Killeen, Texas
Killeen is a garrison city whose owners of record are public and largely institutional: the school district, the City and the federal government hold the most valuable ground, the mall changed hands after its lender took title, and Bell CAD's free roll even carries sale prices.
8 buildings · 8 with an owner established · 13 sources · 3 tier B · 5 tier A · prepared 2026-10-20
Can you find out who owns it?
Texas keeps no public title register; ownership is read from the county appraisal district. The Tax Appraisal District of Bell County (Bell CAD) posts its whole certified 2026 roll free on its Data Portal - owner of record, mailing address, situs, legal description, deed date and number, value and taxing units for every account - with no licence or disclaimer on the page. Deeds are recorded by the Bell County Clerk, whose sites bar automated readers. Texas has no mandatory sales disclosure, and appraisal districts must keep privately obtained sale prices confidential; even so, Bell CAD's own export carries a price on about a quarter of its recorded sales, linked to the parcel, though it is far from complete.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Bell CAD Data Portal downloads and property search); Bell County Clerk deed-copy fees not read - bellcountytx.com robots.txt disallows all but named search-engine crawlers
Bulk ownership dataBell CAD Data Portal: BellCAD-Appraisal-Data-Condensed-2026-20260922.xlsx (2026 certified roll as of last supplement, 192,994 accounts countywide; owner, owner address, situs, DBA, state code, acres, market value, legal description, deed date/number, taxing entities) and the 2026 Bell County Certified Export (tab-delimited, incl. owner, legal, land, building and sale files); free unauthenticated downloads, no licence stated
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Hood (Fort Cavazos 2023-2025) North of the city; main cantonment adjoins Killeen's northern limit |
Institutional | United States of America (Department of the Army) The post was renamed Fort Cavazos in 2023 and renamed back to Fort Hood in 2025 (Wikipedia). Killeen 'is bordered to the north by Fort Hood' and is 'directly adjacent to the main cantonment', so the post itself lies outside the city. On the 2026 Bell CAD roll 'U S GOVERNMENT' holds 493 exempt accounts and 96,183 acres in Bell County (the post's Bell County part together with lake land such as Stillhouse Hollow Lake; the roll does not separate them); only 34 of those accounts, 2,127 acres, carry the City of Killeen taxing unit, one a 100.96-acre Clear Creek Rd tract labelled 'FT HOOD'. The ACFR lists III Corps & Fort Hood as the city's largest employer (32,900). |
Government | —B |
| Killeen Regional Airport (GRK), joint use with Robert Gray Army Airfield West Fort Hood, off SH 201 |
Civic | United States of America (Department of the Army) City of Killeen leasehold: joint use of 345 acres, exclusive use of about 76.571 acres, 50-year term The City's FY2025 ACFR: in 2003 the City moved airline operations from the Killeen Municipal Airport to 'Ft. Hood's Robert Gray Army Airfield as part of a joint use agreement with the U.S. Army', and holds a lease 'with the Department of the Army for joint use of a tract of land containing 345 acres and exclusive use of a tract of land containing approximately 76.571 acres', 50 years plus a 50-year option. 'In lieu of paying rent' the City maintains, protects and improves it. Wikipedia places the airport inside the south end of the Fort Hood Military Reservation. No Bell CAD account for the terminal was found. Skylark Field, the City's older airport, stays City-owned (176.85 acres). |
Government | —A |
| Killeen Mall 2100 S W S Young Dr 557,418 sq ft |
Retail | Killeen Mall Realty Holding LLC Bell CAD account 67975: 34.28 acres, 2026 market value $22.4M, owner mailed in Great Neck, NY. Bell CAD's sale file traces the chain: Killeen Mall LLC (2007) conveyed on 6 Feb 2018 to Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp, a mortgage-securities company, which deeded it to the current owner on 31 Jan 2024. Wikipedia says Kohan Retail Investment Group and Rocky Companies acquired the mall in February 2024; that link to the LLC rests on Wikipedia alone. Anchors sit on separate accounts: Dillard's (Rio Grande Investment Inc; Dillards Properties Inc) and J C Penney (CTL Propco I LP). 'Killeen Mall LLC' was a top-ten taxpayer in 2016 (ACFR). |
