Melbourne & Palm Bay, Florida
Florida publishes the owner of every Melbourne and Palm Bay parcel and the deed-stamp price of every sale free, and Brevard's 2026 roll shows two cities shaped by an aerospace employer, an airport authority and the vast pre-platted lots of Palm Bay.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 12 sources · 4 tier B · 6 tier A · prepared 2026-11-03
Can you find out who owns it?
Florida records deeds rather than registering title, and its public-records law makes the result unusually open. The Brevard County Property Appraiser keeps the roll for the whole county, including the Cities of Melbourne and Palm Bay: owner name and mailing address, land and building value, and recent sales. The state Department of Revenue republishes that roll free as downloadable files, and each sale carries 'the sale price indicated by documentary stamps on the deed', so the price is effectively public. The limits are entity opacity (the roll names an LLC) and owners whose records s. 119.071 exempts, which are removed from the public files.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (state NAL file, Brevard 2026 Final roll)
Bulk ownership dataFlorida DOR Property Tax Oversight — 'Brevard 15 Final NAL 2026' (26.0 MB zip, NAL15F202602.csv, 351,104 parcels countywide, owner name and mailing address; posted 8 Oct 2026) and 'Brevard 15 Final SDF 2026', free unauthenticated download
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne Orlando International Airport (MLB) and its tenant campus 1 Air Terminal Pkwy and Grumman Pl / General Aviation Dr / W NASA Blvd, Melbourne 2,386 acres on the roll (200 parcels); Wikipedia: 2,420 acres |
Civic | Melbourne Airport Authority (roll name 'Melbourne Airport Authority, C', cut at 30 characters) The 2026 final roll carries 200 City of Melbourne parcels in the Authority's name, mailed to 1 Air Terminal Pkwy Ste 220: 2,386.3 acres, $575.9M just value, $218.9M of it taxable (tenant-improved parcels). Largest: 1145 General Aviation Dr ($52.7M, 265,062 sq ft, built 2011), the main airfield section ($44.8M, 225.9 acres) and five Grumman Pl buildings ($8.5M-$31.5M each). In Sept 2025 the Authority took three parcels by a $27,999,999 deed (qualification code 18, a government transfer). Wikipedia lists the owner as the City of Melbourne and operator as the Authority; tenants include Northrop Grumman, L3Harris and Embraer. |
Government | —B |
| L3Harris Technologies corporate headquarters 1025 W NASA Blvd, Melbourne 353,748 sq ft on 52.96 acres (roll) |
Office | L3Harris Technologies Inc Parcel 27 3732-00-751, six buildings, built from 1978, 2026 just value $16.1M, fully taxable; owner mailing 'TAX DEPT, Melbourne'. L3Harris's 10-K for fiscal 2025 (filed 12 Feb 2026) lists 'Corporate — Melbourne, Florida' and says it operated about 25M sq ft worldwide, owning about 11M. Wikipedia: Harris moved its headquarters from Cleveland to Melbourne in 1978. Across both cities the roll lists L3Harris on 12 parcels, 270.8 acres, $192.5M. |
Public company | —A |
| L3Harris Palm Bay campus 2400 Palm Bay Rd NE, Palm Bay 1,695,838 sq ft, 32 buildings, 106.1 acres (roll) |
Industrial | L3Harris Technologies Inc Parcel 28 3723-50-*-1 is the most valuable parcel in Palm Bay: 2026 just value $112.5M, all taxable, use code 041 (light manufacturing), built from 1967; a 2025 building next door adds $18.4M. The 10-K lists Palm Bay first among the Space & Airborne Systems segment's major operations. Wikipedia (Palm Bay): L3Harris 'has 3,400 employees on its Palm Bay campus on Palm Bay Road'. No sale in the 2025-26 file. |
Public company | —A |
| Holmes Regional Medical Center 1350 S Hickory St (roll: 1410 Hickory St), Melbourne 1,105,462 sq ft on 18.7 acres (roll); 537 beds (Wikipedia) |
Institutional | Holmes Regional Medical Center (Inc.) The most valuable parcel in the City of Melbourne: parcel 27 3734-51-*-392, 2026 just value $195.0M, fully exempt (use code 073, private hospital), mailed to 3300 S Fiske Blvd, Rockledge, the same address the roll uses for Health First Inc. Wikipedia: the city granted the hospital 10 acres on the Hickory Street site in 1956; 537 beds. The same owner holds a $50.6M medical campus at 1421 Malabar Rd NE, Palm Bay. That Health First is the parent is inferred from the shared address, not stated by the roll. |
Institution | —B |
| Florida Institute of Technology main campus 150 W University Blvd (roll: 138 Aeronautics St), Melbourne 1,245,196 sq ft, 57 buildings, 110.7 acres on the main parcel (roll); campus 174 acres (Wikipedia) |
Institutional | Florida Institute of Technology (Inc.) Parcel 28 3709-00-16, 2026 just value $149.4M, exempt, with 676 residential units (dormitories). The university holds 25 parcels in the City (137.2 acres, $175.0M, 830 units) and 3 in Palm Bay ($30.5M). Wikipedia: 5,101 on-campus students in 2024; its research park near the airport is surrounded by tenants such as Northrop Grumman and L3Harris. |
Institution | —A |
| Melbourne Square mall 1700 W New Haven Ave, Melbourne 542,262 sq ft on the mall parcel (roll); 703,000 sq ft (Wikipedia) |
Retail | Evans MS Holdings LLC Owner mailed to 2255 Glades Rd, Boca Raton; 2026 just value $28.4M (mall) + $7.1M (1600 W New Haven Ave), 61.8 acres together. Wikipedia: opened 1982 (DeBartolo); previous owner Washington Prime Group, bankrupt in 2021; in March 2026 'the mall was sold to Second Horizon Capital, with plans to transform the property'. The roll and the sale file name only the LLC; that Second Horizon Capital stands behind it is Wikipedia's (citing Florida Today), not a filing. |
Private company | $56,249,999 2026-02 Deed-stamp price on two parcels (1700 and 1600 W New Haven Ave), OR Book 10560 Page 1012, qualification code 05 (arm's-length multi-parcel) B |
| Hilton Melbourne Rialto Place 200 Rialto Pl, Melbourne 182,494 sq ft on 8.5 acres (roll); 238 rooms |
Hotel | RSS BMARK2019-B11-FL MHX LLC Distress: the roll's April 2026 deed (OR Book 10604 Page 1234) carries $1,000 consideration and qualification code 11 (corrective, quit-claim or tax deed, or nominal stamps) into an entity named for the 'BMARK2019-B11' series and mailed to 200 S Biscayne Blvd, Miami; 2026 just value $19.5M. REBusiness (11 Jan 2018): The Buccini/Pollin Group acquired 'Hilton Melbourne Rialto Place, a newly renovated, 238-room hotel' with a $26.6M Ladder Capital loan. The article gives no street address; the match to 200 Rialto Pl is this research's. Who stands behind the 2026 entity was not established. |
Private company | —B |
| Melbourne City Hall 900 E Strawbridge Ave, Melbourne 60,555 sq ft (roll) |
Civic | City of Melbourne Parcel 28 3703-FC-31-5, built 2009, 2026 just value $8.9M, exempt; the City's own roll entries are mailed to 900 E Strawbridge Ave or 'Attn: City Manager'. The City is the second-largest landowner in its own limits: 267 parcels, 2,335.8 acres, $297.2M, largest the Lake Washington Rd Rd parcels ($46.8M and $42.4M, use code 089). |
Government | —A |
| Palm Bay City Hall 120 Malabar Rd SE, Palm Bay 146,569 sq ft, five buildings, 18.9 acres (roll) |
Civic | City of Palm Bay Parcel 29 3706-GK-A, roll address '120 MALABAR RD SE CITYHL', built from 1980, 2026 just value $15.3M, exempt. The City of Palm Bay holds 583 parcels, 2,166.7 acres, $185.8M; its most valuable is 240 Osmosis Dr SE ($60.3M, 107.8 acres, use code 089). |
Government | —A |
| Renesas (former Intersil) Palm Bay plant 1650 Robert J Conlan Blvd NE, Palm Bay 560,257 sq ft, 8 buildings, 118.5 acres (roll) |
Industrial | Renesas Electronics America Inc Parcel 28 3723-00-250, roll address suffix 'INTERS', built from 1989, use code 041, 2026 just value $27.5M; owner mailed to 1001 Murphy Ranch Rd, Milpitas, California. Wikipedia (Palm Bay): 'Intersil employed 700 people in 2010'. How the plant passed from Intersil to Renesas is not documented in a source opened here. |
Public company | —A |
2
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
City of Melbourne = Brevard tax-authority codes whose third character is K (34K0, 43K0, 53K0); Palm Bay = U (34U0, 54U0). The code-to-city mapping was inferred by this research from the codes on each City's own parcels (the DOR's Brevard code-description file was not located), and it excludes West Melbourne (V), Melbourne Village (R) and the unincorporated areas with Melbourne addresses (code 4200 and others). Figures are 2026 just (market) values from the state's copy of the 2026 Final roll (posted 8 Oct 2026).
Highest-valued parcel, City of Melbourne$194,968,220
Holmes Regional Medical Center, exempt. Next: Florida Tech main campus ($149.4M) and Eastern Florida State College Melbourne campus ($107.5M). The highest taxable parcel is an apartment complex at 3192 Callia Ln ($60.0M). Florida DOR NAL, Brevard 2026 Final.
Highest-valued parcel, Palm Bay$112,486,580
L3Harris Technologies Palm Bay campus, 2400 Palm Bay Rd NE, fully taxable. Florida DOR NAL, Brevard 2026 Final.
All real property, City of Melbourne / Palm Bay$13.84 billion / $17.65 billion
Melbourne 34,561 parcels, $8.39B taxable for non-school levies, $2.26B on fully exempt parcels; Palm Bay 83,874 parcels, $10.40B taxable, $1.82B fully exempt. 2026 Final roll.
Palm Bay vacant residential lots24,091 lots, median $31,000
Use code 000 parcels in Palm Bay (959 in Melbourne). 2026 Final roll.
Downtown Melbourne land benchmark$25 per sq ft (median roll land value)
147 commercial parcels on E New Haven Ave and E Strawbridge Ave (excluding government, school and vacant-residential use codes); top $32/sq ft. 2026 Final roll.
3
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 and a few large private tracts dominate. In Melbourne the Airport Authority and the City each hold about 2,300-2,400 acres; in Palm Bay the biggest holder by acreage is Florida Power & Light (3,896 acres), then the City and Babcock LLC's 2,066 acres in the southwest. Palm Bay's pre-platted subdivisions leave 24,091 vacant residential lots, so lot aggregators (Saraland LLC, 917 parcels) and builders' land entities hold thousands of lots. Railways and FPL's network property are largely centrally assessed. Acres are roll land square footage ÷ 43,560; names grouped; individuals and family entities named for people are withheld. 2026 Final roll.
| Name | Type | 2026 roll, Melbourne + Palm Bay |
|---|---|---|
| Melbourne Airport Authority The airport and its tenant campus; see marquee. |
Government | 200 parcels, 2,386 acres, $575.9M (Melbourne)A |
| City of Melbourne Largest the 6065 and 5980 Lake Washington Rd parcels ($46.8M, $42.4M), 835 N Apollo Blvd ($39.1M) and 2300 Grant St ($28.4M). |
Government | 267 parcels, 2,336 acres, $297.2MA |
| City of Palm Bay Mailed to 120 Malabar Rd SE; largest 240 Osmosis Dr SE ($60.3M). |
Government | 583 parcels, 2,167 acres, $185.8MA |
| Florida Power & Light Company Largest a 2,694-acre parcel at 1106 Centerlane Rd SE ('Fox Trail', $26.2M). |
Public company | 19 parcels, 3,896 acres, $45.2M (Palm Bay); 8 parcels, 56.5 acres (Melbourne)A |
| Babcock LLC Mailed to PO Box 375; largest 637 acres ($25.5M, use code 061 grazing/agricultural). Members not established (Sunbiz not read). |
Private company | 7 parcels, 2,066 acres, $78.3M (Palm Bay)A |
| School Board of Brevard County Melbourne 21 parcels, 320.9 acres, $288.0M (largest 74 Bulldog Blvd, $56.5M); Palm Bay 16 parcels, 497.8 acres, $312.0M (largest the high-school parcel at 1901 De Groodt Rd SW, $73.4M). |
Government | 37 parcels, 819 acres, $600.0MA |
| Brevard County Melbourne 53 parcels, 924.2 acres; Palm Bay 36 parcels, 421.5 acres; mailed to 345 Wenner Way, Cocoa. |
Government | 89 parcels, 1,346 acres, $71.2MA |
| Palm Bay Land Group LLC Bought in March 2025 by a $49,801,599 multi-parcel deed (OR Book 10299 Page 1563, qualification code 05) around Micco Rd; mailed to 103 Commerce St Ste 140. |
Private company | 11 parcels, 1,127 acres, $44.6MA |
| BRP US Inc Mailed to 1111 SW J-A Bombardier Blvd; Wikipedia (Palm Bay) places Bombardier Recreational Products in the southwest Palm Bay area called 'The Compound'. |
Public company | 161 parcels, 908 acres, $11.7M (Palm Bay)A |
| St Johns River Water Management District / Melbourne-Tillman Water Control District Conservation and drainage land; Melbourne-Tillman mailed to 5900 Minton Rd NW. |
Government | 4 parcels, 597 acres / 125 parcels, 422 acres (Palm Bay)A |
| Eastern Florida State College Melbourne campus, 3865 N Wickham Rd ($107.5M, 117.6 acres); Palm Bay campus, 250 Community College Pkwy SE ($41.0M). |
Government | 11 parcels, 405 acres, $155.7MA |
| Florida Institute of Technology See marquee. |
Institution | 28 parcels, 161 acres, $205.5M, 890 unitsA |
| L3Harris Technologies Inc See marquee; the largest private holder by value in both cities. |
Public company | 12 parcels, 271 acres, $192.5MA |
| Health First / Holmes Regional entities Holmes Regional Medical Center, Health First Inc, Health First Physicians Real Estate and Health First Shared Services entities, grouped by name. |
Institution | 48 parcels, 195 acres, $343.4MA |
| State of Florida (DOT and TIITF) Mostly right-of-way. |
Government | 107 parcels, 163 acres, $9.8MA |
| Florida East Coast Railway LLC Corridor land, just value near zero on the local roll; mailed to 7150 Philips Hwy, Jacksonville. |
Private company | 25 parcels, 155 acresA |
| Housing Authority of Brevard County / Melbourne Housing Authority Mailed to 1401 Guava Ave, Melbourne. |
Government | 17 parcels, 71 acres, $32.6M, 355 unitsA |
| A Melbourne family limited partnership and related partnership The largest private acreage in the City of Melbourne (agricultural and vacant land); the roll names are formed from an individual's full name, so they are withheld here. |
Family / private | 14 parcels, 3,173 acres, $18.3M (Melbourne)A |
| Saraland LLC Vacant platted lots; mailed to 1663 NE Georgia St Ste 700. |
Private company | 917 parcels, 420 acres, $20.9M (Palm Bay)A |
5
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.
Palm Bay is where Brevard builds: the 2026 roll counts 7,316 single-family homes in Palm Bay with a 2023-2025 year built against 276 in Melbourne, most of them infill on lots in the long-platted Port Malabar subdivisions (as the roll's legal descriptions name them) rather than new master plans. National builders and their land partners hold thousands of those lots; Holiday Builders, mailed to a Melbourne address, holds the most of any home builder. Figures are lots/parcels held on the 2026 Final roll in the two cities in each builder's own name; homes already sold to buyers are not counted, so this is a pipeline, not a league table.
| Name | Type | Parcels held, 2026 roll |
|---|---|---|
| Millrose Properties Florida LLC / Florida II Mailed to 600 Brickell Ave, Miami. An August 2025 multi-parcel deed of $27,356,899 (OR Book 10419 Page 2936) covered Millrose and Lennar Homes lots on Carnelian Dr and Antarus Dr NW together. Its relationship to Lennar is not stated in a source opened here, so the lots are not counted as Lennar's. |
Public company | 460 parcels, 1,412 acres (Palm Bay)A |
| Holiday Builders Inc Mailed to 2293 W Eau Gallie Blvd, Melbourne — the largest home-builder lot holding in the two cities. |
Private company | 330 parcels (325 Palm Bay)A |
| D R Horton Inc Mailed to 1430 NE Culver Dr. Forestar (USA) Real Estate Group separately holds 118 Palm Bay parcels, 277.8 acres. |
Public company | 297 parcels (Palm Bay)A |
| Adams Homes of Northwest Florida Inc Mailed to 100 W Garden St, Pensacola. |
Private company | 256 parcels (Palm Bay)A |
| Pulte Home Company LLC Mailed to 4901 Vineland Rd Ste 500. |
Public company | 163 parcels (Palm Bay)A |
| KB Home Orlando LLC Also Lennar Homes LLC 126 parcels (both cities), Stanley Martin Homes 108, Maronda Homes 103, LGI Homes-Florida 65 and NVR Inc 62. |
Public company | 138 parcels (Palm Bay)A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Neither city has an office-tower market; the large commercial holdings are the aerospace employers' own campuses (see marquee and landowners), rental apartment complexes held in single-asset LLCs, a few shopping centres that changed hands in 2025-26, and single-family-rental portfolios concentrated in Palm Bay's 1960s-2000s subdivisions. Entities are counted as the roll names them; a sponsor is attached only where the name itself carries it. Counted separately from housing builders.
| Name | Type | 2026 roll, Melbourne + Palm Bay |
|---|---|---|
| Invitation Homes-named entities (Invitation Homes 7 Florida LP, Invitation Homes 7 LP, IH6 Property Florida LP and 'IH Borrower' LPs) 481 in Palm Bay, 80 in Melbourne; most mailed to 2525 W Frye Rd Ste 300. The 'IH Borrower' LPs are grouped with them by name pattern and shared mailing address, which is this research's inference. |
REIT | 561 houses, 536 units, $141.8MB |
| FKH SFR / FKH Propco entities 308 in Palm Bay; mailed to 600 Galleria Pkwy SE Ste 300, the same address as CSMA SFR Holdings II-LSE LLC, which holds 138 vacant Palm Bay lots. Sponsor not established from a filing. |
Private company | 333 houses, 307 units, $80.2MA |
| BAF Assets / BAF LLC entities 269 in Palm Bay; mostly mailed to 3903 S Congress Ave Unit 40298. Sponsor not established. |
Private company | 311 houses, 310 units, $63.8MA |
| American Homes 4 Rent (AMH entities) American Homes 4 Rent Properties and AMH 2014-1 / 2015-1 Borrower entities, mailed to 23975 Park Sorrento Ste 300. |
REIT | 64 houses, $16.2MA |
| APC (US) Pineda Commons LP Pineda Commons, 5155-5193 N Wickham Rd: bought July 2026 by a multi-parcel deed (OR Book 10685 Page 2414, qualification code 05); owner mailed to 130 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Roll value $16.7M across the parcels on the 2026 roll (assessed as of 1 Jan, before the sale). |
Private company | 1 centre, 5 parcels, $41,339,999 (2026 deed)A |
| Evans MS Holdings LLC (Melbourne Square) See marquee. |
Private company | 1 regional mall, 542,262 sq ft; $56,249,999 (2026 deed)A |
| Melbourne Addison Preserve II / Aqua Property LP (largest apartment parcels) The most valuable apartment parcels in each city: 3192 Callia Ln, Melbourne (built 2020, New York mailing) and 2165 Robert J Conlan Blvd NE, Palm Bay (built 2020, 45 Rockefeller Plaza mailing). Sponsors not established. |
Private company | 370 units ($60.0M) / 320 units ($48.4M)A |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The code-to-city mapping (K = Melbourne, U = Palm Bay) is inferred from city-owned parcels; the DOR Brevard taxing-authority description file was not found under the path used for other counties.
