Springfield, Illinois
Springfield publishes the owner of record of every parcel free on Sangamon County's property tax site, and Illinois puts every recorded sale since 2013, with price, address and buyer and seller, on its open-data portal in the public domain; the State of Illinois is the capital's dominant landholder.
11 buildings · 11 with an owner established · 11 sources · 10 tier A · 1 tier B · prepared 2026-10-14
Can you find out who owns it?
Illinois records deeds rather than registering title; Springfield's are kept by the Sangamon County Recorder, a grantor/grantee office whose index from 1982 is searchable free online (images through paid Tapestry or Laredo accounts). The County's property tax site shows the owner of record, tax-bill mailing address, class, assessment, owner history and sales of any parcel free, one parcel at a time. Every sale of $100 or more must carry a PTAX-203 transfer declaration, and the Illinois Department of Revenue publishes all of them since 2013 on data.illinois.gov, weekly and in the public domain, with price, address, PIN, buyer and seller. Illinois land trusts can still hide a beneficiary behind a bank trustee.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Sangamon County Property Tax site, per parcel). Recorder: free data-only index search and free public terminals; Tapestry 'a charge per Land Records search' and Laredo by account (prices not stated on the County page); copies $2 for the first two pages and $0.25 a page after, certified $26; recording a standard real-property document $64.
Bulk ownership dataNo bulk owner roll is published. The nearest is the Illinois Department of Revenue's PTAX-203 dataset on data.illinois.gov (public domain, weekly): buyer, seller, price, address and PIN of every recorded Sangamon County transfer since December 2014, which names the most recent buyer, not the current owner. The County GIS parcel layers carry PIN and acreage but no owner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois State Capitol 401 S 2nd St |
Civic | State of Illinois (Secretary of State) County record (s1), parcel 14-33.0-280-001: owner STATE OF ILLINOIS, mailed care of the Secretary of State's budget office, class 95 'Totally Exempt Real Estate', legal description 'CAPITAL BUILDING'. Owner history lists 'CAPITAL BUILDING' for 1997 and 2000 and STATE OF ILLINOIS from tax year 2015; 'No sales information for this parcel'. Two neighbouring Capitol-complex parcels at 501 S 2nd St are also in the Secretary of State's name. Exempt parcels carry $0 on the roll, so no value is given. |
Government | —A |
| Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum 112 N 6th St (library); 212 N 6th St (museum) |
Civic | State of Illinois (ALPLM agency) County record (s1): both blocks are owned by STATE OF ILLINOIS, mailed care of the 'ALPLM AGENCY'. The museum parcel, 14-27.0-380-019 at 212 N 6th St, is Block 1 of the Old Town Plat with the vacated alley (2.42 acres). The library parcel, 14-27.0-384-042 at 112 N 6th St, is 1.41 acres. Both are exempt with $0 assessed. |
Government | —A |
| Lincoln Home National Historic Site 413 S 8th St (parcel address 511 S 8th St) |
Civic | United States of America (National Park Service) County record (s1), parcel 14-34.0-178-024: owner UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, mailed to 413 S 8th St (the Lincoln Home), class 95 exempt, legal description 'Blk 7 ex L1 & N1/2 L2, all of Blks 6, 10 & 11 including adjacent vacated streets and alleys (Lincoln Home...)', 12.28 acres. The record names the United States; the National Park Service attribution rests on the mailing address at the Home, not on the owner line. |
Government | —A |
| Wyndham Springfield City Centre 700 E Adams St (hotel); 700 E Monroe St (garage) |
Hotel | Tower Capital Group LP County record (s1): hotel parcel 14-34.0-132-011 and garage parcel 14-34.4-132-013 are owned by TOWER CAPITAL GROUP LP, mailed to San Antonio, Texas. 2025 fair market value $3,611,847 (hotel) and $724,131 (garage); 2025 tax $97,477 and $19,543. Owner history: Pinnacle Ltd Partnership to 2016, LB-UBS (a securitisation's REO vehicle) from 2018, Tower Capital from 2019. The County's 1989 sale shows $6,700,000. Pending transactions list document 2026R19172, a Lis Pendens Notice, filed 7 Oct 2026; the record does not say who filed it or why. |
Private company | $7,400,000 2019-08 PTAX-203 doc 2019R16490, recorded 12 Aug 2019, 3 parcels, seller LB-UBS 2007-C2 East Adams Street LLC, marked a bank REO sale. A |
| BOS Center (convention centre) 1 Convention Center Plaza |