Private company | —B |
| Central Texas College, main campus 6200 W Central Texas Expwy / Clear Creek Rd |
Institutional | Central Texas Union Junior College District The roll carries the college under 'Central Texas Union Junior College' (mailed Box 1800, Killeen): 9 exempt accounts, 416 acres, $23.5M countywide, the largest a 313.7-acre tract on Clear Creek Rd ($14.2M) that does not carry the City taxing unit; 4 accounts and 78 acres do, including 54.47 acres marked 'CTC'. A hangar on City land at Skylark Field is held as improvements only. Wikipedia says the main campus 'is partly in Killeen and partly in Copperas Cove' (Coryell County, not on Bell CAD's roll). The college district also sits on the TIRZ #2 board (ACFR). |
Government | —A |
| Texas A&M University-Central Texas 1001 Leadership Pl |
Institutional | Texas A&M University System Two exempt Bell CAD accounts in the System's name (mailed College Station), both inside the City taxing unit: 370.84 acres at 1001 Leadership Pl ($2.2M) and 301.55 acres on Hwy 195 ($6.0M) - 672.4 acres, parts of a 672.388-acre tract. Wikipedia: 'In May 2009, 662 acres ... of the Fort Hood military reservation were donated to the university by the U.S. Army', near SH 195 and SH 201; Founder's Hall (103,000 sq ft, $40M) opened in 2012. The roll values exempt land and buildings far below their cost. |
Government | —A |
| AdventHealth Central Texas (hospital) 2201 S Clear Creek Rd |
Institutional | Metroplex Adventist Hospital Inc Bell CAD holds the campus in the names 'Metroplex Adventist Hospital' and 'Metroplex Adventist Hospital Inc': the 11.34-acre hospital lot at 2201 Clear Creek Rd (exempt, $8.5M), the Hemingway Medical Building at 2405 ($20.9M, taxable), improvements-only at 2207 ($12.2M), the AdventHealth Medical Plaza at 2301 (bought 2019 from Clear Creek MOB Ltd) and a behavioral health center at 2407 - 12 commercial accounts, $42.8M. The ACFR's employer table lists 'AdventHealth' (1,000) in 2025 where 'Metroplex Hospital' (1,200) stood in 2016. Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation holds a clinic in Harker Heights. AdventHealth's own site refused automated access. |
Institution | —B |
| Killeen Civic and Conference Center 3301 S W S Young Dr |
Civic | City of Killeen Bell CAD account 20836, 'A0201BC W H Cole ... Pt of West Trimmier', 71.504 acres, exempt, 2026 market value $17.9M, carried with the DBA 'Killeen Civic and Conference Center' and mailed to the City (Box 1329). It is the City's most valuable account. The ACFR treats the hotel occupancy tax/civic center as self-supporting debt. No deed date is on the account. |
Government | —A |
| Independence Place Apartments 5016 Watercrest Rd |
Residential | MFT - IP Killeen LLC The highest-valued taxable real-property account in the city: 21.92 acres, 2026 market value $35.0M (account 386854). It was No. 9 taxpayer in 2025 ($33.5M taxable) and the third-largest water customer (ACFR). The same sale file records Watercrest Place LP buying the land for $1.32M in Sept 2006. Two other complexes, Bridgemoor and Brookside, are held by entities with the same 'MFT -' prefix and an Encinitas, CA mailing address; no filing opened names who stands behind them. |
Private company | $28,500,000 2019-09-30 Price as carried in Bell CAD's sale file (instrument 201900044864, qualified sale), from Watercrest Place LP. A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Computed from Bell CAD's certified 2026 roll as of the last supplement (condensed export dated 22 Sep 2026), restricted to accounts carrying the City of Killeen (TKI) taxing unit. Values are market values for tax year 2026, not prices. Exempt public property is valued far below cost, so the ranking of public owners is a floor.
Accounts in the City59,760 accounts; $15.97B market value
54,948 real-property accounts ($15.45B, 25,724 acres where acreage is stated) and 4,812 business personal property accounts ($0.52B). Single-family houses (A1): 42,850 accounts, $9.98B. Exempt (X codes): 1,300 accounts, $1.47B, 7,922 acres.
