Huntsville, Alabama
Madison County's free property-tax portal names the owner of record of any Huntsville parcel, one search at a time, which is enough to show that the city's civic core, its research park and its airport are publicly held, while Redstone Arsenal and NASA Marshall, the reason the city exists, lie just outside its limits.
8 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 12 sources · 5 tier A · 3 tier B · prepared 2026-10-14
Can you find out who owns it?
Alabama records title by deed with the county Judge of Probate; there is no state title register. Madison County's property-tax portal names the owner of record of every parcel, with appraised value, acreage and the deed book and page, free and without registration, searchable by owner, company, address or parcel. Sale prices are not on that portal: they sit in the deeds themselves (or on the RT-1 sales validation form), and the Probate Judge's online deed index needs an account. Huntsville also reaches into Limestone, Morgan and Marshall counties. This record covers the Madison County part, which is most of the city.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free, one search at a time (Madison County 'Property Appraisal and Tax Payments' portal, no account). The Probate Judge's online deed search requires a sign-in; its fees were not read. The enum has no 'free per search' value: there is no open bulk file of owner names we could use
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesNo transaction data published
1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Von Braun Center 700 Monroe St SW 25.18 acres (parcel) |
Civic | City of Huntsville Parcel 14-07-36-3-003-023.000, 'LOT 1 VON BRAUN CENTER' (plat 2023-336), owner CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, exempt, 25.18 acres. The 2026 roll values only the land, at $17,547,000 (up from $3,362,300 in 2024). The arena and halls carry no separate improvement value. A separate personal-property account at the same address is in the name of the Von Braun Civic Center, the body that operates the building; the roll does not make the operator the landowner. |
Government | —A |
| Bridge Street Town Centre 300 Bridge St (Cummings Research Park West) 825,000 sq ft (Tanger 10-K) |
Retail | Tanger Inc. (Tanger Huntsville LLC) 100% The county roll names Tanger Huntsville LLC on six parcels (warranty deed 2023 book/instrument 48992), 42.66 acres in all, appraised at $131.5M for 2026. The largest is 300 Bridge St: 20.08 acres, $100,208,600. Tanger's 10-K lists 'Huntsville, Alabama' at 100% legal ownership, 651,024 sq ft, and says about 174,000 sq ft is ground-leased to tenants. 310 Bridge St (147,120 sq ft) is a separate parcel held by COPT Bridge Street Office LLC (see commercial). |
REIT | $193.5M 2023-11 Tanger's 2023 10-K: purchased for $193.5 million 'using cash, proceeds from our ATM Offering Program' and credit lines; a $5.4M credit for unpaid tenant allowances at closing. A |
| MidCity District (former Madison Square Mall) 5901 University Dr NW and surrounding streets |
Mixed use | Mid-City Owner LLC and affiliated MidCity LLCs No single owner. On the 2026 roll the site is split among Mid-City Owner LLC, MidCity Retail LLC, MidCity Retail II LLC (five parcels, $14.0M), MidCity MU LLC, MidCity Plaza LLC (9.01 ac, $11.5M), Metronome at MidCity LLC (apartments, 4.03 ac, $42.3M) and the MidCity Improvement District. All of these mail to the same Huntsville PO box. Hamlet at MidCity LLC (38.3 ac, $38.8M) mails to Oak Brook, Illinois, and UMH MidCity LLC holds 4.41 ac. Per the City blog, RCP Companies agreed to buy the whole mall site, and the City funded $12M of roads for phase one. |
Developer | $5M 2014 City of Huntsville blog (Jan 2017): 'RCP bought the first piece in late 2014 for $5 million, but that was only the guts of mall'; the anchors and outparcels took another 20 months. B |
| U.S. Space & Rocket Center 1 Tranquility Base NW 18,404 sq ft main building (roll living area) |
