Houston, Texas
Houston publishes the owner of every parcel in Harris County free, as a 212 MB download anyone can take — and, like the rest of Texas, records no sale price anywhere, so the city's towers have names on them but almost never a number.
8 buildings · 8 with an owner established · 28 sources · 6 tier B · 2 tier A · prepared 2026-10-13
Texas has no state title register that the public searches for ownership; the working public record is the county appraisal district. The Harris Central Appraisal District (HCAD) names the owner of record, mailing address, building area, land and improvement value and ownership-transfer date for every one of 1.63 million real-property accounts, and publishes the whole roll as free unauthenticated downloads; its interactive property search, by contrast, sits behind a Cloudflare challenge. Deeds are recorded by the Harris County Clerk, whose index is free to search online with images from 1960. What no public record holds is a price: in HCAD's own words, 'Texas does not have mandatory sales disclosure', and sales it obtains privately are confidential under Government Code Sec. 552.149. Houston also has no zoning — 'The City codes do not address land use' — so private deed restrictions, which the City Attorney can enforce, do the work zoning does elsewhere.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Tower 845 Texas Avenue (HCAD site address 833 Texas St), Houston 1.2M sq ft office (Realty News Report); 2,054,777 sq ft building area on the HCAD account · 47 floors |
Office | Block 58 LLC 100% HCAD account 1398670010001, legal 'RES A BLK 1 BLOCK 58 INVESTORS'; the highest-valued account in the City of Houston: 2026 certified market value $557,479,566 ($533.4M improvement, $24.1M land). Owner's mailing address is 845 Texas Ave Ste 3300 — the address Hines Global Income Trust's 10-K gives for its offices. Realty News Report (3 Mar 2025): developed by Hines in partnership with Ivanhoé Cambridge, refinanced for $450M, 95% leased, houses Hines' headquarters. A 2020 Form D for 'Block 58 Investment Trust', a Maryland REIT, lists officers at 609 Main St and at Edifice Jacques-Parizeau, Montreal. |
Private company | —B |
| 609 Main at Texas 609 Main Street, Houston 1,322,904 sq ft building area (HCAD) · 48 floors |
Office | HCG Block 69 LLC 100% HCAD account 0010690000006, 'LTS 1 THRU 12 BLK 69'. 2026 certified market value $510,444,156 ($486.7M improvement, $23.7M land) — the second-highest account in the city. Owner's mailing address is 845 Texas Ave Ste 3300, the same suite as Texas Tower's and 600 Travis' owners. Realty News Report (20 May 2017) reports the 48-storey tower's opening as Hines' 21st ground-up development downtown. The record does not name the investors behind the LLC. |
Private company | —B |
| JPMorgan Chase Tower 600 Travis Street, Houston 2,171,696 sq ft building area (HCAD); 2.1M sq ft with 601 Travis (Realty News Report) · 75 floors |
Office | 600 Travis Owner LLC 100% HCAD account 0010670000001, built 1981. 2026 certified market value $312,114,940 ($288.3M improvement, $23.8M land). Mailing address 845 Texas Ave Ste 3300. Realty News Report (29 Oct 2019): 'Hines, in partnership with Cerberus Capital, has acquired the 600 Travis building, a 75-story office property known as the tallest tower in Texas. The sales price was not disclosed' — the $627M figure was then an estimate. The 2023 SEC prospectus later states $627,000,000 for October 2019. Value on the roll seven years later is half that price. |
Private company | $627,000,000 2019-10 Price and month from the comparable-sales table of the Benchmark 2023-V2 CMBS prospectus (source: appraisal), for Chase Tower and Chase Center together; HCAD deed RP-2019-477250, 18 Oct 2019. B |
| Bank of America Tower 800 Capitol Street, Houston about 780,000 sq ft office (Skanska); 1,500,179 sq ft building area incl. garage (HCAD) |