Certified taxable value, 2025$11.26B
City of Killeen FY2025 ACFR, principal-taxpayer table (source Bell CAD); the ten largest taxpayers hold 4.18%.
Highest-valued account$265.3M - Killeen High School
Bell CAD 59581, 500 N 38th St, 55.08 acres, Killeen ISD, exempt.
Highest-valued taxable real-property account$35.0M - Independence Place Apartments
5016 Watercrest Rd, 21.92 acres, MFT - IP Killeen LLC.
Original town (downtown)335 accounts; $68.5M; 85.5 acres
Accounts whose legal description begins 'Killeen Original'. The City holds 33 of them ($7.9M). TIRZ #2 (to 2048) covers 789 accounts, $337.6M.
Sale prices on the roll65,091 of 235,756 recorded sales on city parcels carry a price
Bell CAD 2026 certified export, sale file; countywide 160,197 of 633,896. In 2025 qualified house sales the median ratio of 2026 market value to price is 1.00.
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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.
Public bodies hold the most valuable ground in Killeen, and the biggest of them is not the City. Killeen ISD's 80 accounts inside the city ($989M) outweigh every private owner many times over; the City holds more land (2,143 acres, mostly parks, landfill and Skylark Field) but values it at $129M. The federal estate is mostly outside: Fort Hood adjoins the city, and only 2,127 of the 96,183 acres in 'U S Government' on the Bell County roll carry the City taxing unit. Figures are 2026 certified market values (Bell CAD, 22 Sep 2026) for accounts carrying the City of Killeen taxing unit; exempt property is appraised far below cost.
| Name | Type | Inside the City taxing unit, 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| Killeen Independent School District 98 accounts countywide ($1.18B). The two most valuable accounts in the city are its high schools: Killeen High School, 500 N 38th St (55.1 acres, $265.3M), and High School 6, 4400 Chaparral Rd (61.9 acres, $190.6M). KISD is also the city's largest water customer (ACFR). |
Government | 80 accounts, 1,018 acres, $989.0MA |
| City of Killeen Largest by value: the Civic and Conference Center (71.5 acres, $17.9M) and two Police Headquarters lots on Featherline Rd ($23.8M together). By area: the City dump tracts on FM 2484 (246.75 acres) and Hwy 195 (157.4 acres), and Skylark Field (176.85 acres). Killeen Public Facility Corporation, a blended component unit governed by the Council (ACFR), holds 3 more accounts (30.9 acres, $28.9M), including Station 42 Apartments and Avanti Legacy Parkview. |
Government | 613 accounts, 2,143 acres, $129.1MA |
| United States of America Plus 5 U.S. Postal Service accounts (6.5 acres) and 3 'United States of America' accounts. Countywide 'U S Government' holds 493 accounts and 96,183 acres. Separately, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and HUD hold 49 houses ($12.1M) - acquired homes, not federal estate. |
Government | 34 'U S Government' accounts, 2,127 acres, $45.4MA |
| Texas A&M University System The A&M-Central Texas campus, land donated by the Army in 2009. |
Government | 2 accounts, 672.4 acres, $8.3MA |
| Central Texas College District (Central Texas Union Junior College) 9 accounts and 416 acres countywide; the main 313.7-acre tract does not carry the City taxing unit. |
Government | 4 accounts, 78.2 acres, $5.5MA |
| Housing Authority of the City of Killeen Including 1202 E Ave E (4.83 acres) and Hyde Estates, 4600 Cunningham Rd (13.41 acres, $4.9M). |
Government | 4 accounts, 25.7 acres, $12.0MA |
| Bell County The juvenile facility on E Rancier Ave (26.3 acres) and the courthouse annex on Priest Dr. 1,238 accounts countywide. |
Government | 26 accounts, 57.7 acres, $7.8MA |
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC Substations and two tracts bought in Aug 2025 (14.45 acres on E Veterans Memorial Blvd). Its wires and plant are what make Oncor the city's largest taxpayer: $109.7M taxable in 2025, 0.97% of the roll (ACFR). |
Public company | 25 real-property accounts, 75.8 acres, $2.6MB |
| BNSF Railway (Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co) A single right-of-way account on E Ave G; 36 accounts and 175.7 acres countywide. |
Public company | 1 account, 3.58 acres, $0.3MA |
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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.
Killeen permits about 900 homes a year, half of them single-family houses. The Census Bureau counted 490 single-family units ($145.9M), 68 two-unit buildings (136 units) and 20 buildings of five or more units (284 units) permitted in the city in 2025. One national builder, D.R. Horton (as Continental Homes of Texas), works here alongside Stylecraft and a field of local firms. Figures count accounts held in each builder's name inside the city on the 2026 roll - lots and unsold homes - not homes built; no league table of Killeen starts by builder was found. Builders whose company names are a person's name are left out.
| Name | Type | Accounts held inside the city, 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| Stylecraft Central Texas LP 170 of them builder/developer lots (26.1 acres). The largest builder holding in the city. |
Private company | 171 accountsA |
| Continental Homes of Texas LP (D.R. Horton) 110 builder lots (16.2 acres). D.R. Horton's FY2025 10-K Exhibit 21 lists Continental Homes of Texas, L.P. (Texas) as a subsidiary. |
Public company | 114 accountsB |
| JNC Development Inc 53 builder/developer lots (8.1 acres). |
Developer | 74 accountsA |
| J Squared Killeen Development LLC 70 under 'J Squared Killeen Development LLC' and 5 under '... Company LLC', about 10.5 acres of lots. |
Developer | 75 accountsA |
| Killeen Summit Builders LLC 30 builder lots. |
Private company | 37 accountsA |
| Saratoga Homes of Texas Austin LLC 22 builder lots ($1.45M). BFF Construction LLC holds 31 accounts and Hereford Development LLC 31. |
Private company | 29 accountsA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Killeen has no office market to speak of; its private commercial wealth is apartments, big-box retail, car dealerships and two chemical plants. A single-family rental company is the second-largest taxpayer. Figures are 2026 market values on Bell CAD's roll for accounts inside the City taxing unit; the ACFR's 2025 taxpayer table uses taxable values.
| Name | Type | Market value inside the city, 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| LHCS LLC Single-family rental holdings mailed to Temple, deeds from 2013 to May 2026. No. 2 taxpayer in 2025 ($54.2M taxable, ACFR). Other rental holders on the roll are far smaller: Y40 LLC (44 homes), HRFSJI-V1 LLC (42), Real Star Rentals LLC (33), HP Rentals LLC (30). |
Private company | 234 accounts (229 houses, 5 duplexes), $48.2MA |
| 'MFT -' apartment entities (MFT - IP Killeen LLC, MFT - Bridgemoor LLC, MFT - Brookside LLC) Independence Place, Bridgemoor and Brookside, all mailed to Encinitas, CA. The largest private multifamily holding in the city; Independence Place was bought for $28.5M in 2019 (Bell CAD sale file). Who stands behind the entities was not established. |
Private company | 3 complexes, 44.8 acres, $76.5MA |
| BKCK LTD Car dealership sites (Hyundai, AutoMax, Service Max), including 3601 Scott & White Dr (11.33 acres, $16.2M), conveyed to BKCK in Dec 2021. No. 7 taxpayer in 2025 ($37.5M taxable, ACFR). |
Private company | 6 commercial accounts, 33.7 acres, $38.3MA |
| MGC Pure Chemicals America, Inc 4500 Roy J Smith Dr, carried as improvements only, owner mailed Mesa, AZ. No. 3 taxpayer in 2025 ($45.1M taxable). Dongjin Semichem Texas Inc holds $25.7M of plant at 705 Rickey Carlisle Circle (No. 5, $39.6M taxable). Both are industrial plant, not landlords. |
Private company | $37.8M industrial improvements (one account)B |
| Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust Stores on Lowes Blvd (22.43 acres, $13.7M) and Bunny Trail, plus a fuel site. H-E-B LP holds 4 commercial accounts (48.1 acres, $18.6M). |
Public company | 4 accounts, 42.3 acres, $27.6MA |
| Killeen Mall Realty Holding LLC The mall, bought from a mortgage-securities company in Jan 2024; anchors are held separately. |
Private company | 34.3 acres, $22.4MA |
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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.
