NYC landlord directory, A to Z

Who's in this directory

Every owner and managing agent with five or more NYC buildings on file. The names come from the registration a residential building has to file with the city each year, cross-checked against recorded property transfers. If someone runs a portfolio in New York, their name is filed somewhere in that paperwork — usually several times, spelled several ways.

A name in this list isn't an accusation. Some of the biggest portfolios here have clean records. The point is that the record is scattered across agencies and addresses, and one page per owner puts it in a single place.

What an owner page shows

The buildings tied to that name, each with its rating, open violations, and complaint history from the last twelve months. Above that, the portfolio-level view: how many buildings, how many open violations, how they're distributed, and whether the record is getting better or worse across recent snapshots.

Violations attach to the building, not the owner. A sale doesn't clear them — an open violation filed under a previous owner is inherited, and it's the current owner's to fix. That's why a portfolio page counts what's open today rather than who was there when it was written.

Owner, agent, or LLC?

They're usually three different names on the same building. The deed names a holding company, the registration names a head officer, and the day-to-day is run by a managing agent who may handle buildings for a dozen unrelated owners. All three are worth searching, and they lead to different pictures of the same address.

If the name you have is a company rather than a person, the LLC directory covers deed-record company names. If you only have the address, start from the building report and work outward.

Common questions

How do I find out who owns my building in NYC?

Search the address on Brix. The report names the registered owner and managing agent from the building's housing registration, plus the company on the most recent recorded deed, and links to the full portfolio behind each. You can also browse this directory alphabetically if you have a name but not an address.

Why does my landlord have a different name on every document?

Because each filing asks a different question. The deed records the legal entity holding title, the housing registration records the responsible officer and the agent, and rent filings record whoever administers the leases. The same operator can be all three under three names.

What counts as a bad record?

Open violations that stay open, and complaints that repeat. A building with old problems that were fixed quickly reads differently from one with a handful of open hazardous violations and a steady drip of the same complaint. Ratings weight open violations, twelve-month complaint volume, and how fast issues get resolved.

How current is this?

Most of the underlying city datasets refresh weekly, some daily. Each report shows when its records were last checked, and where a dataset is known to lag we say so rather than showing a gap as a clean record.

Do I have to pay to see a landlord's portfolio?

No. Portfolios, building reports, ratings, and violation histories are free and need no account. Unit-level apartment history and change alerts are the paid pieces.