Chattanooga, Tennessee
Hamilton County's parcel map service names the owner of every Chattanooga parcel free, with appraisal and the last four sale prices and deed book references, while the Register of Deeds' own online index sits behind a $50-a-month subscription.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 17 sources · 5 tier B · 5 tier A · prepared 2026-10-14
Can you find out who owns it?
Tennessee records title by deed with the county Register of Deeds; there is no state title register. In Hamilton County the Register's online index and document images are sold by subscription ($50 a month per firm or individual, under an agreement that forbids botting, mining and scraping), and anyone may search in person. The free route is the Assessor of Property: its property search and the county GIS parcel service publish each parcel's owner of record, appraisal and up to four sales with the consideration and deed book and page. Prices are known because the state taxes each recorded transfer at $0.37 per $100. Property held by the city-county Industrial Development Board or another public body under a payment-in-lieu-of-tax lease shows that public body as owner, not the private lessee.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Assessor property search; Hamilton County GIS 'Live_Parcels' map service). Register of Deeds online search: $50.00 per firm, location or individual per month, free copies; office copies $0.15 a page, certified copies $1.00 a page (deeds). Recording a deed $12 up to 2 pages, $5 each additional page. State transfer tax $0.37 per $100
Bulk ownership dataHamilton County GIS 'Live_Parcels' ArcGIS map service layer 0 (169,662 parcels county-wide: owner, mailing address, appraisal, land use, district, and the last four sales with date, consideration and deed book/page), free, no registration, 1,000 records per request. No licence is stated on the service, so rows are not republished
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
Sites that forbid taking their data
- register.hamiltontn.gov — “I/We will not attempt to alter, delete, or obtain the data by accessing/trespassing, including data botting, mining, scraping, or any other connection with Hamilton County Government databases through an unauthorized computer software and or server.”
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant 8001 Volkswagen Dr, Enterprise South, Chattanooga 1,085.6 acres mapped (tax map 130-001.18) |
Industrial | Industrial Development Board of the City of Chattanooga (fee); Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. under a PILOT agreement The roll names INDUSTRIAL DEV BOARD CHATT CITY OF for 8001 Volkswagen Dr (Tract 2, Enterprise South Industrial Park), exempt, 2026 appraisal $818,023,492 (land $171.7M, improvements $626.1M); deeds of 2008, 2020 and 2021 carry no consideration. The county's FY2026 PILOT summary lists VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OF AMERICA INC at 8001 Volkswagen Dr under the City IDB, PILOT 2010 to 2038, 2,000 jobs and a $1,000,000,000 investment commitment (a second 2014 agreement, $600M, also to 2038): assessment on PILOT properties $631.8M, $22.7M of tax without the PILOT against $4.13M billed in lieu. Volkswagen also holds 7469 Volkswagen Dr in its own name ($24.1M). |
Government | —B |
| BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee headquarters campus 1 & 23 Cameron Hill Cir and 505 E Martin Luther King Blvd 55.0 acres mapped (3 parcels) |
Office | Industrial Development Board of the City of Chattanooga (fee); BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc. under a PILOT agreement All three parcels are on the roll as INDUSTRIAL DEV BOARD OF CHATT, with legal descriptions 'Phase 1/2/3 BlueCross BlueShield of Tenn Inc'. 2026 appraisals $100,787,700 (1 Cameron Hill Cir), $135,402,900 (23 Cameron Hill Cir) and $1,074,900: $237.3M in all. The roll records a 2004 transfer of the 1 Cameron Hill parcel at $10,727,900 consideration (book 7274 page 983), before the IDB deed of 2008. The FY2026 PILOT summary lists BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF TN INC at these three map numbers, PILOT 2010 to 2025, assessment $107.9M. |
