Burlington, Vermont
Burlington's owners of record are public parcel by parcel: the University of Vermont and its medical center hold more than a fifth of the city's listed value, the City is the largest landholder, and the stalled downtown mall is finally being rebuilt as CityPlace.
11 buildings · 11 with an owner established · 9 sources · 7 tier A · 4 tier B · prepared 2026-10-31
Can you find out who owns it?
Vermont has no county recorder: each town or city clerk keeps its own land records, and Burlington's are indexed online through a vendor portal (US Land Records). Ownership itself is free to read. The City Assessor's Property Database names the owner of every parcel, with its values, buildings and a list of transfers that often carries the price, and VCGI's statewide parcel layer joins the annual Grand List (owner of record on 1 April) to the parcel map as a free per-town download. Every deed must be filed with a Vermont Property Transfer Tax Return, so prices are recorded.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (City Assessor Property Database; VCGI parcel download). City Clerk: copies of land-record documents $1 per page; certified copies $1 per page plus $10 per document; recording $15 per page
Bulk ownership dataVCGI Vermont GIS Parcel Data, VTPARCELS_Burlington.zip (shapefile; 2025 Grand List joined to parcels: OWNER1/OWNER2, mailing address, category, acres, listed real value, land and improvement value, exemptions; 11,225 rows, file dated 28 Oct 2026); free download, no charge, no licence stated beyond VCGI's no-warranty disclaimer
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Vermont Medical Center (main hospital campus) 111 Colchester Ave 590,566 sq ft gross (main 2005 hospital building; 15 buildings on the parcel) |
Institutional | University of Vermont Medical Center Inc. Assessor's Property Database, parcel 046-2-103-000 (SPAN 114-035-16784): owner 'UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, MEDICAL CENTER INC.', land use Exempt, 1,516,765 sq ft (34.82 acres on the Grand List), FY2026-27 value $580,087,400 ($576.8M buildings, $3.3M land), tax exempt - the highest-valued parcel in the city. The transfers list shows the land passing through Medical Center Hospital and Fletcher Allen Health Care (the hospital's earlier names) to the current entity; the largest building is a 2005 'HOSPITALS' structure of 590,566 sq ft gross. The medical center holds 18 parcels in all on the 2025 Grand List, $600.1M, 39.5 acres; mailing address 1519 Shelburne Rd, South Burlington. |
Institution | —A |
| University of Vermont, main campus Main St / South Prospect St / Colchester Ave (hill campus) |
Institutional | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College On the 2025 Grand List the university holds 106 parcel records under seven spellings of its name (most 'UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT / STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE'), 462.9 acres and $906.7M of listed value, almost all statutorily exempt - the largest holder by value in Burlington. Its largest single parcels are 590 Main St ($53.5M), 1 South Prospect St ($51.5M), 631 Main St ($49.6M, 12.26 acres) and 97 Spear St ($46.4M); the biggest by area is 476 South Prospect St (140.43 acres, $22.9M). 165 Davis Rd ($35.8M) is UVM land listed with Redstone Lofts Apt Inc as lessee. |
Government | —A |
| CityPlace Burlington (former Burlington Square Mall / Burlington Town Center) 130 Bank St 110,309 sq ft lot |
