List of Project Developers in the USA

Last updated 2 November 2026

There are 398,366 project developers in the USA, one in every 160 US companies. Most of them are small: nearly all have one to four people, and only 611 firms employ 50 people or more. One in seventeen property developers is based in Houston, Miami, Brooklyn, New York and Dallas. Below you find the largest property developers in the USA, the cities where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our US company database or through the Company Data API.

398,366 companies indexed · Data counted on 2 November 2026

Companies398,3661 in160 US companiesCities9,999Largest cityHouston 5,376Sole traders1%Employees1-4 (96%)Revenue< $100K (51%)Email7%Phone24%Website12%

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	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	Sh Residential Holdings, LLC	USA	Salt Lake City	460 W 50 N Ste 450	Salt Lake	84101-1025	*****.com	2017	$5,098,373,000	1,826	Corporation	1581	6301655
2	The Howard Hughes CORPORATION	USA	The Woodlands	9950 Woodloch Forest Dr Ste 1100	Montgomery	77381	*****.com	2023	$1,474,892,000	600	Corporation	333	4843074
3	Howard Hughes Holdings INC.	USA	The Woodlands	9950 Woodloch Forest Dr Ste 1100	Montgomery	77381	*****.com	2010	$1,474,892,000	500	Corporation	333	7505673
4	Koniag, INC.	USA	Anchorage	3800 Centerpoint Dr Ste 502	Anchorage	99503-5961	*****.com	1972	$639,697,850	834	Corporation	36	11086D
5	The Related Companies L P	USA	New York	410 10th Ave	New York	10001-1787	*****.com	1992	$611,698,606	20,000	Partnership of unknown type	287	1638796
6	Central Florida Investments, INC.	USA	Orlando	5601 Windhover Dr	Orange	32819-7905	*****.com	1982	$490,977,697	4,000	Corporation	78	591454503
7	Discovery Land Company, LLC	USA	Scottsdale	14605 N 73rd St	Maricopa	85260-3105	*****.com	2000	$435,040,656	4,000	Corporation	18	3228335
8	Vitus Group, LLC	USA	New York	111 8th Ave	New York	10011-5201	N/A	2016	$287,267,531	29	Corporation	2	N/A
9	Whitewater Development, LLC	USA	Austin	100 Congress Ave Ste 2200	Travis	78701-2747	*****.com	2021	$262,000,000	251	Corporation	8	0804235087
10	Jack And Nancy Dwyer Workforce Development Center, INC.	USA	Baltimore	2455 House St Fl 6	Baltimore City	21230-5576	*****.org	2021	$165,777,019	33	Corporation	N/A	D21469960
11	Garden For Wildlife, Incorporated	USA	Reston	11100 Wildlife Center Dr Ste 100	Fairfax County	20190-5361	N/A	2023	$153,956,000	1	Corporation	N/A	11607930
12	Hines Interests LIMITED Partnership	USA	Houston	845 Texas Ave Ste 3300	Harris	77002	*****.com	1990	$138,749,968	3,200	Partnership of unknown type	195	9693600-0180
13	Affinius Capital LLC	USA	San Antonio	9830 Colonnade Blvd Ste 600	Bexar	78230	*****.com	2020	$133,847,393	134	Corporation	71	2171413
14	The Sobrato Organization LLC	USA	Mountain View	599 Castro St Ste 400	San Bernardino	94041-3009	*****.com	2019	$129,273,885	53	Corporation	N/A	200831910043
15	Southern Land Company, LLC	USA	Nashville	3990 Hillsboro Pike Ste 400	Davidson	37215-3162	*****.com	1995	$120,754,119	250	Corporation	12	000296391
16	Enterprise Community Development, INC.	USA	Baltimore	875 Hollins St Ste 202	Baltimore City	21201	*****.org	1986	$114,633,329	500	Corporation	38	D03908365
17	The Cordish Company U S A	USA	Baltimore	601 E Pratt St Ste 600	Baltimore City	21202-3118	*****.com	1984	$102,813,931	2,025	Partnership of unknown type	9	M03533312
18	Stewart Group INC.	USA	York	950 Smile Way	York	17404-1725	*****.com	2010	$96,001,591	304	Corporation	29	0003103903
19	Maronda, INC.	USA	Imperial	11 Timberglen Dr	Allegheny	15126-9345	*****.com	1972	$93,439,769	380	Corporation	93	0000220254
20	Long Point Development, LLC	USA	Rancho Palos Verdes	100 Terranea Way	Los Angeles	90275-1013	*****.com	2004	$89,794,673	1,000	Corporation	N/A	3846813
21	Chelsea Investment CORP.	USA	Carlsbad	6339 Paseo del Lago	San Diego	92011-1309	*****.com	1986	$87,697,177	20	Corporation	141	N/A
22	Steelwave, INC.	USA	San Mateo	999 Baker Way Ste 200	San Mateo	94404-5047	*****.com	2004	$86,589,964	1,200	Corporation	75	N/A
23	Dccda Section 18, LLC	USA	Saint Paul	1228 Town Centre Dr	Ramsey	55123-1066	N/A	2020	$86,426,246	1	Corporation	N/A	1164754400035
24	Tyonek Native CORPORATION	USA	Anchorage	1689 C St Ste 219	Anchorage	99501-5131	*****.com	1973	$80,354,217	204	Corporation	44	12668D
25	Burroughs & Chapin Company, INC.	USA	Myrtle Beach	8800 Marina Pkwy	Horry	29572-8101	*****.com	1990	$77,700,010	1,730	Corporation	18	202817501

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Where in the USA?

Houston has the most project developers in the USA (5,376), ahead of Miami (4,895), Brooklyn (4,748), New York (4,519) and Dallas (3,722). Together the five hold one in seventeen of them. Relative to their size, Buffalo, Scottsdale and Monroe have the most: 1.7 to 1.7 times the national share.

Cities by number of firms

9,999 US cities have at least one property developer; 4,498 have ten or more; 294 have exactly one. Click a city to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Property developers per 100 companies, in cities with at least 100 of them. The national share is 0.62. Buffalo has 1.7 times the national share.

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By county 1,868 counties

County	Firms	%
Los Angeles	10,412	3%
Maricopa	9,807	2%
Miami-Dade	8,246	2%
Orange	7,898	2%
Harris	6,842	2%
Dallas	5,338	1%
Cook	5,093	1%
Kings	4,757	1%
New York	4,532	1%
Montgomery	4,502	1%

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Firm sizes in the USA

Of the 397,197 US property developers with a known headcount, 381,099 (96%) have one to four people, 11,282 have five to nine, 4,205 have ten to 49 and 611 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over under $100,000 a year (200,020, 51%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all US companies

Micro under 10392,381 99%
Small 10 to 494,205 1%
Medium 50 to 249581 0.1%
Large 250+30 <0.1%

Grey line: the share among all US companies (96% have under ten staff).

609

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 302 more than $10 million.

21,205

firms were entered in 2026.

Largest property developers in the USA

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in Houston, the biggest newcomers of 2026 and the oldest firms. Click a name for the record.

The Related Companies L P is the largest property developer in the USA by headcount. 611 firms employ 50 people or more; 223 employ 100 or more.

1New York20,000 staff
2Houston3,200 staff
3The Villages2,500 staff
4Myrtle Beach1,730 staff
5Annapolis1,157 staff
6Big Sky1,123 staff
7Rancho Palos Verdes1,000 staff
8Sarasota950 staff
9Uncasville932 staff
10Memphis900 staff

By employee size · 397,197 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	381,099	96%
5-9	11,282	3%
10-19	2,835	0.7%
20-49	1,370	0.3%
50-99	388	<0.1%
100-199	131	<0.1%
200-499	62	<0.1%
500-999	21	<0.1%
1,000+	9	<0.1%

96% have 1 to 4 people; 1,370 have 20 to 49; 611 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	200,020	51%
$100K-$500K	183,443	46%
$500K-$1M	7,331	2%
$1M-$5M	3,448	0.9%
$5M-$10M	307	<0.1%
$10M-$50M	258	<0.1%
$50M-$100M	27	<0.1%
$100M-$500M	12	<0.1%
$500M+	5	<0.1%

51% under $100,000; 3,448 between $1M and $5M; 609 above $5M.

How many project developers are there in the USA?

Project developers and property developers in the USA

398,366

2 November 2026

There are 398,366 project developers and property developers in the USA in our data (2 November 2026). That is one in every 160 US companies. About 97 new firms are entered in the register every working day this year (21,205 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 390,993 98%
Head offices: 4,838
Branch offices: 2,535

Classification

Our platform filter is SIC 6552.

347,730 of the 398,366 are corporations and LLCs (87%); 4,318 are sole traders. They come from the state business registers and our US register data, through the Company Data API.