Government | —B |
| Unum headquarters campus 1 Fountain Square (Unum's address); parcels on Walnut, Lookout, Cherry and High Sts |
Office | Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company (Unum Group subsidiary); one lot held by the Industrial Development Board under a PILOT Provident Life & Accident Ins Co holds 16 downtown parcels appraised at $110.3M in 2026, largest 500 Walnut St ($39.0M) and 555 Walnut St ($23.6M), with tax bills sent to 1 Fountain Square. 473 Walnut St ('Lt 2 Unum Group Sub', $33.1M) is held by the IDB; the PILOT summary lists PROVIDENT/UNUM PROVIDENT CORP. there, 2011 to 2025, $21M commitment. Unum's FY2025 10-K says it owned office space on five campuses, one in Chattanooga, and names Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company as one of its insurance subsidiaries. |
Public company | —B |
| TVA Chattanooga Office Complex 1101 Market St 1.8 acres mapped (main parcel) |
Office | Tennessee Valley Authority Roll owner TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, exempt, 2026 appraisal $266,307,200 (improvements $263.3M), the second-highest appraisal on any Chattanooga parcel, after the Volkswagen plant. The roll records a 1980 transfer at $675,000. An adjoining parcel at the same address (3.28 acres, $5.9M) is held as UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, recorded 1982 at $700,000. TVA is a federal corporation. |
Government | —A |
| Erlanger Baroness Hospital 975 E 3rd St 23.9 acres mapped (main parcel) |
Institutional | Erlanger Health The roll names ERLANGER HEALTH (legal description 'Chatt Hamilton Co Hospital Authority'), 2026 appraisal $238,174,700; every Erlanger parcel carries a deed of 22 Jun 2023 at no consideration (book 13335 page 81). Erlanger says that effective 1 July 2023 the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority 'transferred substantially all of its assets and operations to Erlanger Health, a private, public benefit corporation' exempt under 501(c)(3), and the Authority remains only to wind down. So the hospital is no longer held by the governmental authority. Erlanger Health holds 39 parcels in the city appraised at $362.8M. |
Institution | —B |
| Tennessee Aquarium 1 Broad St |
Civic | Tennessee Aquarium Five parcels on the roll as TENNESSEE AQUARIUM: 1 Broad St (two parcels, $34.5M and $8.6M), 201 Chestnut St ($11.4M), 190 Chestnut St ($2.8M) and a commercial unit at 201 Broad St ($2.1M), $59.5M in all. Recorded considerations: 201 Chestnut St $890,000 (1995), 190 Chestnut St $2,550,000 (1997), the 201 Broad St unit $1,250,000 (2012). The aquarium's own transfers of the main parcel carry no price. |
Institution | —A |
| The Read House 107 W Martin Luther King Blvd and 827 Broad St |
Hotel | Historic Reed House Associates Property Owner LLC Both Read House lots are on the roll in this name (the roll's spelling), with a mailing address in Charleston, SC: 2026 appraisals $25,377,500 and $11,826,000. The transfers recorded in 2016 and 2021 carry no consideration on the roll, so no price is given. No filing we opened names the LLC's members. |
Private company | —A |
| Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St |
Civic | City of Chattanooga Roll owner CITY OF CHATTANOOGA (attention ECD Real Property), exempt, 2026 appraisal $2,802,800, legal description 'Lt 2 Tivoli' on a 2023 plat; deeds of 1976 and 2023 carry no consideration. An adjoining parcel is held by TIVOLI SUB TWO LLC ($4.1M). |
Government | —A |
| Finley Stadium 1826 Reggie White Blvd 8.7 acres mapped |
Civic | Hamilton County and City of Chattanooga (jointly) Roll owner HAMILTON CO & CHATT CITY OF, exempt, 2026 appraisal $8,420,000 (land only), legal description 'Tract A, The Stadium Campaign Sub'. The roll records a 1996 transfer at $2,300,000 (book 4650 page 358) before the 1998 deeds to the city and county. Neighbouring 1801 and 1785 Reggie White Blvd ($8.9M and $2.9M) are held the same way. |
Government | —A |
| Erlanger Park (Chattanooga Lookouts stadium) 2632 Pipe Way, South Broad District 8.02 acres mapped |
Civic | Sports Authority of the County of Hamilton and City of Chattanooga The only public parcel on the former U.S. Pipe foundry site is on the roll as SPORTS AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY OF HAMILTON AND CITY OF (Lot 2, 2701 Chestnut Street plat), deeded 29 Oct 2024 at no consideration, 2026 appraisal $49,348,100 with $37.0M of improvements. The roll records a 2018 sale of the parent site at $1,132,275. Wikipedia places the stadium (opened 14 Apr 2026, $115M, 8,032 seats) on the U.S. Pipe site; the adjoining lots are held by private LLCs (South Broad Shed LLC paid $2,000,000 in Mar 2026). The old ballpark, 201 Power Alley, remains with the Sports Authority of the City of Chattanooga ($42.5M). |
Government | —B |
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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 Chattanooga is held by public bodies: the Volkswagen plant stands on Industrial Development Board title, and TVA's office complex and Erlanger's Baroness campus follow. The most valuable taxable parcel is CBL's Hamilton Place mall. Hamilton County reappraised in 2025, so the Comptroller puts its appraisal ratio at 1.0000 and the combined tax rate inside the city fell from $4.4873 per $100 of assessment in 2024 to $3.4457 in 2025 (county $1.5157, city $1.9300). Commercial property is assessed at 40% of appraisal and homes at 25%. Parcel figures are the county GIS roll (district 1, the City of Chattanooga: 81,392 parcel records, $40.06B appraised, of which land $12.45B), read 14 Oct 2026 and summed by this research.
Highest-appraised parcel$818,023,492
Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant, 8001 Volkswagen Dr, held by the Industrial Development Board of the City of Chattanooga under a PILOT lease, exempt (land $171.7M). Next: TVA's 1101 Market St $266.3M, Erlanger Baroness 975 E 3rd St $238.2M, BlueCross at 23 Cameron Hill Cir $135.4M. County GIS roll, 2026 appraisals, read 14 Oct 2026.
Highest-appraised taxable parcel$120,011,600
Hamilton Place mall, 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd, Hamilton Place CMBS LLC, 27.5 acres (land $35.9M, improvements $83.3M); the department-store lots around it are held by Belk, Dillard's, Penney and others. County GIS roll, 2026 appraisals, read 14 Oct 2026.
Estimated current value of all property, City of Chattanooga$38.01B
$38,006,574,660; total assessment $11,988,161,502 (real property $10,767,989,375). Hamilton County as a whole: $71,921,387,724. Comptroller, 2025 Tax Aggregate Report, Table I.
Industrial and commercial real property, City of Chattanooga$14.66B
$14,664,094,638 estimated current value against $19,551,228,080 residential and $58,178,000 farm: commercial ground is 43% of the city's real-property value on 15% of its 77,328 real-property parcels (11,333 industrial and commercial, 65,881 residential, 114 greenbelt; 3,103 exempt; population 182,279). Comptroller, 2025 Tax Aggregate Report, Tables III and X.
Largest recorded sale price, 2022-26$48,300,000
1920 Gunbarrel Rd, The District at Hamilton Place apartments (300 units, 21.9 acres), 6 Feb 2026 (book 14191 page 467) to Chattanooga 2026 One Partners LLC, about $161,000 a unit; 2026 appraisal $37,853,500. Counted from each parcel's latest recorded sale on the county GIS roll, so a parcel resold since is shown at its latest price.
Downtown land benchmarkabout $60 per sq ft
2026 land appraisals on the city-centre blocks of Broad, Market, Chestnut and Carter Sts cluster at $60 per sq ft of mapped area (1110 Market St, 2.43 acres, $6,351,100), rising to about $90 at 306 Market St ($5,057,400 for 1.29 acres) and 345 Broad St. County GIS roll, read 14 Oct 2026; areas are the roll's calculated acres.
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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.
