Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles publishes the assessed value of every one of its parcels and the owner of almost none of them: the county roll has no owner-name field, the Recorder puts no deed index online, and the only owner a public dataset names is a government one. Since the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list sits on a host whose robots.txt answers 403, government owners are now sourced from the City's General Services Department (more than 9,000 City-owned parcels) and, for landmarks, Wikipedia, with parcel details from the county's own parcel service.
10 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 22 sources · 7 tier B · 3 tier A · prepared 2026-10-31
California has no public online land-title register. The Los Angeles County Assessor publishes an open parcel layer — 2.4 million parcels with land and improvement values, floor areas, years built and use codes — but no owner-name field. Deeds are recorded with the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk and are open to anyone, but that office 'does not provide online access to our real estate records or indexes', citing Government Code section 6254.21 (no online posting of officials' home addresses); a certified copy costs $6 for the first page and $3 for each page after, in person at Norwalk or by mail. California is a non-disclosure state for prices: the roll carries a Prop 13 base year, never a sale price.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles City Hall 200 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 |
Civic | City of Los Angeles Wikipedia's infobox gives owner and operator as the City of Los Angeles. The county parcel layer (s1) shows AIN 5161005906, 200 N Spring St, about 5.9 acres (polygon area), use code 8821 'Government Parcel', with no roll value — exempt public property carries none. The layer has no owner-name field; the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list that named 'L A CITY' sits on services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403 (see unverified). |
Government | —B |
| Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) 1 World Way / 7000 World Way W, Los Angeles, CA 90045 |
Civic | City of Los Angeles (Los Angeles World Airports) Wikipedia: LAX is operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), 'a branch of the Los Angeles city government', and 'covers 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) of land'. The county parcel layer (s1) shows the largest airport parcel, AIN 4129026903 at 7000 World Way W, use code 8862 'Government Parcel'. The parcel-by-parcel owner counts from the Assessor's publicly owned list are in unverified (host robots 403). |
Government | —B |
| Crypto.com Arena 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015 918,000 sq ft (county roll main area) |
Civic | Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) Wikipedia's infobox names Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) as owner; the arena was developed by AEG and Majestic Realty after negotiations with City officials. The county parcel layer (s1) shows AIN 5138016913, 1111 S Figueroa St, 'Athletic & Amusement Facilities', built 2000, 918,000 sq ft, no roll value on the fee parcel. That the fee parcel itself stands in the City's name came from a host whose robots.txt answers 403 — see unverified. Building name is the current common name. |
Private company | —B |
| Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Exposition Park) 3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90037 |
Civic | State of California (Sixth District Agricultural Association), Los Angeles County and City of Los Angeles Wikipedia: the Coliseum 'is jointly owned by the State of California's Sixth District Agricultural Association, Los Angeles County, and the City of Los Angeles'; the University of Southern California is the operator. The county parcel layer (s1) shows AIN 5037027937, 3911 S Figueroa St, use code 8844 'Government Parcel'. The roll name 'STATE OF CALIFORNIA' on the 63-acre parcel came from a 403-blocked host (unverified). |
Government | —B |
| Los Angeles Union Station 800 N Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 24,305 sq ft (roll main area, built 1939) |
Civic | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Wikipedia's infobox names Los Angeles Metro as owner; Metro's board approved the purchase in February 2011 and it closed on 14 April 2011 for $75 million. The county parcel layer (s1) shows AIN 5409023941, 800 N Alameda St, use 'Miscellaneous', built 1939, 24,305 sq ft, no roll value. Metro's citywide parcel count is in unverified (403-blocked host). |
Government | 75000000 2011-04 Wikipedia: Metro bought the station from Prologis and Catellus Development for $75 million; the deal closed on 14 April 2011. B |
| University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — main campus 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095 |
Institutional | University of California Wikipedia: the campus 'was transferred to the University of California to become its southern branch in 1919' and today 'includes 163 buildings across 419 acres'. The county parcel layer (s1) shows AIN 4363001903, 405 Hilgard Ave, use code 8831 'Government Parcel'. The roll owner name 'REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF' and the Regents' citywide parcel count came from a 403-blocked host (unverified). |
Government | —B |
| Beverly Center 8500 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 842,212 sq ft GLA (Simon); 1,244,382 sq ft main area (county roll) |
Retail | Simon Property Group 100.0% Simon's FY2025 10-K property table: 'Beverly Center CA Los Angeles Fee and Ground Lease (2057) 100.0 % Acquired 2020 93.8 % 842,212', anchors Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Lucky Strike. The county roll (AIN 4334007008) assesses it at $485,795,553 land + $529,958,784 improvements, 2026 roll — about $1.02B. Roll values from s1. |
REIT | —A |
| FOX Studio Lot 10201 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064 over 1.8 million sq ft on over 50 acres, 15 sound stages (Fox 10-K) |
Industrial | Fox Corporation Fox's FY2026 10-K, Item 2: 'FOX owns the FOX Studio Lot in Los Angeles, California. The historic lot is located on over 50 acres of land and has over 1.8 million square feet of space'. Lease income from the lot was about $25M in FY2026 against $45M in FY2025, with Disney the predominant tenant 'until March of 2026'. County roll, AIN 4315019013: $162,128,479 land + $340,009,955 improvements, land base year 1995 (from s1). |
Public company | —A |
| Westfield Topanga 6600 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Los Angeles (Canoga Park), CA 91303 1,278,741 sq ft main area across three county parcels |
Retail | Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield URW lists Westfield Topanga among its portfolio assets — 'almost 200 shops, restaurants and personal services' in Warner Center — but states no ownership percentage. Three county parcels at 6600 Topanga Canyon Blvd (AINs 2139004044/45/46), coded 'Shopping Centers (Regional)', total $117.3M land + $614.0M improvements, 2026 roll (from s1). Tier B because the stake and the parcel link come from two sources. |
REIT | —B |
| U.S. Bank Tower 633 W 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90071 1,346,113 sq ft (county roll main area) |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it The tallest tower on Bunker Hill is fully described by the open roll — AIN 5151017028, 'Office Buildings', built 1988, 1,346,113 sq ft, $65,030,359 land + $366,554,826 improvements, land base year 2021 (a change of ownership or new construction that year) — and nowhere does the roll name an owner. No filing we opened names one; establishing it means buying a deed copy from the Recorder. Building name is the common one. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The county's open parcel service will tell you to the dollar what the most valuable ground in Los Angeles is assessed at, and will not tell you whose it is. Figures were computed on 31 October 2026 by querying that service (2026 roll) for parcels with TaxRateCity = LOS ANGELES.
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.
Los Angeles names no private owner on any open dataset. The City's General Services Department counts more than 9,000 City-owned properties and parcels across its Council-controlled and proprietary departments. The per-owner parcel and acreage counts this section used to carry (City, State, federal government, Water and Power, LAUSD, Port, Metro, Flood Control, County and others) came from the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list on services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; they are kept in unverified.
| Name | Type | City-owned properties and parcels |
|---|---|---|
| City of Los Angeles The City's General Services Department says its Citywide Asset Management System Property Module 'contains data for more than 9,000 City-owned properties and parcels for Council-controlled and proprietary departments' — so the count includes Water and Power, the Harbor and the airports. No acreage is given. |
Government | more than 9,000 properties and parcelsA |
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.
The City of Los Angeles permitted 11,211 new dwellings in 2025 (Census Building Permits Survey): 3,848 in single-unit buildings, 764 in two-unit buildings and 6,599 in 138 buildings of five or more units. So most new housing in the city is apartments, built by multifamily developers that file nothing comparable to a homebuilder's 10-K. The large listed builders work mostly at the county's edges and report California only as a regional segment; none publishes a City of Los Angeles figure. There is no official league table of US builders by units.
| Name | Type | Homes delivered FY2025 |
|---|---|---|
| KB Home FY2025 10-K: the West Coast segment, whose markets include Los Angeles, delivered 3,965 homes (4,316 in 2024); group total 12,902 at an average $481,400. KB Home is headquartered in Los Angeles. |
Public company | 3,965 (West Coast segment)A |
| Lennar Corporation FY2025 10-K: new home deliveries, including unconsolidated entities, were 82,583, up from 80,210. California is in its West segment; no Los Angeles figure is given. |
Public company | 82,583 (group)A |
| Tri Pointe Homes FY2025 10-K: 4,947 homes delivered in 2025 (6,460 in 2024), average about $680,000. On 13 February 2026 it agreed to be acquired by Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd., making it a Japanese corporate subsidiary. |
Public company | 4,947A |
| Invitation Homes (ResiBuilt) FY2025 10-K: the purchase of ResiBuilt, 'a leading fee homebuilder specializing in single-family rental communities', means the largest SFR landlord now builds as well. Listed for its ownership model, not for any Los Angeles output. |
REIT | not stated for Los AngelesA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Los Angeles's institutional landlords are listed REITs, so their floor areas are audited and published even though the parcels they sit on name nobody. These are company-wide portfolios, weighted to Los Angeles but not limited to it; no free source ranks owners by square feet inside the city. The biggest single office parcels on Bunker Hill — 525 S Flower, 333 S Hope, 333 S Grand, all with a 2014 land base year on the roll — have no owner named in any filing we opened.
