Asheville, North Carolina
The City of Asheville republishes Buncombe County's assessment roll for every parcel inside its limits as a free public map layer, so the owner, deed reference, last deed date, excise stamps (which give the sale price) and market value of all 39,844 city parcels can be read without an account.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 11 sources · 8 tier B · 2 tier A · prepared 2026-11-01
North Carolina records title by deed with each county's Register of Deeds; there is no state title register. Buncombe County's Assessor values every parcel and the City of Asheville's GIS republishes that roll for the 39,844 parcels inside city limits as a public ArcGIS layer: owner of record, mailing address, deed book and page, deed date, instrument type, the excise stamps paid and the land, building and total market value. North Carolina's excise tax is $1 per $500 of consideration, so the stamps on a deed state its price. NC OneMap republishes the same county roll statewide. No licence is stated, so facts are quoted parcel by parcel and rows are not republished.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buncombe County Courthouse Court Plaza, Asheville (roll parcel 80 Court Plz) |
Civic | Buncombe County Parcel 9649-50-1660, owner of record BUNCOMBE COUNTY, 2.78 acres, market value $80,199,600 ($14,198,600 land), exempt; deed book 280 page 317, 7 Feb 1924, no stamps. The roll does not name the building; it is matched by owner, its place on Court Plaza beside City Hall and the 1924 deed. Wikipedia gives a 17-storey steel-frame tower built 1924-28 to a Frank Pierce Milburn design (s5), and at 230 ft the tallest building in the city (s4). |
Government | —B |
| Asheville City Hall 70 Court Plaza, Asheville |
Civic | City of Asheville Owner of record CITY OF ASHEVILLE, 0.67 acres, market value $37,826,000 ($3,537,000 land), exempt; deed book 395 page 540, 5 Jul 1928. Wikipedia describes the Art Deco building on Court Plaza as the seat of city government, listed on the National Register in 1976 (s6); 191 ft and 9 floors, built 1927 (s4). |
Government | —B |
| The Arras (hotel unit) 7 Patton Ave, Asheville |
Mixed use | MHG Asheville TR LLC The tower is a condominium: the roll carries 56 records at 7 Patton Ave. The hotel unit is held by MHG ASHEVILLE TR LLC, market value $21,782,200, special warranty deed book 5470 page 1977, 21 Sep 2016 (no stamps); the same LLC holds 11 Patton Ave. The upper-floor residential units are held by individuals and are not named here. Wikipedia lists the Arras at 228 ft and 18 floors, built 1965 as an office tower and now residential and hotel (s4). Other MHG-prefixed LLCs on the roll give McKibbon Hotel Group Inc as care-of, but no document we opened ties this one to it. |
Private company | —B |
| Jackson Building 22 Pack Square, Asheville |
Office | Pack Square Property LLC Owner of record PACK SQUARE PROPERTY LLC, 0.37 acres, market value $10,034,900. The one special warranty deed of 30 May 2017 also conveyed 9 Pack Sq, 4 and 26 Biltmore Ave and 24 Market St; the LLC's five parcels total $27.3M today. At $1 per $500 the $56,600 in stamps states a price of $28.3M for the lot. Wikipedia lists the Jackson Building at 215 ft and 15 floors, built 1925 and the city's tallest until 1928 (s4); it is matched to the roll by location. |
Private company | $28.3M 2017-05 Excise stamps of $56,600 on deed 5554/478 (30 May 2017), which covered five parcels around Pack Square. B |
| Mission Hospital 509 Biltmore Ave, Asheville |
Institutional | MH Mission Hospital LLLP (HCA Healthcare) The main campus parcel is MH MISSION HOSPITAL LLLP, 27.85 acres, market value $497,100,000 ($27,900,000 land), the most valuable parcel in the city, and taxable. The LLLP holds 64 city parcels (155.8 acres, $710.1M). Wikipedia says the $1.5B sale of non-profit Mission Health to HCA Healthcare closed on 1 Feb 2019, with proceeds going to the Dogwood Health Trust, and that the flagship is licensed for 815 beds (s7). The roll's deed of 31 Jan 2019 carries stamps stating $547.8M for the 39 parcels it conveyed. |
