When Realtor Carrie McCue first came across her dream apartment in Brooklyn Heights, a sun-filled unit in a prewar building on a tree-lined street, she knew she had to have it. And then: She was outbid. It was 2019 and the market was hot — she’d already been going to open houses over the course of a year, and had lost out more than once. She didn’t know it at the time, but the buyer who did score that lovely unit would go on to become a good friend.