- Who stands behind Killeen Mall Realty Holding LLC. Wikipedia names Kohan Retail Investment Group and Rocky Companies as the February 2024 buyers; the Killeen Daily Herald (robots bars Claude) and traded.co (Cloudflare) articles it cites were not read, and no filing opened names the LLC's members.
- Whether the 6 Feb 2018 conveyance of Killeen Mall to Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp was a foreclosure. Bell CAD records it under instrument code 7, a code whose grantees on the county roll are lenders in about 10,149 of 14,630 cases, but Bell CAD publishes no code list and no deed was read.
- A price for the 2024 Killeen Mall sale. Bell CAD's sale file carries none for that conveyance.
- Who stands behind the 'MFT -' apartment entities (Encinitas, CA), 5002 Thayer Drive LLC (Icon Apartments; $41.075M on 15 Dec 2021 per Bell CAD's sale file), NMP - Killeen LP (The Hudson) and LHCS LLC. No filing opened names their members, so no person is named.
- Whether Bell CAD's published sale prices are lawful to publish. Government Code 552.149 makes privately obtained sale information confidential; Bell CAD's free export carries a price on 160,197 sales countywide anyway, and the Data Portal states no terms. This record quotes prices for entity-to-entity sales only and reproduces no rows.
- The Bell County Clerk's deed-copy and search fees; bellcountytx.com and the Clerk's search both bar automated readers.
- How much of Fort Hood's Bell County acreage the 96,183 acres in 'U S Government' represents. The roll mixes the post with lake land and does not label most tracts.
- Whether the GRK terminal lies inside Killeen's city limits. The City leases the land from the Army (ACFR) but no Bell CAD account was found for it.
- Killeen Housing Authority's full portfolio. Only 4 accounts in its name were found (25.7 acres); others may sit in affiliated entities not searched.
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Sources
- BellCAD Appraisal Data Condensed 2026 (2026 Certified Export, Excel, as of last supplement; file dated 22 Sep 2026): 192,994 accounts countywide, 59,760 carrying the City of Killeen (TKI) taxing unit — Tax Appraisal District of Bell County · openA
- Data Portal (preliminary 2027 and certified 2024-2026 exports, certified totals, Top 10 taxpayers, collections and delinquent rolls, mortgage export, GIS shapefiles of 30 Sep 2026) — Tax Appraisal District of Bell County · openA
- 2026 Bell County Certified Export (tab-delimited; externalsale.tab 633,896 sale rows, 160,197 with a non-zero price field) — Tax Appraisal District of Bell County · openA
- 2026 Mass Appraisal Report ('Texas does not have mandatory sales disclosure'; Government Code Sec. 552.149 sales confidentiality) — Harris Central Appraisal District · openA
- Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal year ended 30 Sep 2025 (Principal Property Taxpayers 2025 and 2016; Principal Employers; Note on the GRK lease with the Department of the Army; TIRZ #2; Killeen Public Facility Corporation; Ten Largest Water Customers) — City of Killeen · openA
- Killeen, Texas — Wikipedia · openA
- Fort Hood (renamed Fort Cavazos 2023, renamed Fort Hood 2025) — Wikipedia · openA
- Killeen Regional Airport (Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport) — Wikipedia · openA
- Killeen Mall (557,418 sq ft; acquired February 2024 by Kohan Retail Investment Group and Rocky Companies) — Wikipedia · openA
- Texas A&M University-Central Texas (662 acres donated by the U.S. Army, May 2009) — Wikipedia · openA
- Building Permits Survey, places in the South Region, annual 2025 (so2025a.txt): Killeen city, FIPS 39148 — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- D.R. Horton, Inc. Form 10-K for FY ended 30 Sep 2025, Exhibit 21.1 Subsidiaries (Continental Homes of Texas, L.P.) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Skylark Field Airport (City of Killeen general aviation airport) — City of Killeen · openA