Civic | Springfield Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority County record (s1): four exempt parcels at 1 Convention Center Plaza (14-34.0-128-038 to -041) are owned by SPRINGFIELD METRO EXPOSITION & AUDITORIUM AUTHORITY. They include vacated 8th Street and the alleys between Blocks 26 and 27 of the Old Town Plat and Block 4 of J R Grey's Addition. The roll gives no acreage or value for them. The roll does not name Sangamon County or the City as owner. |
Government | —A |
| Illinois State Fairgrounds 801 E Sangamon Ave |
Civic | State of Illinois (Department of Agriculture) County record (s1), parcel 14-15.0-401-001: owner STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPT OF AGRICULTURE, mailed to its legal division, class 95 exempt, 'W PT SE 15-16-5 (STATE FAIRGROUNDS)', 154.00 acres. That is the main parcel only; the Department holds further fairground parcels (see landowners). |
Government | —A |
| Memorial Medical Center (Springfield Memorial Hospital) 701 N 1st St |
Institutional | Memorial Health System County record (s1): parcel 14-28.0-281-010 at 701 N 1st St, owner MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM, 11.76 acres, exempt with $0 assessed. A companion parcel, 14-28.4-281-010, is '2289 sq ft of taxable property' carved out of the same lot, fair market value $319,461 and 2025 tax $8,622. Memorial is a non-profit system. |
Institution | —A |
| HSHS St. John's Hospital 800 E Carpenter St |
Institutional | St. John's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis County record (s1): parcel 14-27.0-409-011 at 800 E Carpenter St, owner 'ST JOHNS HOSPITAL OF HOSPITAL SISTERS OF 3RD ORDER OSF', mailed care of HSHS accounting at the hospital, exempt with $0 assessed. Its legal description covers lots 1-5 and 12-16 and vacated alleys of Wells & Peck's Addition, part of the hospital campus. The hospital's other campus parcels are not itemised here. |
Institution | —A |
| White Oaks Mall 2501 Wabash Ave 922,632 sq ft |
Retail | Simon Property Group (Mall at White Oaks LLC) 88.6% legal ownership Simon's 2Q 2026 supplemental (s9) lists White Oaks Mall, Springfield IL, at 88.6% legal ownership, 922,632 sq ft, with a $31.65M fixed-rate 6.98% mortgage maturing 15 Jun 2027. The County roll (s1) names MALL AT WHITE OAKS LLC, mailed to an Indianapolis PO box, on the two main parcels (24.91 acres, 2025 market value $20.4M; 10.08 acres, $8.6M); the link to Simon rests on the filing, not the roll. Other pads: Federated Dept Stores Inc (9.17 acres) and White Oaks Outparcel LLC (bought for $1.75M, Feb 2019, s2). The State (CMS) bought 13.91-acre parcel -029 for $3.5M from TF Springfield IL LLC in Oct 2020 (s2). |
REIT | —B |
| Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport 1200 Capital Airport Dr |
Civic | Springfield Airport Authority County record (s1): parcel 14-17.4-200-003, owner SPRINGFIELD AIRPORT AUTHORITY, mailed to the airport at 1200 Capital Airport Dr, 492.49 farm acres. It is classed 'Unimproved Farm Land' because a taxable farm portion of 171.37 acres is leased out (2025 fair market value $316,386, tax $8,539). The Authority's other parcels are counted under landowners. |
Government | —A |
| University of Illinois Springfield campus One University Plaza |
Institutional | University of Illinois (at Springfield) County record (s1): parcel 22-23.4-400-017 in the south-east of Section 23, owner 'U OF IL AT SPRINGFIELD', mailed to University property accounting in Champaign, 118.43 acres, of which a 9.43-acre farm leasehold is taxable ($25,209 fair market value). The University of Illinois is a state body. The campus's other parcels are counted under landowners. |
Government | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Springfield's taxable base is mostly houses; the core around the Capitol is largely State-owned and exempt, and exempt parcels carry $0 on the County roll, so the most valuable ground in the city carries no value at all. Illinois assesses at one-third of market value. Figures are the City's FY2025 ACFR (County Clerk data, tax year 2024 payable 2025) and the County roll read 14 Oct 2026.
Total taxable assessed value, City of Springfield$2,743,462,716
ACFR FY2025 (s10): residential $1.889B, commercial $843.6M, railroad $5.5M, farm $3.6M, industrial $2.3M; estimated actual value $8.23B. Up from $2.27B in 2016. The ACFR notes values are net of exempt property and that exempt value 'is not available'.
Largest taxpayer$8,152,002 assessed
Mall at White Oaks LLC (White Oaks Mall), 0.30% of the City's taxable value, rank 1 in both 2025 and 2016. Then Springfield Clinic LLP #1 ($5.45M), Horace Mann Educators Corp ($5.38M), Memorial Health System ($5.04M) and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage ($4.93M). The top ten together hold 1.86% (s10).
