Murfreesboro, Tennessee
The City of Murfreesboro republishes Rutherford County's whole assessment roll as a public parcel layer, but its host's robots.txt answers 403, so this record no longer reads it; owners now rest on the county's FY2025 principal-taxpayer table, the county's own county-owned-property layer and public filings. The county's main website is closed to automated reading.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 25 sources · 5 tier B · 3 tier A · prepared 2026-10-20
Can you find out who owns it?
Tennessee records title by deed with the county Register of Deeds; there is no state title register. In Rutherford County the Property Assessor's online search shows each parcel's owner, values and sales free, and the City of Murfreesboro's GIS team republishes the county's roll as a public ArcGIS layer (s2), though that layer's host answers robots.txt with 403 and is treated as blocked. Prices are on the record because the state taxes each conveyance at $3.70 per $1,000 when the deed is recorded. The county's own website (rutherfordcountytn.gov) forbids all general crawlers in robots.txt, so the Register of Deeds' fees were not read.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record free (Rutherford County Property Assessor search, no account, s3). Register of Deeds fees not read: rutherfordcountytn.gov disallows all general user-agents in robots.txt. State transfer tax $3.70 per $1,000 of consideration (s5)
Bulk ownership dataCity of Murfreesboro ArcGIS Online 'Parcel Data' item (s2), public, no registration: the county roll with owner, mailing address, deed reference, last sale and appraisal. Its FeatureServer host (services5.arcgis.com) answers robots.txt with 403, so it is not read here. The Tennessee Comptroller's statewide parcel data excludes Rutherford County (s4)
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Tennessee State University, main campus 1301 E Main St, Murfreesboro 3.1M sq ft (234 buildings, per s14) |
Institutional | Middle Tennessee State University Wikipedia (s14) describes the public university's campus as set on 466 acres with 234 permanent buildings and 3.1M sq ft (its infobox gives 500 acres). The owner is the university as a State of Tennessee institution; the county roll's title wording and appraisal are no longer cited. |
Government | —B |
| Stones River National Battlefield 3501 Old Nashville Hwy, Murfreesboro |
Land | United States of America (National Park Service) The park covers 709.49 acres, was established on 3 March 1927 and is governed by the National Park Service (s13), so the owner is the United States. No price: the land was federalised from 1927. |
Government | —B |
| Alvin C. York VA Medical Center 3400 Lebanon Pike, Murfreesboro |
Institutional | United States of America (Department of Veterans Affairs) The VA describes the medical center, formerly the Murfreesboro Veterans' Administration Hospital, as part of its Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, on a historic campus that once covered 602 acres and is now 321 acres; construction was authorised in 1936 and the hospital opened on 1 Jan 1940 (s26). |
Government | —A |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford (hospital) 1700 Medical Center Pkwy, Murfreesboro 556,361 sq ft (s7) |
Institutional | Not established the register is open, but this building was not matched Wikipedia (s7) describes the hospital, formerly Middle Tennessee Medical Center, as a 418-bed private, not-for-profit hospital and a member of Ascension Saint Thomas, in a 556,361 sq ft facility on a 68.5-acre campus that opened on 2 Oct 2010 at an estimated cost of $267 million. No open source we could read names the title holder. |
Not established | —B |
| The Avenue Murfreesboro 2615 Medical Center Pkwy, Murfreesboro 811,000 sq ft GLA (s8) |
Retail | BVA Avenue SPE LLC Rutherford County's FY2025 financial report ranks BVA Avenue, 'Retail Mall (The Avenues)', as the county's 7th-largest taxpayer, at $64,800,000 assessed for 2024 and $1,215,777 of tax (s24). Hines Global REIT, which bought the centre in August 2013 for $163 million (s8), sold it in August 2020 (s9) and ranked 4th as owner in 2015 (s24). No document we opened names the LLC's members. |
Private company | —A |
| Stones River Town Centre (formerly Stones River Mall) 1706-1720 Old Fort Pkwy, Murfreesboro 671,000 sq ft (s10) |
