Top Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Firms: What the Rankings Measure and Miss
Rankings of the top commercial real estate brokerage firms for 2026 measure size: how many deals a firm closed, how much space it leased, what it earned or how many people it employs. A handful of very large leases drive those totals, so a high rank shows that a firm serves the biggest tenants. It does not tell a company leasing one Manhattan floor whom to hire. Use a ranking as a source of names and nothing more, then check three things any firm shows in public: listings with addresses and asking rents, the clients it names, and the people who would run your search. This page ranks no one.
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Show me floors and rentsUpdated 2026-10-03 · Nomad Group
What a brokerage firm ranking counts, and what it leaves out
Every published ranking rests on a quantity that can be added up across a firm: deals, square feet, revenue, brokers. None of those is divided by the number of clients, and none is sorted by the size of the tenant. One headquarters lease for a bank can outweigh a year of offices for 30-person companies. A ranking is therefore an accurate picture of scale and a poor guide to service for a company of 10 to 100 people.
That still leaves one good use. A ranking is a quick way to collect names, including firms you had not heard of. Treat the order as noise.
Why this page ranks no firm and names none
A brokerage that ranks other brokerages is doing marketing, whatever order it prints. We would be scoring competitors on our own criteria and placing ourselves where it suited us. So this page prints no ranking, calls no firm the top one, ours included, and names no other brokerage. What we can do is show how to check any firm, ours included, with evidence the firm itself has made public.
Three public proofs to check before any meeting
- Listings with addresses and asking rents. A firm that shows real floors at real prices is exposing its knowledge to inspection. One whose listings say to call for pricing is not. Why we publish our rents makes the argument.
- Named clients. Look for the companies the firm placed, at what size, with the offices shown. Our client stories are that proof for Nomad.
- The people. Find out who would run your search and what that person has closed lately. The team page shows who that would be at Nomad.
All three take ten minutes and no phone call. A firm that passes them has earned a meeting, wherever it sits on a list.
Nomad's numbers, given as volume and not as a rank
Nomad Property Group, at 276 Fifth Avenue, Suite 402, is a licensed New York real estate broker. Its volume, stated plainly: 300+ offices delivered and 2M+ square feet leased. Those are counts, not a position on anyone's table. We work for you on your search, and our firm also offers agency leasing and owner representation, so ask which buildings we lease for owners before you tour.
The live block below: every floor, with its asking rent
The block under this section is the first proof in practice. It draws on the whole of Nomad's listings, each floor with its size and its asking rent wherever the landlord has released it, and it recalculates when a listing changes. Ask any firm you are considering for the same: its floors, their addresses and what they are asking. The full list of available floors has the rest.
What is on our book right now
Live from our listings · 6 of the 49, cheapest firstNomad lists 49 floors across 11 Manhattan submarkets right now, from 2,500 to 27,344 square feet. 46 publish an asking rent: $43 to $200 per square foot per year, with a median of $75.
- Floors
- 49
- Sizes
- 2,500-27,344 sq ft
- Asking rent
- $43-$200 / sq ft
- Median
- $75 / sq ft
- 213 West 35th Street, 11th Floor 6,100 sq ft $52/sq ft Penn Plaza about 35 people
- 1235 Broadway, Entire 4th Floor 9,500 sq ft $62/sq ft NoMad about 54 people
- 60 East 42nd Street, Partial 13th Floor 5,772 sq ft $72/sq ft Grand Central about 33 people
- 110 Greene Street, Partial 5th Floor 3,750 sq ft $95/sq ft SoHo about 21 people
- 520 Broadway, Entire 10th Floor 5,539 sq ft $125/sq ft SoHo about 32 people
- 30 West 21st Street, Entire 9th & 10th Floors 10,562 sq ft rent on request Flatiron about 60 people
The full guide
This page is the short answer. The long one, with the numbers worked through, is here:
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Are the firms at the top of a ranking wrong for a small tenant?
Not necessarily. A large firm may have an excellent broker who works at your size; the ranking simply cannot tell you whether it does. Ask the firm which of its brokers places teams like yours and how busy that person is.
Do higher-ranked firms charge tenants more?
Usually not. In most transactions the landlord pays the broker fee, whichever firm represents the tenant, so rank and size rarely show up in what you pay. The terms of each deal decide it.
How should I read a 2026 ranking before trusting it?
Read the method before the list: what was counted, over what period, in which market, and who supplied the figures. A national table says little about Manhattan office leasing, and a table built on sales says nothing about leasing at all.
What can replace a ranking when a board asks for one?
A short comparison you build yourself: two or three firms, one identical brief, written answers and reference calls, scored on criteria set beforehand. It documents why a firm was chosen, which is usually what a board wants from a ranking. Our guide to choosing a tenant rep broker sets out the checks.
Talk to a broker
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Tell us three things: team size, timing, budget. A first shortlist can be ready within 24 hours, with the asking rent on every floor that publishes one.
- Within the houra broker reaches out during business hours, no automated triage
- On your sidewe work for you on your search, and the landlord usually pays our fee
- Open pricingasking rent published for 46 of 49 floors, size and address for all
- 300+ officesdelivered in New York, 2M+ sq ft leased
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