They pencil out budgets. They organize repairs. And many of Manhattan’s managing agents — the companies that handle the unglamorous, day-to-day aspects of the real estate business — seem particularly adept at weathering recessions. Many of the city’s major residential property management companies expanded during the recession and its aftermath, by gobbling up smaller firms or poaching clients from rivals, according to The Real Deal’s ranking.
| Rank | Firm | Units | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2009 | 2013 | 2009 | ||||
| 1 | 2 | FirstService/Cooper Square Realty | 45000 | 35000 | |||
| 2 | 1 | Douglas Elliman Property Management | 38000 | 44000 | |||
| 3 | 3 | Charles H.u00a0Greenthal Management | 22856 | 23853 | |||
| 4 | 4 | Rose Propertyu00a0Management | 22294 | 19360 | |||
| 5 | 5 | AKAM Associates | 21000 | 18000 | |||
| 6 | 6 | Maxwell Kates | 13500 | 12800 | |||
| 7 | 11 | Halstead Management Companyu00a0 | 11670 | 7700 | |||
| 8 | 7 | Orsid Realty | 11451 | 10000 | |||
| 9 (tie) | 15 | Andrews Building Corp. | 10000 | 6325 | |||
| 9 (tie) | 10 | Tudor Realty Services | 10000 | 8715 | |||
| 9 (tie) | 8 | Matthew Adam Properties | 10000 | 9000 | |||
| 12 | 8 | Brown Harris Stevens Residential Management | 9500 | 9000 | |||
| 13 | N /A | Century Management | 7200 | N /A | |||
| 14 | 12 | Gumley Haft Real Estate Property Management | 7000 | 7500 | |||
| 15 | 16 | Lawrence Properties | 6850 | 4959 | |||
| 16 | 18 | Midboro Management | 6750 | 4671 | |||
| 17 | 13 | Buchbinder & Warren | 5500 | 7000 | |||
| 18 | N/A | Argo Real Estate | 5400 | N/A | |||
| 19 | 17 | AJ Clarke Real Estate Corp. | 5300 | 4800 | |||
| 20 | 19 | Rudd Realty Management | 4500 | 4200 | |||