Mixed use | CityPlace Partners North LLC Assessor's Property Database, parcel 044-4-033-000: owner 'CITYPLACE PARTNERS NORTH LLC', Com/Resident, FD6 Downtown Core. Value rose from $42,392,200 (FY2025-26) to $78,825,800 (FY2026-27; $68.6M buildings, $10.24M land) as three 2024 buildings with 289 residential units and ground-floor retail came onto the roll; FY2026-27 tax $2,003,578. Chain: City (1993 deed, $847,602, and a 1994 land lease) to Security Capital Corp, The Burlington Town Center LLC, BTC Mall Associates LLC (2013, $922,500 stated). Wikipedia: Devonwood Investors bought the Town Center in Dec 2013 for $25M, demolished the western mall in 2017; the rest closed on 2 Feb 2022. |
Developer | $7,250,000 2022-05-26 Assessor's transfers list: quit claim, BTC Mall Associates LLC to CityPlace Partners LLC, Book 1668 p.151, $7,250,000; then quit claim to CityPlace Partners North LLC on 2026-05-21 (Book 1826 p.77), no price. B |
| Hotel Champlain Burlington (258 rooms) 60 Battery St 177,382 sq ft gross |
Hotel | DiamondRock Hospitality Company (owning entity of record: DiamondRock Burlington Owner LLC) Assessor's Property Database, parcel 049-1-143-001: owner 'DIAMONDROCK BURLINGTON OWNER L' (mailed 2 Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda MD), a 1976 'HOTELS' building, 258 rooms, 177,382 sq ft gross; FY2026-27 value $29,380,500, tax $778,419. DiamondRock Hospitality's 10-K for 2025 (filed 27 Feb 2026) lists 'Hotel Champlain Burlington, Burlington, Vermont, Upper Upscale Full Service, 258' rooms, managed by Aimbridge Hospitality. The site was previously sold in 1996 for $12,240,000 (Interstone Partners I LP as grantor). |
REIT | $53,400,000 2012-07-12 Assessor's transfers list: warranty deed, RAD Burl LLC to DiamondRock Burlington Owner LLC, Book 1180 p.765. B |
| Burlington City Hall 149 Church St 46,260 sq ft gross (main building) |
Civic | City of Burlington Assessor's Property Database, parcel 049-3-114-000: owner 'CITY TREASURER', land use Exempt, 103,088 sq ft lot, zoning Civic Spaces / FD6 Downtown Core; a 'GOVT BLDGS' building of 1928, 46,260 sq ft gross; FY2026-27 value $10,044,900 ($6.48M buildings, $3.56M land), tax exempt. The City holds its property under several departmental names on the Grand List (City Treasurer, City DPW, Parks, School Department, Burlington Electric Department and others). |
Government | —A |
| Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport (BTV) 1200 Airport Dr, South Burlington |
Civic | City of Burlington The airport lies outside the city, in South Burlington. South Burlington's 2025 Grand List (VCGI parcel file) lists SPAN 600-188-10911 at 1200 Airport Dr in the name 'BURLINGTON CITY OF', 736.2 acres, listed value $20,713,900; the City of Burlington holds six SPANs in South Burlington, 752.2 acres in all. Wikipedia gives the owner as the City of Burlington and the operator as the Burlington Airport Commission. |
Government | —B |
| Vermont state courthouse, 32 Cherry St 32 Cherry St 154,966 sq ft gross |
Civic | State of Vermont (Department of Buildings and General Services) Assessor's Property Database, parcel 044-2-027-000: owner 'VERMONT STATE OF, BUILDING & GENERAL SERVCS', Exempt, 73,845 sq ft lot; building type 'COURTHOUSE', built 1968, 154,966 sq ft gross; FY2026-27 value $33,384,600. The building's common name is not stated on the roll. |
Government | $540,000 1991-07-01 Assessor's transfers list: warranty deed to Vermont State of, Building & General Services, Book 433 p.372. A |
| State office building, 108 Cherry St 108 Cherry St 147,808 sq ft gross |
Office | State of Vermont (Department of Buildings and General Services) Assessor's Property Database, parcel 044-4-043-000: owner 'VERMONT STATE OF BUILDING & GENERAL SRVCS DEPT', Exempt, 50,581 sq ft lot; 'OFFICE ELVTR' building of 1993, 147,808 sq ft gross; FY2026-27 value $29,109,400. Conveyed for a nominal $1 in 2001 (Book 686 p.714); earlier easements from Granite Savings Bank and Trust. |