Retail | Sterling Organization Wikipedia says the centre, opened in 1992 as Stones River Mall, is owned and managed by Sterling Organization, which bought it in 2015 (s10). The titled entity and price are no longer cited. |
Private equity | —B |
| Murfreesboro Municipal Airport (MBT) 1930 Memorial Blvd, Murfreesboro |
Civic | City of Murfreesboro Wikipedia describes MBT as a city-owned, public-use airport two nautical miles north of the central business district, owned and operated by the City of Murfreesboro, with one 4,753 ft runway (s11). |
Government | —B |
| Rutherford County Courthouse Public Square (roll: 1 S Public Sq), Murfreesboro |
Civic | Rutherford County Rutherford County's own county-owned-property layer lists 1 Public Sq (GIS link 091NBF 02500) as 'HISTORIC COURT HOUSE' (s25). The building, of 1859, cost $50,000 (s12). The same layer lists the Judicial Complex at 116 W Lytle St (091K G 02400) as a separate county holding. |
Government | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Murfreesboro's largest named property taxpayers are the Avenue lifestyle centre and two single-family rental companies; Nissan's Smyrna plant leads the county. City-wide figures come from the Comptroller's 2025 Tax Aggregate Report, which totals each county's and city's roll. Rutherford County last revalued in 2022, and the report puts its appraisal ratio at 0.8462, so 2025 appraisals sit about 15% below the Comptroller's estimate of current market value; the estimated values below are already adjusted for it.
Largest property taxpayer, Rutherford County$455.1M assessed
Nissan Motor Mfg. Co., 2024 assessed valuation $455,097,705, mostly under a PILOT agreement; Middle Tennessee Electric ($203.5M) and Prologis ($179.1M) follow. Rutherford County FY2025 ACFR, Table 8 (s24).
Largest retail taxpayer$64.8M assessed
BVA Avenue, 'Retail Mall (The Avenues)', 7th in the county for 2024, $1,215,777 of tax. Rutherford County FY2025 ACFR, Table 8 (s24).
Estimated current value of all property, City of Murfreesboro$30.18B
$30,184,533,794; total assessment $7,754,939,409 (real property $7,221,069,021). Rutherford County as a whole: $68,387,498,572. Comptroller, 2025 Tax Aggregate Report, Table I (s6).
Industrial and commercial real property, City of Murfreesboro$9.49B
$9,491,501,489 estimated current value, against $18,858,769,043 residential and $88,929,359 farm. Commercial ground is a third of the city's real-property value on about 10% of its taxable real-property parcels (5,156 of 50,751). Comptroller, 2025 Tax Aggregate Report, Tables III and X (s6).
Parcels and population, City of Murfreesboro58,707 taxable; 969 exempt
5,156 industrial and commercial, 45,483 residential, 43 farm, 69 greenbelt, 7,956 commercial personal-property accounts; population 152,769. Rutherford County: 147,571 taxable, 2,514 exempt, last revalued 2022. Comptroller, 2025 Tax Aggregate Report, Table X (s6).
Combined property tax rate inside the city$2.8288 per $100 of assessment
Rutherford County $1.8762 plus City of Murfreesboro $0.9526 (2025). Commercial property is assessed at 40% of appraisal and residential at 25%. Comptroller, 2025 Tax Aggregate Report, Tables II and VI (s6).
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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.
Government owns the biggest blocks of Murfreesboro ground, but the parcel-by-parcel counts came from a roll layer that can no longer be read. What open sources still show: Rutherford County lists 152 county-owned parcels on its own GIS (s25), and Middle Tennessee Electric is the county's second-largest taxpayer (s24). The county's Industrial Development Board holds title to the largest warehouses under PILOT leases.
| Name | Type | Open county sources, Nov 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Rutherford County The county's own county-owned-property layer lists them with a use comment: schools such as Siegel Middle and High (355 and 435 W Thompson Ln) and Blackman High (3956 Blaze Dr), the Judicial Complex at 116 W Lytle St and the Historic Court House on the Public Square (s25). |
Government | 152 county-owned parcels county-wideA |
| Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation 'Middle Tennessee Electric', 'Public Utility-Electric Company', $3,817,507 of 2024 tax, up from $71.6M assessed in 2015 (s24). Its land holdings came from the roll and are now unverified. |
Institution | $203.5M assessed county-wide (2nd taxpayer)A |
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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.