Civic | Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission (roll: 'Alabama Space Science Exhibit Finance') Two exempt parcels in the roll name 'ALABAMA SPACE SCIENCE EXHIBIT FINANCE', both under one warranty deed (2005, instrument 341160). 17-03-08-0-000-001.000 at Tranquility Base covers 112 acres, appraised at $17,054,600 (land $2,464,000; amusement structures built 1988). The second parcel is 288 acres of land at 4747 Bob Wallace Ave SW, appraised at $6,336,000. The roll truncates the owner's name, probably the Commission's finance authority, and no Commission document was opened to confirm it, hence tier B. The Census geocoder places the site inside Huntsville city limits. |
Government | —B |
| Huntsville International Airport 1000 Glenn Hearn Blvd SW 655 acres (main parcel) |
Civic | Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority Main parcel 16-09-31-0-000-001.000 (108 Houston Goodson Way, owner mailing to 1000 Glenn Hearn Blvd): 655 acres, 603 of them classed 'AIRPORTS', appraised at $48,496,600 and exempt. The Authority holds 41 more parcels along Wall Triana Hwy, James Record Rd, Short Pike Rd and Boeing Blvd under several spellings of its name. The Census geocoder puts the terminal address inside Huntsville city limits. The roll's address search also returns 117 business personal-property accounts at the terminal: tenants, not landowners. |
Government | —A |
| Parkway Place 2801 Memorial Pkwy S 639,063 sq ft (CBL 10-K) |
Retail | CBL & Associates Properties (Parkway Place SPE, LLC) 100% The roll names Parkway Place SPE LLC for 26.55 acres, appraised at $60,215,500 for 2026 (warranty deed 2010, instrument 306280; 420,944 sq ft of living area). CBL's 2025 10-K lists Parkway Place, Huntsville, 100% owned, 639,063 sq ft, 90% leased, anchors Belk and Dillard's. Its Exhibit 21 names Parkway Place SPE, LLC (Delaware) as a subsidiary. Schedule III records $43.1M of write-downs against the centre, leaving a $41.7M gross carrying amount. |
REIT | —A |
| Cummings Research Park CRP East and West, around Research Park Blvd and Bradford Dr 3,843 acres (CRP) |
Land | Not established the register is open, but this building was not matched A park, not a parcel. The City of Huntsville bought the land for CRP West in 1982 and sells sites of 4 acres and up, after preparing them, through the Research Park office (CRP's own pages). The roll shows the park divided among its occupants: ADTRAN Inc (901 Explorer Blvd, 14 ac, $32,023,200), Dynetics Inc (several parcels), Tanger (Bridge Street), COPT Bridge Street Office LLC and others. CRP says HudsonAlpha has a 152-acre campus there, but no parcel in HudsonAlpha's name was found. The park's ownership was not totalled. |
Not established | —A |
| Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA plant Limestone County part of Huntsville (Census point 34.682, -86.846) |
Industrial | Not established the source would not open The Census Bureau geocoder places the plant inside Huntsville city limits, in Limestone County, not Madison. Limestone County's assessor viewer is on isv.kcsgis.com, whose robots.txt bars ClaudeBot and AI crawlers, so the owner of record was not read. The City blog (Feb 2018) records that Huntsville City Council used Alabama's Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zone Act, a form of tax-increment financing, for the first time to prepare the site. It does not say who holds the land. |
Not established | —B |
2
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The portal values one parcel at a time and cannot rank the roll, so these are the highest values among parcels opened for this record, not a census of the city. Exempt public land is appraised but not taxed.
Highest appraised parcel opened$100,208,600
300 Bridge St (Bridge Street Town Centre core), 20.08 acres, Tanger Huntsville LLC. Madison County roll, tax year 2026, read Oct 2026.
Toyota engine plant, all accounts$164.2M
Two land parcels (399 acres) plus two building accounts at 1 Cotton Valley Dr, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama Inc. Madison County roll, 2026.
Airport main parcel$48,496,600
655 acres, Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority, exempt. Madison County roll, 2026.
Von Braun Center land$17,547,000
25.18 acres of downtown land owned by the City of Huntsville, valued as land only, up from $3,362,300 in 2024. Madison County roll, 2026.
3
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.
