Who is my landlord?
Enter a New York City address and borough. The lookup shows the building's registration with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD): whether it is current, the registered owner, the managing agent, the head officer and officers HPD lists (people as initials), the open housing code violations by class, and, for comparison, the owner named on the newest recorded deed.
House number and street, then the borough. The first 5 results of each list are free; HeritageDeed Pro shows them all.
Which buildings must register with HPD
Owners of residential buildings must register every year with HPD if the building is a multiple dwelling (three or more apartments) or a one- or two-family house where neither the owner nor the owner's immediate family lives. The annual deadline is September 1, and a new registration is due whenever ownership or the managing agent changes.
A registration is valid only with the $13 annual fee paid to the Department of Finance and the form filed with HPD. An owner of a building with three or more units who has not registered cannot bring a nonpayment case against a tenant in Housing Court.
How to read the result
Corporate owner is the company that owns the building; for a company HPD also requires a head officer, shown here as initials. The managing agent is the company or person who runs the building day to day, and the site manager lives in or near it. The deed owner is the grantee on the newest recorded deed: when it differs from the registered owner, the registration may be out of date.
Violation classes: A is non-hazardous, B hazardous, C immediately hazardous. Counts cover every HPD violation on record for the building, with the open ones by class.
Questions
How do I find out who my landlord is in NYC?
Enter the building's address. The lookup shows the owner registered with HPD (a company by name), the managing agent company, and the head officer and officers listed for a corporate owner (as initials).
What is an HPD registration?
The annual registration that owners of NYC buildings with three or more apartments, and of one- and two-family homes the owner does not live in, must file with HPD by September 1. It names the owner and the people HPD can contact about violations and emergencies.
What if my building is not registered?
The lookup says so. The building may be owner-occupied, commercial, or out of compliance. An owner of a building with three or more units who has not registered cannot bring a nonpayment case in Housing Court.
Why are names shown as initials?
People listed on a registration are shown as initials, the same rule as our other public lookups. Companies are shown as registered.
Who really owns an LLC landlord?
The HPD registration must list a head officer for a corporate owner. For more, the LLC owner lookup shows the company's Department of State record and every NYC property recorded to it.
What do HPD violation classes mean?
Class A is non-hazardous, class B hazardous and class C immediately hazardous. The lookup counts every violation on record for the building and the open ones by class.
Official registry and property records, as of 2026-10-20. People are shown as initials. Not a consumer report: not for decisions on credit, insurance, employment, housing or any other purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Not legal advice and not title insurance.
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