The largest holders of Chattanooga land are public. The City and Hamilton County together hold the Enterprise South tracts around the Volkswagen plant and the 2,734-acre parcel at 190 Still Hollow Loop; the federal government holds about 2,900 acres plus TVA's lakeshore; and the Industrial Development Boards hold title to the Volkswagen plant, BlueCross's campus and the Gestamp, Amazon and Coca-Cola sites under payment-in-lieu-of-tax leases, so the private occupier is not on the roll. Counts are parcels in the roll's district 1 (the City of Chattanooga), every spelling of each public owner grouped; areas are mapped polygon areas from the county GIS, summed by this research (condominium and horizontal-property units share their parent's polygon, so they are not summed). The largest private holdings are industrial and institutional: Signal Mountain Cement and Vulcan Materials' land company, Kordsa's riverside site, two schools (Baylor and McCallie) and the Tennessee River Gorge Trust's land in the gorge; the airport and the National Park Service (Moccasin Bend) are the other large public holders. Railroad rights-of-way are valued by the state Comptroller, not the county Assessor, so railroads barely appear. Individuals and family trusts are left out; 113 parcels carry the owner name 'Private Owner'.
| Name | Type | City of Chattanooga parcels, county roll (Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| City of Chattanooga and Hamilton County (jointly) 11 spellings, chiefly HAMILTON COUNTY & CHATT CITY OF and CHATT CITY OF & HAMILTON CO. The largest are 190 Still Hollow Loop (about 2,734 acres, $102.5M) and the Enterprise South tracts beside the Volkswagen plant (Hwy 58, about 781 acres; 8395 Claude Ramsey Pkwy, about 316). Finley Stadium is held this way. |
Government | 191 parcels, about 4,463 acres, $195.7M appraisedA |
| City of Chattanooga Held as CHATT CITY OF (575), CITY OF CHATTANOOGA (132) and CHATTANOOGA CITY OF (63), including the Tivoli Theatre. Counted separately: joint holdings with the County, EPB, and the city's boards and authorities. |
Government | 772 parcels, about 3,134 acres, $309.1M appraisedA |
| United States of America (federal agencies other than TVA) 101 parcels as UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, plus the Postal Service and military. The largest is 1060 Cravens Ter (about 1,573 acres) on Lookout Mountain; Roberts Rd (about 180 acres) is appraised at $45.8M. |
Government | 113 parcels, about 2,899 acres, $152.5M appraisedA |
| State of Tennessee Three spellings; the largest is Williams Island (about 446 acres). The University of Tennessee is counted separately. |
Government | 131 parcels, about 1,651 acres, $101.9M appraisedA |
| Industrial Development Boards (City of Chattanooga and Hamilton County) Seven spellings. The 8001 Volkswagen Dr plant alone is $818.0M; BlueCross's campus $237.3M; Gestamp's sites at 3063 and 3093 Claude Ramsey Pkwy and 4120 Jersey Pike; Coca-Cola Bottling's 2111 W Shepherd Rd; Steam Logistics at 329 Market St. The county's PILOT summary names each lessee. |
Government | 22 parcels, about 1,467 acres, $1.41B appraisedB |
| Hamilton County Government 13 spellings, including the Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority's few parcels; land held jointly with the City and the Department of Education are counted separately. The largest are 8098 Ferdinand Piech Way (about 106 acres) and the Silverdale penal-farm land on Standifer Gap Rd. |
Government | 80 parcels, about 725 acres, $145.3M appraisedA |
| Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Held as CHATT METROPOLITAN AIRPORT, exempt. Almost all of it is the airfield at 1001 Airport Rd (about 784 acres, $116.3M, the sixth-highest appraisal in the city). |
Government | 5 parcels, about 788 acres, $116.6M appraisedA |
| Tennessee River Gorge Trust Inc A corporation, not a family trust: tracts along River Gorge Dr and Signal Mountain Blvd, the largest about 276 acres, several split out of larger parcels for 2023 and 2024. |
Institution | 9 parcels, about 690 acres, $3.5M appraisedA |
| National Park Service Held as NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAND and NATIONAL PARK SERVICES; not counted in the United States of America row above. Four parcels on Moccasin Bend Rd make up about 565 acres ($20.4M); the rest are small lots on S Scenic Hwy, Winterview Ln, Parker Ln and Hamm Rd. |
Government | 9 parcels, about 606 acres, $24.2M appraisedA |
| Tennessee Valley Authority The Chattanooga Office Complex at 1101 Market St ($266.3M) and five lakeshore parcels held as UNITED STATES OF AMERICA T V A on Chickamauga Lake, the largest 5592 Lake Resort Ter (about 308 acres). |
