Greystar
Greystar is the only firm that tops NMHC’s manager, owner and developer lists at once. That matters to an owner hiring a manager: the same company may also own, build or bid on competing buildings in your market. NMHC counts it as managing about 8.5 times as many units as it owns.
Last verified: 2026-10-20
Unscored
Private. Largest manager on the NMHC 2026 list.
No published property-management rubric yet.
At a glance
| Legal entity | Greystar Real Estate Partners (private) |
| Headquarters | Charleston, SC |
| Segment | Multifamily |
| Scale (as published) | 1,014,091 apartment units managed (NMHC 2026) |
| Score | Unscored |
What the sources reveal
Greystar is the only firm that tops NMHC’s manager, owner and developer lists at once. That matters to an owner hiring a manager: the same company may also own, build or bid on competing buildings in your market. NMHC counts it as managing about 8.5 times as many units as it owns.
Key facts
| Fact | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| No. 1 on the NMHC 2026 Top 50 Managers list with 1,014,091 apartment units managed (the list shows 946,742 a year earlier, +7.1%). | source | |
| NMHC lists the CEO as Bob Faith and headquarters as Charleston, SC. | source | |
| NMHC’s unit breakdown lists 27,574 build-to-rent units and 30,910 student housing units among the managed total. | source | |
| No. 1 on the NMHC 2026 Top 50 Owners list with 119,160 units owned (122,545 a year earlier). | source | |
| No. 1 on the NMHC 2026 Top 50 Developers list with 7,188 units started in 2025, and No. 3 on the 2026 Top 25 Builders list with 6,490. | source |
Who it’s actually for
- Owners of large or multi-market apartment portfolios who want one manager across markets (NMHC scale).
- Student-housing and build-to-rent owners: both appear in NMHC’s breakdown of its units.
- Owners who mind a manager that also owns and develops nearby should ask how conflicts are handled; nothing we read addresses it.
What we could not verify
- Fees, contract terms and resident satisfaction data: not published in anything we could read. Greystar.com did not render for our tools.
- Revenue: Greystar is private and files no 10-K.
Related
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Last verified 2026-10-20. Figures were re-read from the linked sources that day.
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- Profile published from sources read this day.
Sources
- NMHC, 2026 Top 50 Managers · accessed 2026-10-20
- NMHC, 2026 Top 50 Owners · accessed 2026-10-20
- NMHC, 2026 Top 50 Developers · accessed 2026-10-20
- NMHC, 2026 Top 25 Builders · accessed 2026-10-20
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