Pensacola, Florida

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.

Public bodies and two hospital systems hold Pensacola's biggest ground. The City is by far the largest landowner - about 2,500 acres across 649 parcels once its airport is counted - and leases much of it to private operators, whose names appear in the roll's legal text. Naval Air Station Pensacola and the University of West Florida's main campus lie outside the City limits, so the federal government and UWF barely appear. Railways and FPL's operating plant are centrally assessed by the state, so their City holdings look small. Figures are from the 2026 preliminary roll (tax-authority codes X and Z); acres are roll land square footage / 43,560; name spellings are grouped; individuals and family trusts are left out.

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.

Pensacola is an old, largely built-out city and builds new homes one lot at a time. The Census Bureau counted 88 single-family units ($29.6M) and no units in buildings of two or more permitted in the City in 2025. The roll shows 506 parcels completed 2023-25 (412 single-family houses), plus one large rental block, Palmilla (239 units, 2023). One national builder, D.R. Horton, holds infill lots; the rest are local firms. No institutional single-family-rental owner (Progress, Invitation, American Homes 4 Rent, FirstKey, Tricon) appears on the City roll; the largest entity cluster is 23 houses mailed to one Tampa office (850 Holdings LLC, Bay to Gulf Holdings LLC, Seaside 1882 LLC), then 9 held by Grand Bayview Holdings LLC / II LLC (Ronkonkoma, NY). Builder figures count parcels held in each builder's name on the 2026 roll - lots and unsold homes - not homes built; no league table of Pensacola starts by builder was found.

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

Pensacola has no office REIT and few national landlords. Its commercial top is Simon's Cordova Mall, the Walmart and Sam's Club stores, a downtown group of entities sharing one mailing address, and apartment owners from Memphis, Atlanta and Tulsa. The roll names the entities; only Simon's filing names the asset itself. Housing builders are counted separately below. Figures are 2026 preliminary just values.

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

1. Escambia 27 Preliminary NAL 2026 - real property roll (NAL27P202602.csv), 171,483 parcels; 28,310 in the City of Pensacola (tax-authority codes X and Z) — Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight (submitted by the Escambia County Property Appraiser) · openA
2. Escambia 27 Preliminary SDF 2026 - Sale Data File (SDF27P202602.csv), 29,834 recorded transfers countywide (5,276 on City parcels), 2025-26, with OR book/page and qualification code — Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight · openA
3. Download Assessment Roll and GIS Data - 'publishes assessment rolls in compliance with chapter 119'; schedule: 'July 1 - Preliminary assessment rolls', 'October - Initial final assessment rolls'; exempt owners under s. 119.071 removed — Florida Department of Revenue · openA
4. 2026 NAL, SDF and NAP User's Guide - SALE_PRC1 'contains the sale price indicated by documentary stamps on the deed'; DOR use codes (e.g. 090 'Leasehold interests (government-owned property leased by a non-governmental lessee)'); sale qualification codes — Florida Department of Revenue · openA
5. Documentary Stamp Tax - 'In all Florida counties except Miami-Dade, the tax rate ... is 70 cents on each $100 or portion thereof of the total consideration' (s. 201.02(1)(a), F.S.) — Florida Department of Revenue · openA
6. Section 28.24, Florida Statutes - clerk service charges (copies by photographic process $1.00 per page; certifying copies of an instrument not a court record $2.00 per page) — Florida Legislature (Online Sunshine) · openA
7. Hospital General Information (CMS Provider Data) - provider 100025 SACRED HEART HOSPITAL, 5151 N 9th Ave; 100093 BAPTIST HOSPITAL, 123 Baptist Way; both 'Voluntary non-profit - Private' — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · openA
8. Pensacola International Airport - About ('Owned and operated by the City of Pensacola'), Airport History ('more than 1,400 acres'), Airport Statistics (3,116,318 passengers 2025), Lease & Land Development ('more than 350 acres of land available') — Pensacola International Airport (City of Pensacola) · openA
9. Simon Property Group - Form 10-K for 2025 (Cordova Mall: Fee 100.0%, acquired 1998, 98.4% leased, 932,520 sq ft; Schedule III) — Simon Property Group / SEC EDGAR · openA
10. Blue Wahoos Stadium - owner and operator Community Maritime Park Associates; 351 West Cedar Street; opened 5 Apr 2012; cost $23,845,045 — Wikipedia · openA
11. Pensacola Bay Center - 201 East Gregory Street; 'owned by Escambia County and operated by Legends Global'; opened 21 Jan 1985, cost $20.5M — Wikipedia · openA
12. Pensacola, Florida - architecture ('The tallest is the 15-floor Crowne Plaza Grand Hotel, at 146 feet'); 2020 census population 54,312; 'only city in Escambia County' — Wikipedia · openA
13. Louisville and Nashville Passenger Station and Express Building - 1984 'incorporated into the Pensacola Grand Hotel (now the Crowne Plaza Pensacola Grand Hotel)' — Wikipedia · openA
14. Port of Pensacola - 'one of the City of Pensacola's Enterprise Operations'; approximately 50 acres at the southern terminus of Barracks Street — Wikipedia · openA
15. Cordova Mall - owner Simon Property Group, opened 1971, 929,685 sq ft — Wikipedia · openA
16. Pensacola International Airport - 'It is owned by the City of Pensacola' — Wikipedia · openA
17. Gulf Power Company - 'In 2021, GPC was legally merged into Florida Power & Light'; acquired by NextEra Energy in 2019 — Wikipedia · openA
18. Building Permits Survey - South Region places, annual 2025 (so2025a.txt): Pensacola (FIPS place 55925), 88 one-unit buildings, 88 units, $29,589,396; 0 in 2+ unit buildings — US Census Bureau · openA