Craig Yoskowitz
Brooklyn Real Estate Agent

About Craig

Most of my clients arrive the same way: someone they trust told them to call.

With over $150 million in closed sales and a client roster built largely on referrals, I have spent nearly fifteen years making the case that knowing a market at street level is the only kind of knowledge that actually holds up when the stakes are high.

My approach is straightforward in theory, yet harder to execute than it sounds. I obsess over the data, see every listing in person, know the market cold, and tell clients what they need to hear, whether the news is exciting or an inconvenient truth. I am not the agent who inflates a price to win a listing. I show my clients what the data says about their specific property, explain what it means for their outcome, and then go to work to maximize value.

After seven years living in NoHo, I moved to Brooklyn in the early 2000s. I was drawn by more space, a circle of friends who had already crossed the bridge, and neighborhoods that felt like great places to put down some roots. Park Slope was where my wife and I landed, got engaged, and raised our two daughters. It was still New York City, but with just the right amount of suburbia for us. It’s where the streets around Prospect Park would become more familiar than any place I had ever lived, and where, eventually, I would build a career around knowing those blocks better than almost anyone.

My career hasn’t followed an obvious path. Before real estate, I spent more than a decade in the music business. First at Universal Records, where I worked in A&R on Nelly's debut album, a record that sold over ten million copies and taught me early what it looked like to see the value in something before the rest of the room did. I went on to manage artists independently, developing a band from the ground up and negotiating a multimillion-dollar major label deal on their behalf. As a partner in an independent record label, I structured development deals with Island Def Jam, Sony and Epic Records, and spent years working through sync licenses, distribution agreements, and publishing deals. What that career built, across every role and every negotiation, was a specific kind of fluency: in reading what an asset is actually worth, in understanding what the other side of the table needed, and in staying composed when the pressure runs high. As it happens, Brooklyn real estate rewards exactly this kind of fluency.

What I have built since is a real estate practice rooted in the neighborhoods I know at street level: Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Fort Greene, Windsor Terrace, and the surrounding Brooklyn Brownstone neighborhoods. These are not markets to be analyzed from a distance, but areas I have watched evolve over twenty years, building by building, block by block. That granularity is the real work. The difference between a Park Slope townhouse inside the PS 321 school zone and one two blocks outside it is real and measurable. So is the difference between a south-facing parlor floor and a north-facing garden unit in the same condo building. Clients looking for an advantage by working with someone who already knows these distinctions tend to find their way to me.

I still live in Park Slope with my wife and two daughters, though one has gone off to college. On Saturday mornings I volunteer at CHiPS, a local food pantry, with my youngest daughter. The rest of the week you might find me on a pickleball court, working through the Criterion Collection, or making a Spotify playlist I am convinced everyone needs to hear, but will likely never share.-