Government | —A |
| Federal building, 11 Elmwood Ave 11 Elmwood Ave |
Civic | United States of America (General Services Administration) 2025 Grand List (VCGI parcel file), SPAN 114-035-15346, parcel 044-4-242-000: owner 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GENERAL SERVIC', 1.86 acres, listed value $23,794,100, statutory exemption. The only other federal parcel in the city is the Coast Guard station at 301 Penny Ln (1.03 acres, $3.8M). The Assessor's detail page for this parcel returned an empty page, so building data were not read. |
Government | —A |
| Burlington High School / Institute Road campus 52-110 Institute Rd 1,412,709 sq ft lot |
Institutional | Burlington School District (roll: City School Department) Assessor's Property Database, parcel 033-4-019-000: owner 'CITY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT ADMISTRATIVE OFFICES/EED', Exempt, 1,412,709 sq ft (32.43 acres); FY2026-27 value $34,844,200 ($34.3M buildings). No transfers are listed and no building detail was shown. The school department holds 11 parcels, 144.6 acres and $119.3M in all on the 2025 Grand List. Wikipedia's CityPlace article records that 'Downtown Burlington High School' opened in the vacant Macy's building in March 2021 as a temporary replacement for the original campus. |
Government | —B |
| Cambrian Rise 351-375 North Ave |
Residential | 375 North Avenue LLC; The Aurora at Cambrian Rise LLC 2025 Grand List (VCGI): three records in the name of 375 North Avenue LLC (5.52 acres, $39.96M combined; $13.85M at 351 North Ave and $8.995M at 375 North Ave among them) and one of The Aurora at Cambrian Rise LLC (2.08 acres, $4.975M), all category apartments (CA), mailed to the same Burlington PO box; individual condominium units at 375 North Ave are separately listed and are not named here. |
Developer | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The most valuable ground in Burlington is institutional and exempt: the hospital and the university on the hill. The highest land values per acre are downtown, on the CityPlace block.
Highest assessed parcel$580,087,400
UVM Medical Center, 111 Colchester Ave, FY2026-27 (Assessor's Property Database, read 31 Oct 2026); tax exempt.
Citywide listed real value$7.95B
Sum of REAL_FLV across 10,999 distinct records on the 2025 Grand List (VCGI parcel file dated 28 Oct 2026); land alone $2.03B; statutorily exempt records $2.13B.
Downtown land benchmark$10,237,500 for 3.38 acres (about $3.0M per acre)
CityPlace, 130 Bank St, land value - the highest land value per acre among commercial parcels of half an acre or more (2025 Grand List; unchanged FY2026-27).
Largest taxable private parcel$78,825,800
CityPlace, 130 Bank St, FY2026-27 (Assessor's Property Database); tax $2,003,578.
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Burlington's ground is held mostly by public and non-profit institutions. On the 2025 Grand List (10,999 distinct records, $7.95B listed value) the University of Vermont and its medical center together carry about $1.51B - roughly 19% of all listed value - and 390 statutorily exempt records carry $2.13B. The City is the largest landholder by area, through a dozen departmental names, followed by the Winooski Valley Park District and UVM; the Intervale floodplain farmland on the Winooski is held by the non-profit Intervale Center. Affordable housing is concentrated in two owners, the Burlington Housing Authority and the Champlain Housing Trust. Figures below are from VCGI's 2025 Grand List parcel file; names are grouped across spelling variants as stated.
