Frederick, Maryland
Who owns Frederick, Maryland: every parcel's owner, value and last sale is public, and the city's biggest holders are the City, the County, the school board and Fort Detrick's federal campus.
9 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 15 sources · 7 tier B · 2 tier A · prepared 2026-11-03
Maryland records title by deed in the land records of each county's Circuit Court; Frederick's deeds are filed with the Frederick County Circuit Court. The State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) assesses every property and says its Real Property Search gives 'publicly available assessment data at no charge'. The Maryland Department of Planning republishes the SDAT roll for Frederick County, with values and the last sale price, as a free download, and Frederick County's own address layer carries the owner of record. Deed images are on MDLandRec, run by the Maryland State Archives, which charges $0.20 a page for records under 100 years old.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick City Hall 101 N Court Street, Frederick 19,968 sq ft · 2 floors |
Civic | City of Frederick The City gives its contact address as 101 N Court Street (s6). The SDAT roll (State parcel points, owner from the County address layer) names CITY OF FREDERICK as owner of 101 N Court St: a government building of 19,968 sq ft, built 1862, two storeys, on 1.0 acre, exempt (municipal), assessed at $7,040,900 (land $1,376,100). The roll's last transfer is 25 Oct 1983 at $500,000. The City's most valuable holding is not City Hall but the airport. |
Government | $500,000 1983-10 Last transfer on the SDAT roll: 25 Oct 1983, consideration $500,000. B |
| Winchester Hall (Frederick County Government) 12 E Church Street, Frederick 72,588 sq ft · 4 floors |
Civic | Board of County Commissioners of Frederick County Frederick County Government gives its address as 12 E. Church St. (s7). The roll names BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS as owner of 12 E Church St: a four-storey government office building of 72,588 sq ft, built 1890, on 0.95 acre, exempt, assessed at $10,774,400. A deed is recorded on 29 Sep 2022 with no consideration. The County's largest assessed holding in the city is 112 W Patrick St ($44.7M, exempt class 'Housing Authority'). The name Winchester Hall is not stated on either source opened; it is the building's common name. |
Government | —B |
| Frederick Health Hospital 400 W 7th Street, Frederick 1,191,233 sq ft · 4 floors |
Institutional | Frederick Memorial Hospital, Inc. The roll names FREDERICK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL as owner of 400 W 7th St, classed 'General Hospital', exempt as a non-profit hospital: 1,191,233 sq ft on 15.8 acres, assessed at $338,979,200 (land $4,142,500), the most valuable account in the city. No transfer is recorded. The same owner, under Frederick Memorial Hospital Inc and Frederick Health Hospital Inc, holds eight city accounts worth $392.0M, including Frederick Health Village (1 Frederick Health Way, 83.9 acres, held by Frederick Health Village LLC). Wikipedia gives the hospital 257 licensed beds and its former name (s12). |
Institution | —B |
| Fort Detrick 201 Beasley Drive, Frederick 3,545,442 sq ft |
Institutional | United States Government The roll carries one account at 201 Beasley Dr owned by U S GOVERNMENT, exempt as a public research institution: 1,220 acres and 3,545,442 sq ft of buildings, assessed at $240,410,500 (land $45,835,400). It is the largest single parcel in the city and the second most valuable. Wikipedia describes Fort Detrick as an Army-controlled installation whose '1,200-acre (490 ha) campus' supports biomedical research and mentions Beasley Drive on the post (s9). The roll does not name the Army, only the United States. |
Government | —B |
| Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK) 310 Aviation Way, Frederick 166,824 sq ft |
Civic | City of Frederick The City's economic-development brochure gives Frederick Municipal Airport's address as 310 Aviation Way, with a 5,820-foot runway, a control tower, 'more than 90,000 aircraft operations annually' and the headquarters of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association on the field (s8). The roll names CITY OF FREDERICK as owner of 310 Aviation Way: 617.3 acres, exempt, assessed at $109,216,700, of which $98,464,900 is land. It is the City's most valuable holding and makes up more than a third of the City's assessed property in its own limits. |
Government | —B |
| Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium 21 Stadium Drive, Frederick |
Civic | City of Frederick Wikipedia gives the stadium's address as 21 Stadium Drive, its owner as the City of Frederick and its operator as Maryland Baseball Holding LLC; it opened in 1990, cost $7 million and seats 5,400 (s10). The roll agrees: CITY OF FREDERICK owns 21 Stadium Dr, 33.1 acres, exempt, assessed at $23,282,000 (land $3,243,100), with a transfer recorded on 16 Jan 1986 at no consideration. The City also holds 33 Stadium Dr next door. |
Government | —B |
| AstraZeneca Frederick biologics campus 633 Research Court, Frederick 501,775 sq ft |
Industrial | AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP The roll names ASTRAZENECA PHARMACEUTICALS (LP on one account) as owner of five city accounts worth $159.5M, on Research Ct, Solarex Ct and MedImmune Ct. The largest, 633 Research Ct, is 501,775 sq ft on 27.5 acres, built 2021, assessed at $135,066,900, the most valuable taxable account in the city; it last transferred on 30 Jun 2017 for $86,257,240. The roll's 34-character name field does not show the corporate suffix on every account. No AstraZeneca filing or release was opened, so the plant's function is not stated here. |
Public company | $86,257,240 2017-06 Consideration on the SDAT roll for 633 Research Ct, transfer of 30 Jun 2017. A |
| Hood College main campus 401 Rosemont Avenue, Frederick 647,918 sq ft |
Institutional | Hood College Wikipedia gives Hood College an 'Urban, 50 acres' campus and its historic district's address as 401 Rosemont Ave. (s11). The roll's main campus account, held by HOOD COLLEGE with no street address, is 47.98 acres with 647,918 sq ft of buildings, exempt as a private college, assessed at $116,478,000. The College holds 12 city accounts worth $134.6M in all, three of them taxable through Hood College Farm Ltd Partnership on W 7th St. |
Institution | —B |
| Amazon land on Gas House Pike 8907A Gas House Pike, Frederick |
Land | Amazon.com Services LLC The roll names AMAZON COM SERVICES LLC as owner of 8907A Gas House Pike: 135 acres, taxable, with only a farmhouse on it (4,735 sq ft, recorded built 1890), assessed at $23,950,300. It transferred on 18 Dec 2025 for $81,000,000, the largest recorded consideration for any city account since the start of 2025. The Gas House Pike corridor is the city's new warehouse belt: TC FCC Owner I and III LLC hold 182 acres there, including a 689,832 sq ft warehouse built 2023. What Amazon plans for the site is not stated on any source opened. |
Public company | $81,000,000 2025-12 Consideration on the SDAT roll, transfer of 18 Dec 2025. A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The State's SDAT layer carries each account's current land and improvement values, and Frederick's 29,376 accounts (town code 004) total $17.99B. The most valuable ground in the city is institutional, not downtown: the hospital on W 7th St, Fort Detrick and Hood College lead the roll, and the City's own airport carries more land value ($98.5M) than any other parcel. The most valuable taxable account is AstraZeneca's 633 Research Ct. Values are SDAT's August 2026 roll as published by the Maryland Department of Planning (s1), with owners from the County's address layer (s2).
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.
Inside Frederick's limits the biggest holders are public and institutional. The City (128 accounts, about 1,300 acres) owns the airport, the stadium and the downtown garages; Fort Detrick's 1,220-acre federal parcel is the largest single holding; the Board of Education, the County, the hospital, Hood College and the community college follow. The railroads and utilities that dominate other towns' land hold little here: CSX has no account in the city. The new private ground is industrial, on Gas House Pike. Figures are SDAT accounts in the owner's name, joined by tax account to the County's owner field, with 'city' meaning town code 004 (29,376 accounts); 1,137 city accounts ($486.5M) did not join and carry no owner here.
| Name | Type | Holdings, SDAT roll Aug 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| City of Frederick Held as CITY OF FREDERICK and variants. The airport (617 acres, $109.2M) is the largest; then the stadium ($23.3M), 100 E All Saints St ($20.0M), the 134 W Patrick St garage ($17.2M) and the 2 S Court St garage ($12.3M). Outside the limits the City holds land such as 6129 Butterfly Ln (134.9 acres). |
Government | 128 accounts, 1,300 acres, $293.6M in the city; 168 accounts, 2,068 acres county-wideA |
| United States of America Fort Detrick (201 Beasley Dr) and the post office building at 201 E Patrick St in the city. County-wide the National Park Service holds 75 accounts and 1,054 acres, held as U S A NAT'L PARK SERVICE and variants. |
Government | 2 accounts, 1,221 acres, $245.8M in the city; 175 accounts, 4,516 acres county-wideA |
| Board of Education of Frederick County Held as BOARD OF EDUCATION and variants. The largest in the city is 650 Carroll Pkwy (43.4 acres, $91.7M, built 2017). |
Government | 23 accounts, 296 acres, $339.9M in the city; 93 accounts, 1,302 acres, $1.17B county-wideA |
| Board of County Commissioners of Frederick County Held as BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND and variants. In the city: 112 W Patrick St ($44.7M), 350 Montevue Ln (88.1 acres, $40.2M), 1920 Rosemont Ave ($36.9M) and Winchester Hall. |
Government | 14 accounts, 181 acres, $195.1M in the city; 157 accounts, 2,521 acres, $347.7M county-wideA |
| Frederick Memorial Hospital, Inc. (Frederick Health) The hospital campus at 400 W 7th St ($339.0M) and Frederick Health Village (83.9 acres, held by Frederick Health Village LLC). |
Institution | 8 accounts, 107 acres, $392.0M in the cityA |
| Hood College Including three taxable accounts held by Hood College Farm Ltd Partnership. |
Institution | 12 accounts, 56 acres, $134.6MA |
| Board of Trustees of Frederick Community College 7932 Opossumtown Pike, 530,619 sq ft, held as BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF FREDERICK... (the field is cut at 34 characters). |
Government | 1 account, 100.3 acres, $78.6MA |
| State of Maryland In the city chiefly 101 Clarke Pl (28.1 acres, $37.1M, exempt as a State college). County-wide mostly natural-resources and highway land. |
Government | 6 accounts, 55 acres, $40.6M in the city; 152 accounts, 4,446 acres county-wideA |
| Housing Authority of the City of Frederick All in the city; the largest account is 92 units ($10.5M) and 201 Madison St has 60 units ($8.3M). |
Government | 36 accounts, 25 acres, $42.9MA |
| Potomac Edison Company Mostly line and substation land outside the city, carried at low values. CSX Transportation holds 23 accounts and 554 acres county-wide, none in the city. |
Public company | 8 accounts, 15 acres in the city; 85 accounts, 1,764 acres county-wideA |
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.
Frederick is the county's main home-building town. The Census Building Permits Survey counts 452 single-family permits in the city in 2025 ($97.1M of construction) and 321 units in five larger buildings, down from 789 single-family homes in 2023 and 769 in 2024, all with 12 months reported (s14). The County file shows 814 single-family permits for Frederick County in 2025, so the city took more than half (s15). The national builders dominate the lots still in their own names: NVR and D.R. Horton, with D.R. Horton's lot developer Forestar. Much land is held by development LLCs instead, such as Bloomfields LLC (134 city accounts, 281 acres) and Walnut Ridge Towns LLC (113). Builder figures are SDAT accounts held in the builder's own name, which are lots and unsold homes, not closings.
| Name | Type | Accounts in own name, SDAT roll Aug 2026 (county / inside the city) |
|---|---|---|
| NVR, Inc. Held as NVR INC; 71.2 acres county-wide, 19.8 acres in the city: townhouse and small-lot accounts. |
Public company | 150 county / 123 cityA |
| D.R. Horton, Inc. Held as DR HORTON INC (90 accounts, 290.9 acres, all in the city) and D R HORTON INC (78, 74 in the city). The most raw land of any builder in the city. |
Public company | 168 county / 164 cityA |
| Forestar Real Estate Group Held as FORESTAR REAL ESTATE GROUP (76) and FORESTAR (USA) REAL ESTATE GROUP I... (20), all in the city, about 82 acres. One Forestar account carries a land area of 5,460 'acres' on the roll, plainly a data error, and is left out of the acreage. No filing was opened, so its relationship to D.R. Horton is not stated here. |
Public company | 96 county / 96 cityA |
| Ryan Legacy Builders Inc 14.5 acres, all outside the city limits. |
Private company | 21 county / 0 cityA |
| K Hovnanian Homes of Maryland LLC 0.8 acres, outside the city. No parent filing was opened, so no parent is named here. |
Private company | 7 county / 0 cityA |
| Catoctin View Homes LLC 1.3 acres, all in the city. |
Private company | 7 county / 7 cityA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Frederick's commercial landlords are mostly single-asset LLCs on the Golden Mile (W Patrick St), the Monocacy Blvd and Osprey Way retail centres, and the new warehouse belt on Gas House Pike and Bowmans Farm Rd. Only one listed REIT, Saul Centers, files its Frederick centres. Several of the city's largest apartment holders are also single LLCs: ELMWOOD VENTURE LLC (3 accounts, 504 units, $45.4M), ASN SUNSET LLC (453 units, $60.3M; bought 6 Apr 2006 for $48.9M) and WILLOWDALE APARTMENTS LLC (432 units). Their sponsors are not named on any source opened. Figures are SDAT accounts in the city (s1) unless noted.
| Name | Type | Holdings in the city |
|---|---|---|
| Saul Centers, Inc. Saul's 2025 10-K lists Shops at Monocacy, Frederick (111,341 sq ft, 13.0 acres, developed 2004, 100% leased, Giant Food anchor; $24.1M mortgage) and Westview Village, Frederick (103,186 sq ft, 11.6 acres) (s13). On the roll, SAUL MONOCACY LLC owns 1700 and 1701 Kingfisher Dr ($28.2M). Westview Village carries a Frederick address but no Saul account inside the city was found, so it appears to lie outside the limits. |
REIT | 111,341 sq ft (Shops at Monocacy); 103,186 sq ft (Westview Village)B |
| RIV 402 LLC 8560 Progress Dr: an office building on 32.0 acres, built 2011, the most valuable private office account in the city. Transfer recorded 7 Jul 2011 with no consideration. Its sponsor is not named on any source opened. |
Private company | 336,506 sq ft office, $98.1MA |
| LPF Clemson Corner LLC 7810 Wormans Mill Rd, 23.7 acres, built 2011; bought 11 Dec 2019 for $67,016,000. |
Private company | 217,295 sq ft retail, $41.7MA |
| Frederick Retail Owner LLC 1305 W 7th St, 24.5 acres, built 1957; bought 8 Jun 2026 for $55,500,000, the largest commercial sale in the city so far in 2026. |
Private company | 234,017 sq ft retail, $37.5MA |
| MCB Westridge LLC 1005-1011 W Patrick St on the Golden Mile; the main account (239,673 sq ft, 19.5 acres) was bought 20 Jan 2022 for $20,984,604. Next door, FREDERICK COUNTY SQUARE IMPROVEMEN... holds 1003 W Patrick St (21.1 acres, $33.9M), bought 3 Oct 2019 for $22,800,000. |
Private company | 4 accounts, 254,982 sq ft retail, $28.5MA |
| Frankel Market Square LLC Osprey Way and Shorebird St; the accounts were bought together on 18 Nov 2019 for $27,424,935. |
Private company | 6 accounts, 187,299 sq ft, $45.8MA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- 1,137 city accounts ($486.5M, mostly condominium units and some exempt and commercial accounts) did not match an owner in the County's address layer, so their owners are not counted in any figure here. SDAT's own Real Property Search was not used.
- Who sponsors RIV 402 LLC, LPF Clemson Corner LLC, Frederick Retail Owner LLC, MCB Westridge LLC, Frankel Market Square LLC, TC FCC Owner I/III LLC, ASN Sunset LLC and Elmwood Venture LLC: no filing or release we opened names them.
- What Amazon plans for its 135 acres at 8907A Gas House Pike, bought for $81.0M in December 2025: no Amazon or City document was opened.
- Whether Francis Scott Key Mall (5500 Buckeystown Pike) and Saul's Westview Village lie inside the city: neither carries the city's town code on the roll, so neither is counted as a Frederick holding here.
- The downtown hotel planned on Carroll Creek: the roll shows CARROLL CREEK LODGING LLC at 20 S Carroll St, but no City document on the project was opened.
- Deed images and the County's transfer and recordation tax rates: MDLandRec was not opened (its acceptable-use policy forbids automated access) and no fee schedule was read.
- Civic: no conflict-of-interest or financial-disclosure record was searched for Frederick, so the civic section is empty.
Sources
- FREDparcels0826: Frederick County parcel points (FREDMDPV) linked to August 2026 SDAT assessment data (ACCTID, TOWNCODE, NFMLNDVL, NFMIMPVL, TRADATE, CONSIDR1, YEARBLT, SQFTSTRC); downloaded and read 3 Nov 2026 — Maryland Department of Planning (ArcGIS Online 'mdplanning') · openA
- Property_Information_WGS MapServer layer 0 'Addresses Complete WGS' (127,698 address points; fields TAX_ACCT, OwnersName, OwnersName2, TaxLandUseCode); full read 3 Nov 2026 — Frederick County, Maryland GIS · openA
- Real Property: 'You may obtain publicly available assessment data at no charge by using our Real Property Search' — Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation · openA
- Upcoming Changes to MDLandRec.net (fees $0.20 per page; records older than 100 years free; subscriptions $500-$1,500) — Maryland State Archives · openA
- Acceptable Use Policy — Maryland State Archives · openA
- The City of Frederick home page ('Contact Us 101 N Court Street Frederick, MD 21701') — City of Frederick, Maryland · openA
- Frederick County Government home page ('Frederick County Government 12 E. Church St. Frederick, MD 21701') — Frederick County, Maryland · openA
- Development Opportunities at FDK - 2025 (Frederick Municipal Airport, 310 Aviation Way; 5,820' runway; 'more than 90,000 aircraft operations annually'; AOPA headquarters) — City of Frederick Department of Economic Development (businessinfrederick.com) · openA
- Fort Detrick ('Fort Detrick's 1,200-acre (490 ha) campus'; controlled by United States Army) — Wikipedia · openA
- Harry Grove Stadium (Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium, 21 Stadium Drive; Owner City of Frederick; Operator Maryland Baseball Holding LLC; opened 1990; capacity 5,400) — Wikipedia · openA
- Hood College (campus 'Urban, 50 acres'; 401 Rosemont Ave.) — Wikipedia · openA
- Frederick Health Hospital (257 licensed beds; formerly Frederick Memorial Hospital) — Wikipedia · openA
- Saul Centers, Inc.: Form 10-K for 2025 (Item 2 property table: Shops at Monocacy and Westview Village, Frederick, MD; mortgage table; Schedule III) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Building Permits Survey: annual place files so2023a-so2025a.txt (South Region), Frederick city MD, 12 months reported — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey: annual county files co2023a-co2025a.txt, Frederick County MD (FIPS 24/021) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA