Brooklyn
Rental brokerage in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Pear NYC leases apartments in Prospect Heights for building owners. It is the smallest rental market of the seven Brooklyn neighborhoods where we work, and it got smaller: 171 rentals were listed in August 2026, down 30% from a year earlier. The median asking rent held roughly steady at $4,500.
The market
What do apartments in Prospect Heights rent for?
The all-units median asking rent in Prospect Heights was $4,500 in August 2026, up 1% from a year earlier. One-bedrooms asked $4,460 and two-bedrooms $4,995.
The change is in supply. 171 rentals were listed, down 30% from a year earlier, the steepest drop of the seven neighborhoods. With so few units available at once, a renter looking here may see only a handful of comparable apartments, and each listing carries more weight than it would in a larger market.
| Unit size | Median asking rent, August 2026 | Change since August 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | $3,590 | +4% |
| One bedroom | $4,460 | flat |
| Two bedrooms | $4,995 | −2% |
| Three or more bedrooms | $6,495 | flat |
| All units | $4,500 | +1% |
171 rentals were listed in Prospect Heights on StreetEasy in August 2026, down 30% from a year earlier.
Source: StreetEasy Data Dashboard, August 2026. These are asking rents on listed units, not signed leases.
Our listings
Apartments we have listed in Prospect Heights
From our own Prospect Heights listings, shown as they were marketed. Furnished rooms are virtually staged.
On the ground
What do renters in Prospect Heights look for?
Prospect Heights has brownstones and rowhouses on its side streets, much of them inside the Prospect Heights Historic District, prewar apartment buildings, and newer construction along Atlantic, Flatbush and Vanderbilt Avenues. Renters are choosing the location as much as the unit: restaurants and cafes along Vanderbilt Avenue and Washington Avenue, with Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Museum and the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza all close by.
In a market this small, timing matters as much as price. A listing that goes up when little else is available gets the renters who are looking that month, so it is worth having the unit photographed and ready the day it is vacant.
Straight answers
Prospect Heights owner questions, answered directly
Are rents going up in Prospect Heights?
Not much at the median. The all-units median asking rent was $4,500 in August 2026, up 1% from a year earlier. What changed was the number of listings, which fell sharply.
How many apartments are for rent in Prospect Heights?
171 rentals were listed on StreetEasy in August 2026, down 30% from a year earlier, the fewest of the seven Brooklyn neighborhoods we lease in.
When should a Prospect Heights apartment be listed?
As soon as it is ready and photographed. With so few rentals listed at any one time, a well-presented unit is seen by most of the renters looking that month, and every week it waits is a week of rent it will not recover.
Elsewhere in Brooklyn
Where else does Pear NYC lease?
Prospect Heights is one of seven Brooklyn neighborhoods where we do most of our leasing. All of them, with current rents.
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Own a rental in Prospect Heights?
Send us the address and we will come back within one business day with what we think it rents for, how long it should take, and what we would change before it lists.