Office | BCAL SCD Property LP 90% acquired from Skanska in 2019 HCAD account 0010820000001, built 2017 (completed Q2 2019 per Skanska). 2026 certified market value $368,127,944 ($344.2M improvement, $23.9M land). Owner's mailing address 200 State St Fl 5, Boston. Skanska's press release states the 90% buyer as an affiliate of Beacon Capital Partners; the HCAD record names only the LP. Tenants named by Skanska include Bank of America, Waste Management and Winston & Strawn. LEED Platinum. |
Private company | $373,000,000 2019-12 Skanska: 90% interest sold for USD 373M 'to an affiliate of Beacon Capital Partners'. HCAD deed RP-2019-557310, 16 Dec 2019. The Benchmark 2023-V2 prospectus states $414,444,444 at 100%. B |
| Wells Fargo Plaza 1000 Louisiana Street, Houston 1,871,418 sq ft building area (HCAD); 1.7M sq ft (Realty News Report) · 71 floors |
Office | 1000 Louisiana LP 100% HCAD account 0011440000001, built 1983. 2026 certified market value $303,755,215 ($280.3M improvement, $23.4M land at $375/sq ft). Owner's mailing address 2121 N Pearl St Ste 250, Dallas. Realty News Report (10 Nov 2011): MetLife sold a 50% interest to the New York State Common Retirement Fund, retaining asset management and the other 50%; MetLife had owned it since 1983. No source opened here confirms the partnership is unchanged in 2026. |
Private company | —B |
| Williams Tower 2800 Post Oak Boulevard, Houston (Galleria/Uptown) 1.4M sq ft (Bisnow); 3,103,256 sq ft building area incl. garage (HCAD) · 64 floors |
Office | Williams 2800 Post Oak LLC 100% HCAD account 0451400040245, built 1982; owner's mailing address One Williams Center, Tulsa. 2026 certified market value $286,180,448 — land $54.7M at $187.50/sq ft on 6.7 acres. The namesake tenant bought its tower: Bisnow calls it Houston's largest single-property office sale since 2019 and reports, citing the Houston Chronicle, that Invesco paid $412M in 2013 — a loss of over $100M for the seller. Camden Property Trust's headquarters is in the building (Suite 2700). |
Public company | more than $300M 2026-07 Bisnow (22 Jul 2026): sold 'for more than $300M' by Williams Tower LP, 'an entity tied to Dallas' Invesco Real Estate'; closed 20 Jul. HCAD's ownership date is 9 Jul 2026. B |
| Pennzoil Place 711 Louisiana Street, Houston 1,657,484 sq ft building area (HCAD) |
Office | Houston Pennzoil Place LP 100% HCAD account 0010830000001, 'LTS 1 THRU 12 BLK 83', built 1975 (the twin trapezoid towers). 2026 certified market value $196,316,575 ($172.9M improvement, $23.4M land). Owner's mailing address 455 N Cityfront Plaza Dr Fl 24, Chicago — the same address the Dallas Central Appraisal District gives for the owner of Dallas's Bank of America Plaza. No filing opened here names the partners. |
Private company | —A |
| Heritage Plaza 1111 Bagby Street, Houston 1,158,165 sq ft office (SEC prospectus); 2,324,097 sq ft building area incl. garage (HCAD) · 51 floors |
Office | BOP Heritage LLC 100% HCAD account 0012490000001, built 1986; 2026 certified market value $212,895,732. Benchmark 2023-V2 prospectus (SEC, 2023): 'BOP Heritage LLC … is owned by a joint venture partnership between affiliates of AEW Capital Management, L.P. and Brookfield Properties'; borrower sponsors AEW CPT REIT, AEW Core Property (U.S.), Brookfield Office Properties and Brookfield Property Partners. As-is appraised value $521,800,000 at 1 Feb 2023, 70.1% leased, EOG Resources the largest tenant (32.5% of space). The roll values it at 41% of that appraisal. |
Private company | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Downtown Houston is a grid of 250-foot-square blocks, and HCAD prices almost every full downtown block the same: the land under Wells Fargo Plaza, Pennzoil Place, Heritage Plaza and 1100 Louisiana is each 62,500 sq ft at $23,437,500. The value is in the buildings, and the two most valuable accounts in the city are both new Hines-developed towers. All figures are 2026 certified values from HCAD's own bulk file (updated 11 Oct 2026), summed by this research.
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.
Within the City of Houston the largest holders are public: the City itself, the flood-control district, the county and the school district hold tens of thousands of accounts, most of it the airports, bayous, parks and schools. The biggest private holders are utilities and railroads with their rights-of-way, and Chevron, which owns two downtown towers outright. Farmland is almost all outside the City, on the Katy Prairie to the west, where a ranch, a conservancy and a master-planned-community developer hold the largest agricultural-valued tracts. Acreages are HCAD's own land-area and acreage fields; the roll contains evident keying errors elsewhere (single farm accounts of over a million acres), so only plausible figures are used.
| Name | Type | HCAD 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| City of Houston Accounts inside City jurisdiction 061 in the City's own name — airports, parks, rights-of-way and facilities. Exempt, so most carry no market value. |
Government | 17,631 accounts, 32,635 acresA |
| Harris County Flood Control District Bayou and detention land inside the City limits. |
Government | 3,714 accounts, 5,422 acresA |
| Harris County Held as 'County of Harris', inside the City limits. |
Government | 4,123 accounts, 4,822 acresA |
| Houston Independent School District School sites inside the City limits. |
Government | 606 accounts, 3,365 acresA |
| Port of Houston Authority Inside the City limits, under two spellings on the roll ('Port of Houston Authority' and 'Port O Houston Authority'). |
Government | 302 accounts, 2,269 acresA |
| CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric Utility land and substations inside the City, $314.5M of 2026 market value. CenterPoint Energy Properties separately owns 1111 Louisiana, its downtown headquarters ($177.9M). |
Public company | 821 accounts, 2,603 acresA |
| Union Pacific Railroad Still recorded under the names of the railroads it absorbed — 328 accounts as Southern Pacific, 216 as Missouri Pacific — inside the City. |
Public company | 544 accounts, 2,137 acresA |
| Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Inside the City, including two downtown towers in its own name: 1500 Louisiana (1,283,738 sq ft, $277.7M) and 1400 Smith (1,162,000 sq ft, $209.3M). |
Public company | 27 accounts, $550.7MA |
| Houston Police Officers' Pension System Owner of record of 1600 Smith St downtown since 31 Oct 2025 (deeds RP-2025-435201/-435202). Public pension, so the account is exempt and carries $0 market value. |
Pension fund | 2,247,619 sq ftA |
| Warren Ranch The largest agricultural-valued holding in Harris County by the roll's acreage field, on the Katy Prairie outside the City; next are Bridgeland Development LP (29 accounts, 2,957 acres) and the Katy Prairie Conservancy (16 accounts, 2,283 acres). |
Private company | 18 accounts, 5,935 acresA |
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.
Houston is the single largest market for new houses in the United States. In Census Bureau permit data for 2025, the Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands metro issued 46,219 single-family permits — first in the nation — and 65,075 units in all, second only to Dallas–Fort Worth (66,179). Harris County permitted 30,909 units and the City of Houston 11,878. Almost all of it is built by national public builders and a few large private Texas firms on master-planned land outside the city limits — which is why most builders below hold few or no accounts inside the City itself. No Houston-level builder league table is published: Pro Builder's 2026 West South Central ranking says only that D.R. Horton, Lennar and Meritage led the region and that Texas led the nation with 114,325 closings, and its table is an image. The figures below are accounts held in each builder's own name on HCAD's 2026 roll (land, lots and unsold homes), Harris County-wide.
| Name | Type | Accounts in Harris County, HCAD 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| Lennar (Lennar Homes of Texas entities) About 490 acres; only 2 accounts inside the City of Houston. A further 850 accounts stand in the name of Millrose Properties Texas LLC, 728 of them inventory-class; Lennar's FY2025 10-K says it spun off 'a significant portion of our land assets to Millrose' in Feb 2025 and disposed of its remaining holdings in Nov 2025. |
Public company | 1,957 accountsA |
| Meritage Homes Held as Meritage Homes of Texas LLC; 234 inside the City. Meritage's 10-K lists Houston as a market entered in 1997. |
Public company | 1,502 accountsA |
| D.R. Horton Held as D R Horton Texas Ltd; 565 inside the City — the most City-limits accounts among the national builders. |
Public company | 1,279 accountsA |
| LGI Homes Held as LGI Homes-Texas LLC, about 612 acres. LGI's 10-K auditor's report is signed in Houston; its headquarters is in the Houston metro. |
Public company | 900 accountsA |
| Taylor Morrison Held as Taylor Morrison of Texas Inc; none inside the City. The 10-K places Houston in its Central segment. |
Public company | 799 accountsA |
| Chesmar Homes A private builder holding as Chesmar Homes LLC/Ltd; 465 inventory-class accounts. |
Private company | 798 accountsA |
| Century Communities Held as Century Land Holdings of Texas LLC. Its FY2025 10-K states it bought Anglia Homes LP, 'a homebuilder with operations, including 26 active communities, in the greater Houston, Texas area, for approximately $127.0 million in cash'. |
Public company | 686 accountsA |
| Perry Homes Held as Perry Homes LLC; none inside the City. A private builder, so no filing gives its Houston volume. |
Private company | 634 accountsA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Houston's largest landlords split cleanly in two. Industrial and apartment REITs hold in their own names and report Houston as a market in their 10-Ks, so their size is a stated figure. Office towers are held through single-purpose entities, so the HCAD roll names an LLC and the sponsor appears only where a filing or press release says so — Brookfield is the exception, because its entities route tax bills 'c/o Brookfield Properties'. Hines, the Houston developer behind Texas Tower, 609 Main and 600 Travis, is privately held; its listed vehicle Hines Global Income Trust is the only part with a filing.
| Name | Type | Houston holding |
|---|---|---|
| Prologis FY2025 10-K: Houston operating properties 31M rentable sq ft at $3,251M gross book value consolidated, 37M sq ft and $3,802M including co-investment ventures; 186 buildings in Schedule III; 400 acres of land held. HCAD shows 183 Harris County accounts in Prologis names with 29.3M sq ft of building area. |
REIT | 31M sq ft (37M owned & managed)A |
| Camden Property Trust FY2025 10-K: 23 operating communities and 8,207 homes in Houston at 31 Dec 2025 (28 and 9,531 a year earlier) — its largest market. Houston-based; principal office 2800 Post Oak Blvd Suite 2700, inside Williams Tower. |
REIT | 8,207 apartment homesA |
| EastGroup Properties FY2025 10-K: 'our largest markets were Houston and Dallas. We owned operating properties totaling 7,108,000 square feet in Houston' — 9.5% of annualized base rent. |
REIT | 7,108,000 sq ftA |
| Brookfield Properties (entities c/o) Accounts whose HCAD mailing address is care of Brookfield Properties: Allen Center (One, Two, Three), 1201 Louisiana, 1221 and 1301 McKinney, Heritage Plaza and Baybrook Mall — $1.765B of 2026 market value. Heritage Plaza is a joint venture with AEW (SEC prospectus). |
Private company | 14.5M sq ft over 38 accountsA |
| Kimco Realty (incl. former Weingarten) Harris County accounts held as Kimco Realty Corporation and Weingarten entities, $1.24B of 2026 market value — Weingarten, the Houston shopping-centre REIT, merged into Kimco. |
REIT | 5.4M sq ft over 99 accountsA |
| Hines Global Income Trust FY2025 10-K: 200 Park Place (206,943 sq ft, acquired July 2022) and Montrose Collective (189,212 sq ft), bought July 2025 for a contract price of $137.6M. Its office, 845 Texas Ave Suite 3300, is the mailing address on 25 HCAD accounts with $2.14B of 2026 value, incl. Texas Tower, 609 Main and 600 Travis. |
REIT | 2 Houston properties, 396,155 sq ftA |
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 sponsors behind the single-purpose owners. The HCAD roll names Block 58 LLC, HCG Block 69 LLC and 600 Travis Owner LLC with Hines' office as their mailing address, but no filing opened here states Hines' equity share in any of them; Hines' role rests on Realty News Report and a 2020 Form D.
- Wells Fargo Plaza's current partners. The only source is a 2011 report of MetLife selling 50% to the New York State Common Retirement Fund.
- Pennzoil Place's partners — no filing opened names them.
- Hess Tower, 1501 McKinney: HCAD shows a new owner of record, Longhorn Propco LP (San Francisco), dated 19 Feb 2026, at $357,194,450 of 2026 value. No press release or filing establishing the seller or a price was found, so it is not in the marquee.
- Distress sales. The brief asked for foreclosures among the marquee towers; none was found for these eight. The Williams Tower sale was below Invesco's reported 2013 price, and 600 Travis is on the roll at about half its 2019 price, but neither is a foreclosure.
- HCAD's licence. The Public Data page states only 'HCAD does not provide technical support for the usage of this data.' No licence, fee or restriction is stated; republish stays false because the absence of a prohibition is not a grant. Single facts are cited here; no rows are reproduced.
- The statutory text. statutes.capitol.texas.gov serves a JavaScript shell, so Government Code 552.149 is cited through HCAD's 2026 Mass Appraisal Report, not the code itself.
- Builder figures are accounts on the roll in each builder's own name — land and inventory, not closings — and Harris County only. Fort Bend, Montgomery and Brazoria counties have their own appraisal districts, and much of Houston's new housing is there.
- 38,257 accounts (20,398 inside the City) carry 'CURRENT OWNER' instead of a name — owners whose details are confidential under Texas law. Holdings by protected owners cannot be counted.
Sources
- 2026 Real Property Data (Real_acct_owner.zip: real_acct.txt, owners.txt, deeds.txt), certified values, last updated 11 Oct 2026 — Harris Central Appraisal District · openA
- Public Data — data downloads and timeline — Harris Central Appraisal District · openA
- 2026 Mass Appraisal Report (sales confidentiality, Gov. Code 552.149; 'Texas does not have mandatory sales disclosure') — Harris Central Appraisal District · openA
- 2024 Annual Report — Harris Central Appraisal District · openA
- Real Property — fee schedule — Harris County Clerk's Office · openA
- Real Property document search (index free; images from 11/1/1960; copies purchased with an account) — Harris County Clerk's Office · openA
- Development Regulations ('The City of Houston does not have zoning') — City of Houston Planning & Development · openA
- Benchmark 2023-V2 Mortgage Trust — final prospectus (424B2), Loan #8 Heritage Plaza — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Securities) · openA
- Skanska divests majority interest in Bank of America Tower in Houston, USA, for USD 373 M — Skanska AB · openA
- Hines Partnership Acquires the Tallest Office Tower in Texas — Realty News Report · openA
- A $450 Million Refi for Texas Tower — Realty News Report · openA
- Form D — Block 58 Investment Trust (CIK 0001800115) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Williams Tower Acquired For $300M In Largest Single-Property Office Sale Since 2019 — Bisnow · openA
- MetLife Sells Stake in 71-Story Wells Fargo Plaza — Realty News Report · openA
- Hines Global Income Trust, Inc. — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Camden Property Trust — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Prologis, Inc. — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- EastGroup Properties — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Building Permits Survey — county annual 2025 (co2025a.txt), Harris County FIPS 48/201 — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey — CBSA annual 2025 (cbsa2025a.txt) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey — South Region places annual 2025 (so2025a.txt), Houston city — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- The Pro Builder 2026 Top 200: West South Central Region — Pro Builder · openA
- Century Communities, Inc. — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Lennar Corporation — Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Meritage Homes — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Celebrating Hines' Main Street Tower, His 21st Addition to Houston Skyline — Realty News Report · openA
- Deed Restrictions — City Attorney's Deed Restriction Enforcement Team — City of Houston Legal Department · openA
- Code descriptions — real property jurisdictions (061 = City of Houston) and state classes — Harris Central Appraisal District · openA