Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke publishes its whole real-estate roll free on its open-data hub, so the owner, 2026 assessment and last two sales of all 44,489 parcels can be read without an account; the Carilion health system, the City itself, the airport commission, the water authority and Norfolk Southern hold the city's largest blocks of ground.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 15 sources · 6 tier A · 4 tier B · prepared 2026-11-01
Can you find out who owns it?
Virginia records title by deed, and Roanoke, an independent city outside Roanoke County, keeps its deeds at the Roanoke City Circuit Court Clerk. The City's Office of Real Estate Valuation assesses every parcel each 1 January, and the City publishes the whole roll as a free 'Parcels' dataset on its ArcGIS open-data hub: owner of record, mailing address, land and building values for two years, and the last two sales with date, price, grantor and instrument number. Virginia law will not record a deed unless its consideration is stated on the first page, which is why prices appear. The City's main website (roanokeva.gov) is behind a Cloudflare block, so the Clerk's own fee schedule was not read.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free in the City's 'Parcels' open dataset (no account). Deeds: Roanoke City Circuit Court Clerk; its fee page not read (roanokeva.gov Cloudflare block). By statute a clerk's remote-access fee may not exceed $50 per subscriber per month (Code of Virginia 17.1-276). State recordation tax 25 cents per $100; grantor tax 50 cents per $500
Bulk ownership dataCity of Roanoke 'Parcels' dataset on open-data-portal-roanokeva.hub.arcgis.com (CSV, GeoJSON, shapefile, file geodatabase): 44,489 parcels with owner, mailing address, property class, acreage, 2025 and 2026 land/building/total values, two most recent sale dates and prices, grantors and instrument numbers; CSV last modified 14 Sep 2026; no licence stated, so rows are not republished
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital 1906 Belleview Ave SE |
Institutional | Carilion Medical Center (Roanoke Hospital Association) The City roll lists parcel 4060301 (20.12 acres) to 'CARILION MEDICAL CENTER (AKA ROANOKE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION)', 2026 total value $483,830,300 (land $7,669,200), the single highest-assessed parcel in Roanoke; class 458 (exempt, other). Last recorded instrument 15 Oct 2021, no price. Wikipedia (s11) gives 825 beds and part of Carilion Clinic. Carilion entities hold 70 parcels and 136.1 acres worth $818.7M on the roll. |
Institution | —A |
| Wells Fargo Tower 10 S Jefferson St |
Office | Faison Roanoke Office Limited Partnership et als Tallest building in Roanoke and Southwest Virginia: 21 storeys, 320 ft, completed 1991 (s7). The roll lists parcel 4010117 at 10 Jefferson St SE (1.25 acres) to 'FAISON ROANOKE OFFICE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ETALS', mailing address Suite 1200 in the same building; 2026 value $31,289,100. Last instrument 1 Jan 2016, partnership to itself, $0. Parcel matched to the tower by street address (tier B). |
Private company | —B |
| Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center 110 and 106 Shenandoah Ave NE |
Hotel | H R Foundation Inc (Virginia Tech) Hotel parcel 3013501 (5.09 ac, 2026 value $41,727,500) is held by H R Foundation Inc, mailing 'ATTN: VA TECH REAL ESTATE OFFICE', from Virginia Tech R E Foundation Inc (1993). The conference-centre parcel 3013503 (2.52 ac, $20,696,900) is held by the Hotel Roanoke Conference Center Commission, conveyed by the Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority 6 Dec 2018. Wikipedia: owned by Virginia Tech, operated as a Curio Collection by Hilton hotel (s8). Price detail from s8. |
Institution | $65,000 1989 Norfolk Southern deeded the hotel to Virginia Tech for US$65,000 in 1989 (Wikipedia, s8); not on the roll B |
| Valley View Mall 4802 Valley View Blvd NW 864,137 sq ft total; 337,377 sq ft mall store GLA |
Retail | CBL & Associates Properties (Valley View Mall SPE LLC) 100% Roll: parcel 2370108 (14.74 ac, 2026 value $67,026,700) to Valley View Mall SPE LLC and further pads to CBL Valley View Mall OP Propco LLC, both mailing 2030 Hamilton Place Blvd, Chattanooga; the two CBL entities hold 12 commercial-class parcels worth $87.7M. CBL's 2025 10-K (s12) lists the mall 100% owned, opened 1985, acquired 2003, expanded 2007, 97% leased, and its Schedule III shows a (89,309) thousand reduction against the initial cost, leaving a gross carrying amount of $28.4M at 31 Dec 2025 against the City's $67M. |
REIT | —A |
| Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport (Woodrum Field) 5202 Aviation Dr NW |
Civic | Roanoke Regional Airport Commission The roll lists the airfield parcel 6590101 (604.76 ac, 2026 value $94,339,900, land $43,756,000 - the highest land value in the city) to the Roanoke Regional Airport Commission, conveyed by the City of Roanoke 30 June 1987. The Commission holds 27 parcels, 811.6 acres, $119.0M, including land bought 2019-2021 for up to $3.3M a deal. Wikipedia (s9): a five-member commission with city and county of Roanoke representatives governs it. |
Government | —A |
| Berglund Center (former Roanoke Civic Center) 710 Williamson Rd NE |
Civic | City of Roanoke Roll parcel 3024004 (26.84 ac, 2026 value $59,113,000) to 'CITY OF ROANOKE % BERGLUND CENTER'. Wikipedia (s10): 10,500-seat arena opened 1971, owned and operated by the City, with a 2,440-seat theatre and a 46,000 sq ft special events center added 2007. |
Government | —A |
| Roanoke Municipal Building (City Hall) 215 Church Ave SW |
Civic | City of Roanoke Roll parcel 1011401 (lots 1-11, block 9, Official Survey; 2.02 ac) to 'CITY OF ROANOKE VIRGINIA', 2026 value $11,432,400. The address is the mailing address the roll gives for the City and for many Commonwealth-held parcels (Room 250). Building name not read on a City page (roanokeva.gov blocked). |
Government | —A |
| Virginia Tech Carilion campus, Riverside Circle (Fralin Biomedical Research Institute / VTC School of Medicine) 2 and 4 Riverside Cir SW |
Institutional | Virginia Tech Foundation Inc; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Roll: 2 Riverside Cir SW (3.02 ac, 2026 value $50,986,400) to Virginia Tech Foundation Inc; 4 Riverside Cir SW (1.51 ac, $43,985,400) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Neighbouring 1, 3 and 6 Riverside Cir belong to Carilion Clinic Properties LLC. Wikipedia (s13) places the VTC school and Fralin institute in Roanoke but does not give these street numbers, so which building sits on which parcel is not confirmed. |
Institution | $1,650,000 2013-04-05 Roll: 2 Riverside Cir bought from Carilion Services Inc; 4 Riverside Cir $2,000,000 on 1 Jun 2021 B |
| Towers Shopping Center 2121 Colonial Ave SW |
Retail | Towers Retail LLC Roll parcel 1270719 (22.24 ac, 2026 value $34,723,300) to Towers Retail LLC, mailing 8405 Greensboro Dr, McLean VA; received 9 Dec 1997 from Towers Associates Limited Partnership with no price; the prior recorded sale, 28 Oct 1986, was $11,926,667. Centre name taken from the roll's grantor ('ROKE TOWERS SHOPPING CENTER'). |
Private company | —A |
| Center in the Square 1 Market Sq SE |
Institutional | Western Virginia Foundation for the Arts and Sciences Roll parcel 4010808 (0.63 ac, 2026 value $30,071,800) to Western Virginia Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, which also holds 128 Campbell Ave SE and 20 Church Ave SE (5 parcels, $42.0M). The Taubman Museum of Art (110 Salem Ave SE, $50,599,900) is held by the museum itself; the City donated its site (s14). Parcel matched to the Center in the Square name by its Market Square address (s14). |
Institution | $250,000 1982-07-27 Roll's last recorded sale for parcel 4010808 B |
2
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Roanoke's most valuable ground is the hospital and the airport, not downtown offices. All figures from the City's 2026 roll (s1, assessment date 1 Jan 2026).
Highest assessed parcel$483,830,300
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, 1906 Belleview Ave SE, 20.12 ac (2026 roll).
Whole roll, 2026 total value$14.89B across 44,489 parcels
Sum of TOTALVAL1 including tax-exempt parcels (2026 roll).
Downtown (valuation neighbourhood 850)$705.3M across 314 parcels
The neighbourhood code shared by City Hall, Wells Fargo Tower and Center in the Square (2026 roll).
Highest land value$43,756,000
Airport parcel, 604.76 ac (about $72,000 an acre); downtown's Elmwood Park parcel is $11.9M of land on 5.5 ac (2026 roll).
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.
Public bodies and the hospital system hold the big ground. The City of Roanoke is the largest landowner by far (parks, Mill Mountain, the civic centre); the airport commission, Norfolk Southern's rail corridor and the regional water authority come next by acreage. Carilion is the largest private holder by value. Counts are from the City's 2026 roll (s1), grouping the owner-name spellings the roll uses; names of private individuals on the roll are not reproduced.
| Name | Type | Parcels / acres / 2026 value |
|---|---|---|
| City of Roanoke All roll owners beginning 'CITY OF ROANOKE' (incl. 'CITY OF ROANOKE VIRGINIA', 'CITY OF ROANOKE MILL MOUNTAIN', 'CITY OF ROANOKE ELMWOOD PARK'), excluding the housing authority. Largest single parcels: 2102 Grandin Rd SW (96.3 ac, $114.4M), 3601 Ferncliff Ave NW (60.2 ac, $80.7M), the Berglund Center (26.8 ac, $59.1M). |
Government | 799 parcels, 2,705.9 acres, $793.7MA |
| Roanoke Regional Airport Commission Airfield parcel alone 604.8 acres; most parcels came from the City on 30 June 1987, with further land bought 2001-2021. |
Government | 27 parcels, 811.6 acres, $119.0MA |
| Norfolk Southern Railroad One 743.59-acre entry with placeholder parcel number 9999999 and one at 1050 Hollins Rd NE in class 159 ('Vacant Land-SCC'); railroad property is valued outside the City roll (the class suggests the State Corporation Commission), so no value shows. |
Public company | 2 roll entries, 743.6 acres, $0 on the City rollA |
| Western Virginia Water Authority Includes the 105.2-acre plant parcel at 1502 Brownlee Ave SE, 2026 value $119,027,200, the second-highest-assessed parcel in the city. |
Government | 50 parcels, 251.4 acres, $140.2MA |
| Carilion Clinic (Carilion Medical Center, Carilion Clinic Properties LLC, Roanoke Hospital Association) Carilion Clinic Properties LLC alone: 43 parcels, 92.4 acres, $258.6M; plus the $483.8M Roanoke Memorial Hospital parcel. |
Institution | 70 parcels, 136.1 acres, $818.7MA |
| City of Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority Two owner spellings on the roll ('AND' and '&'); mostly public housing and redevelopment land. |
Government | 194 parcels, 137.3 acres, $79.8MA |
| Commonwealth of Virginia (incl. State Board for Community Colleges) All roll owners beginning 'COMMONWEALTH OF V...', including Virginia Western Community College's two parcels on Colonial Ave SW titled to the State Board for Community Colleges (68.8 ac, $93.6M). |
Government | 124 parcels, 105.2 acres, $115.9MA |
| Virginia Tech (Virginia Tech Foundation Inc, VPI&SU, H R Foundation Inc) Hotel Roanoke and the Riverside Circle research campus. |
Institution | 10 parcels, 18.7 acres, $144.3MA |
| Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation Two owner spellings ('CORPORATION', 'CORP'); the largest industrial holder by acreage. |
Public company | 42 parcels, 173.2 acres, $23.6MA |
| School Board of the City of Roanoke Only nine parcels are titled to a school board; most school sites appear to be titled to the City itself (not separated here). One parcel (40.9 ac) is titled to the County School Board of Roanoke County. |
Government | 9 parcels titled to a school board, 67.2 acres, $66.9MA |
| United States of America (incl. Veterans Administration) Federal holdings on the roll. |
Government | 25 parcels, 136.8 acres, $33.8MA |
| Appalachian Power Company Electric utility land (substations, lines) on the City roll. |
Public company | 43 parcels, 42.0 acres, $12.9MA |
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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.
Roanoke is built out and adds few new houses: the Census Bureau counts 88 single-family permits in 2025 against 316 units in eight apartment buildings (s15). New houses are mostly infill by local builders, and much of the trade is renovate-and-resell. With no year-built field on the open roll, builders are counted here by single-family sales they made as grantor in 2024-2026 (s1); the largest single-family-rental holders are listed by parcels held. Builders named after a private person are left out.
| Name | Type | SFR sales as grantor 2024-26 / parcels held |
|---|---|---|
| Stateson Homes LLC By far the largest seller of single-family parcels on the roll in the period; roll grantor field. |
Private company | 73 single-family sales, $31.1M (2024-2026)A |
| Moore Contracting Holdings LLC Roll grantor and owner fields. |
Private company | 16 single-family sales, $3.6M; 28 parcels heldA |
| Habitat for Humanity in the Roanoke Valley Inc Non-profit builder; holds 82 parcels (47.5 ac) awaiting or under construction. |
Institution | 16 sales as grantor 2024-2026; 82 parcels heldA |
| Roanoke Builders LLC; Henegar Homes LLC; E & P Homes LLC Smaller builders on the roll's grantor field. |
Private company | 5 single-family sales each (2024-2026)A |
| ACT 3SQUARED LLP (rental holder) The largest private holder of houses in the city on the roll; local mailing address. |
Private company | 164 parcels (121 single-family, 28 multifamily, 14 duplex), $27.7MA |
| SWVA Holdings LLC; McLeod Family Foundation Inc; CFR BEC LLC (rental holders) SWVA Holdings LLC: 76 single-family. McLeod Family Foundation Inc: 76 single-family (a 'McLeod Foundation LLC' holds 22 more). CFR BEC LLC (Knoxville TN mailing address): 52 single-family. |
Private company | 103, 98 and 63 parcels ($14.4M, $13.3M, $7.7M)A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
No REIT dominates Roanoke. The hospital system is the largest commercial-class owner; CBL's Valley View Mall is the only listed-REIT asset of scale; the rest is held by single-asset LLCs and out-of-town buyers. Figures are 2026 City roll values (s1) for commercial/industrial and commercial-vacant classes unless stated.
| Name | Type | Parcels / 2026 value |
|---|---|---|
| Carilion Clinic Properties LLC Medical office and campus buildings on Jefferson St, Franklin Rd and Riverside Circle. |
Institution | 42 commercial-class parcels, $258.3MA |
| CBL & Associates Properties (Valley View Mall SPE LLC; CBL Valley View Mall OP Propco LLC) Valley View Mall, 100% owned per CBL's 2025 10-K (s12). |
REIT | 12 commercial-class parcels, $87.7M; 864,137 sq ft mallA |
| Farrell Properties Limited Company Mostly commercial and commercial-vacant parcels around Franklin Rd SW and Avenham Ave SW, held since 1993. |
Private company | 54 parcels, 32.5 acres, $23.7MA |
| OVA 1 Towne Square LLC Towne Square Blvd NW retail; Alpharetta GA mailing address; bought 19 Aug 2026, the roll showing $6,138,672 on each parcel row (one deed covering several parcels). |
Private company | 4 parcels, 34.8 acres, $25.8MA |
| STORE Master Funding XXVI LLC Net-lease owner; bought 18 Mar 2022 (rows show $9,591,578, $2,911,484 and $9,976,086); tenant-care-of mailing address is a local furniture retailer. |
Private company | 7 parcels, 26.7 acres, $18.9MA |
| Amazon.com Services LLC Mason Mill Rd NE; bought 3 Jan 2024, roll showing $3,205,000. |
Public company | 5 parcels, 51.6 acres, $20.2MA |
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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.
- The Roanoke City Circuit Court Clerk's own fees and remote-access terms: roanokeva.gov is behind a Cloudflare block, so only the statutory cap is cited.
- Which Riverside Circle building (Fralin institute, VTC school, Carilion offices) sits on which parcel.
- Whether City school sites are titled to the City or the School Board; only nine parcels name a school board.