Largest recorded sale since 2019$59,818,370
1220 N 9th St, two parcels, Public Asset Service Corp to the Department of Central Management Services, recorded 29 Mar 2021 (PTAX-203 doc 2021R08333, s2). The parcel is now exempt State land. The largest private sale was White Oaks Plaza, $49,850,000, Oct 2025.
Downtown hotel benchmark$3,611,847 market value
Wyndham Springfield City Centre hotel parcel, 2025 County fair market value (s1), against a $7.4M sale in 2019 and $6.7M in 1989.
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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.
Springfield's largest landholders are public: the City of Springfield (City Water, Light & Power land is not separated on the roll), the State, the Airport Authority, the Park District and the Sanitary District. Counts are from the County's owner-name search (s1), read 14 Oct 2026, spellings grouped; 'Springfield-addressed' means the roll's property city is Springfield, which includes some unincorporated land. Acres are deeded acres from the County GIS (s8), blank on many urban parcels, so they are floors. City, State and County searches exceed the site's 300-result cap and were split by section across survey areas 13, 14, 21 and 22, so parcels elsewhere are missed. Exempt parcels carry $0.
| Name | Type | County roll, Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| City of Springfield Owner line 'CITY OF SPRINGFIELD' (1,656 parcels found county-wide, at least 6,130 deeded acres). The largest single parcels are 160 to 167 acres. A further 144 rows for White Oaks Plaza show the City as a pending owner of small pieces (2025–26 deeds) and are not counted. |
Government | 1,539 Springfield-addressed parcels, at least 5,699 acresA |
| State of Illinois 1,124 parcels county-wide (at least 2,820 acres) under 'STATE OF ILLINOIS' and its agencies: the Capitol complex (Secretary of State), the Fairgrounds (Department of Agriculture, 154-acre main parcel), the Lincoln library and museum, CMS office buildings including 1220 N 9th St (bought for $59.8M in 2021, s2) and 13.91 acres at White Oaks Mall, and highway land. 472 of the Springfield parcels show no deeded acreage. |
Government | 981 Springfield-addressed parcels, at least 2,142 acresA |
| Springfield Airport Authority 115 Springfield-addressed (at least 1,981 acres). Two airport parcels of 492.49 acres each; part of the land is leased for farming and taxed as farmland. |
Government | 131 parcels, at least 2,435 acresA |
| Springfield Park District 186 Springfield-addressed (1,645 acres). The largest is 2901 Lenhart Rd (190.38 acres). |
Government | 204 parcels, at least 1,700 acresA |
| Springfield Metro Sanitary District and Sangamon County Water Reclamation District Owner lines 'SPRINGFIELD METRO SANITARY' (77) and 'SANGAMON COUNTY WATER' (6); the largest parcel is 333.48 acres. |
Government | 83 parcels, at least 1,317 acresA |
| University of Illinois Springfield Owner line 'U OF IL AT SPRINGFIELD', 23 Springfield-addressed; parts are leased as farmland. |
Government | 25 parcels, at least 655 acresA |
| Sangamon County Owner lines Sangamon County, County Highway Dept and County of Sangamon (151 Springfield-addressed). Separately, the County holds 182 parcels as trustee (owner lines 'SANGAMON COUNTY TR' / 'AS TR'); these are not counted as its own land. |
Government | 270 parcels, at least 784 acresA |
| Lincoln Land Community College Owner lines 'LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE' and variants; the largest is 106.82 acres. |
Government | 14 parcels, at least 337 acresA |
| Memorial Health System Under Memorial Health System, Memorial Medical Center and variants; 109 Springfield-addressed. In 2025 it sold three downtown sites to the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University for $22.8M (428 E Carpenter St, 10 parcels), $16.3M (201 E Madison St) and $8.1M (720 N Bond St) (s2). |
Institution | 118 parcels, at least 264 acresA |
| Springfield Housing Authority All Springfield-addressed; 165 show no deeded acreage. The largest is 1800 Johnson Park Dr (10.87 acres). |
Government | 182 parcels, at least 31 acresA |
| St. John's Hospital (Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis / HSHS) Owner lines 'ST JOHNS HOSPITAL OF HOSPITAL SISTERS...' and 'HOSPITAL SISTERS HEALTH SYSTEM'; 93 Springfield-addressed, mostly small urban lots around the hospital (at least 30 deeded acres). |
Institution | 98 parcelsA |
| Southern Illinois University (Board of Trustees) All Springfield-addressed, around the medical district; they include the three sites bought from Memorial in 2025. |
Government | 62 parcelsA |
| Springfield School District 186 Owner lines 'SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT', 'SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL DIST #186' and 'BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SPFLD'; 47 of the Springfield parcels show no deeded acreage. The largest is 3600 Fielding Dr (27.52 acres). |
Government | 53 parcels, at least 72 acresA |
| Norfolk Southern (incl. Norfolk & Western) Owner lines 'NORFOLK AND WESTERN' (117), 'NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP' (42) and variants; almost all show no deeded acreage (corridor strips). |
Public company | 211 parcels county-wide, 42 Springfield-addressedA |
| Union Pacific Railroad Owner lines 'UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO' and variants; corridor strips with little or no deeded acreage. Operating rail property is also assessed by the State. |
Public company | 25 parcels county-wide, 10 Springfield-addressedA |
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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.
