St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, an independent city outside St. Louis County, publishes the owner of every parcel and the Assessor's recorded sale prices as free downloads, which show downtown office towers changing hands for a fraction of earlier prices: One AT&T Center went from $204.9M in 2006 to $3.6M in 2024.
8 buildings · 8 with an owner established · 23 sources · 6 tier A · 2 tier B · prepared 2026-10-13
Missouri records title by deed with a Recorder of Deeds; there is no state title register. St. Louis City is an independent city that belongs to no county: its own Assessor and Recorder of Deeds cover the city, and St. Louis County, which surrounds it, keeps separate records. The City publishes the owner of every parcel as a free open-data file, and its Assessor publishes a daily file of sale prices since 2009, and a Certificate of Value must be filed with every deed. The Assessor's website does not allow searches by owner name. The Recorder's index search is free, and copies cost $3 to $5 for the first page. Many downtown sites are titled to public bodies such as the LCRA or the City's Municipal Finance Corporation, which hides who uses them.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Arch (Gateway Arch National Park grounds) Riverfront between Washington Av and Poplar St; roll situs 2-298 Washington Av 152.065 acres (roll) |
Civic | United States of America The roll holds the Arch grounds as one parcel (handle 10059000010) in the name 'JEFFERSON NATL EXPANSION MEM / UNITED STATE OF AMERICA', legal description '39 CITY BLOCKS BROWNS SURVEY 6,621,120 SQ FT 152.065 ACS', exempt with no assessed value. Two more parcels in the same name, 20 N 4th St (1.787 ac) and 11 N 4th St (1.447 ac), cover the blocks between 4th St and Broadway. The roll does not name the National Park Service; the federal government holds title. |
Government | —A |
| One Metropolitan Square 211 N Broadway |
Office | GLF STL Office LLC The roll names GLF STL OFFICE LLC (attention general counsel, Biscayne Blvd, Miami) on the tower's 63,118 sq ft parcel, assessed at $19.19M for 2026 (land $1.62M). The news report names Kawa Capital Management as buyer and says the building was 92% leased to 35 tenants, including a 20-year US Department of Agriculture lease. No filing we opened ties GLF STL Office LLC to Kawa, so the LLC is the owner here and Kawa is the reported buyer. No later sale is in the Assessor's file. |
Private company | $145M 2021-12 Two transactions, building and land; Kawa Capital Management bought the leased fee interest from 601W Cos. The Assessor's file records $120.0M (improved) plus $25.86M (land) in Dec 2021. B |
| AT&T Tower (One AT&T Center) 909 Chestnut St (roll situs 901-11 Chestnut St) about 1.5M sq ft (2006 8-K) · 42 floors |
Office | Chestnut Tower LLC Distress in plain figures. Southwestern Bell Telephone sold the tower in Dec 2006 to MB REIT (Inland American) through MB St. Louis Chestnut, L.L.C. for about $204.9M (s12). The Assessor's sales file then records $4.05M in Apr 2022 and $3,638,750 in Apr 2024, under 2% of the 2006 price. The 2026 roll names CHESTNUT TOWER LLC (PO box, Chestnut Hill) on the 70,262 sq ft parcel and assesses land only, $1,164,400, with no value on the building. No filing we opened names the LLC's members. |
Private company | $3,638,750 2024-04 Assessor's sales file, type 'Investor'. The prior sale, Apr 2022, was $4,050,000, 'Never on Open Market'. In Dec 2006 the tower had sold for about $204.9M (8-K, s12). B |
| Busch Stadium and Ballpark Village 700 Clark Av (roll situs 405 S Broadway); Ballpark Village 601 Clark Av and 1 Cardinal Way 15.04 acres (stadium parcel) |
Civic | Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of the City of St. Louis (LCRA) The stadium block (CB 6469, '15.04 ACRES', handle 16469000155) is held as LCRA, exempt with no assessed value. The LCRA's own inventory lists it as 700 Clark Av, 'Amended Plat South Downtown Plaza', unavailable (s6). The baseball club's interest is not on the roll and no lease was opened, so the Cardinals are not named. North of it, Ballpark Village is held by Ballpark Village Holdings Block 350 LLC and Block 400 LLC (mailing address E Pratt St, Baltimore), assessed $21.55M for 2026, plus a Block 100 condominium ($11.7M). No filing we opened names their parent. |
