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Property Managers in
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX MSA

Operator IQ identifies the operators worth knowing in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX MSA. Find property managers with proven lease velocity, stable rent trajectories, and durable tenant retention. Filter by portfolio composition and ownership posture. Every ranking is grounded in first-party listing data and computed against same-cohort peers, not a single market-wide average.

Operator landscape

Houston's operator landscape skews toward SFR Independent (64 operators, the largest cohort). Large MF/BTR Institutional leases fastest (17.0 days median DOM vs 29.0 days market-wide). Large MF/BTR Institutional shows the strongest rent trajectory at +1.7% vs comp.

139 operators~74,311 est. managed units7 cohorts
SFR Independent64 · ~13,695 unitsSmall MF/BTR Independent31 · ~6,391 unitsLarge MF/BTR Independent23 · ~10,760 unitsLarge MF/BTR Institutional7 · ~9,780 unitsSFR Institutional6 · ~19,620 unitsHybrid5 · ~765 unitsSmall MF/BTR Institutional3 · ~13,300 units

Market standouts

Nomad Labs★4 ☆0Elevated Assets★3 ☆1Keyrenter Houston★3 ☆0

Ranked operators

Stars indicate top-percentile performance against same-cohort peers. Gold stars are earned for top-tier performance on a metric; silver stars mark the next tier. Operators are ordered by total gold stars first, then silver, so multi-dimensional performers rank highest. Click any operator for the full scorecard.

Showing 139 of 139 ranked operators. Operators below the data sufficiency threshold are excluded from this view. See Methodology →

Coverage map

Quadrant

  • MF/BTR · Institutional10
  • MF/BTR · Independent54
  • Scattered · Institutional6
  • Scattered · Independent64

Each dot represents one observed listing address across all eligible operators in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX MSAover the trailing 12 months. Color indicates the operator’s quadrant classification. 12,681 addresses plotted across 139 operators.

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Operators ranked by trailing-twelve-month median Days on Market within-quadrant. Data sufficiency requires ≥30 listings in trailing 12 months. Within-quadrant ranking requires ≥3 PMs in cohort. Methodology v0.8 · Data as of Aug 20, 2026 · Learn more →