Public company | $547.8M 2019-01 Excise stamps of $1,095,619 on deed 5740/937 (31 Jan 2019) covering 39 parcels; HCA's whole Mission Health purchase was $1.5B (s7). B |
| The Omni Grove Park Inn Grove Park Inn resort (roll parcel 106 Grovewood Rd), Asheville |
Hotel | GPI Resort Holdings LLC Owner of record GPI RESORT HOLDINGS LLC, 137.57 acres, market value $146,000,000, the second most valuable parcel in the city; deed book 4978 page 717, 1 May 2012, stamps $20,705 (stating $10.35M). GPI LAND HOLDINGS LLC took six adjoining parcels by deed 4978/723 the same day. Wikipedia says KSL Resorts bought the inn in 2012 for $120 million and resold it to Omni Hotels in 2013, and gives the resort as 140 acres and 513 rooms (s8). The roll shows no deed after 2012, so the stamped figure is far below the reported price and the Omni link is from s8, not the roll. |
Private company | —B |
| Asheville Mall 3 S Tunnel Rd, Asheville 974,399 sq ft GLA (s9) |
Retail | Asheville Mall Capital Holding LLC Three parcels (3 and 5 Tunnel Rd, 7 Brackettown Rd), 47.6 acres, $41.5M market value; the main parcel's land is valued at $28.5M, the second-highest land value in the city. Wikipedia says CBL Properties listed the mall among likely foreclosures in a June 2020 SEC filing and that Summit Properties USA acquired ownership in September 2024 (s9). The roll's last deed is the 2022 one, so who stands behind the LLC is not established from the roll. |
Private company | $62.15M 2022-08 Excise stamps of $124,300 on deed 6246/353 (4 Aug 2022) covering the mall's three parcels. B |
| Tanger Outlets Asheville 800 Brevard Rd, Asheville |
Retail | Tanger Asheville LLC (Tanger Inc.) Owner of record TANGER ASHEVILLE LLC, two parcels, 54.4 acres, $54.7M market value (main parcel 45.56 acres, $48,986,400). Wikipedia says Tanger announced its purchase of Asheville Outlets in November 2023 (s10); the roll's deed of 14 Nov 2023 states $70.0M through its stamps. |
REIT | $70.0M 2023-11 Excise stamps of $140,000 on the deed of 14 Nov 2023. B |
| Asheville Regional Airport 13 Airport Park Rd (airfield parcel) |
Civic | Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority The airfield parcel is GREATER ASHEVILLE REGIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY, 567.34 acres, $58,407,700 market value, exempt, by deeds book 5565 page 1196 of 30 Jun 2017 (no stamps); the authority holds four parcels, 603.2 acres, $73.3M, the second-largest holding by area in the city. Wikipedia's infobox still names the City of Asheville as owner and says the city bought the site in 1959 and annexed it; the airport sits in Fletcher (s11). The roll shows title passed to the authority in 2017. |
Government | —A |
| University of North Carolina Asheville, main campus 2500 University Heights, Asheville |
Institutional | University of N C Asheville Foundation The main campus parcel is held as UNIVERSITY OF N C ASHEVILLE FOUNDATION (care of the Office of the Chancellor), 86.1 acres, market value $142,172,200, exempt, deed of 10 Jun 1969. Four more parcels on W T Weaver Blvd are held as UNIVERSITY OF N C ASHEVILLE FKA ASHEVILLE BILTMORE (1959 deed). Together 13 parcels, 139.7 acres, $153.1M. The roll's wording is used; no document we opened says whether the foundation or the UNC System holds beneficial title. |
Institution | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The roll values all 39,844 parcels inside Asheville at $21.66B, of which $3.87B is exempt (government, schools, churches, non-profit retirement communities). The most valuable single parcel is Mission Hospital, which HCA's purchase took onto the tax roll; the highest land values are a non-profit retirement campus, the mall and the hospital. Excise stamps on each deed give the price paid, so the largest recent sales can be read off the roll; apartments dominate them. All figures are from the City's republication of the Buncombe County roll, tax year 2026, updated 29 Oct 2026 (s1).