Huntsville's largest landholder, the federal government, is not on the roll: Redstone Arsenal and NASA Marshall lie outside the city limits, in the unincorporated Redstone Arsenal CDP (Census geocoder), and the county roll has only about ten parcels county-wide in the name 'United States of America'. Inside the city the large holders are the City and its boards, the airport, hospital and housing authorities, and the schools. Counts are 2026 real-property parcels found by owner-name searches of the Madison County portal. They are county-wide, so they include land outside the city, and they miss spellings the searches did not catch. Acres were not totalled because the portal limits usage.
| Name | Type | Parcels in own name, Madison County roll 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| City of Huntsville As CITY OF HUNTSVILLE (762) and variants. The total includes the Von Braun Center land (25.18 ac, $17.5M) and lots in MidCity, and excludes the City's boards and authorities listed separately: the Industrial Development Board (9), the Solid Waste Disposal Authority (13), the Public Building Authority (2) and Huntsville Utilities. |
Government | 803 parcelsA |
| Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority Under several spellings. Includes the 655-acre main airfield parcel ($48.5M) and land along Wall Triana Hwy, James Record Rd and Boeing Blvd. Separately, the Madison County Executive Airport Authority holds about 30 parcels at the county's other airfield, near Meridianville. |
Government | 42 parcelsA |
| Health Care Authority of the City of Huntsville (Huntsville Hospital) As HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE and variants, some 'd/b/a Huntsville Hospital' or 'HH Health System'. |
Government | 69 parcelsA |
| Housing Authority of the City of Huntsville 55 as 'Housing Authority of the City of' and 32 as Huntsville Housing Authority. Parcels sampled are in the Huntsville tax district, e.g. 204 Green St SE (0.96 ac, $836,200) and 300 Gates Ave SE. |
Government | 87 parcelsA |
| Huntsville City Board of Education As CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF HUNTSVILLE (41) and HUNTSVILLE CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION (22). Madison County Board of Education (31) and City of Madison Board of Education (18) hold the schools of the other two systems. |
Government | 63 parcelsA |
| Tennessee Valley Authority Federal power utility; county-wide count, not split by city. |
Government | 49 parcelsA |
| Huntsville Utilities (City of Huntsville d/b/a) 17 as HUNTSVILLE UTILITIES and 14 as 'City of Huntsville d/b/a Huntsville Utilities' or similar, plus one electric-utility account. |
Government | 31 parcelsA |
| Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (UAH) 29 as the Board of Trustees, one of them 'on behalf of the University of Alabama at Birmingham', and 2 as 'University of Alabama Huntsville' and its Foundation. CRP places UAH inside Cummings Research Park. |
Government | 31 parcelsA |
| Alabama A&M University and affiliates Board of Trustees (1), AAMU Foundation (5), Trust Fund (2) and the Community Development Corporation (4). The main campus at Normal is mostly not under these names, so this undercounts it. |
Government | 12 parcelsA |
| Madison County Commission Under 'Madison County Commission'. County property held under other names, such as 'Madison County' alone, was not counted. |
Government | 21 parcelsA |
| Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission The U.S. Space & Rocket Center (112 ac) and 288 ac on Bob Wallace Ave (see marquee). |
Government | 2 parcels, 400 acres, $23.4M appraisedA |
| Rail: Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority; Norfolk Southern Railway Company Only one Norfolk Southern parcel matched by name, so this is not the extent of the rail corridors in the city. |
Government | 2 parcels and 1 parcelA |
5
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 Huntsville homebuilders was opened. What the county roll shows is which builders hold lots and unsold homes in their own names: national public builders lead, with D.R. Horton holding more than any other name. Counts are tax-year-2026 real-property parcels county-wide, which takes in the cities of Madison and the unincorporated county as well as Huntsville. They are inventory on the roll on one date, not starts or closings. Large rental communities are separate: Hamlet at MidCity LLC (38.3 ac, $38.8M) and Metronome at MidCity LLC (370,671 sq ft, $42.3M) are among the biggest in the city.
