San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio's owner-of-record roll is free to take in bulk through the City's own GIS service, under a licence with 'no restrictions on use or distribution' — and, as everywhere in Texas, no public record states what anyone paid.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 37 sources · 7 tier B · 1 tier A · prepared 2026-10-13
Can you find out who owns it?
Texas keeps no public title register; ownership is read from the county appraisal district. The Bexar Central Appraisal District (renamed from Bexar Appraisal District on 1 Jan 2026) names the owner of record for about 750,000 real-property accounts; its own account search now runs behind Google reCAPTCHA, but the City of San Antonio republishes BCAD's parcel attributes — owner name, mailing address, legal description, building area, acreage — weekly as a free GIS layer whose licence reads 'No restrictions on use or distribution.' Deeds are recorded by the Bexar County Clerk, whose index and images are free to search online, with plain copies at $1.00 a page. What no record holds is a price: in BCAD's words, 'Texas is a non-disclosure state; therefore, property sales prices are not required by law to be reported to appraisal districts.' Unlike Houston, San Antonio is zoned: the City 'requires that all properties be platted and zoned before construction or business operations.'
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (BCAD; City of San Antonio GIS layer); deed copies $1.00 per page plain, $5.00 per document certified (Bexar County Clerk)
Bulk ownership dataBCAD Parcels layer, republished weekly by City of San Antonio GIS on ArcGIS Online — 507,250 accounts with owner name, mailing address, legal description, building area and acreage, free and unauthenticated, licence 'No restrictions on use or distribution'; BCAD's full appraisal export is sold via FTP/open-records request, cost on written request
Sale pricesNo transaction data published
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower Life Building 310 S St. Mary's Street, San Antonio |
Office | Parque Colina LLC 100% BCAD account 110965 at situs 310 S Saint Marys St: owner of record Parque Colina LLC (mailing 4515 San Pedro Ave), 0.1875 acre in NCB 986. The layer shows no building area on this account, so it is cited as the owner of record of the parcel at the tower's address only. The Heron (3 May 2022): 'A group led by the McCombs family has purchased the circa-1920s octagonal office tower from the Zachry family', with Ed Cross and Alamo Capital Advisors; the article names no buying entity. Opened 1929 as the Smith-Young Tower; 2022 appraisal $10.2M per BCAD as quoted by the Heron. |
Private company | —B |
| Frost Tower 111 W Houston Street, San Antonio 460,000 sq ft (Weston Urban); 443,560 sq ft building area (BCAD) · 24 floors |
Office | WUKDC 1 LP 100% BCAD account 101390, 2.772 acres, 'Frost Motor Bank Subd'; owner of record WUKDC 1 LP, mailing 112 E Pecan St Ste 175 — the same suite as Weston Centre's owner. Weston Urban's project page: 'Developed in partnership with KDC and built by Clark Construction Group', designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli; completed 2019 (Heron). Frost Bank is the anchor tenant: Cullen/Frost's 2025 10-K says its downtown San Antonio headquarters is a facility 'which we lease'. No filing opened here states the partners' shares. |
Developer | —B |
| Weston Centre 112 E Pecan Street, San Antonio 521,936 sq ft building area (BCAD) |
Office | Santa Clara Land Co Ltd 100% BCAD account 101585, 2.17 acres, 'National Bank Sub Unit-2'; owner of record Santa Clara Land Co Ltd, mailing 112 E Pecan St Ste 175. Weston Urban's About page says of its co-founder that he 'bought and developed the Weston Centre'; the record itself names only the partnership. The third-largest building area downtown on the layer, after the Marriott Rivercenter and 300 Convent. |
Private company | —A |
| The Alamo (church, Long Barrack and grounds) 300 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio 443,000 sq ft building area on the account (BCAD) |
Civic | State of Texas 100% BCAD account 101328: owner State of Texas, 'all of block' NCB 115 plus P-100, 4.16 acres, exempt (EX-XV). Adjoining state accounts include 204 and 321 Alamo Plaza and 320 Bonham (Crockett Hotel subd.), mailed to 1700 Congress Ave Fl 8, Austin, and 317 Alamo Plaza in the name 'Texas General Land Office'. Alamo Trust: 'In 2011, the Texas Legislature … designated the Texas General Land Office (GLO) the custodian of the Alamo on behalf of the people of Texas. The GLO contracts with Alamo Trust, Inc. to care for the Alamo grounds'. Alamo Trust credits the Legislature with appropriating $400M for the Alamo Plan. |
