Johnson City, Tennessee

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.

The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.

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 own the largest blocks of Johnson City. The City is the biggest holder, with 323 parcels and about 1,809 acres, including its schools, parks, Freedom Hall and the ballpark. The State's ETSU campus and the federal Mountain Home VA grounds come next. Ballad Health, the regional hospital system, is by far the largest private holder, mostly under its predecessor name Mountain States Health Alliance. The railways' rights of way add about 400 acres. Figures count parcels in the owner's name on the City layer with city name 'Johnson City' (25,909 parcels, mostly updated 1 Sep 2026). Acres are the layer's calculated area; exempt parcels show no appraisal.

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.

Johnson City permits about 350 new homes a year, almost all detached houses. Local builders and land partnerships do most of the work; D.R. Horton is the only national builder visible on the roll. Builders hold new subdivision lots in their own names until they sell, so lots held and the year built show who is building now. No Pro Builder or other league table covers the city. No national single-family-rental company (Invitation, American Homes 4 Rent, Progress, Tricon, FirstKey, VineBrook) holds a parcel in the city on the roll; rental housing is held by local partnerships such as Pennys Nest LLC and Gouge Land Partnership LP.

The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.

There is no office REIT or national landlord with a large Johnson City portfolio. The biggest commercial values sit in apartment and student-housing complexes, the hospital system and a few retail sites. Most are held by single-asset LLCs with out-of-state mailing addresses, so the parent firm is not on the roll. Figures are appraised values on the City layer, Sep 2026.

Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.

1. TaxParcels FeatureServer, layer 0 'Tax Parcels' (183,616 parcels; service description 'Property tax parcels for Washington, Sullivan, Carter, and Unicoi counties, TN'; fields include OWNER, OWNER2, ADDRESS, CLASS, LANDUSE, APPRAISAL, SALEDATE, PRICE, MAILCITY, CITYNAME, CARDURL; 25,909 rows with CITYNAME 'Johnson City', most LASTUPDATE 1 Sep 2026); read in full 3 Nov 2026 — City of Johnson City GIS Division, from the Tennessee Comptroller's assessment roll · openA
2. Parcel Data: Geographic Services parcel shapefile and 'Assessment_Data' table per county, updated weekly; downloads only after a request form is filled out; 'Any company or organization can use, save, and maintain the shapefile data for any use case'; Washington, Carter and Sullivan are not on the list of counties the Comptroller does not maintain — Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of Property Assessments · openA
3. Register of Deeds, Filing Requirements & Fees: warranty deeds '$3.70 Per Thousand', '$5 Per Page ($10 Minimum)', '$2 Data Processing Fee'; copies 'Certified, Faxed, Mailed or Emailed $1 Per Page', 'In-Office $0.25 Per Page' — Washington County, Tennessee · openA
4. 2025 Tax Aggregate Report of Tennessee (Tables I, III and VI: Washington County and City of Johnson City estimated current value, values by class and tax rates; marked 'Current draft pending approval by the State Board of Equalization') — Tennessee State Board of Equalization / Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of Property Assessments · openA
5. Building Permits Survey, annual place file 2025, South Region (row: Johnson City, TN, FIPS 47 place 38320, 12 months reported) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
6. Building Permits Survey, annual county file 2025 (row: Washington County, TN, FIPS 47-179) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
7. East Tennessee State University: 'Main Campus is 366 acres approximately 1.5 miles from downtown Johnson City'; coordinates 36.30333 N, 82.36917 W — Wikipedia · openA
8. Johnson City Medical Center: 400 North State of Franklin Road; Level I Trauma Center; 445 beds plus 86 in Niswonger Children's Hospital; 'Since 2018 the facility has been operated by Ballad Health' — Wikipedia · openA
9. Mountain Home National Cemetery: established 1903 'as part of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers'; owned by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; 99.7 acres; coordinates 36.31167 N, 82.37639 W — Wikipedia · openA
10. The Mall at Johnson City: opened 17 Mar 1971 as Miracle Mall Shopping Center; infobox owner and manager Spinoso Real Estate Group; 534,873 sq ft, 2 floors — Wikipedia · openA
11. Tryperion Acquires the Mall at Johnson City (1 Dec 2025): 'Spinoso Real Estate Group, in partnership with Tryperion Holdings, announced the acquisition of The Mall at Johnson City, a 544,659 square foot regional mall located at 2011 North Roan Street'; no price stated — Tryperion Holdings · openA
12. TVA Credit Union Ballpark: owner City of Johnson City; operator Johnson City Sports Foundation; opened 1950; capacity 3,800; coordinates 36 19 7 N, 82 20 27 W — Wikipedia · openA
13. Freedom Hall Civic Center: 1320 Pactolas Road; owner Johnson City, Tennessee; opened 1974, cost $5 million; capacity 8,500 events, 6,149 basketball — Wikipedia · openA
14. City of Johnson City home page, Contact Us: '601 E. Main Street Johnson City, TN 37601' — City of Johnson City · openA