Property developers in Houston

Houston has 5,376 project developers and property developers, 0.6% of all 881,247 Houston companies and on the national share. Nearly all Houston firms have fewer than five people; 10 have 50 or more. 304 new firms were entered in 2026, 117 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 5,073 · 95%
5-9: 209 · 4%
10-19: 50 · 0.9%
20-49: 23 · 0.4%
50+: 10 · 0.2%

Legal form

Sole traders: 170 · 3%
Partnerships: 409 · 8%
Corporations and LLCs: 4,446 · 83%
Other or none: 351 · 7%

Of the US total: 1.3%
Of all Houston companies: 0.6%
Against the national share: 1.0×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 304
Entered 2025: 522
Of USA's 2026 entries: 1.4%

Old

Before 1990: 117 · 2%
1990 or later: 5,259 · 98%
Of USA's pre-1990 firms: 1.0%

Reachable

Email: 549 · 10%
Phone: 1,379 · 26%
Website: 908 · 17%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 2,215 · 42%
$100K-$500K: 2,882 · 54%
$500K-$1M: 145 · 3%
$1M and more: 82 · 2%

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How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 87 property developers for every one of the door and gate manufacturers in the USA.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Project Developers	398,366	12%	96%
Drilling, Boring and Pump Services	18,395	35%	84%
Building Materials Suppliers	15,847	96%	71%
Construction Tools Manufacturers and Wholesalers	12,557	44%	72%
Demolition Companies	10,562	28%	80%
Door and Gate Manufacturers	4,602	89%	51%

In other countries

The USA has more property developers than the UK or Spain.

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
The USA	398,366	6.2
The UK	368,867	41.7
Spain	312,081	57.3
Italy	97,562	13.9
France	84,222	5.9

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The oldest firms in the USA

Our data holds 13 US property developers from before 1900, 310 from before 1950 and 11,750 from before 1990.

1818
1. Mason
1865
1. Springboro
1865
1. Goldsboro
1871
1. Garden City
1881
1. Magnolia
1882
1. Charleston

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11,750

US property developers date from before 1990

690

were entered in 1990

How reachable are they?

Property developers are harder to reach than the average US company: 24% list a phone number and 12% a website.

Email28,747 7%
Phone93,654 24%
Website49,469 12%

Grey line: all US companies (email 15%, phone 42%, website 24%).

The full list with these fields is in our US company database.

Newcomers in the USA in 2026

21,205 property developers were entered in the US register so far in 2026, about 97 a working day, after 33,406 in 2025. The USA as a whole saw 2,970,531 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes 0.7% of the inflow.

29,2062022
30,6852023
30,5502024
33,4062025
21,2052026 so far

21,099 of this year's 21,205 are corporations and LLCs.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1Koloa32 staff
2Koloa32 staff
3Honolulu26 staff
4Honolulu26 staff
5Honolulu26 staff

Sole traders or corporations: how they are organised

One in ninety-two US property developers work as sole traders, against 5% of all US companies. Nine in ten are corporations and LLCs.

Sole traders4,3181%
Partnerships10,5673%
Corporations and LLCs347,73087%
No form on record or other35,7519%

Single-site: 98%
Head offices: 4,838
Branches: 2,535

All US companies: 5% sole traders, 1% partnerships, 68% corporations and LLCs.

Frequently asked questions

How many project developers are there in the USA?

There are 398,366 project developers and property developers in the USA in our data, counted on 2 November 2026. That is one in every 160 US companies.

Which is the largest property developer in the USA?

The Related Companies L P in New York, with 20,000 staff. By revenue SH Residential Holdings in Salt Lake City leads with $5.1 billion a year.

Which US city has the most project developers?

Houston, with 5,376, ahead of Miami (4,895), Brooklyn (4,748), New York (4,519) and Dallas (3,722). Relative to its size, Buffalo has the most: 1.7 times the national share.

How many property developers are there in Houston?

5,376, which is 0.6% of all 881,247 Houston companies and on the national share.

How big is a typical property developer?

Small. 96% of the 397,197 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 611 have 50 or more. Most turn over under $100,000 a year.

Are US project developers sole traders or companies?

One in ninety-two (4,318) are sole traders, 3% are partnerships and 87% (347,730) are corporations and LLCs.

How many property developers started in 2026?

21,205 were entered in the US register so far in 2026, after 33,406 in 2025. 21,099 of them are corporations and LLCs.

What is the oldest property developer in the USA?

Kemper Road Center for Religious Development in Mason, 1818, followed by Springboro Borough in Springboro (1865) and Weil, H & Bros in Goldsboro (1865). 13 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers project developers?

Our platform filters them on SIC 6552 (land subdividers and developers, except cemeteries).

Can I download the full list?

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