Dallas, Texas
Dallas gives away for free what most of the world charges for — the name of the entity that owns every tower downtown, with its floor area and the date it changed hands — and withholds the one thing almost everywhere else publishes: what anyone paid.
9 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 5 sources · 9 tier A · prepared 2026-09-27
Texas has no state land register that the public searches for ownership; the working public record is the county appraisal district. The Dallas Central Appraisal District publishes, free and without any login, the owner of record for every account in Dallas County — by owner name, by account, by address or on a map — and each commercial record states the owning entity, its mailing address, its ownership percentage, the deed transfer date, the building's total area, year built, number of storeys and the certified market value split between land and improvement. The entire county roll is also downloadable as a single unauthenticated ZIP. What no Texas record contains is a price. Texas is a non-disclosure state: appraisal districts cannot compel a buyer or seller to reveal what a property sold for, so the DCAD record carries a Deed Transfer Date with no consideration beside it, on every one of the towers checked here. You can learn who owns the tallest building in Dallas in about four seconds, and you cannot learn what they paid for it at any price.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of America Plaza 901 Main Street, Dallas 1,786,285 sq ft total area; 1,853,491 sq ft net lease area · 72 floors |
Office | Dallas Main LP 100% DCAD account 00000100390000000. The city's tallest building: 72 storeys, built 1983, structural steel frame, condition GOOD. Owner of record Dallas Main LP, care of Metropolis Investment Holdings, 455 N Cityfront Plaza Dr Fl 24, Chicago, Illinois. 2026 certified market value $119,945,400 ($111,906,480 improvement + $8,038,920 land). |
Private company | —A |
| Renaissance Tower 1201 Elm Street, Dallas 1,904,033 sq ft total area; 1,733,599 sq ft net lease area · 56 floors |
Office | GS 1201 Elm LLC 100% DCAD account 00000100445000000. 56 storeys, built 1974, quality GOOD, condition EXCELLENT. Owner of record GS 1201 Elm LLC, 4515 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, Texas. 2026 certified market value $77,370,000 on 72,790 sq ft of land priced at $120.00 per sq ft. |
Private company | —A |
| Trammell Crow Center 2001 Ross Avenue, Dallas 1,245,324 sq ft total area; 1,225,200 sq ft net lease area · 54 floors |
Office | ROF V Ross Investment LLC 100% DCAD account 00000112600000000, the highest-valued single office parcel found downtown: 2026 certified market value $343,850,000 ($332,444,240 improvement + $11,405,760 land). 54 storeys, built 1982, quality EXCELLENT. Owner of record at 12100 Wilshire Blvd Ste 1750, Los Angeles. |
Private company | —A |
| Thanksgiving Tower 1601 Elm Street, Dallas 892,113 sq ft office plus a 539,710 sq ft, 396-unit apartment component · 50 floors |
Mixed use | 1601 Elm Holdings LP 100% DCAD account 00C71970000100100, legal description 'THANKSGIVING TOWER CONDO'. 50-storey office built 1981 plus a 14-storey, 396-unit residential conversion. 2026 certified market value $194,888,000 — note the land is only $5,958,590 of it, because the tower is a condominium regime. |
Private company | —A |
| Chase Tower 2200 Ross Avenue, Dallas 1,250,000 sq ft · 55 floors |
Office | FPG CT Owner LP 100% DCAD account 00025600000010000 plus three adjoining parcels, all under the same owner of record: $178,207,080 + $385,000 + $365,000 + $42,920. Built 1985. The four-parcel spread is typical — a single tower is often several accounts. |
Private company | —A |
| Fountain Place 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas 1,297,418 sq ft total area; 1,283,709 sq ft net lease area · 60 floors |
Office | 1445 Ross Ave LLC 100% DCAD account 000515000A01B0000, legal description 'FOUNTAIN PLACE'. 60 storeys, built 1984, plus a separately appraised 503,904 sq ft parking garage. 2026 certified market value $135,000,000. The owner of record's mailing address is the building itself, 1445 Ross Ave Ste 5454. |
Private company | —A |
| Comerica Bank Tower 1717 Main Street, Dallas 1,712,297 sq ft |
Office | SREC 1717 Tower Owner LLC 100% DCAD account 00000101578000000. Built 1985. 2026 certified market value $107,000,000 ($99,501,550 improvement + $7,498,450 land). The name changed hands within two years and the consideration is simply not part of any Texas public record. |
Private company | —A |
| Whitacre Tower (AT&T headquarters) 208 S Akard Street, Suite B, Dallas |
Office | Whitacre Tower Holdings LP 100% DCAD commercial search on 208 Akard returns three accounts: 208NAKARD LLC at $1,370,000, Southwestern Bell Telephone at $2,677,390, and Whitacre Tower Holdings LP at $68,822,610. The operating telephone company and the real-estate holding entity appear as separate owners of record at the same address — visible only because the district names both. |
Private company | —A |
| Reunion Tower and Hyatt Regency Dallas 300 Reunion Boulevard, Dallas 657,212 sq ft |
Hotel | Reunion Hotel LP 100% DCAD account 00000108921000000, use class HOTEL, built 1978. 2026 certified market value $67,998,260 — and unusually for downtown, the land ($22,712,000) is a third of it, reflecting the size of the Reunion site rather than the value of the building. |
Private company | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Dallas County's appraisal district publishes its own aggregate performance, so the size of the base is a stated figure rather than a derived one. Downtown's value is concentrated in about a dozen accounts, each of which the district names an owner for.
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.
No Dallas-level builder league table is published any more: Pro Builder's Housing Giants section and its 2026 Top 200 article both return 404. What Texas offers instead is better than a magazine ranking — because the appraisal district names owners, you can ask it directly how many parcels each builder is currently holding in Dallas County. The figures below are accounts standing in a builder's name on the DCAD roll as at 2026-09-27: land and unsold inventory, not completions. They also cover Dallas County only, which is why builders concentrated in Collin and Denton counties (Highland Homes, Perry Homes, Trophy Signature, HistoryMaker) return zero here despite being large DFW builders — the metroplex spans several appraisal districts and no one of them sees the whole market.
| Name | Type | Accounts held in Dallas County, 2026-09-27 |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomfield Homes By a wide margin the largest builder land position visible in Dallas County on the appraisal roll. |
Private company | 577 accountsA |
| Lennar Held across several entities the district names separately, including Lennar Homes of Texas and Lennar Homes of Land &. |
Public company | 133 accountsA |
| Megatel Homes A Dallas-based private builder holding through numbered entities — Megatel Homes II LLC, Megatel Homes III LLC — each named on the roll. |
Private company | 106 accountsA |
| D.R. Horton Held as D R Horton Texas Ltd. The largest US homebuilder by volume is headquartered in the same metroplex yet holds fewer Dallas County parcels than two private local builders. |
Public company | 60 accountsA |
| Meritage Homes Held as Meritage Homes of Texas LLC. |
Public company | 42 accountsA |
| Pulte Homes of Texas The raw count includes at least one individual with the same surname, so the corporate figure is slightly lower — an illustration of what a name-matched owner search can and cannot do. |
Public company | 11 accountsA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Dallas shows the limit of even a completely open ownership register. Every downtown tower has a named owner of record, but almost every one of those names is a single-purpose entity created for that building — Dallas Main LP, GS 1201 Elm LLC, FPG CT Owner LP, 1601 Elm Holdings LP. The roll is therefore perfect at the parcel and useless at the portfolio: you cannot add up a landlord's holdings by searching its name, because the landlord's name is not on anything. The exception is operating companies that hold in their own name, which is why an industrial REIT aggregates cleanly and an office sponsor does not.
| Name | Type | Dallas County holding |
|---|---|---|
| ROF V Ross Investment LLC Trammell Crow Center at $343,850,000 — the most valuable single office account downtown. Mailing address 12100 Wilshire Blvd Ste 1750, Los Angeles; the sponsor behind the entity is not named on the record. |
Private company | 1,245,324 sq ftA |
| 1601 Elm Holdings LP Thanksgiving Tower, $194,888,000. Mailing address is a suite inside the building it owns. |
Private company | 1,431,823 sq ft across office and apartmentsA |
| FPG CT Owner LP Chase Tower, $178,207,080 plus three small adjoining parcels — the clearest example of one building being several accounts. |
Private company | 1,250,000 sq ft over 4 accountsA |
| Dallas Main LP Bank of America Plaza, $119,945,400, held care of Metropolis Investment Holdings in Chicago. Owner of record since 10 December 1998 — the longest unchanged holding among the towers checked. |
Private company | 1,786,285 sq ftA |
| 1445 Ross Ave LLC Fountain Place, $135,000,000. |
Private company | 1,297,418 sq ft plus a 503,904 sq ft garageA |
| Prologis The one large landlord that aggregates on a name search, because it holds in its own name and in named subsidiaries such as Prologis Exchange Frankford Trade Center LLC rather than anonymous SPVs. |
REIT | 82 accountsA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- A citable published statement of the Texas non-disclosure rule. Every Texas REALTORS page on sales-price disclosure now 404s after a site rebuild, and the Comptroller's Property Tax System Basics page does not address it. The claim here rests instead on primary negative evidence: nine DCAD commercial account records were read in full and each states a Deed Transfer Date with no consideration field anywhere on the record.
- The bulk roll's contents. Both the 2026 fixed-format certified roll and the 2027 Most Current Ownership comma-delimited file truncated mid-download, so the field layout and the owner column position in the bulk products remain unconfirmed. Everything claimed here comes from the per-account web record instead, which is the same data served one parcel at a time.
- DCAD's own account of how it obtains sales evidence without disclosure. The Mass Appraisal Report PDF is image-only and yields no text.
- Whether any licence attaches to the DCAD data at all. The Data Products page's only statement is 'Dallas Central Appraisal District is unable to provide technical support for your use of the data' — no licence, no fee, no registration, no restriction. republish is left false because absence of a prohibition is not a grant.
- Owner-of-record names are single-purpose entities for almost every downtown tower, so the ultimate beneficial owner of Bank of America Plaza, Renaissance Tower, Comerica Bank Tower, Chase Tower, Thanksgiving Tower and Fountain Place is not established by any source opened here.
- Builder figures cover Dallas County only. Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties have their own appraisal districts, so no single free source sees DFW whole.
Sources
- Commercial account detail records (AcctDetailCom.aspx) and address search (SearchAddr.aspx), 2027 current ownership with 2026 certified values — Dallas Central Appraisal District · openA
- Owner name search (SearchOwner.aspx) — Dallas Central Appraisal District · openA
- Data Products — certified appraisal rolls and Most Current Ownership files — Dallas Central Appraisal District · openA
- Annual Report, 2025 Appraisal Year (General Statistical Information) — Dallas Central Appraisal District · openA
- Property Tax System Basics — Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · openA