Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth names the owner of every parcel — the county republishes the appraisal roll free as a map service — yet its tallest tower went from a $172 million contract price in 2006 to a $12.3 million foreclosure bid in 2024, and its new owner's price is on no public record at all.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 22 sources · 5 tier B · 3 tier A · prepared 2026-10-13
Texas keeps no public title register; ownership is read from the county appraisal district. In Fort Worth that is the Tarrant Appraisal District (TAD), whose own website sits behind a Cloudflare block — but Tarrant County's GIS republishes TAD's parcel file as a free, unauthenticated map service naming the owner of record, mailing address, legal description, deed date and instrument number, and the land and improvement values of every parcel. Deeds are recorded by the Tarrant County Clerk: watermarked copies are free to download online with an account, and paper copies cost $1 a page plus $5 to certify. What no record holds is a price. Texas has no mandatory sales disclosure, and sales an appraisal district obtains privately are confidential under Government Code Sec. 552.149, so a Fort Worth tower can be traced to its owning entity in minutes while what it sold for appears nowhere public.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnett Plaza 801 Cherry Street, Fort Worth 1,024,627 sq ft · 40 floors |
Office | Swiss Burnett LLC TAD account 02780437: owner of record Swiss Burnett LLC (PO Box, Stephenville, TX), built 1984, 1,024,627 sq ft, 2026 value $134,104,766 ($2,520,000 land). The city's tallest tower has been through distress: in May 2024 the lender, Pinnacle Bank, took it back via a $12.3M auction sale after an Opal Holdings affiliate that had bought it for $137.5M in 2021 defaulted on a $13M loan (REBusinessOnline, citing the Dallas Business Journal). In 2006 Behringer Harvard REIT I contracted to buy it for $172,000,000 (SEC 8-K). |
Private company | —B |
| City Center towers (201 Main Street and 301 Commerce Street) 201 Main Street and 301 Commerce Street, Fort Worth 764,691 sq ft (201 Main) + 884,928 sq ft (301 Commerce) |
Office | DDR/DTC City Investments LP TAD accounts 04411420 and 04411439 (City Center Addition blocks 36R and 40R), 2026 values $97,720,794 and $108,238,515. The owner of record mails to 201 Main St Suite 3000 — inside the tower it owns — and holds five more City Center accounts (garages and buildings on Commerce, Jones and E 1st/3rd); the seven sum to exactly $232,500,000 and 2,716,207 sq ft. The parties behind the partnership are not named on the record. |
Private company | —A |
| Sundance Square (downtown blocks) Main, Houston and Throckmorton Streets between 2nd and 5th, Fort Worth 2,302,088 sq ft of building area across 62 accounts |
Mixed use | Sundance Square Partners LP and affiliated building companies 62 TAD accounts in the names of Sundance Square Partners LP (16), Sundance West/East Partners LP, Sundance Properties Holdco LP, Sundance Plaza LLC and single-building companies such as Sanguinet Building LLC (420 Throckmorton, 465,734 sq ft, $28.2M), The Carnegie Building LLC and Cassidy Block LLC — all mailed to 425 Houston St Suite 250, which Sundance Square's own contact page gives as its address. Together $204.6M of 2026 value. Accounts at that address held by individuals or family trusts are excluded and not named. |
Private company | —B |
| Omni Fort Worth Hotel 1300 Houston Street, Fort Worth 738,487 sq ft |
Hotel | Omni Fort Worth Partnership LP Held as a condominium: account 41389360 'Houston Throckmorton Condo, IMP ONLY' — the hotel improvements, built 2007, 2026 value $249,904,089, the most valuable downtown building on the roll — plus the 2.11-acre common-area land (deed D219051540, 15 Mar 2019), owner mailing 4001 Maple Ave, Dallas. The City of Fort Worth owns the adjoining convention-center blocks: Fort Worth Convention Center at 1201 Houston (15.7 acres, 650,744 sq ft, $116.8M) and Block 7R1 at 1300 Houston ($15.4M). |
Private company | —A |
| Dickies Arena 1911 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth |
Civic | City of Fort Worth Account 42314761, Will Rogers Memorial Center Block 6 Lot 1R1, built 2018: 2026 value $850,071,555 — the single most valuable real-property account in Fort Worth, and exempt. The arena says it 'is owned by the City of Fort Worth and managed by the not-for-profit operating entity, Trail Drive Management Corp.', the result of a partnership between the City, Tarrant County, the State and private participants. |
Government | —B |
| Panther Island (land north of downtown) N Main St, N Throckmorton St and NE 4th–7th Streets, Fort Worth |
Land | Tarrant Regional Water District The roll shows TRWD as owner of the riverside blocks north of downtown, mostly bought 2009–2017: 360 N Main (21.4 acres, former American Cyanamid site, $15.3M), 529 N Throckmorton (11.9 acres), the LaGrave Addition on NE 7th, and dozens of North Fort Worth blocks on N Main and N Throckmorton. Under the spelling 'Tarrant Regional Water Dist/District' it holds 209 accounts and about 543 acres in the City ($96.5M). Wikipedia's Trinity River Vision article describes TRWD's plan with the City, County and Army Corps to develop this area north of downtown. |
Government | —B |
| Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel 200 Main Street, Fort Worth |
Hotel | DiamondRock Hospitality Company 100% DiamondRock's 2025 10-K lists the 504-room Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel, managed by Marriott, and says it repaid the hotel's mortgage on 6 May 2025. On the roll the owner of record is DRH Worthington Owner LP (Bethesda, MD), account 07355998, 2026 value $170,912,935, deed D205184255 of 23 Jun 2005. |
REIT | —B |
| The Tower (residential condominium) 500 Throckmorton Street, Fort Worth |
Residential | Not established the jurisdiction does not disclose owners A former office tower (built 1972) now two condominium regimes, Tower Residential Condo I and II: 291 condo accounts worth $124.0M in 2026. The roll names each unit's owner, but about 214 of them are individuals, whom this record does not name; no single entity owns the building. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Every figure here is computed from TAD's 2026 roll as republished by Tarrant County GIS, City of Fort Worth parcels only. The city's most valuable account is a City-owned arena; its most valuable private one is a data centre at AllianceTexas, not a downtown tower.
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.
Fort Worth's largest landholders are public. The City holds about 18,500 acres in its own name — water plants, Lake Worth shoreline, airports and parks — and the school district, the water district, the county, the college district and the federal government follow. The biggest private holder of open land is the AllianceTexas group in the far north. Acreages are TAD's land-area fields with evident keying errors removed (the roll lists hundreds of house lots at over 6,000 acres each), and cover only the Tarrant County part of the City.
| Name | Type | TAD 2026, City of Fort Worth |
|---|---|---|
| City of Fort Worth $2.80B of 2026 value. Largest tracts: 673 and 593 acres off Shoreline Rd and Malaga Dr at Lake Worth, the Village Creek treatment plant (486 + 337 acres), Spinks Airport (443 acres) and Gateway Park (434 acres). Downtown it owns Dickies Arena and the convention center. |
Government | 2,385 accounts, about 18,490 acresA |
| Fort Worth Independent School District $1.04B; largest site 108 acres on C A Roberson Blvd. Northwest ISD also owns schools inside the City limits. |
Government | 252 accounts, about 1,449 acresA |
| Tarrant Regional Water District $96.5M, much of it the Panther Island blocks north of downtown. A further 234 accounts (about 1,380 acres, including 239 acres at Eagle Mountain Dam Rd) stand under older names — 'Tarrant County Water District', '...Water Control', '...Water Board' — which the roll does not tie to TRWD and this record does not merge. |
Government | 209 accounts, about 543 acresA |
| United States of America Inside the City: 26 'Naval Air Station' accounts (about 984 acres) and 5 on Bomber Rd (220 acres) at NAS Fort Worth JRB; 3 accounts at 1 Lockheed Blvd (127 acres), the Air Force Plant 4 address; and the 100-acre Western Currency Facility at 9000 Blue Mound Rd. Parts of the air station lie in Westworth Village and White Settlement and are not counted. |
Government | 86 accounts, about 2,140 acresA |
| AllianceTexas entities (mailed to 9800 Hillwood Pkwy Suite 300) AIL Investment LP alone holds 110 accounts and 930 acres, much of it valued at $0 on the roll. The group's ultimate owner is not stated on any record opened here. |
Developer | 268 accounts, about 1,916 acresA |
| Texas Christian University $494.2M; the main campus lots (TCU Addition) of 101, 59 and 52 acres. |
Institution | 63 accounts, about 298 acresA |
| Tarrant County College District $387.9M, including the Trinity River East campus at 301 E Belknap ($177.0M). |
Government | 42 accounts, about 155 acresA |
| Oncor Electric Delivery and Union Pacific Railroad Utility and rail land: Oncor about 1,519 acres; Union Pacific about 1,206 acres, almost all at nominal value. |
Public company | 474 and 211 accountsA |
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.
