The 8 Best Property Management Companies in Long Beach

For an owner letting a property in a city where the cost of ending a tenancy is written into the municipal code, Utopia is the way to go for the peace of mind it affords. We have been at this since 1994 and are now among the West Coast’s largest property management firms, with 27 offices across five states and roughly 9,000 properties in our care. Our managers carry well over thirty years of collective experience.

Utopia prides itself on service that is both prompt and of a high standard. You will not be left wondering whether help is coming; between in-house maintenance staff and 24/7/365 call monitoring, someone is always reachable. As a full-service company we handle grounds and property care, an intuitive tenant portal and renter’s insurance priced against the market. Your tenants can pay rent or raise a maintenance request online whenever it suits them.

On fees, we charge no management fee while a property sits vacant. For properties under management the monthly cost generally runs 8 to 10 percent of collected rent. The Long Beach office is at 111 West Ocean Boulevard, Suite 400, a block from the water in the middle of downtown.

No two properties are the same. Even two apartment blocks of identical construction, built in the same year, by the same firm, and on the same Long Beach street, will have their own unique needs — and Beach Front is the only company here that prices as though it believes that. The tiers sit on one public page: 4.5 to 7 percent up to fifteen units, 4 to 6 percent from sixteen to thirty, 4 to 5 percent at thirty-one or more, and a conversation above that, all on gross collected income.

Credit where it is due. Publishing a tier table at all puts them ahead of three firms on this page that publish nothing whatsoever. But it is useful to look at the big picture and remember that sometimes the little things are the difference between one hundred dollars and one thousand. There is no leasing or tenant placement figure here, no renewal fee, no setup charge, no maintenance markup and no inspection cost anywhere on the site. A rate that low is recovered somewhere, and the lines that would tell you where are the ones left off the page.

The other thing to be clear-eyed about is fit. This is a multifamily and commercial operation. Daily operations, lease-up on new construction, repositioning, RUBS utility billing, due-diligence inspections. The tier table says as much on its own. An owner with one house in Bixby Knolls is not who this pricing was built for, and the bottom tier is not a rate they will ever be offered.

They hold DRE licenses 01254939 and 01254940. Twenty-plus years is claimed, with no founding date given, and a directory puts the book at roughly 1,000 units. The office is just north of downtown.

Because there always seems to be demand for rental housing in this city, it is not uncommon for a new Long Beach investor to forget about one of real estate's most essential subfields: being findable. Ernst & Haas has not forgotten. They hold the top organic position for property management here, ahead of our own page on that particular search, and they have it on the back of a site that answers owner questions instead of posting slogans.

The published rate is 6.9 percent of collected income, varying with the size and type of the property, and they describe it as covering all of the services they offer. Taken at face value that is one of the better headline numbers in the city, from a firm genuinely based here rather than one serving Long Beach from a neighboring market. They keep named pages for Lakewood, Signal Hill, Cerritos, Bellflower, Belmont Heights and Belmont Shore.

Where an owner should press is on what “all of the services we offer” means once it is in a contract. No leasing fee, renewal fee, setup charge, maintenance markup or inspection cost appears anywhere on the site. That can mean there are none. It can also mean they are simply not posted. Ask for the fee page in writing.

The site publishes no founding year and no portfolio size. A third-party directory puts them at roughly 300 units and 20-plus years, which makes this the smallest book of the firms here that publish a rate. For some owners that is the appeal.

Berro publishes a rate, and more unusually still, publishes a way out. Management runs 5 to 10 percent of gross income collected depending on the location, condition and number of units involved, and the agreement runs for a thirty-day period, renewable month to month. No firm on this page asks an owner to commit for a year, but Berro is the only one that says so in writing, and a contract you can leave is worth more than a percentage point.

The range is wide enough to be worth interrogating before you sign. Five percent and ten percent are entirely different propositions on the same building, and the site does not explain what moves you from one end to the other beyond location, condition and unit count. Ask where your property lands before you set that headline against Ernst & Haas at 6.9. The little things are the difference between one hundred dollars a month and several hundred.

The company describes itself as the largest property management firm serving the greater Long Beach area and claims more than forty years at it. Neither figure appears on the site. A third-party directory puts them at roughly 2,300 units and 45-plus years, which is the biggest book in this market and does support the claim. Beach Front is second at about 1,000. The address checks out too. 4047 Long Beach Boulevard is a real Bixby Knolls office, not a service-area page.

A property manager answers to two parties: the owner, who has entrusted their real estate investment, and the tenant, who pays hard-earned money to satisfy the terms of their lease. AllView has built its pricing around the first of those, and for an owner of a single home it is worth reading closely. Management is 6.9 or 8.9 percent of rents collected depending on plan, and against that they name no leasing fee, no lease renewal fee, no setup fee, no maintenance upcharge, and no photography, advertising, price-analysis or move-in and move-out charges, with inspections included.

If all of that holds in the agreement, the effective cost on one property can undercut a lower headline rate carrying charges underneath it. Two things to weigh against it. The AllView 360° Guarantee is advertised as worth over $7,500 and includes a 180-day money-back promise refunding up to six months of management fees — capped at $1,600. Six months of fees on a $3,000 rental at 8.9 percent comes to about $1,600. On a bigger house the cap is what you get back, not six months.

The second is geography. The published offices are Orange County, San Diego and Los Angeles. There is no Long Beach office behind the Long Beach page. Ask who drives to your property, and how often. They hold DRE license 02134753. No founding year or portfolio size is published.

Whether you own a single rental unit or an expansive portfolio, there is a reason most owners in this city end up talking to the Mike Dunfee Group at some point. They have been selling, leasing and managing in Long Beach since 1996, which is one of the longer continuous track records here, and they hold organic position two on the head term largely on the strength of an exact-match domain owned for years.

The site is properly built out for the market, with named pages for Signal Hill, Seal Beach, Lakewood, San Pedro, Carson, Rolling Hills and Torrance, plus separate HOA and multi-family divisions. What it does not contain anywhere is a price. The owners section publishes no monthly percentage, no leasing fee, no renewal charge and no setup cost, and sends you to a contact form instead.

That is a legitimate way to run a business. For a firm working across single homes, associations and apartment buildings there is a real argument for quoting property by property. But it does put the comparison on the far side of a phone call.

A third-party directory does carry numbers for them: 4.9 to 7.9 percent of monthly rent, 25 to 50 percent of a month to place a tenant, around 500 units under management and 25-plus years in business. If those hold, the bottom of that range is among the cheapest in the city. They are not the firm’s own figures, so get them confirmed in writing before you weigh them against Ernst & Haas at 6.9.

In renting and maintaining properties, detail is key, and Harbor gets a good deal of the detail right. They hold second place in the Long Beach local pack with a 4.9 average from 94 reviews, the strongest rating-to-volume ratio of any competitor here, and they publish their licenses openly — broker number 01846284 and DRE 01315994. Sixteen-plus years in the market is claimed, though without a founding year attached to it.

The pricing is where the detail goes. The Long Beach page invites you to view their affordable Long Beach property management rates. The page that link leads to promises a per-property fee structure with no hidden fees, and then names no figure of any kind — no percentage, no leasing fee, no renewal, no setup. An invitation to view rates that arrives at a page with no rates on it is worth noticing in itself, because transparency is the entire proposition being made on it.

Worth knowing too that the headquarters is at 29623 S. Western Avenue in Rancho Palos Verdes. The Long Beach presence is 3553 Atlantic Avenue and the main line is a 310 number. Plenty of good firms run satellite offices. Just ask how often somebody is at the Atlantic Avenue address.

Real Property Management Southland sits at the top of the Long Beach local pack on a review volume nobody else here approaches — 947 reviews at a 4.8 average — operating as part of the national Real Property Management network under the Neighborly umbrella. The Long Beach office is at 3450 E Spring Street, Suite 209, with a second office in Downey covering the other half of the territory.

The pricing is the strangest thing this research turned up in any market. They have a page for it, at /apartment-management-fees-pricing, titled “Apartment Management Fees & Pricing”. The body text of that page reads, in full: “I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.” It is unedited page-builder placeholder text. We fetched the page directly on 31 August 2026 to be certain of it and confirmed there is no percentage anywhere on it, then went through the rest of the sitemap — more than forty pages — and found no rate on any of them either.

None of that says anything about the quality of the management itself. 947 reviews at 4.8 is a real signal and should not be waved away over a broken page.

A third-party directory lists them at 4.9 to 8.9 percent of monthly rent and $499 to $899 to place a tenant, with 14-plus years in business. Those are not the company’s figures and the directory can be out of date. Ask for the schedule in writing.