| Name | Type | 2025 Grand List |
|---|---|---|
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Seven name spellings, mostly 'UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT / STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE'; nearly all statutorily exempt. The largest holder by value in the city. |
Government | 106 records, 462.9 acres, $906.7M listedA |
| University of Vermont Medical Center Inc. Dominated by the main hospital parcel at 111 Colchester Ave ($580.1M), the highest-valued parcel in Burlington. |
Institution | 18 records, 39.5 acres, $600.1M listedA |
| City of Burlington (all departments) Listed as City DPW Parks Rec Dept (34 records, 554.0 acres), City of Burlington (25), City DPW (16), City School Department (11; 144.6 acres, $119.3M), DPW Water/Wastewater (9), City Treasurer (7, incl. City Hall), Burlington Electric Department (8, incl. the 45.56-acre Intervale Rd generating site co-listed with Central Vermont Public Service Corp), Fire, Cemetery, Library, CEDO and Church Street Marketplace. Excludes City Neighborhood Housing LP and Burlington Community Development Co, which are separate entities. The City also owns the airport in South Burlington (752.2 acres there). |
Government | 126 records, 1,027.9 acres, $320.7M listedA |
| Winooski Valley Park District Conservation and park land along the Winooski River; the second-largest holder by area. |
Government | 10 records, 472.7 acres, $5.1M listedA |
| Intervale Center Inc. / Intervale Foundation Inc. All five records are on Intervale Rd: three listed in category M (84.52, 179.0 and 1.0 acres) and two in category F, farm (56.4 and 7.28 acres) - the largest farm-category holding in the city (only two F records exist citywide). |
Institution | 5 records, 328.2 acres, $1.08M listedA |
| State of Vermont Buildings & General Services (courthouse at 32 Cherry St, offices at 108 Cherry St), Agency of Transportation, and 188 acres held by the Department of Environmental Conservation. |
Government | 7 records, 192.1 acres, $71.6M listedA |
| Episcopal Diocese of Vermont Listed as 'EPISCOPALIAN DIOCESE (OF VERMONT)'; eleven of the twelve records are on Rock Point Rd, including 87.11 acres at 20 Rock Point Rd and 57.09 acres at 1 Rock Point Rd; the twelfth is 2 Cherry St (1.85 acres). |
Institution | 12 records, 146.1 acres, $22.6M listedA |
| Champlain Housing Trust Inc. The largest owner in the city by number of records, under five name variants; average listed value about $206,000 per record. |
Institution | 124 records, 19.9 acres, $25.5M listedA |
| Burlington Housing Authority The city's public housing authority; 26 of the 35 records are commercial or apartment category. |
Government | 35 records, 40.3 acres, $64.3M listedA |
| Champlain College Inc. Includes 396 Main St and 194 St Paul St, among the highest land values per acre in the city. |
Institution | 40 records, 29.8 acres, $37.4M listedA |
| United States of America GSA federal building at 11 Elmwood Ave ($23.8M) and the Coast Guard station at 301 Penny Ln. |
Government | 2 records, 2.9 acres, $27.6M listedA |
| Vermont Railway Inc. 203 LaValley Ln and 351-361 Pine St. Six railroad right-of-way polygons in the parcel layer carry no owner. |
Private company | 2 records, 5.7 acres, $1.1M listedA |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
No league table of builders exists for Burlington, and Vermont's Grand List does not carry a year built, so builders are not ranked by starts here. New housing in the city comes mainly from a handful of downtown and North Avenue projects and from the non-profit and public housing sector. Listed instead are the entities holding the newest large residential projects and the largest rental holders, with Grand List counts (VCGI 2025) and, for CityPlace, the Assessor's unit count. Individual condominium owners are not named.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| CityPlace Partners North LLC 130 Bank St, per the Assessor's Property Database; FY2026-27 value $78.8M. |
Developer | 289 residential units (3 buildings, 2024)A |
| 375 North Avenue LLC / The Aurora at Cambrian Rise LLC Cambrian Rise, 351-375 North Ave. |
Developer | 4 apartment records, 7.6 acres, $44.9M listedA |
| Champlain Housing Trust Inc. Community land trust; the most records of any owner in the city. |
Institution | 124 recordsA |
| Burlington Housing Authority Public housing authority. |
Government | 35 records, $64.3M listedA |
| New Northgate Housing LLC 1925 North Ave; listed with a 'Qualified Housing Units' exemption. |
Private company | 1 record, 25.93 acres, $27.5M listedA |
| Rental holders with 15+ records: BPJS Management LLC (21), PBGC LLC (21), J & S LLC (16), Chicken Bone Housing Limited Partnership (16), SWB LLC (15), Offenhartz Inc (14) Mostly residential (R1) and apartment (CA) records, mailed to Burlington addresses. Diemer Holdings LLC, Diemer Apartments LLC and Diemer Enterprises LLC together hold a further 33 records, most of them individual units (e.g. at 83 North Union St and 47 South Williams St). |
Private company | 15-21 records eachA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
There is no REIT-scale office market here: the largest private holdings are a national hotel REIT, the CityPlace developer and a set of local family and partnership landlords. The most numerous private holders are small local LLCs holding residential and apartment records (see residential). Entities only; holders whose name is a private individual's full name are left out. Counts are records on the 2025 Grand List (VCGI).
