No. HPD requires the original signatures of the owner, or an officer of the owning company, and of the managing agent. We fill in the registration, mark every line to sign and date, and mail it to you. You sign, date and mail it to HPD with the address label from the packet.

I manage the building myself. Who signs?

You can be your own managing agent. You then sign and date both lines, the owner line and the managing agent line. The packet marks both.

The managing agent on your HPD registration

Who: A person over age 21, not a company
Where: Lives in New York City, or works from an office there
Signs: The registration, together with the owner

Who can be the managing agent

A person, not a company (HPD's words: a "natural person")
Over age 21
Who lives in New York City, or regularly works from a business office in the city

An owner, or an officer of the owning company, who meets these rules may be named as the managing agent.

Who signs

The owner signs the registration. For a company, any officer of the company signs. The managing agent also signs it, to show they agree to be named.

A phone number that always works

The registration lists a phone number in the New York area where the owner or the managing agent can be reached at all times.

When the managing agent changes

HPD gives the owner 8 days to file an updated registration naming the new managing agent. See HPD deadlines.

How Woodpecker handles it

You give us the managing agent's details in your building details form, and we put them on the registration we prepare. Woodpecker is a company, so it cannot be your managing agent.

Check your building

Source: HPD, Register Your Property.

HPD's pages behind this guide were last checked on November 10, 2026. Short answers to the common questions are on our questions page.