Government | —A |
| Enterprise Center 1401 Clark Av |
Civic | City of St. Louis The roll holds 1401-99 Clark Av (handle 10209000020) as CITY OF ST LOUIS, with an assessed improvement value of $27.2M and no land value or area recorded. That is the sixth-highest assessment in the city. The arena's operator and the hockey club are not on the roll and no lease or operating agreement was opened, so neither is named. |
Government | —A |
| America's Center convention complex and The Dome 701 Convention Plaza; The Dome, 901 N Broadway (roll parcels 809 N Broadway and 910 N 7th St) 11.98 acres (convention centre parcel) |
Civic | St. Louis Municipal Finance Corporation The convention centre parcel, 701 Convention Plaza ('11.98 ACRES'), and 910 Convention Plaza are held by ST LOUIS MUNICIPAL FINANCE CORP, a City financing body, which holds 18 parcels (24 acres). The stadium blocks on N Broadway and N 7th St (5.285 and 5.789 acres) and seven smaller parcels are held by REGIONAL CONVENTION & SPORTS COMPLEX AUTHORITY, mailing address 801 Convention Plaza. All are exempt with no assessed value. The roll does not record any lease to an operator. |
Government | —A |
| Union Station 1820 Market St (roll situs 1800-932 Market St) 19.9 acres (864,743 sq ft lot) |
Hotel | USH LLC The roll names USH LLC (mailing address Westport Plaza, St. Louis) on the station parcel, hotel and motel use, assessed at $24.11M for 2026 (land $5.53M), the seventh-highest in the city. HDH LLC, at the same mailing address, holds 1 S Broadway ($16.59M). The Assessor's sales file records no sale of the station parcel since 2009. No filing or press release we opened names the members of USH LLC, so no parent company is named. |
Private company | —A |
| CityPark (St. Louis CITY SC stadium) Roll situs 2008 Olive St (CB 6471, 6472, 0905) 11.186 acres (roll) |
Civic | TKFC LC The stadium site is held by TKFC LC, PO box mailing address, assessed at $62.72M for 2026 (land $1.03M), the third-highest assessment in the city. TKFC LC (two spellings) holds 14 parcels, about 31 acres, $73.97M, including 2118-22 Market St (8.22 acres). PITCH314LC (same PO box) holds 1900 Olive St ($5.33M). No source we opened ties TKFC LC to the club. A 2017 ordinance had authorised a stadium deal with a different entity, SC STL LLC, the LCRA and the City, on land then owned by the state highways commission (s15); the roll shows the land is now privately held. SLDC's abatement file lists the parcel abated 2022-2046 (s22). |
Private company | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Figures are from the City's 2025 parcel file (PAR2025.csv, records updated 1 Jan 2026) and the Assessor's sales file. They are assessed values, which Missouri sets at a fraction of market value, not prices. 597 condominium 'summary records' duplicate their units and are excluded from totals. Lot area is blank on 106,929 of the 126,428 parcel records, mostly residential lots, so every acreage here is a floor, not a total.
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.
St. Louis is a city of public and institutional landholders and of tax-foreclosed land. The Land Reutilization Authority, the City's land bank, holds more parcels than anyone, roughly one in thirteen on the roll. Next by count is a single private assembler, NorthSide Regeneration LLC. The City, the State, the universities, BJC and the rail and utility companies hold the large acreage. Public authorities (LCRA, the Municipal Finance Corporation, the Regional Convention & Sports Complex Authority) hold title to stadiums and the convention centre. Every spelling of each owner was grouped. Individuals and family trusts are left out. Lot area is blank on most parcels, so acreage is a floor.
