List of Real Estate Companies in the USA

Last updated 21 October 2026

There are 3,769,314 real estate companies in the USA, one in every 17 US companies. Most of them are small: nearly all have one to four people, and only 6,996 firms employ 50 people or more. One in nineteen real estate firms is based in New York, Houston, Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Miami. Below you find the largest real estate firms 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.

3,769,314 companies indexed · Data counted on 21 October 2026

Companies3,769,3141 in17 US companiesCities9,999Largest cityNew York 43,436Sole traders2%Employees1-4 (95%)Revenue$100-500K (54%)Email11%Phone32%Website17%

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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	Cbre Group, INC.	USA	Dallas	2121 N Pearl St Ste 300	Dallas	75201-2494	*****.com	1906	$40,550,000,000	155,000	Corporation	2482	3358676
2	Jones Lang Lasalle Incorporated	USA	Chicago	200 E Randolph St	Cook	60601-6537	*****.com	1968	$26,115,600,000	113,200	Corporation	1081	D04667689
3	Ford Holdings LLC	USA	Dearborn	American Rd	Wayne	48121	*****.com	1989	$13,275,567,635	31,400	Corporation	765	2206682
4	Compass, INC.	USA	New York	110 5th Ave Fl 4	New York	10011-5643	*****.com	2012	$6,961,600,000	3,200	Corporation	1412	5222809
5	Anywhere Real Estate INC.	USA	Madison	175 Park Ave	Morris	07940-1123	*****.com	2026	$5,692,000,000	2,570	Corporation	1412	4267926
6	Gilbane, INC.	USA	Providence	7 Jackson Walkway	Providence	02903-3694	*****.com	1908	$5,604,901,562	2,500	Corporation	134	000010771
7	Lineage, INC.	USA	Novi	46500 Humboldt Dr	Oakland	48377-2434	*****.com	2017	$5,355,000,000	24,000	Corporation	401	D17955733
8	Sekisui House Us Holdings, LLC	USA	Manhattan Beach	1230 Rosecrans Ave Ste 560	Los Angeles	90266-2500	N/A	2017	$5,103,999,147	1,826	Corporation	1581	6301646
9	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
10	Marriott Vacations Worldwide CORPORATION	USA	Orlando	7812 Palm Pkwy	Orange	32836-6418	*****.com	1984	$5,032,000,000	21,100	Corporation	439	4982818
11	Exp World Holdings, INC.	USA	Bellingham	2219 Rimland Dr Ste 301	Whatcom	98226-8759	*****.com	2008	$4,772,311,000	18,461	Corporation	46	4581575
12	Opendoor Technologies INC.	USA	Tempe	1295 W Washington St Ste 115	Maricopa	85288-1233	*****.com	2013	$4,371,000,000	1,042	Corporation	66	3649109
13	Newmark Group, INC.	USA	New York	125 Park Ave Fl 12	New York	10017-5690	*****.com	2016	$3,294,024,000	8,800	Corporation	808	6220800
14	Wework INC.	USA	New York	71 5th Ave Fl 2	New York	10003-3004	*****.com	2020	$3,245,000,000	4,300	Corporation	479	7977115
15	Cushman & Wakefield Holdings, INC.	USA	New York	1290 Avenue of the Americas	New York	10104-6178	*****.com	2015	$3,227,532,247	43,000	Corporation	1166	2939811
16	Invitation Homes INC.	USA	Dallas	5420 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy Ste 600	Dallas	75240	*****.com	2012	$2,729,296,000	1,725	Corporation	210	N/A
17	Cbre, INC.	USA	Dallas	2100 Mckinney Ave Ste 300	Dallas	75201-1803	*****.com	1971	$2,583,587,879	12,617	Corporation	2482	0777218
18	Berwind CORPORATION	USA	Philadelphia	2929 Walnut St Ste 900	Philadelphia	19104	*****.com	1870	$2,256,635,263	4,500	Corporation	196	0000034594
19	Homeservices Of America, INC.	USA	Minneapolis	6800 France Ave S Ste 600	Hennepin	55435-2017	*****.com	1998	$2,106,511,574	4,186	Corporation	8816	3050064
20	Welltower Op LLC	USA	Toledo	4500 Dorr St	Lucas	43615-4040	*****.com	1970	$1,906,260,776	423	Corporation	1611	04603704
21	Anywhere Real Estate Group LLC	USA	Madison	175 Park Ave	Morris	07940	*****.com	2006	$1,887,555,865	7,904	Corporation	1412	4099368
22	Essex Portfolio, L.P.	USA	San Mateo	1100 Park Pl Ste 200	San Mateo	94403	*****.com	1994	$1,887,345,000	1,689	Partnership of unknown type	556	199407700013
23	Essex Property Trust, INC.	USA	San Mateo	1100 Park Pl Ste 200	San Mateo	94403	*****.com	1971	$1,887,345,000	1,689	Corporation	556	D03842895
24	Genworks Group, INC.	USA	Cary	110 Mackenan Dr Ste 300	Wake	27511-7901	*****.com	1959	$1,805,734,932	230	Corporation	8	0024913
25	Forestar Group INC.	USA	Arlington	2221 E Lamar Blvd Ste 790	Tarrant	76006-7458	*****.com	2017	$1,662,400,000	433	Corporation	828	4085648

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Real estate firms in New York

New York has 43,436 real estate companies and real estate firms, 5.9% of all 732,093 New York companies and on the national share. Nine in ten New York firms have fewer than five people; 279 have 50 or more. 686 new firms were entered in 2026, 2,724 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 39,520 · 91%
5-9: 2,222 · 5%
10-19: 894 · 2%
20-49: 506 · 1%
50+: 279 · 0.6%

Legal form

Sole traders: 525 · 1%
Partnerships: 1,811 · 4%
Corporations and LLCs: 34,758 · 80%
Other or none: 6,342 · 15%

Of the US total: 1.2%
Of all New York companies: 5.9%
Against the national share: 1.0×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 686
Entered 2025: 1,452
Of USA's 2026 entries: 0.5%

Old

Before 1990: 2,724 · 6%
1990 or later: 40,712 · 94%
Of USA's pre-1990 firms: 2.0%

Reachable

Email: 5,985 · 14%
Phone: 15,639 · 36%
Website: 10,279 · 24%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 10,245 · 25%
$100K-$500K: 27,016 · 65%
$500K-$1M: 2,998 · 7%
$1M and more: 1,536 · 4%

Largest

143,000
26,500
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43,200
52,250

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Firm sizes in the USA

Of the 3,761,281 US real estate firms with a known headcount, 3,591,563 (95%) have one to four people, 116,044 have five to nine, 46,678 have ten to 49 and 6,996 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year (1,990,764, 54%).

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Micro under 103,707,607 99%
Small 10 to 4946,678 1%
Medium 50 to 2496,700 0.2%
Large 250+296 <0.1%

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

4,334

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 2,237 more than $10 million.

142,165

firms were entered in 2026.

Largest real estate firms in the USA

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

Jones Lang Lasalle is the largest real estate firm in the USA by headcount. 6,996 firms employ 50 people or more; 2,513 employ 100 or more.

1Chicago113,200 staff
2Spring5,064 staff
3Orlando5,009 staff
4Tyler5,005 staff
5San Diego4,791 staff
6Dublin4,680 staff
7Salem3,918 staff
8Hillsdale3,900 staff
9Taunton3,900 staff
10Fort Smith3,691 staff

By employee size · 3,761,281 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	3,591,563	95%
5-9	116,044	3%
10-19	31,204	0.8%
20-49	15,474	0.4%
50-99	4,483	0.1%
100-199	1,486	<0.1%
200-499	731	<0.1%
500-999	181	<0.1%
1,000+	115	<0.1%

95% have 1 to 4 people; 15,474 have 20 to 49; 6,996 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	1,561,664	42%
$100K-$500K	1,990,764	54%
$500K-$1M	96,719	3%
$1M-$5M	32,408	0.9%
$5M-$10M	2,097	<0.1%
$10M-$50M	1,872	<0.1%
$50M-$100M	170	<0.1%
$100M-$500M	139	<0.1%
$500M+	56	<0.1%

54% between $100,000 and $500,000; 32,408 between $1M and $5M; 4,334 above $5M.

How many real estate companies are there in the USA?

Real estate companies and real estate firms in the USA

3,769,314

21 October 2026

There are 3,769,314 real estate companies and real estate firms in the USA in our data (21 October 2026). That is one in every 17 US companies. About 677 new firms are entered in the register every working day this year (142,165 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 3,650,500 97%
Head offices: 42,149
Branch offices: 76,665

Classification

Our platform filter is SIC major group 65.

2,971,700 of the 3,769,314 are corporations and LLCs (79%); 93,133 are sole traders. They come from the state business registers and our US register data, through the Company Data API.

Where in the USA?

New York has the most real estate companies in the USA (43,436), ahead of Houston (43,081), Brooklyn (40,668), Los Angeles (34,874) and Miami (32,928). Together the five hold one in nineteen of them. Relative to their size, Scottsdale, Boston and Raleigh have the most: 1.4 to 1.6 times the national share.

Cities by number of firms

9,999 US cities have at least one real estate firm; 9,999 have ten or more; 0 have exactly one. Click a city to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Real estate firms per 100 companies, in cities with at least 100 of them. The national share is 5.90. Scottsdale has 1.6 times the national share.

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Dashed line: the national share. A filled dot is twice the national share or more.

By county 1,954 counties

County	Firms	%
Los Angeles	126,402	3%
Maricopa	100,007	3%
Orange	75,382	2%
Miami-Dade	57,944	2%
Harris	55,801	1%
Jefferson	46,243	1%
Cook	46,187	1%
New York	43,598	1%
Ct	43,097	1%
Dallas	42,750	1%

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Newcomers in the USA in 2026

142,165 real estate firms were entered in the US register so far in 2026, about 677 a working day, after 244,888 in 2025. The USA as a whole saw 2,970,531 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes 4.8% of the inflow.

238,2362022
236,9292023
234,4322024
244,8882025
142,1652026 so far

140,860 of this year's 142,165 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.

1Honolulu946 staff
2Denver550 staff
3Bordentown337 staff
4Jeffersonville200 staff
5Carlsbad69 staff

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 254 real estate firms for every one of the debt collection agencies in the USA.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Real Estate Companies	3,769,314	17%	95%
Real Estate Agents	1,355,543	23%	94%
Financial Brokers	75,152	51%	82%
Banks	42,749	83%	39%
Finance Companies	31,646	63%	83%
Debt Collection Agencies	14,834	31%	79%

In other countries

The USA has more real estate firms than France or the UK.

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
The USA	3,769,314	59.0
France	3,544,359	246.6
The UK	915,083	103.6
Brazil	876,902	30.4
Spain	661,675	121.6

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How reachable are they?

Real estate firms are harder to reach than the average US company: 32% list a phone number and 17% a website.

Email407,300 11%
Phone1,200,001 32%
Website657,291 17%

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

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

The oldest firms in the USA

Our data holds 1,310 US real estate firms from before 1900, 6,964 from before 1950 and 135,024 from before 1990.

1819
1. New York
1827
1. Gainesville
1831
1. Cambridge
1832
1. Lowell
1838
1. Brooklyn
1841
1. Dayton

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135,024

US real estate firms date from before 1990

7,985

were entered in 1990

Sole traders or corporations: how they are organised

One in forty US real estate firms work as sole traders, against 5% of all US companies. Four in five are corporations and LLCs.

Sole traders93,1332%
Partnerships115,6263%
Corporations and LLCs2,971,70079%
No form on record or other588,85516%

Single-site: 97%
Head offices: 42,149
Branches: 76,665

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

Frequently asked questions

How many real estate companies are there in the USA?

There are 3,769,314 real estate companies and real estate firms in the USA in our data, counted on 21 October 2026. That is one in every 17 US companies.

Which is the largest real estate firm in the USA?

Jones Lang Lasalle in Chicago, with 113,200 staff. By revenue Cbre Group in Dallas leads with $40.5 billion a year.

Which US city has the most real estate companies?

New York, with 43,436, ahead of Houston (43,081), Brooklyn (40,668), Los Angeles (34,874) and Miami (32,928). Relative to its size, Scottsdale has the most: 1.6 times the national share.

How many real estate firms are there in New York?

43,436, which is 5.9% of all 732,093 New York companies and on the national share.

How big is a typical real estate firm?

Small. 95% of the 3,761,281 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 6,996 have 50 or more. Most turn over between $100,000 and $500,000 a year.

Are US real estate companies sole traders or companies?

One in forty (93,133) are sole traders, 3% are partnerships and 79% (2,971,700) are corporations and LLCs.

How many real estate firms started in 2026?

142,165 were entered in the US register so far in 2026, after 244,888 in 2025. 140,860 of them are corporations and LLCs.

What is the oldest real estate firm in the USA?

Stribling Wells and Gay Associates in New York, 1819, followed by Alachua County Property Appraiser in Gainesville (1827) and Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn in Cambridge (1831). 1,310 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers real estate companies?

Our platform filters them on SIC major group 65 (real estate).

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