- Who stands behind Evans MS Holdings LLC: Wikipedia (citing Florida Today) names Second Horizon Capital as the March 2026 buyer; no filing or corporate record was opened.
- RSS BMARK2019-B11-FL MHX LLC (Hilton Rialto Place): the April 2026 nominal deed indicates a lender/trust takeover, but no foreclosure filing or servicer report was opened, and the match of the 2018 REBusiness article to 200 Rialto Pl is by name and location only.
- Whether Holmes Regional Medical Center's roll entity is a Health First subsidiary (inferred only from the shared Rockledge mailing address).
- Members of Babcock LLC, Palm Bay Land Group LLC, Saraland LLC, FKH, BAF and other LLCs: Florida's Sunbiz was not read (Cloudflare on other records).
- The airport land: Wikipedia says the City of Melbourne owns the airport; the roll carries the parcels in the Airport Authority's name (truncated). The legal relationship was not read from the Authority's charter.
- Melbourne Square's other anchor parcels (department stores often own their own pads) were not separated.
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Sources
- Brevard 15 Final NAL 2026 — real property roll (NAL15F202602.csv), 351,104 parcels countywide; City of Melbourne = tax-authority codes with letter K (34K0, 43K0, 53K0), Palm Bay = letter U (34U0, 54U0) — Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight (submitted by the Brevard County Property Appraiser) · openA
- Brevard 15 Final SDF 2026 — Sale Data File (SDF15F202602.csv) with clerk instrument number and qualification code — Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight · openA
- Download Assessment Roll and GIS Data — NAL, SDF and NAP files; schedule (preliminary 1 July, initial final in October); s. 119.071 exclusion — Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight · openA
- 2026 NAL, SDF and NAP User's Guide (SALE_PRC1 'the sale price indicated by documentary stamps on the deed') — Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight · openA
- Melbourne Orlando International Airport (2,420 acres; owner City of Melbourne, operator Melbourne Airport Authority; tenants) — Wikipedia · openA
- Florida Institute of Technology (campus 174 acres; 5,101 on-campus students 2024) — Wikipedia · openA
- L3Harris (headquarters moved to Melbourne in 1978) — Wikipedia · openA
- Holmes Regional Medical Center (537 beds; 10 acres granted by the city in 1956) — Wikipedia · openA
- Melbourne Square (mall) — sold March 2026 to Second Horizon Capital — Wikipedia · openA
- Palm Bay, Florida (L3Harris 3,400 employees on its Palm Bay campus; Intersil 700 in 2010; BRP in 'The Compound') — Wikipedia · openA
- L3Harris Technologies Form 10-K for fiscal 2025, Item 2 Properties (filed 2026-02-12) — L3Harris Technologies / SEC EDGAR · openA
- BPG Acquires 238-Room Hilton-Branded Hotel in Melbourne, Florida (11 Jan 2018) — REBusiness Online · openA