Government | 6 parcels, about 548 acres, $285.3M appraisedA |
| University of Tennessee (UT Chattanooga) All as UNIVERSITY OF TENN. The largest tracts are on Bonny Oaks Dr (about 190 acres) and Congress Ln (about 91), not the campus; 600 Vine St is about 25 acres. The Campus Development Foundation Inc separately holds 15 parcels ($109.3M) near the campus. |
Government | 136 parcels, about 444 acres, $106.6M appraisedA |
| Chattanooga Housing Authority 115 as CHATT HOUSING AUTHORITY; largest 3901 Cromwell Rd (about 69 acres, $10.2M). |
Government | 119 parcels, about 347 acres, $76.6M appraisedA |
| Erlanger Health Since 1 July 2023 a private, public-benefit 501(c)(3) corporation, no longer the governmental Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority; every parcel was deeded to it on 22 Jun 2023. The Baroness campus at 975 E 3rd St is $238.2M. |
Institution | 39 parcels, about 103 acres, $362.8M appraisedB |
| Hamilton County Board of Education / Department of Education Three spellings within the city. This undercounts the school estate: other school sites stand on land the roll still holds in the City's or the County's name. |
Government | 22 parcels, about 284 acres, $31.0M appraisedA |
| Health, Educational and Housing Facility Board of the City of Chattanooga Eight spellings. A conduit that holds title to tax-abated housing and institutional projects; the PILOT summary lists lessees such as Patten Affordable Partners LP and TSO Chattanooga Development LP. |
Government | 25 parcels, about 124 acres, $228.2M appraisedB |
| Electric Power Board of Chattanooga (EPB) Three spellings. EPB's network is largely on easements, so its fee holdings are small. |
Government | 24 parcels, about 56 acres, $12.5M appraisedA |
| Sports Authority (City of Chattanooga; Hamilton County and City) The old ballpark at 201 Power Alley ($42.5M) and the new Erlanger Park site at 2632 Pipe Way ($49.3M). |
Government | 3 parcels, about 15 acres, $92.7M appraisedA |
| Signal Mountain Cement Company Chiefly 1201 Suck Creek Rd (about 442 acres, $20.1M) with smaller lots on Signal Mountain Rd and Blvd; tax bills go to Bethlehem. The roll states only the company name and no filing we opened names its parent. |
Private company | 5 parcels, about 476 acres, $20.3M appraisedA |
| Vulcan Lands, Inc. (Vulcan Materials) Tracts on Cromwell Rd (about 194 acres) and Shallowford Rd (about 168 and 58 acres), plus a lot on Manufacturers Rd, with tax bills sent to Birmingham. Vulcan Materials' FY2025 Exhibit 21 lists Vulcan Lands, Inc. (New Jersey) as a wholly owned subsidiary. (The roll is s1.) |
Public company | 7 parcels, about 448 acres, $11.2M appraisedB |
| Baylor School Held as BAYLOR SCHOOL, BAYLOR SCHOOL INC and BAYLOR SCHOOL THE, along Baylor School Rd, Baylor Ct and Signal Mountain Rd; the two largest tracts are about 147 and 129 acres. Some parcels are exempt and some taxable. |
Institution | 25 parcels, about 435 acres, $32.0M appraisedA |
| Kordsa Inc. 4501, 4524 and 4530 N Access Rd, the largest about 248 acres ($10.0M); the legal description of 4530 has it bounded by the Tennessee River. Taxable. The roll states only the company name; no filing we opened names its parent. |
Private company | 3 parcels, about 290 acres, $14.6M appraisedA |
| McCallie School The campus at 500 Dodds Ave (about 103 acres, $54.0M, exempt) and lots on E 12th, 13th and 14th Sts and Kyle St. |
Institution | 12 parcels, about 126 acres, $59.5M appraisedA |
| Railroads (Southern Railroad Co, Cincinnati New Orleans & Texas Pacific, Louisville & Nashville, Alabama Great Southern) Roll names include SOUTHERN RAILROAD CO (about 55 acres at Citico), LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R/R CO (about 237 acres), and CINCINNATI NEW ORLEANS & TEXAS PACIFIC RR. They carry no county value because, as the Assessor states, railroad property is valued by the state's Office of State Assessed Properties. No filing was opened to tie these names to Norfolk Southern or CSX, so the parent railroads are not named here. |
Public company | about 320 acres in roll parcels, $0 appraisedB |
| OE SFR Hwy 58 Holdings LLC The largest single-company parcel count in the city: 157 horizontal-property-regime units on Helm Ln off Hwy 58 ('pt Lt 1 The Wal-Mart Highway 58' plat), transferred to the company in June 2025 at no stated consideration. A single-family rental holding; the roll states only the company name. (Each unit is mapped with the whole parent tract, so no acreage is given.) |
Private company | 157 parcels, $42.5M appraisedA |
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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.
Chattanooga's new homes are mostly single-family houses and townhomes on the city's eastern and northern edges, built by regional private builders with two national public builders alongside. The Census Building Permits Survey for 2025 puts the City of Chattanooga, reporting all 12 months, at 793 single-family homes ($250.4M) and 100 units in two-unit buildings, with no permits for buildings of three or more units; its 2024 line was wholly imputed (493 single-family, 405 units in 24 large multifamily buildings). Hamilton County as a whole permitted 1,705 single-family homes ($441.5M) and 182 other units in 2025. No Chattanooga builder league table is published, so the figures are parcels held in each builder's own name on the county roll inside the city (district 1), Oct 2026: lots and unsold homes, not closings.
| Name | Type | Parcels in own name, City of Chattanooga, county roll (Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Lennar (Lennar Homes of Tennessee, LLC) 82 of the 88 carry no improvement value: lots in progress, $8.5M appraised in all. All are inside the city; the roll shows no Lennar parcels elsewhere in Hamilton County. Lennar's FY2025 Exhibit 22.1 lists Lennar Homes of Tennessee, LLC (Delaware) as a subsidiary guarantor. (The roll is s1.) |
Public company | 88 parcelsB |
| Parkside Builders LLC 70 carry no improvement value; $9.6M appraised. All inside the city. The roll states only the company name. |
Private company | 81 parcelsA |
| EA Homes LP 63 carry no improvement value; $15.0M appraised. A further 41 parcels lie outside the city (district 2C). The roll states only the partnership's name. |
Private company | 73 parcelsA |
| Trust Homes (Trust Homes United LLC and Trust Homes South Coast LLC) Trust Homes United LLC 40 and Trust Homes South Coast LLC 41 inside the city ($10.2M appraised), plus 190 in the roll's tax district 2, outside the city, and 48 not yet assigned a district. Builder companies, not trusts; the roll states only their names and does not show whether the two are related. |
Private company | 81 parcelsA |
| D.R. Horton, Inc. Held in the parent's own name as DR HORTON INC (45 in the city, all with no improvement value, $2.5M appraised). County-wide the roll shows 81 and 166 (as D R HORTON INC) in tax district 2, 56 in district 3 and 29 with no district assigned: most of its Hamilton County lots lie outside the city. |
Public company | 45 parcels in the city; about 377 county-wideA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Chattanooga is the home market of a mall REIT: CBL & Associates has its head office at Hamilton Place and owns Hamilton Place and Northgate Mall and the shopping centres around Hamilton Place. Beyond CBL the listed landlords are thin. Apartment REIT MAA owns four older communities, and the most valuable apartment parcels are held by single-asset companies and Delaware statutory trusts (NADG Wellington Downs LP $66.9M, Mill River Operating Co LLC $60.8M, District Riverside Apartments LLC $59.4M on the 2026 roll). Volkswagen's plant and BlueCross's campus stand on Industrial Development Board title (see landowners). Other names on the roll: Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust (5 parcels, $69.7M), National Retail Properties, Inc (9 small retail parcels, $9.8M) and three Realty Income Properties LLCs (6, $13.2M), none tied here to a filing.
| Name | Type | Chattanooga holding |
|---|---|---|
| CBL & Associates Properties FY2025 10-K: Hamilton Place (90% owned, 1,138,622 sq ft, 94% of in-line space leased), Northgate Mall (100%, 643,021 sq ft, 74%), Gunbarrel Pointe (273,913), Hamilton Crossing (192,074), The Terrace (158,109), The Shoppes at Hamilton Place (132,856), Hamilton Corner (67,310), and its own CBL Center and CBL Center II offices (202,902); 50% of the Aloft hotel. Centre area includes adjacent anchors CBL may not own. Chattanooga is CBL's largest market, 6.7% of revenues. On the roll, Hamilton Place CMBS LLC, Shoppes at Hamilton Place CMBS LLC, Terrace CMBS LLC and CBL Hamilton Place Sears Op Propco LLC hold $194.0M. |
REIT | 9 properties, 2,808,807 sq ft total centre area (plus a 50% hotel)A |
| Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA) FY2025 10-K: Chattanooga, TN, 4 communities, 943 units, 95.6% average physical occupancy, $1,262 average effective rent. Schedule III names MAA Hamilton, MAA Heritage Park, MAA Cloverdale and MAA Windridge. On the roll its operating partnership, Mid-America Apartments LP, holds three parcels in the city appraised at $84.7M, the largest 6574 East Brainerd Rd ($38.6M). |
REIT | 4 communities, 943 apartments (Chattanooga market)A |
| Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company (Unum Group) Owner-occupied rather than let: Unum's head-office campus around 1 Fountain Square, the largest private office holding downtown (see marquee). Unum's FY2025 10-K names Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company as a subsidiary and says it owns office space on five campuses, one in Chattanooga. (The roll is s1.) |
Public company | 16 downtown parcels, $110.3M appraisedB |
| Cole ID Chattanooga TN LLC 7300 Discovery Dr, Enterprise South: the legal description reads 'Amazon.com Tr 24' in the Enterprise South Industrial Park, and the company's tax bills go to San Diego. Transferred to it on 6 Mar 2023 at no stated consideration. The most valuable company-held parcel in Enterprise South; no filing we opened names its parent. |
Private company | 1 parcel, 83.8 acres, $71.7M appraisedA |
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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.
- Who stands behind the single-asset owners of the most valuable apartment parcels (NADG Wellington Downs LP, Mill River Operating Co LLC, District Riverside Apartments LLC) and of Cole ID Chattanooga TN LLC, Signal Mountain Cement Company and Kordsa Inc.: the roll names only the company, and no filing we opened names a parent.
- Whether Northgate Mall's main parcels belong to CBL: CBL's 10-K lists Northgate Mall as 100% owned, but the roll shows NGM Tennessee LLC and other companies on Northgate Mall Dr, and no filing we opened ties those names to CBL.
- Whether the roll entities National Retail Properties, Inc, Realty Income Properties 5/25/26 LLC and Spirit Master Funding X LLC belong to the listed net-lease REITs of those names; not tied here to a filing.
- Who stands behind the companies holding the most parcels on the roll: OE SFR Hwy 58 Holdings LLC (157), Pinewood TN Investment LLC (139), DRP Concord 2 LLC (123), Kammer Holdings LLC (122) and BNTR SFR Owner LLC (89). Names with 'SFR' suggest single-family rental platforms, but no filing we opened names their sponsors.
- Building-permit figures by builder: Chattanooga publishes no builder league table, so the residential figures are parcels held in each builder's own name, not homes completed.
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Sources
- Hamilton County GIS 'Live_Parcels' map service, layer 0 'Parcels' (OWNERNAME1, ADDRESS, DISTRICT, CALCACRES, LANDVALUE, BUILDVALUE, APPVALUE, EXEMPTCODE, SALE1-4 DATE/CONSD/BOOK/PAGE): 169,662 parcels county-wide; read 14 Oct 2026 — Hamilton County Geospatial Technology / Assessor of Property · openA
- Application for Electronic Access, Hamilton County Register of Deeds ($50.00 per firm, per location or individual, per month; no botting, mining or scraping) — Hamilton County Register of Deeds · openA
- Register of Deeds fee schedule (deeds $12 up to 2 pages, $5 each additional; Property Transfer Tax $0.37 per $100; Mortgage Tax $0.115 per $100; copies $0.15 a page; certified $1.00 a page deeds) — Hamilton County Register of Deeds · openA
- Instructions for Online Record Search ('Enter the USERNAME and PASSWORD provided to you by our office'; 'You may be able to find the information you need using the ASSESSOR OF PROPERTY's site or Hamilton County's GIS/Mapping site') — Hamilton County Register of Deeds · openA
- Hamilton County Assessor of Property, home and property search (owner, parcel and street searches; disclaimer: 'for informational purposes only') — Hamilton County Assessor of Property · openA
- Unum Group Form 10-K for 2025, Item 2 Properties ('we owned office space comprised of five campuses located in Chattanooga, Tennessee; ...') and description of subsidiaries incl. Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company — Unum Group / SEC EDGAR · openA
- FY 2026 Summary of PILOT Agreements in Hamilton County (company, abated addresses, map numbers, approval resolutions, term, jobs and investment commitments, assessment and taxes billed in lieu) — Hamilton County Government · openA
- Erlanger Health Board ('effective as of July 1, 2023, the Authority transferred substantially all of its assets and operations to Erlanger Health, a private, public benefit corporation') — Erlanger Health · openA
- Erlanger Park (infobox: opened April 14, 2026; cost $115 million; capacity 8,032; built on the U.S. Pipe and Foundry site in the South Broad District) — Wikipedia · openA
- 2025 Tax Aggregate Report of Tennessee (Tables I, III, VI and X: Hamilton County and City of Chattanooga estimated current value, assessments, value by class, tax rates, parcels and population) (marked 'Current draft pending approval by the State Board of Equalization') — Tennessee State Board of Equalization / Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of Property Assessments · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual place file 2025, South Region (row: Chattanooga, FIPS 47 place 14000, county 065; 12 months reported: 793 single-family units worth $250,399,802; 50 two-unit buildings with 100 units; no 3-4 or 5+-unit buildings) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual county file 2025 (row: FIPS 47/065 Hamilton County: 1,705 single-family units worth $441,479,960; 114 units in 2-unit, 44 in 3-4-unit and 24 in 5+-unit buildings) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual place file 2024, South Region (row: Chattanooga; 0 months reported, all imputed: 493 single-family units, 405 units in 24 buildings of 5+ units) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Lennar Corporation, Form 10-K for FY2025, Exhibit 22.1 Subsidiary Guarantors (lists 'Lennar Homes of Tennessee, LLC', DE) — Lennar Corporation / SEC EDGAR · openA
- CBL & Associates Properties, Inc., Form 10-K for 2025 (principal offices CBL Center, 2030 Hamilton Place Blvd, Chattanooga; Chattanooga 6.7% of revenues, its largest market; property tables and Schedule III: Hamilton Place, Northgate Mall, Gunbarrel Pointe, Hamilton Corner, Hamilton Crossing, The Shoppes at Hamilton Place, The Terrace, CBL Center, CBL Center II, Aloft Hotel) — CBL & Associates Properties / SEC EDGAR · openA
- Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. and Mid-America Apartments, L.P., Form 10-K for 2025 (portfolio by market: Chattanooga, TN 4 communities, 943 units, 95.6%, $1,262; Schedule III: MAA Hamilton, MAA Heritage Park, MAA Cloverdale, MAA Windridge) — Mid-America Apartment Communities / SEC EDGAR · openA
- Vulcan Materials Company, Form 10-K for 2025, Exhibit 21 Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2025 (lists 'Vulcan Lands, Inc.', New Jersey, 100%) — Vulcan Materials Company / SEC EDGAR · openA