| Name | Type | Parcels in own name, Madison County roll 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| D.R. Horton Under D R HORTON INC with division suffixes (Birmingham 440, Huntsville 172, none 111) and 42 more as DR HORTON. The largest builder name on the roll by far. |
Public company | 765 parcelsA |
| Clayton Properties Group (Goodall Homes) 212 as Clayton Properties Group Inc and 168 'd/b/a Goodall Homes' (plus 2 as Clayton Properties Group LLC). |
Private company | 382 parcelsA |
| Adams Homes LLC | Private company | 235 parcelsA |
| Davidson Homes LLC | Private company | 225 parcelsA |
| Lennar Homes of Alabama LLC Including misspellings ('Lennar Homes If Alabama LLC'). |
Public company | 174 parcelsA |
| Meritage Homes of Alabama Inc Smaller names on the roll include Woodland Homes (72), Breland Homes LLC (65), Wright Homes LLC (50), Murphy Homes Inc (50) and Pearson Homes Inc (44). Tennessee Valley Communities LLC holds 157 parcels; what it is was not established. |
Public company | 133 parcelsA |
6
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Huntsville's commercial roll is led by manufacturers and defence contractors that own their own sites, not by office REITs. The two listed retail REITs hold the two main shopping centres. COPT Defense, the city's large office landlord, builds mostly on federal land at Redstone Arsenal, outside the city limits, which it controls under a long-term master lease. Values are 2026 appraisals of parcels opened on the Madison County portal, every one in the Huntsville tax district. The portal cannot rank owners, so this is a list of large holders found by name, not a full league table.
| Name | Type | 2026 appraisal, parcels opened |
|---|---|---|
| Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama, Inc. The engine plant at 1 Cotton Valley Dr, North Huntsville: two land parcels of 196 and 203 acres ($61,111,700 and $65,558,500, the second with 394,944 sq ft built in 2006), plus building accounts of $20,668,200 (2013) and $16,908,600 (2020). It is a Toyota subsidiary and is separate from the Mazda Toyota assembly plant in Limestone County. |
Public company | about 399 acres, $164.2MA |
| Tanger Inc. (Tanger Huntsville LLC) Bridge Street Town Centre, bought for $193.5M in November 2023 (see marquee). |
REIT | 6 parcels, 42.66 acres, $131.5M; 651,024 sq ft ownedA |
| CBL & Associates Properties (Parkway Place SPE, LLC) Parkway Place mall (see marquee). |
REIT | 26.55 acres, $60.2M; 639,063 sq ftA |
| The Boeing Company 499 Boeing Blvd, beside the airport: one 243-acre parcel appraised at $43,816,000, plus several unaddressed Boeing Blvd parcels not totalled here. |
Public company | 243 acres, $43.8M (main parcel)A |
| ADTRAN, Inc. 901 Explorer Blvd in Cummings Research Park West. ADTRAN holds four real-property parcels there; only the largest was opened. |
Public company | 14 acres, $32.0M (headquarters parcel)A |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation 4800 Bradford Dr, CRP: parcels of 35 acres ($7,178,300) and 14 acres ($20,837,700). |
Public company | 49 acres, $28.0M (two parcels)A |
| COPT Defense Properties The 10-K's 'Redstone Arsenal' sub-segment: 25 properties, 2,525 thousand sq ft, 96.1% leased, built on land 'owned by the USG' under a long-term master lease to the LW Redstone Company joint venture. That land is outside the city limits. Inside them, COPT Bridge Street Office LLC holds 310 Bridge St (1.02 ac, 147,120 sq ft, $24,387,600), which COPT acquired on 9 Aug 2011. |
REIT | 25 properties, 2.525M sq ft at Redstone Arsenal; 310 Bridge St, $24.4MA |
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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.
- Bulk ownership: there is a Madison County parcel map service with owner names (web3.kcsgis.com, Madison_Public_ISV layer 185), referenced by the City's own app, but it was not queried. The same company's other host bars AI crawlers, and the City's GIS host disallows query URLs.
- Sale prices: Alabama puts the price in the deed or on the RT-1 sales validation form, filed at the Probate Judge's office. The online deed index needs a sign-in, and whether RT-1 forms are open to the public was not established.
- The state deed tax ($0.50 per $500 of value, as widely stated) was not confirmed on an official page: the Department of Revenue's pages opened do not state it, and the Madison County Probate fee page is Akamai-blocked.
- Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA's owner of record: the plant is inside Huntsville in Limestone County, and Limestone's assessor viewer is closed to AI crawlers.
- Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center: the Census geocoder places both outside Huntsville city limits (Redstone Arsenal CDP), so they are not marquee entries here. They are federal and not on the county roll as parcels.
- Toyota Field: it is in the City of Madison (Census geocoder), not Huntsville, so it is left out.
- Who stands behind the MidCity LLCs (Mid-City Owner, MidCity Retail II, MidCity Plaza, Metronome at MidCity) and Hamlet at MidCity LLC: the City blog names RCP Companies as the buyer of the mall site, but no filing linking each LLC was opened.
- HudsonAlpha's 152-acre CRP campus: no parcel in a HudsonAlpha name was found on the roll.
- Acreage and value totals for the City, the housing authority, the hospital authority and the schools: the portal answered 'Site usage exceeded' once requests went faster than one every couple of seconds, so totals were not compiled.
- The Limestone and Morgan County parts of Huntsville: not covered.
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Sources
- Madison County 'Property Appraisal and Tax Payments' portal (AssuranceWeb): property search by owner, company, address or parcel, and parcel summaries (owner, mailing address, property address, legal description, exempt code, acres, land/improvement/appraised/assessed value, plat or deed book and page, tax history with owner by year), tax year 2026, read 14 Oct 2026 — Madison County, Alabama (Tax Assessor / Tax Collector), hosted by countygovservices.com · openA
- Real Estate Sales Validation Form (Form RT-1): 'must be filed in accordance with Code of Alabama 1975, Section 40-22-1'; not required where the deed itself states the price — Alabama Department of Revenue · openA
- City of Huntsville GIS 'Property Detail' application and its configuration (js/urls.js, propertydetail/js/propertySearch.js): shows 'Property Owner' read from each county's parcel service (Madison: web3.kcsgis.com Madison_Public_ISV layer 185; Limestone and Morgan: web2.kcsgis.com) — City of Huntsville GIS · openA
- GIS Data Depot terms: 'This data is copyrighted by the City of Huntsville, provided at no cost and therefore the repackaging or reselling of this data is strictly prohibited.' — City of Huntsville · openA
- Tanger Inc. / Tanger Properties LP, Form 10-K for 2023 (filed 2024-02-21): acquisition of Bridge Street Town Centre, Huntsville, Nov 2023, $193.5 million; property table 'Huntsville, Alabama 100 651,024' — Tanger Inc. via SEC EDGAR · openA
- CBL & Associates Properties, Form 10-K for 2025 (filed 2026-03-03), property table and Schedule III (Parkway Place, Huntsville, AL), and Exhibit 21 subsidiaries (Parkway Place SPE, LLC) — CBL & Associates Properties via SEC EDGAR · openA
- COPT Defense Properties, Form 10-K for 2025 (filed 2026-02-20): Redstone Arsenal sub-segment (25 properties, 2,525 thousand sq ft), land 'owned by the USG and ... controlled by us under a long-term master lease', LW Redstone Company LLC, Schedule III '310 The Bridge Street (O) Huntsville, AL', acquired 8/9/2011 — COPT Defense Properties via SEC EDGAR · openA
- 'From Gray to Gold – Revitalizing Madison Square Mall' (26 Jan 2017) — City of Huntsville Blog · openA
- Census Geocoder, 'geographies' by address and by coordinates (Public_AR_Current / Current_Current; layers Incorporated Places, Census Designated Places, Counties), run 14 Oct 2026 for the Von Braun Center, MidCity, the airport terminal, HudsonAlpha, the Space & Rocket Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Arsenal, Toyota Field and the Mazda Toyota plant — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Cummings Research Park, 'About' (3,843 acres; the City bought CRP West's land in 1982; HudsonAlpha's 152-acre campus) and 'Build to Suit' (parcels from 4 acres; City site preparation before sale) — Cummings Research Park (City of Huntsville / Chamber) · openA
- 'History in the making: Huntsville applies new funding method to Toyota-Mazda development' (13 Feb 2018) — City of Huntsville Blog · openA
- Huntsville, Alabama (county seat of Madison County, with portions in Limestone, Marshall and Morgan counties; annexations into Limestone and Morgan) — Wikipedia · openA