| Name | Type | City roll, 2026 assessed values |
|---|---|---|
| Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) 22 spellings on the roll, chiefly LRA (8,734) and L R A (669); assessed $6.85M because most are exempt vacant lots. SLDC's inventory: 8,585 lots and 1,370 buildings, 8,548 acquired by tax suit (s5). |
Government | 9,444 parcels on the roll; 10,349 in LRA's own inventory, about 1,122 acresA |
| City of St. Louis 73 spellings, chiefly CITY OF ST LOUIS (864), CITY OF ST L (77) and CITY OF ST LOUIS MO (60), plus Water Department and park records. 595 parcels have no lot area recorded, so acreage is understated. Lambert airport, which the City bought in 1928 (s21), lies in St. Louis County and is not on this roll. |
Government | 1,164 parcels, at least 1,967 acres, $70.5MA |
| State of Missouri 19 spellings, including the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission; mostly highway land. |
Government | 661 parcels, at least 410 acresA |
| Saint Louis University Nine spellings, including SLU Properties LLC and SLU Apartments LLC. St. Louis University High School (14 parcels) is a separate institution and is excluded. SSM Health entities (Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, SSM SLUH Inc) hold 59 parcels, about 73 acres. |
Institution | 286 parcels, about 325 acres, $41.4MA |
| Washington University and BJC HealthCare (Central West End medical campus) Washington University: 127 parcels, about 126 acres, $44.5M (eight spellings; largest 6201-53 Forsyth Blvd, $12.8M). Barnes-Jewish Hospital and BJC Health System: 39 parcels, about 49 acres, $42.8M; 216 S Kingshighway is $28.9M. Counted separately; their total is shown together. |
Institution | 166 parcels, about 175 acres, $87.3MA |
| United States of America Eight spellings. The Arch grounds (152 acres), the NGA West campus at 2201-47 Cass Av ('97.618 ACRES NEXT NGA WEST'), the St. Louis Ordnance Plant site on Goodfellow Blvd (125 acres, $64.6M), federal blocks on Market St and Tucker Blvd, and a 38-acre parcel at 150 Arsenal St with the City as lessee. The Postal Service holds 12 more. |
Government | 48 parcels, about 346 acres, $65.2MA |
| St. Louis Public Schools (Board of Education) 16 spellings, chiefly BOARD OF EDUCATION (79) and B O E OF THE CITY OF ST LOUIS (48), plus the St. Louis Public School District Building Corp (15). |
Government | 181 parcels, at least 277 acres, $15.9MA |
| Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) Ten spellings; 224 of its parcels have no lot area recorded. |
Government | 290 parcels, at least 159 acresA |
| St. Louis Housing Authority Seven spellings, including its development corporation (17). |
Government | 223 parcels, about 153 acres, $9.0MA |
| Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority (LCRA) Six spellings. Holds Busch Stadium's 15-acre block and 16.6 acres at 4801 Riverview Blvd. A public-authority title of this kind usually carries an incentive lease, and the roll does not name the lessee. The St. Louis Development Corporation runs the LCRA inventory (s6). PIEA holds 3 parcels, 51 acres. |
Government | 174 parcels on the roll; 200 in its own inventory, about 103 acresA |
| Bi-State Development Agency (Metro) 24 spellings, mostly transit right-of-way and stations. |
Government | 144 parcels, about 69 acresA |
| Anheuser-Busch Companies 14 spellings; the Soulard brewery complex, largest 2930 S 13th St (20.1 acres). |
Public company | 65 parcels, about 163 acres, $15.2MA |
| Railways: Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, Terminal Railroad Association Union Pacific 250 parcels (111 acres, six spellings); Burlington Northern 102 (160 acres); Norfolk & Western/Norfolk Southern 77 (43 acres); Terminal Railroad Association 55 (24 acres, 16 spellings). Much rail land is centrally assessed, so the roll understates it. |
Public company | 484 parcels, about 338 acresA |
| Union Electric Company (Ameren Missouri) 14 spellings, including a $68.9M utility record with no address. |
Public company | 146 parcels, about 175 acres, $99.3MA |
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.