Murfreesboro permitted 1,529 homes in 2025. The Census Building Permits Survey puts the city at 989 single-family homes ($281.0M of construction) and 540 units in 13 buildings of five or more units ($90.3M), all 12 months reported (s15). Rutherford County as a whole permitted 2,533 single-family homes and 636 units in large multifamily buildings (s16). Builder lot holdings came from the county roll, which can no longer be read, so no builder is listed.
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Murfreesboro's largest private property taxpayers are not office owners. Two single-family rental companies, Progress Residential and American Homes 4 Rent, rank 4th and 5th in the whole county, and The Avenue lifestyle centre 7th (s24). The county's Industrial Development Board titles the largest warehouses, so their operators pay under PILOT leases. Figures are county-wide 2024 assessments from the county's financial report.
| Name | Type | 2024 assessed valuation, Rutherford County principal taxpayers (s24) |
|---|---|---|
| Progress Residential Listed by the county as 'Real Estate Residential Rentals', $2,713,406 of 2024 tax; not in the 2015 top ten (s24). Not SEC-registered, and no document we opened describes who owns it, so no parent is named. |
Private company | $144.5M assessed county-wide (4th)A |
| American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) 'American Homes 4 Rent LLC', 'Real Estate Residential Rentals', $1,950,447 of 2024 tax (s24). AMH's 2025 10-K puts its Nashville market at 3,392 homes (s21) and its Exhibit 21 lists AH4R TN Properties Two, AH4R-TN 3 and AMH HB borrower entities (s22). |
REIT | $104.0M assessed county-wide (5th)A |
| BVA Avenue (BVA Avenue SPE LLC) The Avenue Murfreesboro, 'Retail Mall (The Avenues)', $1,215,777 of 2024 tax (s24); see marquee. |
Private company | $64.8M assessed (7th in county)A |
| Starwood Real Estate Income Trust (SREIT) SREIT's 2025 Exhibit 21 lists SREIT Avenue Murfreesboro, L.L.C. and SREIT Gateway Murfreesboro, L.L.C. (s23). Which apartment complexes they hold and what they paid came from the county roll and are now unverified. |
REIT | 2 Murfreesboro-named property LLCsB |
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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 members or parents of BVA Avenue SPE LLC (The Avenue), SVAP II Stones River LLC (Stones River Town Centre), Tenax DPI Property LLC and Yamasa Co Ltd: no filing we opened names them. Wikipedia says Sterling Organization owns Stones River Town Centre.
- Who owns Progress Residential, and who the SFR JV-1/JV-2 Borrower LLCs belong to: no document we opened states it, so neither is attributed.
- The private lessees behind the Industrial Development Board's warehouses: no lease or PILOT schedule could be read, because rutherfordcountytn.gov is closed to crawlers.
- The Register of Deeds' search and copy fees: the page sits on rutherfordcountytn.gov, which robots.txt closes to all general user-agents.
- Whether the battlefield and VA parcels lie inside the city limits: the roll codes both outside the city's taxing district (city code 000), but no boundary file was read.
- The corporate link between Middle Tennessee Medical Center, Inc. and Ascension: stated only by Wikipedia.
- MTSU main campus roll entry: parcel 090P-C-001.00-000, owner of record MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY, 432.3 acres, appraised $11,346,200, exempt; edge parcels held as TENNESSEE STATE OF MTSU — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Stones River National Battlefield roll entry: parcel 079-065.00-000, owner UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, 476.0 acres, land appraised $14,671,600, coded outside the city's taxing district — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- VA medical center roll entry: parcel 059-053.00-000, owner UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VETERANS HOSPITAL, 316.9 acres, land appraised $5,832,800, instrument of 30 June 1937 — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford roll entry: parcel 092-017.00-000, owner of record MIDDLE TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER INC, 68.3 acres, appraised $400,875,800 (the city's highest-appraised parcel), exempt; 1,040,332 sq ft, 7 stories — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- The Avenue: owner of record spelt BVA AVENUE SPE LLC, roll sale $136,391,858 on 31 Aug 2020 (deed book 1956 page 2241), appraised $154,500,000, 3 parcels $161.6M — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04). The county report (s24) gives the taxpayer as 'BVA Avenue'.
