Mesquite, Texas

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.

The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.

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.

Mesquite's largest landholders are public: the City (348 accounts, about 2,584 acres — the airport, parks, golf course, water plant and Lawson Road tracts) and Mesquite ISD, whose 114 accounts are worth $797M, more than three times the City's. Behind them come Dallas College's Eastfield campus, Oncor's transmission corridors (still recorded under 'Texas Utilities Elec Co'), Union Pacific and housing finance corporations of other Texas towns that have taken title to Mesquite apartment complexes since 2023. The south-east of the city, along IH-20 and Lawson Road, is still largely open land: 88 accounts, about 2,630 acres, are appraised as agricultural-use land, the biggest blocks held by companies. Half of those 88 accounts belong to individuals, who are not named. Figures are DCAD 2026 market values for accounts coded to the City of Mesquite. Acreages come from DCAD land records or, where those are blank, from the legal description, so they are floors for exempt land. Any Kaufman County portion of the city is not in DCAD's file.

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.

Mesquite still builds detached houses and almost nothing else. The Census Bureau's 2025 permit survey records 491 single-family units ($144.5M of construction value) and no multifamily units at all. On DCAD's file, 581 houses carry a 2024 year-built and 400 a 2025 year-built. The new building is concentrated in the east and south-east: Solterra, Ridge Ranch, Valleybrooke and the IH-20 land. The builders' counts below are accounts each holds on the current file, mostly lots and homes under construction (roll code O10), so they show who is building now, not lifetime totals. Much of the lot supply sits with land-banking entities rather than builders. KL LB Buy 2 LLC holds 346 lots and Millrose Properties Texas entities 67. The roll does not say for whom. Single-family rental landlords are a real presence: of about 38,400 single-family houses, the roll puts roughly 3,850 in company names. The largest are Progress Residential entities (about 127 houses, counting the PR Borrower LLCs), Tricon SFR entities (91), Cerberus SFR Holdings and FKH SFR entities (82), Bridge SFR and BAF Assets entities (79) and Yamasa Co Ltd (48). Median 2026 value of a single-family house: $264,990.

The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.

Mesquite's commercial roll is $6.38 billion across 2,720 accounts (2026 market values). $4.70B of it is 1,501 improved commercial and industrial accounts, and $1.50B is 830 multifamily accounts, among them 83 apartment complexes with about 14,160 units ($1.36B). The money has moved from retail to logistics. The roll records 287 warehouse and light-industrial accounts, 23.8 million sq ft worth $1.90B, along the IH-30, IH-635 (LBJ), US-80 and Scyene Rd corridors and around the airport. Most are held by single-asset LLCs mailed to New York, Boston, Chicago, Bethesda or Carlsbad, and the roll does not name the funds behind them. Town East Mall (built 1972, per the roll), the city's retail anchor, has no 2026 value on the current file (see marquee). The largest apartment landlords are also single-asset entities, and four of the most valuable complexes now stand in the names of public housing finance corporations (see landowners).

Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.

1. DCAD '2027 Data Files (Most Current Ownership)' (DCAD2027_CURRENT.zip, files dated 2026-10-12): ACCOUNT_INFO, ACCOUNT_APPRL_YEAR (city jurisdiction; PREV_MKT_VAL = 2026 revaluation market value), COM_DETAIL, LAND, MULTI_OWNER; City of Mesquite subset (CITY_JURIS_DESC 'MESQUITE'): 48,453 accounts, 44,910 of them real property — Dallas Central Appraisal District · openA
2. 2026 Mass Appraisal Report ('Texas does not have mandatory sales disclosure'; Government Code Sec. 552.149 sales confidentiality) — Harris Central Appraisal District · openA
3. Brookfield Property REIT Inc. (formerly GGP) — Form 10-K for 2020: retail property table ('Town East Mall 90% Mesquite, TX 454 — 809 — — 1,264 94.5% 410 Dillard's, Macy's, JCPenney, Dick's Sporting Goods'), mortgage table ('Town East Mall Mesquite (Dallas),TX 3.57% June 2021 90% 145'), Schedule III — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
4. Medical Properties Trust — Form 10-K for 2025, Exhibit 21.1 subsidiaries ('MPT of Mesquite, LLC Delaware Texas') — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
5. Canadian Solar Inc. — Form 20-F for 2025 (Mesquite module facility: Building A leased through December 2033, Building B 71,349 m², production from December 2023, operated by Mesquite Modules Corporation, 91%) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
6. Building Permits Survey, annual 2025, places in the South Region (so2025a.txt) — Mesquite row: 491 one-unit buildings, 491 units, $144,518,212; no 2-4 or 5+ unit permits — U.S. Census Bureau · openA