Sacramento, California
Sacramento keeps owner names off the internet but prints the price of almost every recent sale: the County's sales layer turns each deed's transfer tax into a price, and the City's own financial report names the biggest taxpayers, from the Kings' arena lease to the LLCs behind the Capitol Mall towers.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 26 sources · 3 tier B · 5 tier A · prepared 2026-10-13
Can you find out who owns it?
California has no public title register. The Sacramento County Assessor says owner information is 'not available online' for privacy, but gives the owner of up to two parcels a day free by email or phone and on lobby computers, and will email the whole secured roll, owner names included, at no charge. The County's public GIS layers carry every parcel with the owner masked as 'OWNER OF RECORD', but they also publish a sales layer with the price implied by each deed's transfer tax. The Recorder's grantor-grantee index is online behind a disclaimer; deeds themselves are bought as copies. A sale pays the County's documentary transfer tax of $0.55 per $500, and inside the city a further City transfer tax of 0.275% of the price.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free for up to 2 parcels a day by email or phone (916) 875-0700, or at the Assessor's lobby computers; recorded-document copies $8.00 first page + $1.00 each additional, $1.00 certification
Bulk ownership dataSecured Assessment Roll (owner name included, secured only) in electronic form at no charge on email request to the Assessor; CD $0.25; 2-year Change in Ownership transfer list free, updated monthly
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo Center 400 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, CA 95814 501,308 sq ft (REBusiness); 594,942 building sq ft on the County sales record · 29 floors |
Office | PacWest Equities (Buzz Oates group of companies), assessed as 400 CM Owner LLC REBusiness (31 Oct 2024): Manulife US REIT sold the 29-storey tower and 'PacWest Equities, an affiliate of Buzz Oates, acquired the asset for $117 million'. The County's sales layer derives the same price from the deed's transfer tax. The City's FY2025 ACFR lists '400 CM Owner LLC (Second Street Crossing LLC/ETAL)' as the 7th-largest assessee in Merged Downtown at $111.1M. In 2016 the top assessee there was 'Hines Sacramento Wells Fargo Center' ($192.5M). A further grant deed was recorded on the parcel on 16 Apr 2026 with no transfer-tax price; what it conveyed was not seen. |
Private company | $117M 2024-10 County sales layer: APN 006-0144-029, grant deed dated 29 Oct 2024, indicated price $117,000,000 from the transfer tax. REBusiness reports the same $117M. B |
| U.S. Bank Tower 621 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, CA 95814 366,000 sq ft · 25 floors |
Office | SRI Eleven 621 Capitol Mall LLC (a Shorenstein Properties fund) REBusiness (12 Jan 2018): 'A fund sponsored by Shorenstein Properties has purchased U.S. Bank Tower, a 366,000-square-foot office building', 25 storeys, from David S. Taylor Interests and Britannia Pacific Properties. The City's FY2025 ACFR lists 'SRI Eleven 621 Capitol Mall LLC' as a top-10 Merged Downtown assessee at $95.0M; in 2016 the same slot held '621 Capitol Mall LLC' at $129.8M. Citywide the ACFR also lists 'SRI Eleven 601 Capitol Mall LLC' at $184.5M (8th). The parcel layer shows no deed on 621 Capitol Mall since 11 Jan 2018. |
Private equity | —B |
| Golden 1 Center 500 David J Stern Walk, Sacramento, CA 95814 245,678 sq ft lot (parcel layer); 17,500-seat arena |
Civic | City of Sacramento Bond remarketing circular (Sept 2015): 'The City owns the Arena', leased to the Sacramento Public Financing Authority and leased back to secure $272.87M of Series 2015 lease revenue bonds. The City leased it to Sacramento Downtown Arena LLC ('ArenaCo', a Kings entity) for 35 years from substantial completion, with two optional five-year extensions. ArenaCo has granted a leasehold mortgage. The parcel's last recorded document is a LEASE dated 26 Sep 2016. The FY2025 ACFR taxes that possessory interest as 'City of Sacramento (Sacramento Downtown Arena LLC)', $385.6M, the largest assessee in Merged Downtown. |
Government | —A |
| Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel 1230 J St, Sacramento, CA 95814 505 rooms; 8,928 sq ft retail in the garage |
Hotel | Creative Media & Community Trust Corporation (CMCT) CMCT FY2025 10-K: 'Sheraton Grand Hotel, Sacramento, CA, 505 rooms', 72.5% occupancy, RevPAR $152.70, with a separate parking garage and retail property. Schedule III shows a $90.96M encumbrance, and a footnote gives the variable-rate mortgage, also secured on the garage, as $91.0M outstanding. Rooms renovation $21.2M; a lobby renovation was under way. The 2016 ACFR assessee was 'CIM/J Street Hotel Sacramento LP'. The County parcel layer shows a grant deed on 6 Dec 2024 with no transfer-tax price, which was not seen. The floor count is not in the filing. |
Public company | —A |
| Downtown Commons (DOCO) K St between 4th and 7th (former Downtown Plaza), Sacramento, CA 95814 about 1,000,000 sq ft |
Mixed use | Joint venture of JMA Ventures, LLC and the Sacramento Kings JMA Ventures' portfolio page: redevelopment of the former Westfield Downtown Plaza, 'developed in a joint venture with the Sacramento Kings': 300K sq ft of new retail, the 250-key Kimpton hotel, 45 condos, 120K sq ft of office and the 332K sq ft Macy's refurbishment. It lists exits for the Kings office (2017), condos (2018-2019) and 660 J Street (2020) but not for the retail or hotel. The current vesting entity of each parcel was not seen, and the page does not say who holds the remainder now. The FY2025 ACFR lists 'Sacramento Kings' as the city's largest taxpayer ($389.3M), without naming parcels. |
Developer | —B |
| California State Capitol and Capitol Park State Capitol / 13th St and Capitol Mall, Sacramento, CA 95814 482,400 sq ft of structures on 12.45 acres; Capitol Park 15.95 acres |
Civic | State of California (Department of General Services) DGS Statewide Property Inventory: 'STATE CAPITOL', real property no. 644, agency General Services, 12.45 fee acres, 482,400 sq ft of structures; 'CAPITOL PARK', no. 645, 15.95 acres. The Legislative Office Building (1020 N St, 237,000 sq ft) is held by the Legislature itself. DGS's Capitol Area East End Complex (1430 N St) is the State's largest office holding downtown at 2,210,939 sq ft on 10.02 acres. |
Government | —A |
| The Railyards north of downtown between the Sacramento River and 12th St, Sacramento, CA 95811 |
Land | Downtown Railyard Ventures, LLC The Railyards FAQ: 'The property is owned by Downtown Railyard Ventures, LLC. (DRV). LDK Ventures is a partner in DRV and is the master developer.' Planned: an 18-acre Kaiser Permanente medical complex, the restored Central Shops, a railroad technology museum and a Sacramento Republic FC stadium. Parcels already conveyed to Kaiser or the stadium were not traced. The River District's top assessee in the FY2025 ACFR is '29SC T9 Phase A Property Owner LLC' ($117.2M), which was not tied to a site. |
Developer | —A |
| Hyatt Regency Sacramento 1209 L St, Sacramento, CA 95814 |
Hotel | Not established a paid title search would answer it Hyatt's FY2025 Exhibit 21.1 lists 'Hyatt Regency Sacramento' as a name under which its subsidiary Hyatt Corporation does business. That makes Hyatt the operator, not necessarily the owner. The County parcel layer shows a grant deed on the hotel's parcels (006-0112-022) dated 13 Aug 2025, with no indicated price in the sales layer. The grantee would be given by the Assessor on request (two parcels a day by email or phone), which this research did not use. No filing or dated release naming an owner was found. |
Not established | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Sacramento publishes no parcel-level assessed values as open data: the County's GIS layers carry parcels and deeds but not values, and the Parcel Viewer gives values one parcel at a time behind a disclaimer. The best public view of the most valuable ground is the City's own ACFR, whose statistical tables (from the County Auditor-Controller) total the roll and name the ten largest assessees citywide and in each former redevelopment area. Separately, the County's sales layer prints a transfer-tax price for each deed.
City of Sacramento net assessed value, FY2025$75.07B
Gross $75.51B: real property $72.52B, personal property $2.97B, utilities $10.5M, less $432M exemptions. FY2016: $40.90B. City ACFR FY2025, statistical section (source: County Auditor-Controller).
Largest taxpayer citywide$389.3M (Sacramento Kings)
0.52% of the City's assessed value. The ten largest together hold $2.43B, 3.21% of the total, against 3.24% in 2016. City ACFR FY2025.
Top assessee in Merged Downtown$385.6M
'City of Sacramento (Sacramento Downtown Arena LLC)': the Kings entity's taxable lease of the City-owned Golden 1 Center, 7.81% of the area's taxable value. The top ten in Merged Downtown total $1.54B (31.23%), which puts the area at about $4.94B (computed from the stated share). City ACFR FY2025.
Highest recorded sale price in the city, 2023-2026$117M
400 Capitol Mall (Wells Fargo Center), deed 29 Oct 2024, indicated price from transfer tax. Next downtown: 1606 P St apartments $34.5M (May 2026), 520 Capitol Mall $22.3M (Nov 2025), 414 K St $15.0M (Jul 2025). County sales layer, read 13 Oct 2026.
Sacramento County roll, 2026-27$269.5B gross; $255.7B net
+4.93% on the year. The Assessor counts 3,775 apartment units completed countywide in 2025, with 4,426 under construction at year-end. Assessor news release, 8 Jul 2026.
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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.
Downtown Sacramento is a government town in the literal sense. The State of California owns its Capitol, the Capitol Park and a ring of office blocks, and is also the largest tenant: the DGS inventory lists 269 State leases with a Sacramento address. The City owns the arena that anchors the private downtown, plus 237 parks. The State's two universities hold the largest campuses. Figures are as each owner's own register or report states them. The State inventory keys on postal city, so a few 'Sacramento' entries may lie outside the city limits (the Franchise Tax Board campus at 9645 Butterfield Way is one to check). Owner names on private parcels are masked in every public County layer, so private landholdings cannot be ranked by area.
| Name | Type | Holdings (as stated) |
|---|---|---|
| State of California DGS Statewide Property Inventory, owned real property with city 'Sacramento'. The Department of General Services alone holds 54 properties, 224.77 acres and 16.59M sq ft, including the Capitol (482,400 sq ft), the East End Complex (2.21M sq ft), the May Lee Office Complex (1.82M sq ft) and CalEPA HQ (950,000 sq ft). Also listed: Cal Expo and State Fair (846.7 acres), Caltrans (14 properties) and DMV HQ. |
Government | 98 owned properties, 1,977.86 acres, 32.3M sq ft of structuresA |
| California State University (Sacramento State) DGS inventory: 'CSU, SACRAMENTO', 6000 J Street, 294.03 fee acres, 5,867,847 sq ft of structures. |
Government | 294.03 acres, 5.87M sq ftA |
| University of California (UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento) DGS inventory: 'UC, DAVIS OFF CAMPUS CENTER - UCD MED CENTER SACRAMENTO', 2315 Stockton Blvd, 176.37 acres, 5,029,429 sq ft. The University of California holds 3 properties in the city, 177.02 acres in all. |
Government | 176.37 acres, 5.03M sq ftA |
| City of Sacramento City ACFR FY2025 capital asset statistics. Park acreage dropped from 4,358 because golf acreage was excluded from FY2025. The City also owns Golden 1 Center (bond circular, 2015). |
Government | 237 parks, 3,396 acres (excl. golf); 6 golf courses; 14 public garages and lots; 475 marina slipsA |
| Housing Authorities of the City and County of Sacramento (managed by SHRA) SHRA 'manages the Public Housing program on behalf of the City and County', providing 'over 3,000 affordable housing units': apartments, duplexes and single-family homes. The page does not split them between city and county. |
Government | over 3,000 affordable housing unitsA |
| Downtown Railyard Ventures, LLC The owner's FAQ says DRV owns the Railyards and completed the purchase on 30 Sep 2015. It is the largest private landholding in the urban core, with an 18-acre Kaiser Permanente medical campus planned within it. |
Developer | the Railyards site (acreage not stated by the owner)A |
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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.
The City of Sacramento permitted 2,297 new homes in 2025: 1,012 single-unit houses, 130 in two- to four-unit buildings and 1,155 in buildings of five or more (Census Building Permits Survey; 2,043 in 2024). Most detached houses are built by the national public builders. The City publishes every issued permit with its contractor. In 2025, 1,098 new single-family, duplex and half-plex permits were issued; 167 named no contractor. The figures below count new-home permits (sub-type 'Production Permit' or 'New Building') by the licensed builder entity, each tied to its parent through the parent's SEC Exhibit 21 where one exists. Permits are not completions, and the City layer counts permits rather than units for these builders.
| Name | Type | New-home permits issued in the city, 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Lennar Corporation (Lennar Homes of California, LLC) City permit records: 274 new single-family permits to 'LENNAR HOMES OF CALIFORNIA LLC' in 2025, $124.0M declared valuation; 297 in 2024. That is a quarter of all new-home permits in the city. Lennar's FY2025 Exhibit 21 lists Lennar Homes of California, LLC (CA). |
Public company | 274 (297 in 2024)A |
| Meritage Homes (Meritage Homes of California, Inc.) City permits 2025: 113 to 'MERITAGE HOMES OF CALIFORNIA INC' ($50.9M valuation); none among the top names in 2024. Meritage's FY2025 10-K lists Sacramento as a market entered in 1998, with West Region homes closed 3,821 (4,526 in 2024). Its Exhibit 21 lists the California subsidiary. |
Public company | 113A |
| KB Home (KB HOME Sacramento Inc.) City permits 2025: 109 to 'KB HOME SACRAMENTO INC' ($43.6M). KB Home's FY2025 10-K places Sacramento and Roseville in its West Coast segment, which delivered 3,965 homes (4,316 in 2024). Exhibit 21 lists KB HOME Sacramento Inc. |
Public company | 109 (56 in 2024)A |
| D.R. Horton (D.R. Horton CA2, Inc.) City permits 2025: 65 to 'D.R. HORTON CA2 INC' ($18.1M). D.R. Horton's FY2025 Exhibit 21.1 lists D.R. Horton CA2, Inc. (California), and the 10-K lists Sacramento among its California markets. |
Public company | 65 (10 in 2024)A |
| Signature Homes City permits 2025: 58 permits for 62 houses to 'SIGNATURE HOMES INC' ($23.9M). A private builder with no SEC filings; its ownership was not established from a document. |
Private company | 58 (70 in 2024)A |
| The New Home Company (TNHC Realty and Construction Inc.) City permits 2025: 41 to 'TNHC REALTY AND CONSTRUCTION INC' ($18.8M). The New Home Company no longer files with the SEC: full-text search for the entity returned no filings since 2025, and its current ownership was not established from a document. For comparison, Tri Pointe Homes Holdings, Inc. (in Tri Pointe's FY2025 Exhibit 21.1) took 24 permits and Syncon Homes of California 37. |
Private company | 41B |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
No REIT holds a large Sacramento portfolio that its filings break out by city. What exists publicly is the City's own list of its largest assessees, which names the owning LLCs: apartment owners, an industrial park, the Kings, a dairy plant and the Capitol Mall office towers. The list below uses those assessed values (FY2025 roll as reported in the City ACFR) as stated. The entities are named as the roll names them, and parent companies are given only where a document makes the link.
| Name | Type | Assessed value, FY2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Sacramento Kings City's largest taxpayer: 0.52% of the city roll. It includes the arena possessory interest, assessed as 'City of Sacramento (Sacramento Downtown Arena LLC)' at $385.6M in Merged Downtown. The Kings also co-developed Downtown Commons with JMA Ventures. City ACFR FY2025. |
Private company | $389.3MA |
| Oakmont Properties ALIRA LLC 2nd-largest taxpayer citywide (0.46%). City ACFR FY2025. The property it holds was not identified from a document. |
Private company | $344.6MA |
| BRE Depot Park LLC 3rd-largest taxpayer citywide (0.34%). City ACFR FY2025. The property it holds and the parent of the 'BRE' entity were not identified from a document. |
Private company | $253.5MA |
| AS LSTE East Owner LLC 4th-largest taxpayer citywide (0.33%). City ACFR FY2025; the holding and its parent were not identified from a document. |
Private company | $250.9MA |
| CA Sacramento Commons LLC 5th citywide and 2nd in Merged Downtown. City ACFR FY2025. The Merged Downtown table reports a slightly higher taxable value than the citywide table; both are quoted as printed. |
Private company | $226.0M (citywide); $233.4M in Merged DowntownA |
| Shorenstein Properties (SRI Eleven 601 / 621 Capitol Mall LLC) 'SRI Eleven 601 Capitol Mall LLC' is 8th citywide at $184.5M; 'SRI Eleven 621 Capitol Mall LLC' is 9th in Merged Downtown at $95.0M (City ACFR FY2025). REBusiness (Jan 2018) reported that a Shorenstein-sponsored fund bought U.S. Bank Tower at 621 Capitol Mall. Whether the two entities overlap in the citywide figure is not stated. |
Private equity | $184.5M + $95.0MB |
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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 owner of the Hyatt Regency Sacramento (1209 L St): a grant deed was recorded on 13 Aug 2025, but no filing or release names the grantee. The 2016 ACFR's 'Capitol Regency LLC' ($75.2M) may be the hotel, but nothing ties the name to the address.
- Who the 16 Apr 2026 grant deed on 400 Capitol Mall conveyed to: it carries no transfer-tax price and the deed was not read.
- The Sheraton Grand's 6 Dec 2024 grant deed, which shows no price, was not read; CMCT's 10-K still reports the hotel as its own at 31 Dec 2025.
- Who bought 2 Sports Pkwy, the former Natomas arena site: the sales layer shows $75.0M on 15 May 2024 (vacant land), but no buyer was established.
- Land held by Sacramento County, Sacramento City Unified School District, SMUD, Sacramento Regional Transit and Union Pacific inside the city: no source stating their acreage or parcel count was opened, and owner fields are masked in the County's public parcel layer.
- Builder lot holdings on the roll: the roll's owner names (free by email request) would show how much Natomas and south-city land Lennar, KB and the others own, but that channel was not used.
- Whether 'Prime US-Park Tower LLC' ($95.0M, Merged Downtown, City ACFR) is the Park Tower office building at 980 9th St was not established; Prime US REIT's SGX filings were not opened.
- Which DOCO parcels the Kings/JMA joint venture still holds. Also, who bought 414 K St (446,764 sq ft on the sales record, $15.0M, Jul 2025), and whether it is the former Macy's building: neither was established.
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Sources
- Ownership Information: 'not available on this website'; up to 2 secured parcels per day by email or phone; lobby computers — Sacramento County Assessor · openA
- Assessor Records: 'Due to privacy concerns owner information is not available online'; public information includes owner's name (secured only) — Sacramento County Assessor · openA
- Assessor's Office Services Fee Schedule (BOS Resolution #23-0860): secured roll electronic version no charge; 2-year Change in Ownership transfer list free — Sacramento County Assessor · openA
- Recorder Fee Schedule: DTT $0.55 per $500; City of Sacramento collects a separate transfer tax; copies $8 first page + $1 — Sacramento County Clerk/Recorder · openA
- City of Sacramento Additional Real Property Transfer Tax notice: rate .00275 of consideration (SCC 3.16.020), collected at recording since 1 Sep 2013 — Sacramento County Clerk/Recorder · openA
- Online Index of Recorded Documents: index since 1849, 'You will not be able to view the actual document'; search sits behind a legal disclaimer — Sacramento County Clerk/Recorder · openA
- ASSESSOR MapServer layer 1 'Sales by Property Type': APN, situs, transfer tax amount, indicated sales price, document date; no party names (56,968 rows, deeds Jan 2023 to Sep 2026) — Sacramento County GIS (data from the Assessor) · openA
- PARCELS MapServer layer 8 'Active GIS Parcel Base': 508,647 parcels, jurisdiction, land use, last recorded document; NAME/OWNER fields read 'OWNER OF RECORD' on every row — Sacramento County GIS · openA
- Sacramento County Assessor releases 2026 roll totals: gross $269.5B (+4.93%), net $255.7B; 3,775 apartment units completed in 2025 — Sacramento County Assessor · openA
- Manulife US REIT Sells 400 Capitol Mall Office Tower in Sacramento for $117M — REBusinessOnline · openA
- Shorenstein Properties Purchases U.S. Bank Tower in Sacramento — REBusinessOnline · openA
- Creative Media & Community Trust Corp, Form 10-K FY2025 (hotel portfolio summary; Schedule III) — SEC EDGAR · openA
- Remarketing Circular, $272,870,000 Sacramento Public Financing Authority Lease Revenue Bonds, Series 2015 (Golden 1 Center) — City of Sacramento Treasurer · openA
- Downtown Commons portfolio page: developed in a joint venture with the Sacramento Kings; acquired 2012; exits listed — JMA Ventures · openA
- The Railyards FAQ: 'The property is owned by Downtown Railyard Ventures, LLC. (DRV)'; purchase completed 30 Sep 2015 — The Railyards (Downtown Railyard Ventures) · openA
- Statewide Property Inventory, RealProperty layer (owned land and structures by agency); Lease layer — California Department of General Services · openA
- Hyatt Hotels Corporation Exhibit 21.1 (FY2025): Hyatt Corporation does business as 'Hyatt Regency Sacramento' — SEC EDGAR · openA
- Issued Building Permits Archive (FeatureServer): permit type, parcel, valuation, house count, Contractor — City of Sacramento Open Data · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual place file we2025a.txt (and we2024a.txt): Sacramento city, FIPS 06/64000 — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Lennar Corp FY2025 10-K Exhibit 21 (lists Lennar Homes of California, LLC) — SEC EDGAR · openA
- Meritage Homes FY2025 10-K (markets incl. Sacramento since 1998; West Region homes closed) and Exhibit 21 (Meritage Homes of California, Inc.) — SEC EDGAR · openA
- KB Home FY2025 10-K (West Coast segment incl. Sacramento and Roseville) and Exhibit 21 (KB HOME Sacramento Inc.) — SEC EDGAR · openA
- D.R. Horton FY2025 10-K Exhibit 21.1 (D.R. Horton CA2, Inc.); 10-K lists Sacramento among California markets — SEC EDGAR · openA
- Tri Pointe Homes FY2025 10-K Exhibit 21.1 (Tri Pointe Homes Holdings, Inc.) — SEC EDGAR · openA
- City of Sacramento Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, FY ended 30 June 2025: statistical section (assessed value, principal property taxpayers citywide and by redevelopment area, capital asset statistics) — City of Sacramento Finance Department (taxpayer data from County Auditor-Controller) · openA
- Public Housing Program: SHRA 'manages the Public Housing program on behalf of the City and County' with 'over 3,000 affordable housing units' — Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency · openA