| Name | Type | Portfolio at 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Rexford Industrial Realty FY2025 10-K: 'our consolidated portfolio consisted of 419 properties with approximately 51.2 million rentable square feet', 'primarily located in Southern California infill markets'. |
REIT | 51.2M sq ft, 419 propertiesA |
| Douglas Emmett FY2025 10-K: 'an 18.0 million square foot office portfolio, which included a 456 thousand square foot office property under development, (ii) 5,445 multifamily apartment units, which included 1,035 apartment units under development'. 52 office and 12 residential properties are wholly owned; 18 more office properties (4.6M sq ft) sit in six JVs with institutional investors, about 47% DEI-owned. Its Los Angeles submarkets include Santa Monica and West Los Angeles. |
REIT | 18.0M sq ft office + 5,445 apartmentsA |
| Kilroy Realty FY2025 10-K: stabilized office portfolio of 121 buildings and 16,292,164 rentable sq ft, 81.6% occupied. Spread across the West Coast and Austin, not Los Angeles alone. |
REIT | 16.3M sq ft, 121 buildingsA |
| Hudson Pacific Properties FY2025 10-K: office 'approximately 13.9 million square feet', studio 'approximately 1.7 million square feet, including 45 sound stages'. Its Hollywood studios — Sunset Gower (12 stages, 559,149 sq ft), Sunset Bronson (9 stages, 310,563 sq ft) and Sunset Las Palmas (11 stages, 334,954 sq ft) — are all 'Owned'. The table shows HPP's share of Sunset Gower's $24.46M base rent as $12.47M, about half, which reflects its Hollywood Media Portfolio joint venture. |
REIT | 13.9M sq ft office + 1.7M sq ft studioA |
| Simon Property Group Simon's FY2025 10-K property table: Beverly Center 100.0% owned, 'Fee and Ground Lease (2057)'. Only that one Los Angeles city mall is quoted here. |
REIT | 842,212 sq ft at Beverly CenterA |
| Invitation Homes The largest listed single-family-rental landlord. FY2025 10-K market table: Southern California 7,100 homes, 95.8% average occupancy, $3,194 average monthly rent, 10.9% of revenue. Its 'Southern California' covers the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, Oxnard, Riverside–San Bernardino and San Diego metros, so this is not a city figure. 86,192 owned homes in total. |
REIT | 7,100 homes, Southern CaliforniaA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Assessor publicly owned parcel list (14,739 parcels, about 74,900 acres in the City of Los Angeles, roughly a quarter of its land; 180 parcels / 1,392 acres with no owner name) — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- City of Los Angeles: 5,281 parcels, about 19,350 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- State of California: 1,033 parcels, about 15,530 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- United States Government: 156 parcels, about 6,980 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Los Angeles Department of Water and Power: 846 parcels, about 6,580 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Los Angeles Unified School District: 2,492 parcels, about 5,140 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Port of Los Angeles (City of Los Angeles Harbor Department): 128 parcels, about 2,990 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority: 315 parcels, about 2,690 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro): 1,107 parcels, about 2,250 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Los Angeles County Flood Control District: 1,098 parcels, about 2,160 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- County of Los Angeles: 335 parcels, about 2,010 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA): 530 parcels, about 1,020 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Los Angeles Community College District: 65 parcels, about 700 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- The Regents of the University of California: 143 parcels, about 550 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: 32 parcels, about 320 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak): 10 parcels, about 31 acres on the Assessor's publicly owned parcel list — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Crypto.com Arena fee parcel AIN 5138016913 in the name 'L A CITY', recorded 27 March 1998 — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Parcel owner names on the roll for City Hall ('L A CITY'), LAX AIN 4129026903 ('L A CITY'), the Coliseum parcel ('STATE OF CALIFORNIA', 63.0 acres), Union Station ('L A COUNTY METROPOLITAN', recorded 15 April 2011) and UCLA ('REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF', recorded 1965) — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; owners now sourced from Wikipedia, roll names not (2026-11-04)
- U.S. Bank Tower (633 W 5th St): search results say OUE Limited's subsidiary Beringia Central LLC agreed in July 2020 to sell it for US$430M to 'USBT Property Owner LP', an entity connected to Silverstein Properties, below a US$650M end-2019 valuation, after buying it in 2013 for US$367.5M from MPG Office Trust, with closing reported on 25 September 2020. We could not open a primary copy: OUE's own site and IPE Real Assets both forbid automated access, and SGX filings were not tried. The roll's 2021 land base year for the parcel neither confirms nor contradicts this. Owner left blank.
- Who owns the Bunker Hill office towers at 525 S Flower, 333 S Hope and 333 S Grand. All three carry a 2014 land base year on the roll, but no filing we opened names an owner.
- Who operates Crypto.com Arena and the Coliseum, and on what lease. The fee owners (City; State) are on the public-parcel layer, but the possessory-interest assessments that would name a private leaseholder are not in any open layer.
- Whether the LA County Assessor's per-parcel portal shows an assessee name. It renders as a JavaScript shell to a fetcher.
- What the roll abbreviation 'L A CITY S BY S' (942 parcels, 324 acres) means. The layer gives no key.
- Registrar-Recorder bulk grantor/grantee index. The office says it publishes no online index, and we found no bulk product page.
- Duplicate record: property/data/us-la.json (prepared 2026-09-27) covers the same city under the id us-la. This record (us-los-angeles) re-verifies and extends it; the coordinator should choose one id.
Sources
- LA County Parcel Map Service, layer 0 (Parcels) — 2,433,059 parcels, 92 fields, no owner name — Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor / LA County Enterprise GIS · openA
- Real Estate Records — General Info: 'Our office does not provide online access to real estate records or indexes' — Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk · openA
- View Real Estate Records — 'The fee for a certified copy of a document is $6 for the first page and $3 for each additional page per document' — Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk · openA
- Simon Property Group FY2025 Form 10-K, US property table (Beverly Center row) — US Securities and Exchange Commission / Simon Property Group · openA
- Fox Corporation FY2026 Form 10-K (Item 1 and Item 2 Properties: 'FOX owns the FOX Studio Lot in Los Angeles'; lessor note) — US Securities and Exchange Commission / Fox Corporation · openA
- Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield — Westfield Topanga portfolio page — Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield · openA
- Hudson Pacific Properties FY2025 Form 10-K (studio property table; portfolio summary) — US Securities and Exchange Commission / Hudson Pacific Properties · openA
- Rexford Industrial Realty FY2025 Form 10-K, Item 1 — US Securities and Exchange Commission / Rexford Industrial · openA
- Douglas Emmett FY2025 Form 10-K, Item 1 portfolio summary — US Securities and Exchange Commission / Douglas Emmett · openA
- Kilroy Realty FY2025 Form 10-K, stabilized portfolio table — US Securities and Exchange Commission / Kilroy Realty · openA
- Invitation Homes FY2025 Form 10-K, portfolio by market — US Securities and Exchange Commission / Invitation Homes · openA
- KB Home FY2025 Form 10-K, homes delivered by segment — US Securities and Exchange Commission / KB Home · openA
- Lennar Corporation FY2025 Form 10-K — US Securities and Exchange Commission / Lennar · openA
- Tri Pointe Homes FY2025 Form 10-K (deliveries; Sumitomo Forestry merger agreement) — US Securities and Exchange Commission / Tri Pointe Homes · openA
- Building Permits Survey, West Region place annual file we2025a.txt — Los Angeles city (FIPS place 44000), 2025 — US Census Bureau · openA
- Los Angeles City Hall — infobox 'Owner City of Los Angeles, Operator City of Los Angeles' — Wikipedia · openB
- Los Angeles International Airport — 'operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), a branch of the Los Angeles city government'; 'covers 3,500 acres' — Wikipedia · openB
- Crypto.com Arena — infobox 'Owner Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG)' — Wikipedia · openB
- Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum — 'jointly owned by the State of California's Sixth District Agricultural Association, Los Angeles County, and the City of Los Angeles'; operator USC — Wikipedia · openB
- Union Station (Los Angeles) — Metro purchase from Prologis and Catellus for $75 million, closed 14 April 2011 — Wikipedia · openB
- University of California, Los Angeles — campus 'transferred to the University of California' in 1919; '163 buildings across 419 acres' — Wikipedia · openB
- Integrated Asset Services — Citywide Asset Management System Property Module: 'data for more than 9,000 City-owned properties and parcels for Council-controlled and proprietary departments' — City of Los Angeles, General Services Department · openA