Springfield builds few new homes and almost no apartments. Census permits for the City: single-family 137 units (2021), 55, 69, 69 and 106 (2025, $40.5M); two-unit buildings 76, 10, 26, 18 and 40 units; five-plus units 11 in 2021 and none since (s11). New houses come from small local builders. No national builder appears among sellers. There is no league table, so the figures below are each company's sales as seller of Springfield-addressed property in the State's transfer declarations from 2021 to Oct 2026 (s2), with name variants merged; they include lot sales.
| Name | Type | Springfield sales as seller, 2021–2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Reiser Builders LLC (d/b/a Brooklynn Homes) The most active builder-seller in the city by count and value; three further sales in Chatham. |
Private company | 48 sales, $20.5MA |
| Montgomery Home Builders Inc All Springfield-addressed. |
Private company | 27 sales, $12.2MA |
| Fidelity Homes LLC Plus one in Chatham. |
Private company | 12 sales, $5.5MA |
| Moughan Builders Inc Busier in Chatham (17 sales) than in Springfield; Moughan Development Inc sells lots separately. |
Private company | 12 sales, $5.7MA |
| Waller Construction Inc All Springfield-addressed. |
Private company | 13 sales, $4.6MA |
| Cochran Development LLC Mostly lot sales (average about $109,000). |
Private company | 32 sales, $3.5MA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Springfield's commercial landlords are a mall REIT, out-of-state buyers of west-side retail along Veterans Parkway, and investors who bought the city's clinic and hospital buildings in sale-leasebacks. Prices are from the State's PTAX-203 declarations (s2); values from the County roll (s1). The State itself is the largest buyer of office space: it bought 1220 N 9th St for $59.8M in 2021.
| Name | Type | Springfield holding |
|---|---|---|
| Simon Property Group (Mall at White Oaks LLC) Simon's 2Q 2026 supplemental lists White Oaks Mall at 88.6% legal ownership with a $31.65M mortgage due June 2027. Mall at White Oaks LLC is the City's largest taxpayer ($8.15M assessed, s10). |
REIT | 922,632 sq ft, 88.6% (White Oaks Mall)A |
| Westgate SC LLC Bought White Oaks Plaza, 2733 Veterans Pkwy (21.61-acre main parcel), from White Oaks Plaza LLC care of WPG (Washington Prime Group), doc 2025R17628. The roll names Westgate SC LLC, mailed to Kansas City, Missouri. |
Private company | $49,850,000 (Oct 2025), 5 parcelsA |
| RCG Ventures (RCG-Southwest PM LLC) 3211 Veterans Pkwy, bought from ARG SPSPRIL001 LLC (which had paid $22.4M in 2022 to ARCP MT Springfield IL LLC), doc 2025R04808. The roll mails RCG-Southwest PM LLC care of RCG Ventures LLC in Atlanta. |
Private company | $33,599,484 (Mar 2025), 10 parcelsA |
| SC 2023-1 LLC and 1351 South 8th Street LLC (Springfield Clinic buildings) Springfield Clinic LLP sold 3501 Old Jacksonville Rd to SC 2023-1 LLC (care of The Landes Group, Dallas) for $27,065,000, and 1351 S 8th St to SC-LAB-01 LLC for $23M in Nov 2024, which resold it to 1351 South 8th Street LLC (care of Scher Investment Group) for $28,417,072 in Oct 2025. Springfield Clinic LLP still ranks 2nd and 8th among City taxpayers (s10). |
Private company | $27.07M (Dec 2023) and $28.42M (Oct 2025)A |
| Springfield Sherwood Plaza Associates LLC 2500 Wabash Ave, bought from Seritage KMT Finance LLC, doc 2023R02501; the roll mails it care of Fidelis Realty Partners, Bellaire, Texas. |
Private company | $17,100,000 (Feb 2023), 3 parcelsA |
| Tower Capital Group LP Wyndham Springfield City Centre, 700 E Adams St (see marquee); a lis pendens was filed against the hotel parcel on 7 Oct 2026 (County pending transactions). |
Private company | $7,400,000 (Aug 2019), hotel and garageA |
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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.