Very few new homes are built in the city. The Census Bureau's 2025 county file shows St. Louis (Independent City) permitting 57 single-family homes ($12.7M) and 209 units in 12 apartment buildings, against 496 single-family homes in St. Louis County (s20). The city's 'reported' columns are all zero, so its figures are Census imputations. No national builder holds a parcel in its own name on the city roll, nor do D.R. Horton, Lennar, Pulte, McBride or Fischer. Instead the roll shows land assembly, nonprofit builders and tax-credit partnerships. Only 551 parcels carry a building dated 2021 or later. The figures count parcels in each name on the roll: holdings, not completions.
| Name | Type | Parcels in own name (City roll, 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| NorthSide Regeneration LLC The largest private holder in the city by parcel count, mostly in north St. Louis; 1,300 of its parcels have no lot area recorded and the 303 that do total about 81 acres, assessed at $4.09M in all. A further handful of LCRA parcels are held 'c/o NorthSide Regeneration LLC'. No filing we opened names its members. |
Developer | 1,603 parcels (7 spellings)A |
| Preservation Square entities (Preservation Square 123 Landlord LLC, 1A Landlord LLC, IIA LP) Apartment buildings, 7 of the 11 parcels with buildings dated 2015 or later, assessed $1.63M. The roll does not name a sponsor. |
Developer | 11 parcels, 398 unitsA |
| Habitat for Humanity St. Louis Four spellings, including Habitat St. Louis LLC (3). A nonprofit builder of single-family homes; two of its parcels have buildings dated 2021 or later. |
Institution | 28 parcels (14 vacant lots)A |
| Scattered-site tax-credit partnerships (Finney Place LP, Bremen Homes LP, Blair Homes Partners LP) Limited partnerships holding scattered rented houses, the usual form for low-income housing tax credit projects; the roll does not say so and no sponsor is named. |
Private company | 111 parcels (41, 38 and 32)A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Downtown towers are held by single-asset LLCs, several of them lenders or new buyers after steep markdowns (see core). Stadium, convention and arena sites are publicly titled. The listed landlords with a filing trail are a casino REIT, an industrial REIT and an office REIT's joint venture. Single-family rental platforms appear too: SFR3 LLCs hold 85 parcels and VineBrook's VB One, Eight and Ten LLCs 7 (each in VineBrook's FY2025 Exhibit 21.1, s23).
| Name | Type | City holding |
|---|---|---|
| Gaming and Leisure Properties (GLP Capital LP) GLP Capital LP, the REIT's operating partnership, holds 22 north-riverfront parcels in two spellings (one misspelt 'CAPAITAL'), largest 999 N 2nd St ($52.8M). Its FY2021 10-K says it took the real estate of Lumière Place on 29 Sep 2020 in satisfaction of a $246.0M loan to Caesars and leased it back to Caesars to 2033. |
REIT | 22 parcels, $68.8M assessed (Lumière Place)B |
| Plymouth Industrial REIT FY2024 10-K lists St. Louis Commerce Center, St. Louis MO, warehouse/distribution built 1999-2001, 487,150 sq ft, 100% leased; St. Louis is 8.7% of its annualized rent, mostly in St. Louis County. On the City roll Plymouth STL Commerce Center MO LLC holds 901-1019 N 20th St and 2101 Dr Martin Luther King Dr ($6.67M assessed). |
REIT | St. Louis Commerce Center, 487,150 sq ftB |
| Orion Properties (Arch Street Joint Venture, 20%) Orion's Q2 2024 supplement lists 700 Market Street, leased to Spire Energy, among the properties of its 20%-owned Arch Street Joint Venture (s16). The roll names OAP/ORION ST LOUIS MO LLC c/o Orion Office REIT LP ($4.96M assessed). The Assessor's file records a $30.5M 'improved, open market' transfer in Apr 2022. Orion's FY2025 10-K reports a payment default on the joint venture's mortgage notes (s17). |
REIT | 700 Market St, Spire Energy headquartersB |
| GLF STL Office LLC (One Metropolitan Square) Bought in Dec 2021 for $145M in two deals; the buyer was reported as Kawa Capital Management (s14). No filing ties the LLC to Kawa. |
Private company | 1 parcel, $19.2M assessedB |
| SFR3 LLCs Single-family rental houses held by SFR3-000 to SFR3-060 LLC and SFR3 LLC (eight spellings). Grouped by name only; no filing we opened names a parent. |
Private company | 85 parcelsA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Who stands behind GLF STL Office LLC (One Metropolitan Square). A 2021 trade report names Kawa Capital Management as buyer, but no filing ties the LLC to it.