- Stones River Town Centre roll entry: parcel 091I-A-018.00-000, owner of record SVAP II STONES RIVER LLC, bought for $42,000,000 on 9 Mar 2015, appraised $43,793,500 — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Airport roll entry: parcel 080-037.00-000, owner MURFREESBORO CITY OF, 163.0 acres, appraised $15,465,300 — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Courthouse roll values: 1.6 acres, 22,452 sq ft, appraised $3,414,000; county office parcel 091K-G-024.00-000 appraised $50.1M — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Highest-appraised parcels in the city: the hospital campus at 1700 Medical Center Pkwy ($400,875,800, exempt) and The Avenue ($154,500,000, assessed $61,800,000) — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Builder lots in own name on the county roll (county / city): Meritage Homes of Tennessee 263/56, Pulte Homes Tennessee LP 239/38, Ole South Properties 187/67, Brightland Homes of Tennessee 116/116, Clayton Properties Group 81/72, Lennar Homes of Tennessee 81/57, D.R. Horton 67/42, SB-HS Lot Option Pool 02 LP 67 lots — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Progress Residential 939 homes in the city ($354.0M appraised), 1,669 county-wide; AMH 728 in the city ($319.7M), 1,228 county-wide; Tenax DPI Property LLC 260 homes in the city (360 county-wide, from SFR JV-1 Borrower LLCs, June 2026); Yamasa Co Ltd 194 parcels in the city ($118.8M), incl. 2840 S Church St apartments bought for $53,250,000 — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- SREIT Gateway Murfreesboro LLC (2107 Lothric Way, $87,485,958, 5 May 2022) and SREIT Avenue Murfreesboro LLC (1349 Greshampark Dr, $63,555,562) — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
- Landowner holdings inside the city (city code 515): City of Murfreesboro 285 parcels / 3,178.4 acres / $491.7M; State of Tennessee incl. MTSU 124 / 701.4 acres / $108.6M; Rutherford County 42 / 516.9 acres / $350.6M; Rutherford County Board of Education 6 / 211.2 acres / $102.5M; Murfreesboro City Schools 6 / 82.4 acres / $42.2M; United States 9 / 184.3 acres; Industrial Development Board 9 / 277.7 acres / $315.2M (incl. 2020 Joe B Jackson Pkwy warehouse, $97.6M); MTEMC 22 / 203.5 acres; Murfreesboro Housing Authority 15 / 40.6 acres; CSX 220.1 acres — previously from services5.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
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Sources
- Parcel Data (item page: 'Comprehensive parcel and special interest property data for Rutherford County, Tennessee'; access public; owner organisation City of Murfreesboro) — City of Murfreesboro via ArcGIS Online · openA
- Rutherford County Property Assessor's Website (WebPro 5): 'The information provided within is as a courtesy to the citizens of Rutherford County. It is the most current information for ad valorem tax purposes'; search by owner, address or map and parcel, no account required to search — Rutherford County Property Assessor (Patriot Properties WebPro) · openA
- Parcel Data: 'CHESTER, DAVIDSON, HAMILTON, HICKMAN, KNOX, MONTGOMERY, RUTHERFORD, SHELBY, AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES ARE NOT MAINTAINED BY THE TENNESSEE OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY' — Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of Property Assessments · openA
- Register of Deeds Filing Fees: 'State Tax Conveyance: $3.70 per $1000' (a state tax, the same in every Tennessee county; cited here because Rutherford County's own fee page is behind a robots.txt disallow) — Davidson County Register of Deeds (Metro Nashville) · openA
- 2025 Tax Aggregate Report of Tennessee (Tables I, II, III, VI and X: Rutherford County and City of Murfreesboro assessments, estimated current values by class, tax rates, parcels and population) (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
- Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital: 'formerly Middle Tennessee Medical Center, is a 418-bed private, not-for-profit hospital ... a member of Ascension Saint Thomas'; 556,361 sq ft facility on a 68.5-acre medical campus, opened to patients 2 Oct 2010, estimated cost $267 million — Wikipedia · openA