- That the Wyndham Springfield City Centre is the tallest building in Springfield: widely said, but no source opened states its height or floor count.
- Who filed the lis pendens recorded against the Wyndham hotel parcel on 7 Oct 2026 (document 2026R19172) and why: the County record lists only the document type and date; the instrument itself sits behind the Recorder's paid image services.
- Who controls the single-purpose owners: Tower Capital Group LP (Wyndham), Westgate SC LLC, SC 2023-1 LLC, 1351 South 8th Street LLC, Springfield Sherwood Plaza Associates LLC. The roll gives names and care-of addresses only.
- Lincoln Home: the roll names the United States of America; the National Park Service attribution rests on the mailing address at the Home.
- The BOS Center: the roll names the Springfield Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority; no role for Sangamon County as owner appears on the four parcels.
- Exempt public land carries $0 on the County roll, so the State's, the City's and the hospitals' holdings are given in parcels and deeded acres, not dollars. Deeded acreage is blank or zero on many urban parcels, so acreage is a floor.
- Prices for buildings not sold since December 2014: the PTAX-203 dataset begins then for Sangamon County, and older prices are on deed stamps behind the Recorder's paid image services.
- Railroad land: the roll titles 211 parcels county-wide to Norfolk Southern / Norfolk & Western and 25 to Union Pacific, but almost none carries deeded acreage, so their Springfield holdings cannot be given in acres.
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Sources
- Property Tax and E-Payment Information: Parcel Search (by owner name, address or PIN), Parcel Summary (owner of record and tax-bill mailing address, class, legal description, acres, assessment, fair market value, tax), Owner History and Sales Details for each parcel. Example: 14-33.0-280-001, the State Capitol. Read 14 Oct 2026 — Sangamon County (Clerk, Treasurer, Supervisor of Assessments) · openA
- PTAX-203, 203-A, and 203-B: every Illinois real estate transfer declaration filed through MyDec since 1 Jan 2013 (Sangamon County from Dec 2014: 44,791 records, 30,274 with a Springfield address), with price, address, PIN, buyer, seller and use; updated weekly. Queried 14 Oct 2026 — Illinois Department of Revenue via data.illinois.gov · openA
- MyDec Data Files: the transfer-declaration data 'migrated to the Illinois Open Data portal at data.illinois.gov' in June 2025, 2013 to present, weekly; private and personal information excluded under FOIA — Illinois Department of Revenue · openA
- Recorder fee schedule: standard real-property recording $64; transfer tax stamps '$.50 per $500 value for State plus $.25 per $500 value for County'; copies $2 first two pages, $0.25 each additional, certified $26 — Sangamon County Recorder · openA
- Land Records Search: data and images online from 1982; free data-only search; Tapestry ('a charge per Land Records search') and Laredo (account) for images; PTAX images by account — Sangamon County Recorder · openA
- Recorder FAQ: a PTAX-203 must accompany any deed for a sale of $100 or more; 'Most deeds of record will have revenue stamps reflecting the sale price' — Sangamon County Recorder · openA
- Supervisor of Assessments: maintains records of ownership, tax-bill mailing address, legal description, sales data and assessed values for all parcels; deeds reach the ownership record 4 to 6 weeks after recording — Sangamon County Supervisor of Assessments · openA
- Parcel Viewer map services (ODBCWEB Parcel_Poly: PIN and deeded acres; Sales4Years: sale amount, date and document number by parcel), read through the viewer's public proxy — Sangamon County GIS · openA
- Simon Property Group 2Q 2026 Supplemental Information (8-K Exhibit 99.1): Property and Debt Information as of June 30, 2026 — White Oaks Mall, Springfield IL, 88.6% legal ownership, 922,632 sq ft, $31,650 thousand fixed 6.98% maturing 06/15/27 — Simon Property Group, Inc. via SEC EDGAR · openA
- City of Springfield Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended 28 Feb 2025, part 2: statistical section — Assessed Value and Actual Value of Taxable Property (p.219) and Principal Property Tax Payers, 2025 and 2016 (p.222), source County Clerk's Office — City of Springfield, Illinois (filed with the Illinois Comptroller) · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual place files for the Midwest region 2021 to 2025 (Springfield city, IL: units and value by structure type) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA