings is in either zone. For a buyer comparing Carroll Gardens with Red Hook next door, that is a sharp line on the map worth knowing before an insurance quote.
Joseph Ranola prices apartments building by building and prepares the board package or condo paperwork before an offer is accepted, so a deal does not stall in review. Sellers see the difference in the result. One wrote: "My house sold the very next day after it appeared on the MLS listing and it sold for 38,000 more than the asking price! Joseph made what is often a notoriously stressful process into something relatively painless." — Renee Watson, verified Google review. Start with what your Brooklyn home is worth, compare the Boerum Hill co-op and condo guide, or read the Staten Island companion on Midland Beach property tax appeals. Or text Joseph at (917) 905-2541. For the borough-wide view, see the best realtor in Brooklyn.
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