- The Avenue Murfreesboro: 2615 Medical Center Pkwy; developed by Cousins Properties and Faison Enterprises, opened 17 Oct 2007; 811,000 sq ft GLA; sold to Hines Global REIT in August 2013 for US$163 million — Wikipedia · openA
- HGR Liquidating Trust (successor to Hines Global REIT, Inc.), Form 10-K for 2020: '$132.3 million of net proceeds from the sale of the Avenue at Murfreesboro in August 2020' — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Stones River Town Centre (formerly Stones River Mall): opened 1992; 671,000 sq ft; 'owned and managed by Sterling Organization'; 'Sterling Organization bought the mall in 2015' — Wikipedia · openA
- Murfreesboro Municipal Airport (MBT): 'a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles ... north of the central business district'; owner/operator City of Murfreesboro; runway 18/36, 4,753 ft; coordinates 35.8775 N, 86.3775 W — Wikipedia · openA
- Rutherford County Courthouse (Tennessee): Classical Revival building of 1859 on the Public Square, built at a cost of $50,000; NRHP 1973; coordinates 35.84611 N, 86.39194 W — Wikipedia · openA
- Stones River National Battlefield: area 709.49 acres; established 3 March 1927; governing body National Park Service; 339,364 visitors in 2023 — Wikipedia · openA
- Middle Tennessee State University: campus 'set on 466 acres', 234 permanent buildings, 3.1 million sq ft (infobox gives 500 acres) — Wikipedia · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual place file 2025, South Region (row: Murfreesboro, FIPS 47 place 51560, county 149; 12 months reported) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Building Permits Survey, annual county file 2025 (row: Rutherford County, TN, FIPS 47-149) — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Meritage Homes Corporation, Form 10-K 2025, Exhibit 21 (lists 'Meritage Homes of Tennessee, Inc.', Arizona) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- PulteGroup, Inc., Form 10-K 2025, Exhibit 21 (lists 'Pulte Homes Tennessee Limited Partnership', Nevada) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Lennar Corporation, Form 10-K FY2025, Exhibit 21 (lists 'Lennar Homes of Tennessee, LLC', Delaware) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Form 10-K 2025, Exhibit 21 (lists 'Clayton Properties Group, Inc.', Tennessee) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- American Homes 4 Rent, Form 10-K 2025 (Nashville, TN: 3,392 single-family homes, 5.6% of the portfolio) and Exhibit 21.1 (lists 'AH4R TN Properties Two, LLC', 'AH4R-TN 3, LLC' and AMH HB '... Borrower, LLC' entities including 'AMH HB Beckham Pointe Borrower, LLC') — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- American Homes 4 Rent, Form 10-K 2025, Exhibit 21.1 (subsidiaries) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc., Form 10-K 2025, Exhibit 21.1 (lists 'SREIT Avenue Murfreesboro, L.L.C.' and 'SREIT Gateway Murfreesboro, L.L.C.') — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Rutherford County, Tennessee, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended 30 June 2025, statistical Table 8 'Principal Taxpayers' (2024 assessed valuation and tax liability; source 'Trustee Tax Rolls, In-Lieu-of Tax Agreements'): 1 Nissan Motor Mfg. Co. $455,097,705; 2 Middle Tennessee Electric $203,470,179; 3 Prologis $179,095,980; 4 Progress Residential $144,468,904; 5 American Homes 4 Rent LLC $103,952,931; 7 BVA Avenue, 'Retail Mall (The Avenues)', $64,800,000 — Rutherford County, Tennessee (filed with the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of Local Government Audit) · openA
- Hosted/County_Owned_Property FeatureServer, layer 0 'CountyOwnedProperty_Final' (152 county-owned parcels with CAMA account, street address, GIS link and a use comment; e.g. 1 Public Sq, GIS link 091NBF 02500, 'HISTORIC COURT HOUSE'; 116 W Lytle St, 091K G 02400, 'JUDICIAL COMPLEX') — Rutherford County GIS (maps.rutherfordcountytn.gov) · openA
- VA Tennessee Valley Health Care, History: Alvin C. York VA Medical Center, formerly the Murfreesboro Veterans' Administration Hospital; 'the historic campus once sat on 602 acres but later reduced its footprint to 321 acres'; construction authorised 1936, activated 1 Jan 1940 — U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · openA