| Name | Type | 2025 Grand List |
|---|---|---|
| Devonwood-related entities (CityPlace Partners LLC, BTC Mall Associates Retail, Devonwood Cherry Street Associates LLC, Devonwood Hotel Associates LLC) CityPlace at 130 Bank St ($42.4M in 2025; $78.8M for FY2026-27 under CityPlace Partners North LLC), 67 Cherry St ($8.0M), 101 Cherry St ($6.4M) and 49 Church St ($1.6M). That these entities are Devonwood's rests on their names and Wikipedia's account of the 2013 purchase. |
Developer | 4 records, 6.16 acres, $58.4M listed (2025)B |
| DiamondRock Hospitality Company Hotel Champlain Burlington, 60 Battery St, bought for $53.4M in 2012 per the Assessor's transfers. |
REIT | 1 hotel, 258 rooms; $29.4M listedA |
| Sisters & Brothers Investment Group LLP 12 commercial, 5 apartment and 5 residential records; mailed Burlington. |
Private company | 22 records, 6.91 acres, $23.1M listedA |
| Nedde entities (Nedde/Pine LLC, Nedde/Bank LLC, Nedde Apartments LLC) Downtown and South End buildings; mailed Burlington. |
Private company | 3 records, 2.35 acres, $24.7M listedA |
| Investors Corporation of VT Three commercial records. |
Private company | 3 records, 2.25 acres, $22.3M listedA |
| Fortieth Burlington LLC 128 Lakeside Ave, mailed Palm Beach Gardens, FL - the most valuable private commercial parcel outside downtown; a separate solar record on the same site is held by Lakeside Solar LLC. |
Private company | 1 record, 11.82 acres, $32.8M listedA |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The 32 Cherry St courthouse's common name and the 11 Elmwood Ave federal building's common name are not stated on the roll; neither was confirmed from a second source.
- That Cambrian Rise (351-375 North Ave) stands on the former Burlington College campus - widely reported, not checked against a source opened here.
- Wikipedia's $25M figure for Devonwood's December 2013 purchase of the Town Center differs from the $922,500 the Assessor's transfers list for the 13 Dec 2013 deed; the deed may cover only part of the consideration or of the property. Not reconciled.
- Burlington School District's new high school project at Institute Rd (after the 2020 closure of the old buildings) - not checked against a source opened here.
- Deeds themselves were not read: the City Clerk's US Land Records portal returned 503.
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Sources
- Vermont GIS Parcel Data - VTPARCELS_Burlington.zip (2025 Grand List joined to parcels) — Vermont Center for Geographic Information (VCGI) · openA
- City of Burlington Property Database Search (parcel detail pages) — City of Burlington, Office of the City Assessor · openA
- Land Records - Clerk/Treasurer's Office (recording and copy fees) — City of Burlington · openA
- Vermont GIS Parcel Data metadata (CadastralParcels_VTPARCELS) — VCGI · openA
- Parcel Program — VCGI · openA
- DiamondRock Hospitality Co, Form 10-K for 2025 (filed 2026-02-27) — U.S. SEC EDGAR · openA
- Vermont GIS Parcel Data - VTPARCELS_South Burlington.zip (2025 Grand List) — VCGI · openA
- CityPlace Burlington — Wikipedia · openB
- Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport — Wikipedia · openB