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 hold the largest blocks of Asheville ground. The City is the biggest landholder with 327 parcels and 1,060 acres; the airport authority's airfield is next by area. Buncombe County holds the most valuable public estate, $617.5M, chiefly its courthouse and office towers downtown. Two non-profit retirement communities (Givens Estates, Deerfield) and a private boarding school hold more land than most government bodies. Utility and railroad land carries no market value on the roll. Figures are parcels in the owner's name on the City's republication of the county roll (inside city limits only), Oct 2026; acreage is the roll's.
| Name | Type | Holdings inside city limits (parcels, acres, market value) |
|---|---|---|
| City of Asheville Held as CITY OF ASHEVILLE (325) and variants. The most valuable is 87 Haywood St (2.74 acres, $63.7M), then City Hall at 70 Court Plz ($37.8M) and 30 Buchanan Pl (8.25 acres, $33.8M). The City also holds the Grove Arcade parcel at 1 Page Ave ($7.8M, deed of 1997). |
Government | 327 parcels, 1,060.1 acres, $448.1MA |
| Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority The airfield (567.3 acres) and three smaller parcels on Lindbergh Ln and Wright Brothers Way, all by deeds of 30 Jun 2017. |
Government | 4 parcels, 603.2 acres, $73.3MA |
| Buncombe County Held as BUNCOMBE COUNTY (50 parcels, $566.2M) and COUNTY OF BUNCOMBE (27, $51.3M). Includes the Court Plaza courthouse parcel ($80.2M), 20 Davidson Dr ($74.6M), 419 McDowell St (39.7 acres, $73.0M) and 99999 College St ($55.3M). |
Government | 77 parcels, 404.3 acres, $617.5MA |
| Buncombe County Board of Education and Asheville City Board of Education Two school systems serve the city. The largest school parcel is 275 Overlook Rd (58.1 acres, $81.9M), held by the county board. |
Government | 15 parcels, 238.0 acres, $166.8M (county); 14 parcels, 43.6 acres, $32.6M (city)A |
| State of North Carolina (excluding universities and NCDOT) Held as STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA (48) and THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA (8), several care of the Office of the Governor or the State Property Office. Largest: 11 Old Charlotte Hwy (50.5 acres, $13.2M) and 456 Merrimon Ave ($11.8M). The NC Department of Transportation holds a further 173 parcels (89.5 acres, $34.8M), much of it bought since 2023 along Riverside Dr and Patton Ave. |
Government | 56 parcels, 280.0 acres, $63.4MA |
| UNC Asheville and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College UNCA's main campus is held as UNIVERSITY OF N C ASHEVILLE FOUNDATION; A-B Tech's 109.3-acre campus at 340 Victoria Rd is $107.8M. Separately, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM bought six parcels on Westgate Pkwy on 30 Jun 2026 ($19.95M per stamps on the largest deed). |
Institution | 13 parcels, 139.7 acres, $153.1M (UNCA); 3 parcels, 111.9 acres, $111.8M (A-B Tech)A |
| United States of America (including the Postal Service) The largest federal parcel is 1100 Tunnel Rd (45.9 acres, $24.5M), held since a 1922 deed, with 8 Veterans Dr (12.5 acres) on the same deed. The roll does not name the agency. |
Government | 5 parcels, 71.4 acres, $40.2M; USPS 5 parcels, 18.8 acres, $21.0MA |
| Housing Authority of the City of Asheville Held under three spellings, chiefly ASHEVILLE HOUSING AUTHORITY AKA HOUSING AUTHORITY (36). Largest: 9 Lee Garden Ln ($24.1M), 334 Livingston St (14.6 acres) and 100 Atkinson St (22.5 acres). |
Government | 43 parcels, 163.4 acres, $97.5MA |
| Duke Energy Progress (incl. Progress Energy of the Carolinas) Held as PROGRESS ENERGY OF THE CAROLINAS FKA CAROLINA POWER (29), DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS LLC (8) and others. The roll carries no market value on any of them. |
Public company | 39 parcels, 127.0 acres, $0 market value on the rollA |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Held as SOUTHERN RAILROAD CO (4) and NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO FKA SOUTHERN RAILWAY (2) along Meadow Rd, deeds back to 1894; no market value on the roll. |
Public company | 6 parcels, 88.3 acresA |
| Givens Estates Inc and Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc Two non-profit retirement communities, both exempt. Givens' 135.8-acre Barrett Ln campus carries the highest land value in the city ($39.0M). The private Asheville School Inc holds 8 parcels, 285.0 acres ($66.8M), more land than any owner but the City and the airport. |
Institution | 7 parcels, 223.5 acres, $223.1M (Givens); 29 parcels, 123.7 acres, $142.4M (Deerfield)A |
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.
Asheville builds mostly on infill lots and small subdivisions, and the national builders barely appear on the roll inside city limits. Lennar is the one present at scale, through a land-banking pool that holds finished townhouse lots for it; the rest are local LLCs building 10-60 townhouses or small houses each. Figures are parcels held in the builder's own name on the city's copy of the county roll, Oct 2026: lots and unsold homes, not closings. No new-home league table covering Asheville was opened.
| Name | Type | Parcels in own name inside city limits, Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| OHC Lennar Pool IV LLC (for Lennar Carolinas LLC) Townhouse lots on Woodland Dr and Hillstream Dr, all care of LENNAR CAROLINAS LLC, by special warranty deed of 3 Sep 2026 with stamps of $8,479 ($4.24M). The adjoining lots of the same plat (41 parcels, 7.8 acres) are held by REVE WOODLAND LLC; no document we opened says how the two are related. |
Public company | 35 lotsA |
| Amarx Construction LLC Mostly townhouse lots on Collin Pl from a 10 Feb 2023 plat, several marked as under construction. A local builder; no source we opened describes its ownership. |
Private company | 31 parcels, 6.1 acresA |
| Westview Village LLC Townhouse lots on Bolton St from a 14 Feb 2024 plat, each valued about $216,000 with buildings under way. |
Private company | 28 parcels, 2.6 acresA |
| Blue Ridge Views NC LLC Vacant land on Houston Cir and Jason St bought by one deed of 5 Jul 2023 (stamps $13,000, $6.5M). |
Private company | 45 parcels, 15.9 acresA |
| D R Horton Inc 90 Asheland Ave, 1.02 acres, bought 18 Dec 2025 with stamps of $7,200 ($3.6M); the only parcel inside the city held in a national builder's name besides the Lennar pool. |
Public company | 1 parcelA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
No single landlord dominates Asheville. The largest commercial holders are a regional grocer that owns its stores, a hotel developer with towers downtown, two national retail REITs and the owners of the big shopping centres. Single-family rental companies are absent from the roll inside city limits: none of the national operators' usual entity names (Progress Residential, AH4R/AMH, Invitation, Tricon, FirstKey, VineBrook) appears. The money is in apartments, bought by out-of-town LLCs for $50-93M each since 2019. Figures are from the City's copy of the county roll, Oct 2026.
| Name | Type | Holdings inside city limits |
|---|---|---|
| Ingles Markets Inc Held as INGLES MARKETS INC (26) and INGLES MARKETS INCORPORATED (11), its own supermarkets and shopping centres; largest 151 Smokey Park Hwy (24.9 acres, $16.1M). |
Public company | 37 parcels, 125.9 acres, $111.1MA |
| MHG-prefixed LLCs (McKibbon Hotel Group) Hotel condominium units at 51 Biltmore Ave ($29.4M), 10 Broadway ($25.8M) and 7 Patton Ave ($21.8M), plus parking and apartments on Lexington Ave. One of them, MHG TOWER LLC, is care of MCKIBBON HOTEL GROUP INC; J B MCKIBBON LTD holds 61 Biltmore Ave ($16.3M). The other LLCs are grouped by name only. |
Private company | 19 parcels, $108.4MA |
| Town Square West LLC 30 Town Square Blvd (21.1 acres, $82.6M), 27 Schenck Pkwy and adjoining land, by deeds of 3 Apr 2007. No source we opened names who stands behind it. |
Private company | 6 parcels, 27.4 acres, $89.3MA |
| Tanger Inc. (Tanger Asheville LLC) The outlet centre at 800 Brevard Rd, bought for $70.0M in Nov 2023 per the deed stamps; Tanger's purchase per s10. |
REIT | 2 parcels, 54.4 acres, $54.7MB |
| National Retail Properties LP (NNN REIT) Single-tenant retail and service parcels bought 2012-2017, e.g. 1625 Patton Ave and 106 Bleachery Blvd. The LP is the operating partnership of the listed REIT (NNN), which is general knowledge rather than a document opened here. |
REIT | 11 parcels, 13.1 acres, $12.8MB |
| Long Shoals Multifamily Partners LLC and Meadows Multifamily Partners LLC Apartment complexes at 300 Long Shoals Rd (bought 21 Sep 2023, stamps $185,200) and 12 Ascension Dr (10 Apr 2023, stamps $153,500), the two largest recorded purchases on the roll after Mission Hospital. No document we opened names the sponsors. |
Private company | $92.6M (2023) and $76.75M (2023) purchases; 5 parcels, 70.2 acres, $86.4MA |
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 Asheville Mall Capital Holding LLC: Wikipedia says Summit Properties USA acquired the mall in Sept 2024, but the roll's last deed is Aug 2022 and no filing was opened.
- That GPI Resort Holdings LLC is held by Omni Hotels (Wikipedia, s8): no Omni or TRT Holdings filing was opened, and the roll shows no deed after KSL's 2012 purchase.
- Names of buildings the roll does not state: 87 Haywood St (City, $63.7M) is likely the civic centre and 1100 Tunnel Rd (USA, 45.9 acres) the VA medical centre, but no source naming them by address was opened.
- Register of Deeds fees and the county's own GIS: www.buncombenc.gov and gis.buncombenc.gov sit behind Cloudflare, so nothing was read there.
- IVT Asheville Market LLC bought 4 Tunnel Rd for $45.7M (stamps $91,400) on 8 Aug 2025; the IVT prefix suggests InvenTrust, but no InvenTrust filing was opened.
Sources
- Property/PropertyInCity FeatureServer, layer 34 'BC Property in City View' (39,844 parcels inside Asheville city limits; fields include owner, careof, deedbook, deedpage, deeddate, instrument, stamps, acreage, class, exempt, landvalue, buildingvalue, totalmarketvalue, taxvalue, condounit; updatedate 20261029, taxyear 26); full attribute read 1 Nov 2026 — City of Asheville GIS (gis.ashevillenc.gov), from the Buncombe County Assessor roll · openA
- NC1Map_Parcels FeatureServer layer 1 'Parcels (polys)': standardized parcels for all 100 NC counties; 134,741 Buncombe County parcels, source agent 'Buncombe County Assessor', revised 7 May 2026 — NC OneMap / NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (Integrated Cadastral Data Exchange) · openA
- Asheville City Limits FeatureServer layer 1 ('Asheville Corporate Limits' polygons with acreage) — City of Asheville GIS · openA
- List of tallest buildings in Asheville (heights, floors, years) — Wikipedia · openB
- Buncombe County Courthouse — Wikipedia · openB
- Asheville City Hall — Wikipedia · openB
- Mission Hospital (Asheville, North Carolina) / Mission Health — Wikipedia · openB
- The Omni Grove Park Inn — Wikipedia · openB
- Asheville Mall — Wikipedia · openB
- Tanger Inc. — Wikipedia · openB
- Asheville Regional Airport — Wikipedia · openB