Government | —B |
| Tower of the Americas and Hemisfair 600 Hemisfair Plaza Way / E César E. Chávez Blvd, San Antonio |
Civic | City of San Antonio 100% BCAD account 535967 (600 Hemisfair Plaza Way, 3.89 acres, NCB 13814, exempt) is in the City's name; a point query at the tower's published coordinates returns this parcel. The rest of NCB 13814 is the City's too — 643 and 727 E César Chávez (4.60 and 3.09 acres) and the 600 E Market tract under the Grand Hyatt — except 12.9 acres at 801 E César Chávez held by the Board of Regents of the UT System. Operators and leases of the tower are not on the roll and are not claimed here. |
Government | —B |
| Pearl (former Pearl Brewery district) 303 Pearl Parkway / 200 E Grayson Street, San Antonio |
Mixed use | Silver Ventures Pearl's About page states Silver Ventures bought the brewery property in 2001 and calls Silver Ventures 'our group'; Silver Ventures' site lists Pearl and Hotel Emma among its holdings. On the BCAD layer, Rio Perla Properties LP holds 5 accounts (1.7 acres) along Pearl Pkwy and E Grayson St, mailed to 303 Pearl Pkwy Ste 300 and 200 E Grayson St Ste 203, but the district's main parcels are absent from the layer, so the entity holding each building is not established here. |
Private company | —B |
| San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter 101 Bowie Street, San Antonio 1,049,862 sq ft building area (BCAD) — the largest downtown |
Hotel | Marriott Hotel Prop II Ltd 100% of the hotel; land leased BCAD account 111403, 1.5 acres of lot 30 'Marriott Hotel' (Rivercenter Ut-1); owner of record Marriott Hotel Prop II Ltd, PO Box 4900 Scottsdale. Host Hotels & Resorts' 2025 10-K lists the 1,000-room San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter among its hotels with footnote (1): 'The land on which this hotel is built is leased from a third party.' It also lists the 512-room San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk, whose account at 889 E Market is in the name HMH Rivers Inc '% Host Marriott Corp'. The roll does not itself tie the Rivercenter partnership to Host. |
REIT | —B |
| Grand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk 600 E Market Street, San Antonio |
Hotel | Not established the source would not open The land is the City's: BCAD accounts 535966 (3.87 acres) and 1061702 (0.47 acre) at 600 E Market are in the name City of San Antonio, exempt. The 1,003-room hotel building has no account on the parcel layer, and BCAD's own account search sits behind reCAPTCHA, so who holds the building now could not be read. KSAT (Feb 2022) reported Hyatt wanted 'to continue managing' the hotel 'while selling off the actual building' in a deal of up to $450M; no record opened here shows the outcome. Hyatt's Exhibit 21 lists the name under Hyatt Corporation's trade names — management, not ownership. |
Government | —B |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
BCAD publishes values in reports, not per account on the open layer, so the figures here are BCAD's own certified totals and taxpayer tables. The City of San Antonio is worth $217.5 billion on the 2026 roll; a tenth of that ($23.2B) is fully exempt property, much of it the City's own land, the state's, the school districts' and the military's. The largest taxpayer in the City is not a landlord but a grocer.
City of San Antonio, all property, 2026$217,465,984,901
Market value, 498,917 properties (grand totals incl. ARB review), BCAD 2026 Certified Totals, 18 Jul 2026; net taxable $159,358,609,421.
Commercial real property in the City$44.39 billion
State class F1: 20,097 accounts, 43,110 acres, $44,389,609,897 market value (ARB-approved totals), BCAD 2026 Certified Totals.
Totally exempt property in the City$23.24 billion over 69,942 acres
State class X: 10,717 accounts, $23,243,214,594 market value (ARB-approved totals), BCAD 2026 Certified Totals.
Largest taxpayer in the City$2,165,408,666
HEB Grocery Company LP, 2026 market value in the City of San Antonio taxing unit; then Microsoft ($1.70B), Amazon Data Services ($992M), Methodist Healthcare ($861M), Toyota ($1.39B market, $806M taxable). BCAD 2026 Top Ten as of initial certification.
Bexar County, all property$322.7 billion
BCAD Annual Report 2025: $322,681,318,781 market value over 788,256 parcels (incl. 45,330 personal-property and 1,338 mineral accounts), as of the November 2025 certified supplement.
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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 dominate Bexar County's land. The City holds nearly 29,000 acres in its own name — airport, parks, landfill and utility land — and owns both utilities outright: SAWS holds about 5,400 acres more and CPS Energy, owned by the City since 1942, about 3,350. The state's largest holding is Texas Parks & Wildlife land on the northwest edge. Federal land is on the roll only in part: Joint Base San Antonio's installations appear as a few large 'United States Government' accounts. The biggest private holders are employers — H-E-B, USAA and Toyota — and a cement and quarry company. Acreages are from the City's BCAD layer (distinct accounts, deduplicated), which lacks about a third of BCAD's real-property accounts.
| Name | Type | BCAD parcel layer, Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| City of San Antonio In the City's own name, exempt. Its largest account is a 7,485-acre tract at 9599 Gardner Rd. Downtown it owns the land under the Grand Hyatt and Hemisfair, the Central Library (600 Soledad) and the former Frost Bank Tower at 100 W Houston (361,483 sq ft), mailed to 100 Military Plaza. |
Government | 3,811 accounts, 28,805 acresA |
| Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Largest single account 8,202 acres off Galm Rd (NCB 34450); further tracts along State Hwy 16 and Antonio Dr near Helotes, recorded as 'Government Canyon Annex'. |
Government | 267 accounts, 12,305 acresA |
| United States Government Includes a 2,544-acre account at 4086 Winans Rd, Fort Sam Houston, and a 2,646-acre account on FM 78 at Cibolo. Military family housing at Fort Sam Houston is held separately by Ft Sam Houston Family Housing LP (17 accounts, 423 acres, c/o Lincoln Military Housing). Much of Joint Base San Antonio is not on the layer in any federal name, so this understates federal land. |
Government | 184 accounts, 6,101 acresA |
| San Antonio Water System (City of San Antonio) Under four names: 'City of San Antonio/San Antonio Water System' (102), 'San Antonio Water System' (67), 'San Antonio Water Systems' (27) and the board of trustees, plus a 1,270-acre 'San Antonio Water Supply' account. |
Government | 199 accounts, 5,440 acresA |
| City Public Service Board (CPS Energy) Largest holdings along the Salado Creek and Old Corpus Christi Hwy south-east of the city (a 1,323-acre account on Donop Rd). CPS Energy states the City of San Antonio acquired it in 1942 for $34 million. |
Government | 105 accounts, 3,352 acresA |
| Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas The truck plant site, 2,906,100 sq ft of building area; Toyota group entities hold 12 accounts. Toyota Motor Mfg Texas Inc is the City's fifth-largest taxpayer: $1,391,916,042 market value in 2026 (BCAD Top Ten). |
Public company | 3 accounts, 2,005 acresA |
| H-E-B (HEB Grocery Company LP) Under four spellings (HEB Grocery Company LP, Butt H E Grocery Co, HEB Grocery Co LP, H E Butt Grocery Co). The largest taxpayer in the City at $2,165,408,666 market value, and second countywide ($2,408,608,779) after Microsoft (BCAD 2026 Top Ten, incl. personal property). |
Private company | 69 accounts, 586 acres, 5.0M sq ftA |
| USAA (United Services Automobile Association) The headquarters campus at 9800 Fredericksburg Rd: lot 17 alone is 231.6 acres with 4,481,153 sq ft of building area — the largest single building area on the layer. USAA is the City's tenth-largest taxpayer at $342,818,850 (BCAD 2026 Top Ten). |
Institution | 4 accounts, 287 acres, 5.3M sq ftA |
| Alamo Cement Co II Ltd Industrial and open-space land along E Loop 1604 and Evans Rd, including a 1,118-acre industrial account at 6981 E Loop 1604. Martin Marietta (841 acres) and Vulcan Lands (670 acres) hold further quarry land in the county. |
Private company | 7 accounts, 1,835 acresA |
| Bexar Ranch LP A 3,199-acre rural account at 18554 N State Hwy 16 near Helotes — among the largest private agricultural/rural holdings on the layer held by an entity rather than a person. |
Private company | 3 accounts, 3,200 acresA |
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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.
In Census permit data for 2025 the San Antonio–New Braunfels metro issued 8,651 single-family permits and 10,546 units in all; Bexar County 6,333 units (4,589 single-family), and the City of San Antonio itself 5,320 (3,888 single-family, 1,401 in buildings of five or more). New subdivisions on the edge are financed through special improvement and public improvement districts, and BCAD's taxpayer tables for those districts show who holds the lots: national public builders and a handful of large private Texas firms. No San Antonio builder league table is published, and the builders' 10-Ks name San Antonio as a market without breaking out its numbers. The figure below is each builder's largest 2026 market value in a single BCAD taxing unit, from BCAD's own Top Ten tables — a measure of land and inventory held, not of homes closed.
| Name | Type | Largest holding in one taxing unit, BCAD 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Chesmar Homes Chesmar Homes LLC, top taxpayer listed in Briggs Ranch II Special Improvement District (taxable $18,659,572); also $5.6M jointly with Toll Southwest in Boerne Stage Road SID. A private Texas builder, so no filing gives its volume. |
Private company | $27,596,051A |
| Meritage Homes Meritage Homes of Texas LLC in Bexar County Emergency Services District #7; $10,343,410 in the City of Schertz. Its 2025 10-K lists San Antonio as a market entered in 2003. |
Public company | $19,177,560A |
| Lennar Lennar Homes of Texas Land & Construction Ltd in ESD #10; Millrose Properties Texas LLC, which took Lennar's spun-off land, holds $11,019,970 in Stone Garden SID. Lennar's FY2025 10-K says its acquisition of Rausch Coleman added 'to our existing footprint in Texas (Houston and San Antonio)'. |
Public company | $14,286,390A |
| PulteGroup Pulte Homes of Texas LP in ESD #7; also $8,348,760 in Westpointe SID and $7,441,980 in Briggs Ranch SID. |
Public company | $11,691,920A |
| Perry Homes Perry Homes LLC in Westside 211 Public Improvement District; $2,550,460 in Briggs Ranch SID. Private Houston-based builder. |
Private company | $5,049,810A |
| Toll Brothers Toll Southwest LLC, the largest taxpayer in Boerne Stage Road Special Improvement District, ahead of a $5.6M Chesmar–Toll joint account. |
Public company | $6,167,740A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
San Antonio's largest commercial holders are hotel and industrial REITs, single-family-rental funds and a few private apartment owners — there is no office landlord of Houston's scale. Downtown towers are held by local single-purpose entities (Weston Urban's, the McCombs-led group's). Counts from the BCAD layer are in each owner's own names; the layer holds about two-thirds of BCAD's real-property accounts, so they are floors, not totals. Tricon's single-family rental vehicles hold a further 179 accounts.
| Name | Type | San Antonio holding |
|---|---|---|
| Host Hotels & Resorts FY2025 10-K: San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter (1,000 rooms, land leased) and San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk (512); San Antonio market RevPAR $136.38 in 2025. On BCAD's layer the two hotels' accounts carry 1,381,362 sq ft of building area. |
REIT | 2 hotels, 1,512 roomsA |
| Prologis FY2025 10-K Schedule III: San Antonio, 14 buildings, gross carrying amount $127,142 thousand, acquired 1994–2016. BCAD's layer shows 14 accounts in Prologis names (Prologis-Macquarie Texas LP and others) with 1,709,021 sq ft of building area. |
REIT | 14 buildingsA |
| EastGroup Properties Held as EastGroup Properties LP on BCAD's layer, 116.1 acres. Its FY2025 10-K lists San Antonio parks in Schedule III (Alamo Downs Distribution Center, Arion Business Park 1–15 and others) and places a property-management team in San Antonio. |
REIT | 21 accounts, 1,636,242 sq ftA |
| American Homes 4 Rent FY2025 10-K: 1,105 homes in San Antonio, 1.8% of its portfolio, gross book value $227.8M, average monthly rent $1,943, 94.7% occupied. BCAD's layer shows 458 accounts in AMH borrower and property entities. |
REIT | 1,105 single-family homesA |
| Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA) FY2025 10-K: San Antonio, TX — 4 communities, 1,504 units, 95.2% occupied; Schedule III names MAA Alamo Ranch, MAA Bulverde, MAA Haven at Blanco and MAA Westover Hills. |
REIT | 4 communities, 1,504 unitsA |
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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.
- Coverage of the open layer. BCAD reports about 742,000 real-property parcels (788,256 less personal and mineral accounts, 2025); the City's layer holds 507,250 distinct accounts (512,000 rows, 4,750 duplicates). New-subdivision lots and some downtown parcels (the Pearl's core, the Grand Hyatt building) are missing, which is why builder figures come from BCAD's taxpayer tables and not account counts.
- No values per account: the layer's description promises 'values' but carries none, so no highest-valued downtown parcel can be named; core figures come from BCAD's certified totals and Top Ten tables.
- Grand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk: who holds the building after the 2022 proposal to sell it into a bond-financed structure. The land is City-owned on the roll; the building's account could not be read because BCAD's search is behind reCAPTCHA.
- Tower Life Building: the parcel at 310 S St. Mary's is in the name Parque Colina LLC but carries no building area on the layer, and the 2022 Heron report of the McCombs-led purchase names no entity. No filing opened links the two.
