Cobble Gobble: Real Estate Firms Bet Big on Court Street

Two is a trend: A couple weeks ago there was news that Prudential Douglas Elliman was going to be moving into a much larger storefront office on Court Street (its current location is 189 Court, and the new one will be at 327 Court, on the corner of Sackett). Meanwhile, brokerage Aptsandlofts.com also recently announced that it would open its first-ever office outside of Williamsburg, at 236 Court Street, which is between Baltic and Warren. Camille Logan, an executive vice president at Elliman, said the firm hopes the new digs at 327 Court would be open by mid-May. The windows of the storefront were just getting papered over with posters announcing Elliman’s impending arrival on Friday. The big question is whether the two big firms are going to be putting the squeeze on the numerous mom-and-pop brokerages in the neighborhood.