Dallas–Fort Worth was the largest permit market in the United States in 2025: 66,179 units in the metro, ahead of Houston's 65,075 (Houston led on single-family, 46,219 to 39,790). Tarrant County permitted 13,924 units and the City of Fort Worth 9,437 — 5,887 single-family and 3,348 in buildings of five or more. No Fort Worth builder league table is published. The figures below count real-property accounts standing in each builder's own entity names inside the City of Fort Worth on TAD's 2026 roll — lots, unsold homes and land on 1 January, not homes closed — and the City's parts outside Tarrant County are not seen. D.R. Horton, the largest, began building in Fort Worth in 1978. Large private local builders matter here too: Bloomfield Homes holds 119 accounts but 399 acres, Highland Homes, Weekley Homes and Perry Homes 43–112 accounts each.
| Name | Type | Accounts in City of Fort Worth, TAD 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| D.R. Horton D R Horton - Texas Ltd under several spellings (1,810 accounts, $169.2M) plus 26 accounts and 67 acres in the name of Forestar (USA) Real Estate Group. D.R. Horton's 10-K says its homebuilding 'began in 1978 in Fort Worth' and that it owned 62% of Forestar at 30 Sep 2025; its Exhibit 21 lists D.R. Horton - Texas, Ltd. and Forestar Group Inc. |
Public company | 1,838 accountsB |
| Lennar (incl. Millrose Properties Texas) Lennar Homes of Texas Land and Construction / Sales and Marketing entities (416 accounts, $70.4M), OHC Lennar Pool I LLC (73) and Millrose Properties Texas LLC (288). Lennar's FY2025 10-K says it spun off 'a significant portion of our land assets to Millrose' in February 2025 and disposed of its remaining Millrose holdings in November 2025; its Exhibit 21 lists Lennar Homes of Texas Land and Construction, Ltd. |
Public company | 779 accountsB |
| Legend Classic Homes Ltd 88.5 acres, $53.4M. A further 198 accounts stand in the name of American Legend Homes LLC; the roll does not show whether the two are related, so they are not combined. |
Private company | 579 accountsA |
| LGI Homes LGI Homes - Texas LLC under three spellings plus LGI Living SFR entities, about 301 acres, $38.9M. LGI's Exhibit 21 lists LGI Homes - Texas, LLC. |
Public company | 511 accountsB |
| PulteGroup Pulte Homes of Texas LP (230) and Centex Homes (7). PulteGroup's Exhibit 21 lists Pulte Homes of Texas, L.P. and Centex Homes. |
Public company | 240 accountsB |
| M/I Homes M/I Homes of DFW LLC, $20.6M. M/I's Exhibit 21 lists M/I Homes of DFW, LLC as wholly owned, and its 10-K dates its Dallas/Fort Worth division to 2013. |
Public company | 236 accountsB |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Downtown, Fort Worth's ownership is unusually concentrated and unusually local: two private groups — the City Center partnership and the Sundance Square companies — hold about 5 million sq ft of the core between them, both through entities that mail to offices inside their own buildings. In the suburbs the large landlords are the single-family rental companies, whose homes are scattered across hundreds of accounts. Office REITs barely appear: DiamondRock's Worthington Renaissance is the one downtown asset traced to a filing, and EastGroup holds 5 industrial accounts (152 acres, $63.0M) at Northern Crossing and on North Freeway, part of what its Schedule III groups as 'Fort Worth'.
| Name | Type | City of Fort Worth holding, TAD 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| DDR/DTC City Investments LP The City Center towers at 201 Main and 301 Commerce and five adjoining buildings and garages, $232.5M in 2026, all on one 2007 deed. |
Private company | 2,716,207 sq ft over 7 accountsA |
| Sundance Square Partners LP and affiliated companies Sixteen accounts in the partnership's own name plus single-building companies, all mailed to Sundance Square's office at 425 Houston St Suite 250; $204.6M. |
Private company | 2,302,088 sq ft over 62 accountsB |
| Entities mailed to 9800 Hillwood Pkwy Suite 300 $1.03B of 2026 value at AllianceTexas: AIL Investment LP (110 accounts, 930 acres), ADL Development LP, Hillwood Multifamily Land LP, Hillwood Monterra LP, Alliance Center East No 1 Ltd, AT Industrial Owner holdcos and the ATC MF apartment partnerships. Grouped by shared mailing address, which includes entities named Hillwood; Hillwood's own site was blocked. |
Developer | 268 accounts, about 1,916 acresA |
| Progress Residential Progress Residential Borrower and numbered securitisation borrowers, single-family rental homes worth $206.1M. No filing opened here names its parent. |
Private company | 898 accountsA |
| American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) Homes in AMH 2014-2/2014-3/2015-2 Borrower, ARP 2014-1 Borrower and AH4R entity names, $236.1M. AMH's 10-K reports 3,663 homes in Dallas-Fort Worth; its Exhibit 21 lists those borrower entities. |
REIT | 870 accountsB |
| Invitation Homes Invitation Homes 7 LP and 2018/2019/2024 IH Borrower LPs, $104.8M. Invitation Homes' 10-K reports 3,554 homes in Dallas; its Exhibit 21 lists Invitation Homes 7 L.P. and 2019-1 IH Borrower L.P. |
REIT | 394 accountsB |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- TAD's own terms of use for its data downloads. tad.org and its mirrors are Cloudflare-blocked, and the Tarrant County GIS service carries only the line 'Tarrant Appraisal District', so whether TAD restricts reuse could not be read or quoted. republish is false throughout.