- Owners of downtown towers other than Wells Fargo Tower were not established from filings; the roll names single-asset LLCs only.
- The live gis03.roanokeva.gov parcel service did not answer; the hub's cached CSV (14 Sep 2026) was used and may lag recent sales.
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Sources
- Parcels (City of Roanoke): CSV export, 44,489 rows; fields OWNER, OWNERADDR1, PROPERTYDE, LEGALACRES, ACRES, LANDVAL1/2, DWELLINGVA, TOTALVAL1/2 (2026/2025), SALEDATE1/2, SALEAMT1/2, GRANTOR1/2, DOCNUM1; assessment date 01/01/2026; Last-Modified 14 Sep 2026; read 1 Nov 2026 — City of Roanoke (ArcGIS Hub organisation 'roanokeva'), from the Office of Real Estate Valuation roll · openA
- Parcels item page: 'Current land record data and property values from Roanoke City's Real Estate office'; access public; owner 'roanokeva'; credits 'City of Roanoke'; service gis03.roanokeva.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Public/Parcels/FeatureServer — City of Roanoke via ArcGIS Online · openA
- Parcels - Dataset - Virginia Open Data Portal (City of Roanoke organisation): 'Current land record data and property values from Roanoke City's Real Estate office'; License: 'No License Provided' — Virginia Open Data Portal (data.virginia.gov) · openA
- Code of Virginia 58.1-802: grantor tax 50 cents per $500; no deed admitted to record unless 'the amount of the consideration is stated on the first page' — Virginia General Assembly (Legislative Information System) · openA
- Code of Virginia 58.1-801: state recordation tax '25 cents on every $100' of the consideration or the actual value, whichever is greater — Virginia General Assembly (Legislative Information System) · openA
- Code of Virginia 17.1-276: clerk's remote-access fee per subscriber 'in an amount not to exceed $50 per month' — Virginia General Assembly (Legislative Information System) · openA
- Wells Fargo Tower (Roanoke): 'a 21-story, 320-foot (98 m) office building in Downtown Roanoke ... Completed in 1991 ... the tallest building in Roanoke and the tallest building in Southwest Virginia' — Wikipedia · openA
- Hotel Roanoke: 'The hotel is owned by Virginia Tech and operated under the "Curio Collection by Hilton" brand'; 'In 1989, Norfolk Southern deeded the Hotel Roanoke to ... Virginia Tech for US$65,000' — Wikipedia · openA
- Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport: 'The five-member Roanoke Regional Airport Commission governs it, which includes representatives from the city and county of Roanoke'; terminal opened October 1989 at $25 million — Wikipedia · openA
- Berglund Center: 10,500-seat arena opened 3 October 1971 (originally Roanoke Civic Center); infobox owner and operator 'City of Roanoke'; 2,440-seat theatre and 46,000 sq ft special events center (2007) — Wikipedia · openA
- Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital: 'a private teaching hospital ... With 825 beds ... one of the largest hospitals in the state. It is part of Carilion Clinic' — Wikipedia · openA
- CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. Form 10-K for 2025 (filed 3 Mar 2026): mall table row 'Valley View Mall Roanoke, VA 1985/2003 2007 100% 864,137 337,377 ... 97%' (anchors Barnes & Noble, Belk, future Dave & Buster's, JC Penney, Macy's, former Sears) and Schedule III row (in thousands: initial land 15,985, buildings 77,771; (89,309); gross carrying amount 28,419; acquired 2003) — CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. via SEC EDGAR · openA
- Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine: public medical school of Virginia Tech in Roanoke, associated with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute (opened 1 Sept 2010 as the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute); formed as a partnership with Carilion Clinic — Wikipedia · openA
- Taubman Museum of Art: 75,000 sq ft facility in downtown Roanoke; in 2000 the city donated a site and $4 million for a new home for the museum; earlier housed in Center in the Square on Market Square from 1983 — Wikipedia · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual county-level file 2025 (co2025a.txt): Roanoke (Independent City), FIPS 51-770 - 88 one-unit buildings/88 units ($28,421,020), 3 two-unit buildings/6 units, 8 buildings of 5+ units/316 units ($30,646,930) — US Census Bureau · openA