- Who stands behind TKFC LC (CityPark) and USH LLC (Union Station), and the parent of Ballpark Village Holdings Block 350/400 LLC. The roll gives only mailing addresses, and the Missouri business registry was not opened.
- The leases behind public-authority titles: the Cardinals at Busch Stadium (LCRA), the operator of Enterprise Center (City), and the operator of America's Center (Municipal Finance Corporation and the Regional Convention & Sports Complex Authority). The Recorder's index is a JavaScript application and was not read.
- The members of Chestnut Tower LLC (AT&T Tower) and of GSMS 2015-GC30 Market Street LLC (Bank of America Plaza), beyond the roll's 'c/o LNR Partners'.
- The open-data licence. No terms are stated on any dataset page or in the website policies, and the DCAT metadata, which might carry one, is under a robots-disallowed path.
- The Assessor's Access database (prcl.zip, current to 13 Oct 2026) was not parsed. Owner names here come from the 2025 parcel file, updated 1 Jan 2026, and may lag recent sales.
- Lambert airport's acreage and its St. Louis County parcel records: the airport says only that the City bought the field in 1928.
- That every sale carries a price. The Certificate of Value is filed with each deed, but the sales file's own type codes include 'Zero $ or $1 recorded' (1,137 rows), and its dates are printed as the previous evening in Central time (e.g. 'Sun Dec 05 2021 18:00 GMT-0600'), so the day may be one early; months are used here.
Sources
- Parcel Data dataset page (Parcels CSV 2017-2025, shapefiles, ArcGIS REST service, interactive map) — City of St. Louis (Open Data) · openA
- Parcels CSV 2017-2025, file PAR2025.csv (127,025 parcel records; OWNERNAME, owner mailing address, SITEADDR, LANDAREA, assessed land/improvement/total, land use, legal description; UPDATED 2026-01-01; zip last modified 2 Jun 2026), read 13 Oct 2026 — City of St. Louis Assessor's Office (Open Data) · openA
- Property Sales dataset ('real estate sale prices for recent property sales in the city', parcel sales from 2009, updated daily; fields ParcelNumber, SalesDate, SalesPrice, SalesTransactionType incl. 'Foreclosure', 'Investor', 'Never on Open Market'); sales_history.zip read 13 Oct 2026 (111,969 rows, 2009-2026) — City of St. Louis Assessor's Office (Open Data) · openA
- Property Taxes dataset: 'Tax Records by Parcel' Microsoft Access database, prcl.zip, 'parcel ownership, zoning, land use, assessment, and tax payment records' (119 MB, last modified 13 Oct 2026; not parsed, no Access reader available) — City of St. Louis Assessor's Office (Open Data) · openA
- LRA Property dataset and LRA_INVENTORY.csv (10,349 parcels not sold or retired: 9,762 'Available', 587 'Unavailable'; 8,585 lots, 1,370 buildings; source 'Tax Suit' 8,548, 'Donations' 741; SQFT totals 48.9M sq ft), read 13 Oct 2026 — St. Louis Development Corporation (Open Data) · openA
- LCRA Property dataset and LCRA_INVENTORY.csv ('A complete list of known properties owned by LCRA': 200 rows, about 103 acres; largest 4801 Riverview Blvd 16.59 ac and 700 Clark Av, CB 6469, 15.04 ac 'South Downtown Plaza'), read 13 Oct 2026 — St. Louis Development Corporation (Open Data) · openA
- Search For Addresses And Property Ownership ('No Fees for this service'; 'The City of St. Louis does not allow name searches of property records on its website') — City of St. Louis Assessor · openA
- Certificate of Value Form (COV): 'This form must be filed with the deed at the time of recording. It must be prepared by the buyer or his/her representative.' — City of St. Louis Assessor · openA