- Frost Tower partners: WUKDC 1 LP is the owner of record and Weston Urban says it developed the tower with KDC; no document opened states either party's share.
- Pearl: Silver Ventures' 2001 purchase rests on Pearl's own site; the entity of record for each building is not on the open layer.
- Joint Base San Antonio's total acreage. Only part of the federal estate appears on the layer in federal names; no DoD real-property inventory was opened.
- Statutory text: statutes.capitol.texas.gov was not used; Government Code 552.149's sales confidentiality is cited through Harris CAD's 2026 Mass Appraisal Report, and the non-disclosure rule through BCAD's own reappraisal plan.
- Deed references and recording dates: the County Clerk's search host disallows robots, so no deed numbers or recording dates are given for any building.
- Zoning text: sanantonio.gov disallows all crawling, so the Unified Development Code was not read; zoning is cited from the City's GIS zoning item (768,388 zoning polygons).
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Sources
- BCAD Parcels feature layer (owner name, mailing address, legal description, building area, acreage), updated weekly; 512,000 records / 507,250 distinct accounts read 2026-10-13 — City of San Antonio GIS (data from Bexar Central Appraisal District) · openA
- BCAD Parcels — item description and licence — City of San Antonio GIS (CoSAGIS_Opendata on ArcGIS Online) · openA
- 2026 Top 10 Taxpayers as of Initial Certification (by taxing unit) — Bexar Central Appraisal District · openA
- 2026 Certified Totals Report (as of 18 Jul 2026), incl. 21 – City of San Antonio — Bexar Central Appraisal District · openA
- 2027–2028 Adopted Reappraisal Plan ('Texas is a non-disclosure state') — Bexar Central Appraisal District · openA
- Bexar Appraisal District Annual Report 2025 — Bexar Central Appraisal District · openA
- Public Information Act Request form (electronic data on CD/DVD/FTP; costs on written request) — Bexar Central Appraisal District · openA
- Bexar Appraisal District to Become Bexar Central Appraisal District in 2026 — Bexar Central Appraisal District · openA
- Real Property Recording Fees (effective 1 Jan 2024) — Bexar County Clerk · openA
- Real Property/Land Records — Bexar County Clerk · openA
- Public Record Search ('a free online database where documents can be searched and viewed online') — Bexar County Clerk · openA
- CoSA Zoning — item description ('San Antonio requires that all properties be platted and zoned before construction or business operations') — City of San Antonio GIS · openA
- Alamo Trust — Governance ('designated the Texas General Land Office (GLO) the custodian of the Alamo') — Alamo Trust, Inc. · openA
- Frost Tower — project page — Weston Urban · openA
- About Weston Urban — Weston Urban · openA
- Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. — Form 10-K for 2025 (Item 2: headquarters 'which we lease') — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Tower Life Building sold to ownership group led by McCombs family — San Antonio Heron · openA
- About Pearl — history timeline ('2001 Silver Ventures Purchases Property') — Pearl (Silver Ventures) · openA
- Silver Ventures — home page (Pearl listed among its holdings) — Silver Ventures, Inc. · openA
- Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. — Form 10-K for 2025 (hotel list, Schedule III) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- City could check out of debt obligations through Grand Hyatt sale — KSAT 12 · openA
- Hyatt Hotels Corporation — Exhibit 21.1 to 2024 Form 10-K (names under which Hyatt Corporation does business) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Prologis, Inc. — Form 10-K for 2025 (Schedule III) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- EastGroup Properties — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- American Homes 4 Rent — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Mid-America Apartment Communities — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Building Permits Survey — county annual 2025 (co2025a.txt), Bexar County FIPS 48/029 — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey — CBSA annual 2025 (cbsa2025a.txt), San Antonio-New Braunfels CBSA 41700 — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey — South Region places annual 2025 (so2025a.txt), San Antonio city — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Meritage Homes — Form 10-K for 2025 (markets and year entered) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Lennar Corporation — Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- M/I Homes — Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- CPS Energy — Who We Are (history; owned by the City of San Antonio since 1942) — CPS Energy · openA
- 2026 Mass Appraisal Report (Government Code Sec. 552.149 sales confidentiality) — Harris Central Appraisal District · openA
- Property search portal (HGO Public Portal PACS) — Blazor app behind Google reCAPTCHA — Bexar Central Appraisal District (vendor Harris Govern) · blockedC
- D.R. Horton — Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 (markets incl. San Antonio) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Reports — certified totals, top ten taxpayers, annual reports — Bexar Central Appraisal District · openA