City guides / New York-Newark-Jersey City
Endcap Design is a web design agency that designs and builds websites for businesses, with the branding and marketing to match, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California. This guide collects the business numbers, building activity, and New York rules we would look at before designing a site for a business in New York or elsewhere in the metro, including Newark, Jersey City, Lakewood, White Plains, and New Brunswick.
Updated October 2026 with building permits through August 2026, from U.S. Census Bureau data. Sources are listed at the end of this page.
Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email.
The market
The figures that shape who a New York website is for and what it needs to do. Each figure is the most recent Census release in this guide’s data, with its year shown.
20,112,448
residents in the metro
Census population estimate, July 2025
+0.6%
population change since 2020
April 2020 to July 2025; the US grew 3.1%
562,802
business locations with employees
County Business Patterns 2023
33,059
real estate businesses
NAICS 531, 2023
7,834
property management companies
Residential and nonresidential, 2023
37,893
new housing units permitted
January through August 2026
$99,852
median household income
American Community Survey 2024
49%
of households rent their home
3,653,646 renter households
Business mix
Commercial building owners are the most concentrated of these businesses in the New York metro: 18 for every 100,000 residents, and their share of local businesses is 1.58 times the national share. Property management companies follow at 1.48 times the national share. Self-storage operators are less common here than nationally, at 0.60 times the national share.
The chart compares each sector’s share of New York-area business locations with its share nationally (a location quotient). 1.00× matches the US; higher means the sector is more concentrated here. County Business Patterns 2023.
Building activity
New buildings mean new properties to lease and new businesses to open. Census Building Permits Survey, August 2026.
Builders in the New York metro were authorized to build 37,893 new housing units from January through August 2026, 32% more than the 28,775 in the same months of 2025.
77% of those units are in buildings with five or more homes, against 32% nationally.
That is an apartment-heavy pipeline. Each new community needs a leasing website, usually before construction finishes, and the developer often needs a project site for investors and the city as well.
What this means for your site
What we would plan into a New York website, based on the numbers above.
Talk through your siteCommercial building owners and lessors have 3,684 staffed offices in the metro, 1.58 times the national share of local businesses. A leasing website for each center or building, with a site plan and available suites, gives tenants and their brokers a direct path to the owner.
New York has 1.48 times the national share of property management companies, so owners have several firms to compare. A management website needs its services, reporting, and a request for a management proposal where an owner can find them.
49% of households here rent, against 35% nationally. Property management and apartment sites should put available rentals, the application, and the resident portal at the top of the homepage on phones.
Brokerage websites in New York carry specific disclosure requirements (19 NYCRR 175.25; 19 NYCRR 175.29(c); 19 NYCRR 175.28; N.Y. Real Prop. Law §442-h(4)). We build them into the footer and listing templates, so every page that advertises a property has them.
Every site we build follows WCAG 2.2 AA practice: readable contrast, keyboard navigation, labeled forms, and text alternatives for images. Federal ADA website lawsuits run into the thousands each year, most of them filed in New York, Florida, and Illinois.
New York rules
State rules that change what goes on a business or real estate website in New York, checked against official sources as of October 9, 2026. This is general information, not legal advice; your counsel owns the final wording.
Worth knowing New York had the most federal website accessibility lawsuits of any state in 2025, with 1,021 cases in Seyfarth Shaw's count.
Privacy
New York has not enacted a comprehensive consumer data privacy law as of October 9, 2026. This reflects published state privacy-law trackers. Part of the metro is in New Jersey, where the New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA) applies to businesses anywhere that meet its thresholds for New Jersey residents’ data.
Real estate advertising
New York advertising, which the rule defines to include websites and email, must identify the real estate broker or brokerage with either its full address or telephone number, and must state each named licensee's license type; whenever an associate broker, salesperson or team is named, the broker or brokerage name must also appear. Every page of an associate broker, salesperson or team website must carry the required information, and every licensee and team website must link from its homepage to the Department of State's fair housing notice.
Accessibility
Section 296(2)(a) makes it an unlawful discriminatory practice for the owner, operator, or employee of a place of public accommodation to deny its accommodations or services because of disability. Section 296(2)(c) treats a refusal to make reasonable modifications or to provide auxiliary aids and services as discrimination, unless doing so would fundamentally alter the service or impose an undue burden.
What we design
Ordered by how concentrated each kind of business is in the New York metro. We design for every kind of business.
Portfolio
Websites and identities we have designed and built for our clients. See all of our work.
Client words
We own ten homes at Casa De Laguna and were still sending people to a site built in 2013. Noah pulled the photos and details out of the old site, designed a logo from the rooflines and the pond, and put the community, the homes and current availability in one place. It’s the first time the website has looked like the place we actually rent.
“Highly recommend. Great work.”
The Census Bureau counted 33,059 real estate business locations with employees in the New York metro in 2023, including 6,944 offices of agents and brokers and 7,834 property management companies.
From January through August 2026, the New York metro permitted 37,893 new housing units, 32% more than a year earlier, according to the Census Building Permits Survey.
New York has not enacted a comprehensive consumer data privacy law as of October 9, 2026. Part of the metro is in New Jersey, where the New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA) applies to businesses anywhere that meet its thresholds for New Jersey residents’ data.
New York advertising, which the rule defines to include websites and email, must identify the real estate broker or brokerage with either its full address or telephone number, and must state each named licensee's license type; whenever an associate broker, salesperson or team is named, the broker or brokerage name must also appear. Every page of an associate broker, salesperson or team website must carry the required information, and every licensee and team website must link from its homepage to the Department of State's fair housing notice. (19 NYCRR 175.25; 19 NYCRR 175.29(c); 19 NYCRR 175.28; N.Y. Real Prop. Law §442-h(4))
Yes. Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email. You review the design and the working site online before launch.
We quote each project after a short conversation, once we know the pages, content, and features it needs. The proposal lists the deliverables, schedule, and price, and we agree on it before work begins.
Most websites take two to four weeks once the content is ready. The proposal confirms the schedule.
Nearby city guides
National rankings: where the US is building, property managers by metro, brokerages by metro, and commercial landlords by metro.
Sources
Figures are for the metropolitan statistical area unless noted. Business counts cover locations with paid employees. Data refreshed 2026-10-10.
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