- Obtain Land Records (free Direct Land Record Search; Tapestry search $6.95; certified copies $5 first page + $2 each additional; uncertified $3 + $2; in person $20 per ten-year grantor or grantee index search) — City of St. Louis Recorder of Deeds · openA
- www.stlouis-mo.gov robots.txt (Disallow /address-search/, ?parcelId=, .pdf, .txt, /customcf/, /data/*&dataType=json, index.cfm) — City of St. Louis · openA
- Website Policies and Notices (accessibility, disclaimer of endorsement, privacy; no open-data licence) — City of St. Louis · openA
- Inland American Real Estate Trust, Form 8-K, 28 Dec 2006: MB REIT, through MB St. Louis Chestnut, L.L.C., bought One AT&T Center (42 storeys, about 1.5M sq ft) from Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P. on 21 Dec 2006 for about $204.9M — SEC EDGAR · openA
- GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2015-GC30, free-writing prospectus Annex A-1: Bank of America Plaza, 800 Market Street, St. Louis, office CBD, built 1982, 742,244 SF, fee simple, $50,950,000 loan — SEC EDGAR · openA
- 'One Metropolitan Square Office Tower in St. Louis Sells for $145M' (13 Dec 2021): two transactions, building and land; Kawa Capital Management bought the leased fee interest; seller 601W Cos., owner since 2005 — REBusiness Online (France Media) · openA
- Ordinance 70509 (effective 21 Feb 2017): Stadium Project Financing, Construction and Lease Agreement among the City, SC STL LLC and the LCRA for a stadium on land then owned by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission at the I-64/22nd Street interchange — City of St. Louis Board of Aldermen · openA
- Orion Office REIT, Q2 2024 Supplemental Information (8-K Ex 99.2): Arch Street Joint Venture (Orion 20%) property 700 Market Street, St. Louis, tenant Spire Energy, 100% leased — SEC EDGAR · openA
- Orion Properties Inc., Form 10-K for FY2025: 20% non-controlling interest in OAP/VER Venture, LLC (Arch Street Joint Venture), six properties, 1.0M sq ft; 'existing payment default under the Arch Street Joint Venture mortgage notes' — SEC EDGAR · openA
- Gaming and Leisure Properties, Form 10-K for FY2021: on 29 Sep 2020 GLPI acquired the real estate of Lumière Place in satisfaction of a $246.0M loan to Caesars, subject to a triple-net lease to Caesars to 31 Oct 2033 — SEC EDGAR · openA
- Plymouth Industrial REIT, Form 10-K for FY2024: St. Louis 8.7% of annualized rent; 'St. Louis Commerce Center, St. Louis MO, Warehouse/Distribution, 1999-2001, 487,150' sq ft, 100% leased — SEC EDGAR · openA
- Building Permits Survey, county annual file co2025a.txt: St. Louis (Independent City), FIPS 29/510, 2025: 57 one-unit buildings ($12.7M), 6 units in 2-unit and 209 units in 12 buildings of 5+ units ($38.0M); 'reported' columns all zero. St. Louis County (29/189): 496 one-unit, 456 units in 5+ — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- STL Airport history: 'St. Louis voters approved a $2 million bond issue for airport improvements in August, 1928. The City used the proceeds to buy the property'; the field lay on land in St. Louis County — St. Louis Lambert International Airport (City of St. Louis) · openA
- Tax-abated Parcels dataset ('Parcels within the City of Saint Louis that have obtained and activated an abatement on real estate taxes'): shapefile dated 23 Sep 2025, 1,440 parcels with owner, abatement start and end years, $410.2M assessed; largest TKFC LC, 2028 Olive St, abated 2022-2046) — St. Louis Development Corporation (Open Data) · openA
- VineBrook Homes Trust, FY2025 Exhibit 21.1 (VB One, LLC; VB Eight, LLC; VB Ten, LLC and others) — SEC EDGAR · openA