- What Swiss Burnett LLC paid for Burnett Plaza in September 2024. The roll gives the deed date only; the WFAA report of the transfer was Akamai-blocked.
- The sponsors behind the single-purpose owners of record: DDR/DTC City Investments LP, F7 SSSM LLC (777 Main St, 1,009,233 sq ft, $150.0M, Atlanta mailing address, deed 30 Dec 2014), SREP-TCPFWTX LLC (100 Throckmorton, $40.8M) and Swiss Burnett LLC are not tied to any parent by a document opened here.
- Frost Tower (640 Taylor St) is a condominium; only tenants' personal-property accounts appear on the GIS layer, so its real-property owner was not found.
- Whether Winner LLC (4500 Like Way, $712.6M real property plus $1.68B personal property, mailed to Menlo Park) belongs to Meta Platforms: the mailing address suggests it, no filing was opened to confirm it.
- Panther Island land shares (TRWD's percentage of developable acreage) are reported by the Fort Worth Report, whose robots.txt disallows Claude-User, and by KERA, which redirected off-host; neither is used.
- Air Force Plant 4 and NAS Fort Worth JRB are only partly on the parcel layer in federal names; their full acreage is not established.
- Every figure covers the Tarrant County part of Fort Worth only; the City also extends into Denton, Parker, Johnson and Wise counties, whose appraisal districts were not read.
- No Fort Worth-level builder ranking exists; Pro Builder's Top 200 ranks by national revenue and was not used.
Sources
- TADParcels feature layer — Tarrant Appraisal District parcels with owner of record, mailing address, situs, legal description, deed date and instrument, land and improvement value (2026 appraisal, 1 Jan 2026); City of Fort Worth subset of 329,677 records read 2026-10-13 — Tarrant County GIS (data: Tarrant Appraisal District) · openA
- Copies of Official Public Records (Real Property) — Tarrant County Clerk · openA
- 2026 Mass Appraisal Report ('Texas does not have mandatory sales disclosure'; Government Code Sec. 552.149 sales confidentiality) — Harris Central Appraisal District · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual 2025, places in the South Region (so2025a.txt) — Fort Worth row — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual 2025, counties (co2025a.txt) — Tarrant County, FIPS 48/439 — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual 2025, CBSAs (cbsa2025a.txt) — Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, CBSA 19100 — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Behringer Harvard REIT I, Inc. — Form 8-K (contract to purchase Burnett Plaza) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Reports: Pinnacle Bank Buys Back 40-Story Office Tower in Fort Worth via $12.3M Auction Sale — REBusinessOnline · openA
- DiamondRock Hospitality Company — Form 10-K for 2025 (hotel table, debt note, Schedule III) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- About Dickies Arena ('Dickies Arena is owned by the City of Fort Worth') — Dickies Arena · openA
- Contact — Sundance Square ('425 Houston Street, Suite 250') — Sundance Square · openA
- Trinity River Vision — Wikipedia · openA
- D.R. Horton, Inc. — Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 (founded 1978 in Fort Worth; owns 62% of Forestar) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- D.R. Horton, Inc. — Exhibit 21.1, subsidiaries (D.R. Horton - Texas, Ltd.; Forestar Group Inc.) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Lennar Corporation — Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 (Millrose spin-off) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Lennar Corporation — Exhibit 21, subsidiaries (Lennar Homes of Texas Land and Construction, Ltd.) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- LGI Homes, Inc. — Exhibit 21.1, subsidiaries (LGI Homes - Texas, LLC) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- M/I Homes, Inc. — Exhibit 21, subsidiaries (M/I Homes of DFW, LLC) and Form 10-K for 2025 (Dallas/Fort Worth entered 2013) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- PulteGroup, Inc. — Exhibit 21, subsidiaries (Pulte Homes of Texas, L.P.; Centex Homes) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- American Homes 4 Rent — Form 10-K for 2025 (Dallas-Fort Worth, TX: 3,663 homes) and Exhibit 21.1 (AMH 2014-2 Borrower, L.P.; ARP 2014-1 Borrower, LLC; AH4R entities) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Invitation Homes Inc. — Form 10-K for 2025 (Dallas: 3,554 homes) and Exhibit 21.1 (Invitation Homes 7 L.P.; 2019-1 IH Borrower L.P.) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- EastGroup Properties, Inc. — Form 10-K for 2025 (Schedule III, Fort Worth group) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA