San Francisco, California
San Francisco publishes nineteen years of its secured property roll as public-domain open data, with every parcel's value and last transfer date — and no owner names, so the owners of its towers come from REIT filings and the City's own land records.
13 buildings · 12 with an owner established · 22 sources · 6 tier A · 7 tier B · prepared 2026-11-03
Can you find out who owns it?
California assessment rolls carry no owner names in public data. San Francisco's Assessor-Recorder publishes the whole secured roll from 2007 (the data now runs to the 2025 closed roll) as open data under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication, and describes it as holding "all legally disclosable information" — location, value, parcel number and property characteristics. Owner names are not on that list. Ownership is still a public record on the Recorder's side of the same office, one recorded deed at a time, for a copy fee. There is no title register, no online owner index and no bulk owner file. The roll gives a last transfer date for each parcel but no price.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title searchNot available at any price
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesNo transaction data published
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Hall 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place (Civic Center) |
Civic | City and County of San Francisco City Lands land 173 'CITY HALL CIVIC CENTER', jurisdiction GSA - Real Estate Division, 4.51 acres by our calculation from the mapped polygon. Wikipedia gives owner City and County of San Francisco, operator the Real Estate Division; ground was broken in April 1913 and the building was completed in 1916 (s16). |
Government | —A |
| Salesforce Tower 415 Mission Street (APN 3720009) 1,420,682 sq ft · 63 floors |
Office | BXP, Inc. BXP's 2025 10-K lists Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA: 1 building, 1,420,682 sq ft, 98.0% leased, with no partial-ownership note (it puts one on its joint-venture assets). Schedule III gives initial cost $200.3M land + $946.2M building, built 2018, acquired 2013. The 2025 closed roll (s1) assesses APN 3720009 at $236,208,037 land + $1,713,847,455 improvements, 63 storeys, last transfer 26 Mar 2013. It is the city's second-highest-assessed parcel. |
REIT | —B |
| Transamerica Pyramid 600 Montgomery Street (APN 0207032) 512,395 sq ft (roll property area) · 48 floors |
Office | SHVO and Deutsche Finance America (2020 buyers) Wikipedia states the 2020 sale by Aegon to SHVO and Deutsche Finance America for $650M, and a $250M renovation begun in 2022. Its infobox shows the owner as 'Yoda PLC', which nothing else supports, so the stated sale is used. The 2025 closed roll (s1): 48 storeys, built 1971, $206,095,083 land + $309,230,017 improvements, last transfer 28 Oct 2020, which matches the sale. Present title holder not checked against a deed. |
Private company | $650M 2020-10 Wikipedia: 'In 2020, Aegon sold the building to SHVO and Deutsche Finance America for $650 million.' Roll transfer date 28 Oct 2020. B |
| Embarcadero Center One, Two, Three and Four Embarcadero Center 3,374,947 sq ft (four office towers, our sum) |
Mixed use | BXP, Inc. BXP's 2025 10-K lists Embarcadero Center One (838,051 sq ft, 70.1% leased), Two (804,891, 73.4%), Three (786,411, 75.6%) and Four (945,594, 87.9%), all San Francisco, CA, with no partial-ownership note. The total is our sum of the four stated figures. |
REIT | —A |
| 555 California Street 555 California Street (APN 0259026) 1.8M sq ft (three buildings) · 52 floors |
Office | Vornado Realty Trust 70% controlling interest Vornado's 2025 10-K: 'A 70% controlling interest in 555 California Street, a three-building office complex in San Francisco's financial district aggregating 1.8 million square feet.' On the 2025 closed roll (s1) APN 0259026 has 52 storeys, built 1969, and is assessed at $1,159,518,020 in total, the sixth-highest parcel in the city. |
REIT | —B |
| Ferry Building 1 Ferry Building, The Embarcadero 266,402 sq ft |
Mixed use | Hudson Pacific Properties 55.0%, through Hudson One Ferry REIT, L.P. HPP's 2025 10-K lists the Ferry Building, San Francisco: 266,402 sq ft, 98.8% leased, $25,461,952 annualised base rent ($96.71 per sq ft). Its consolidated-entity table lists 'Hudson One Ferry REIT, L.P. | Ferry Building | 55.0%'. |
REIT | —A |
| Chase Center 1 Warriors Way, Mission Bay (APN 8722026) |
Civic | Golden State Warriors Wikipedia: in April 2014 the Warriors 'purchased a 12-acre site owned by Salesforce.com at the Mission Bay neighborhood for an undisclosed amount. The arena was financed privately.' Opened 6 Sep 2019; capacity 18,064 for basketball. The 2025 closed roll (s1) assesses arena parcel 8722026 at $280,626,902 land + $1,108,166,210 improvements + $97,369,132 fixtures = $1.486B, the third-highest parcel in the city. No deed was opened, so the exact title-holding entity is not stated. |
Private company | —B |
| Oracle Park 24 Willie Mays Plaza, China Basin |
Civic | Port of San Francisco (land) Wikipedia's infobox gives owner Port of San Francisco and operator San Francisco Baseball Associates LP. It states the park opened on 31 Mar 2000 as the first MLB ballpark since 1962 built without public funds, and 'The Giants have a 66-year lease on the 12.5-acre ballpark site.' The roll query for 'Willie Mays' returned no parcel. |
Government | —B |
| Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 333 O'Farrell Street and 55 Cyril Magnin Street (APN 0330026) |
Hotel | Not established a paid title search would answer it Park Hotels' 2025 10-K: it stopped paying the $725M CMBS loan on the 1,921-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the 1,024-room Parc 55 in June 2023. A court-appointed receiver took control in October 2023, and the hotels 'were sold by the court-appointed receiver on November 21, 2025', with the buyer assuming the loan. The filing does not name the buyer. Roll (s1): Parc 55 is 32 storeys, built 1983, $284.7M land + $189.8M improvements. |
Not established | —A |
| San Francisco Centre (formerly Westfield San Francisco Centre) 865 Market Street |
Retail | Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase (foreclosing lenders) Wikipedia: in June 2023 Westfield and Brookfield stopped loan payments and ceded the mall to their lenders. A receiver took control in October 2023. In November 2025 Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase foreclosed on the $560M loan and bought it for $134M. The 2025 closed roll (s1) shows parcel 3705042 at 865 Market as 4 storeys, built 1908, 75,624 sq ft lot, with zero assessed value on that parcel; the value sits on other lots that we did not resolve. |
Public company | $134M 2025-11 Wikipedia: the lenders 'foreclosed on a $560 million loan and bought the property for $134 million'. B |
| CPMC Van Ness Campus 1101 Van Ness Avenue (APN 0695007) 1,015,000 sq ft (roll property area) · 12 floors |
Institutional | California Pacific Medical Center (Sutter Health) The highest-assessed parcel on the 2025 closed roll (s1): $80,416,922 land + $1,819,188,514 improvements + $776,232,717 fixtures = $2.68B, 12 storeys, built 2019, use 'Commercial Misc'. Wikipedia: Sutter Health CPMC's Van Ness Campus at 1101 Van Ness opened in 2019 with 274 beds. CPMC began building the $2.1B hospital in 2013 on the former Jack Tar Hotel site. No deed was opened to confirm which Sutter entity holds title. |
Institution | —B |
| Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center 1001 Potrero Avenue |
Institutional | City and County of San Francisco City Lands land 614, jurisdiction Department of Public Health, 21.49 acres by our calculation from the polygon. The City's own land record. |
Government | —A |
| Moscone Center 747 Howard Street |
Civic | City and County of San Francisco City Lands: land 451 'MOSCONE CENTER' (10.57 acres, category 'OCII - Former SFRA') and land 804 'Moscone West' (4.30 acres), both under GSA - Convention Facilities Management; acres are our polygon calculation. Wikipedia gives owner City and County of San Francisco, operator ASM Global, opened 1981, three main halls across three blocks in South of Market (s22). |
Government | —A |
2
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
San Francisco's roll splits land, improvements and fixtures on every parcel back to 2007, under a public-domain dedication. Figures are from the 2025 closed roll, the latest year in the data, which runs one year later than the dataset's own description says.
Whole secured roll, 2025$352.48B
211,547 parcels: $177.53B land + $172.23B improvements + $2.72B fixtures. Sums of the closed_roll_year 2025 rows, Assessor Historical Secured Property Tax Rolls (s1), read 4 Nov 2026.
Highest assessed parcel$2.68B
1101 Van Ness Avenue (CPMC Van Ness Campus), APN 0695007, 2025 closed roll (s1). Next: Salesforce Tower $1.95B, Chase Center $1.49B, 250 Howard St $1.19B, 1800 Owens St $1.18B, 555 California St $1.16B.
Financial District/South Beach total$67.16B
9,872 roll records in that analysis neighbourhood, 19% of the citywide roll value. South of Market is next at $19.39B over 6,022 records. 2025 closed roll (s1).
All 'Commercial Office' parcels$60.06B
1,818 parcels with use 'Commercial Office' on the 2025 closed roll (s1).
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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.
Most of the city's open ground is public land. The City's own register (City Lands) maps about 1,000 City-owned polygons in San Francisco: Golden Gate Park, McLaren Park, the Port's waterfront and Treasure Island. Outside the city, the City also owns SFO and watershed land. The federal government holds the Presidio and, until the Navy transfers it, most of Hunters Point Shipyard. Acres are our calculation from the City Lands polygons and may include piers and water areas. The tax roll names no owners, so it cannot give private holdings.
| Name | Type | Holdings (City Lands polygons in San Francisco unless stated) |
|---|---|---|
| City and County of San Francisco — Recreation and Parks Includes Golden Gate Park (~1,024 acres), John McLaren Park (~334), Marina Green (~163, polygon includes water), the San Francisco Zoo (~135) and Lincoln Park (~113). |
Government | 225 lands, ~2,728 acresA |
| City and County of San Francisco — Airport (SFO) City Lands records SFO with city 'San Francisco', but the airport lies outside the city limits. Wikipedia: owner/operator City and County of San Francisco; the airport covers 5,207 acres (s17). |
Government | 1 land, ~4,540 acres (in San Mateo County)A |
| City and County of San Francisco — Public Utilities Commission Largest is Lake Merced Park (~625 acres). |
Government | 77 lands, ~947 acres in the city (more outside, e.g. Sunol)A |
| Treasure Island Development Authority Listed in City Lands. Wikipedia: Treasure Island alone is 393 acres; in 2009 the Navy agreed to sell the island to the City for $105M for redevelopment (s20). Our polygon area includes Yerba Buena Island and surrounding areas. |
Government | 1 land, ~933 acresA |
| Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (successor to the Redevelopment Agency) Includes the Hunters Point Shipyard polygon (~715 acres). City Lands lists OCII 'for reference' as an agency not directly part of the City. |
Government | 20 lands, ~772 acresA |
| Port of San Francisco Mapped as 'PORT LANDS' (e.g. ~300 acres 'VARIOUS', ~172 acres India Basin). Wikipedia names the Port as owner of the Oracle Park site (s14). |
Government | 42 lands, ~624 acresA |
| San Francisco Unified School District School sites mapped in City Lands under 'School District (SFUSD)'. |
Government | 146 lands, ~434 acresA |
| San Francisco Housing Authority Listed in City Lands 'for reference' as an agency not directly part of the City. |
Government | 41 lands, ~171 acresA |
| City College of San Francisco Main campus at 50 Frida Kahlo Way ~66 acres. |
Government | 8 lands, ~73 acresA |
| United States Navy Five Point's 2025 10-K: 'At The San Francisco Shipyard, approximately 408 acres are still owned by the U.S. Navy and will not be conveyed to us until the U.S. Navy satisfactorily completes its finding of suitability to transfer.' |
Government | ~408 acres at Hunters Point ShipyardA |
| Presidio Trust and National Park Service (federal) Wikipedia: the Presidio covers 1,480 acres. In 1996 Congress created the Presidio Trust to manage the interior 80% of the park's lands, with the National Park Service managing the coastal 20%. |
Government | 1,480 acresB |
| University of California (UCSF) Wikipedia gives UCSF's campus as 'Urban, 195 acres'. Its main sites are Parnassus and Mission Bay. Not checked against a UC property record. |
Government | 195 acres (campus)B |
| Five Point Holdings / The Shipyard Communities, LLC The 2025 10-K describes Candlestick and The San Francisco Shipyard as about 800 acres of bayfront property, with up to about 12,000 homesites and about 6.3M sq ft of commercial space. The venture's Shipyard land is conveyed in phases from the Navy. |
Public company | ~800 acres being developed (Candlestick ~280, Shipyard ~495)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.
Almost no tract building happens inside the city. New homes come from high-rise market-rate projects, which carry inclusionary affordable units, and from nonprofit sponsors funded by MOHCD and OCII. The one large master-planned site is Five Point's Candlestick/Shipyard. Figures are MOHCD pipeline totals (projects in construction or pre-construction, s11), total units / MOHCD-affordable units. No public national builder (D.R. Horton, Lennar etc.) shows a city project count in a source we opened. Law-firm entries listed as 'sponsor' are left out.
| Name | Type | Pipeline units (total / MOHCD-affordable) |
|---|---|---|
| Five Point Holdings, LLC (The Shipyard Communities, LLC) 2025 10-K: Candlestick and The San Francisco Shipyard, about 800 acres, 'can include up to approximately 12,000 homesites'. |
Public company | up to ~12,000 homesitesA |
| Maximus Real Estate Partners 4 pipeline projects, the largest lead sponsor by units. Mostly market-rate units carrying an inclusionary share. |
Private equity | 5,735 / 287A |
| Mercy Housing California 8 projects, almost entirely subsidised. |
Institution | 971 / 956A |
| Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation 7 projects. |
Institution | 803 / 799A |
| Chinatown Community Development Center 6 projects. |
Institution | 724 / 715A |
| DM Development 2 projects. |
Private company | 593 / 448A |
| The John Stewart Company 4 projects; a for-profit developer-operator working mainly in subsidised housing. |
Private company | 438 / 405A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Downtown San Francisco is held by a short list of listed REITs. Because the roll names nobody, their filings are the main way to establish who owns a tower here, and the same filings show the vacancy. Hudson Pacific's 1455 Market is 47.2% leased and 901 Market 32.4%. Two of the largest retail and hotel properties went to lenders after 2023 defaults.
| Name | Type | Floor area (as stated in filings) |
|---|---|---|
| Kilroy Realty Corporation 2025 10-K: its 'San Francisco' subtotal is 30 buildings, 5,564,971 sq ft, 86.2% occupied, $334.5M annualised base rent. That subtotal includes South San Francisco and the Peninsula. In-city: 100 First, 100 Hooper, 303 Second (784,658 sq ft, 66.1%), 201 Third (56.0%), 360 Third, 250/301/333/345 Brannan, 350 Mission. Also lists the 2.3M sq ft Flower Mart site in the San Francisco CBD. |
REIT | 3,410,022 sq ft in 10 city buildings (our sum); 5,564,971 sq ft across 30 Bay Area buildingsA |
| BXP, Inc. 2025 10-K: Salesforce Tower 1,420,682 sq ft (98.0% leased) and Embarcadero Center One to Four at 838,051 / 804,891 / 786,411 / 945,594 sq ft (70.1–87.9% leased). |
REIT | 4,795,629 sq ft, 5 towers (our sum)A |
| Hudson Pacific Properties 2025 10-K: 1455 Market 1,007,646 sq ft (47.2% leased), Rincon Center 530,135 (97.4%), Ferry Building 266,402 (98.8%, 55.0% interest), 901 Market 204,381 (32.4%). |
REIT | 2,008,564 sq ft, 4 assets (our sum)A |
| Vornado Realty Trust 2025 10-K: 70% controlling interest in the three-building 555 California Street complex. |
REIT | 1.8M sq ft, 3 buildings (70%)A |
| Equity Residential 2025 10-K market table: 'San Francisco', 41 properties, 11,558 units, 16.4% of NOI. That is a metro market, not the city alone. EDGAR now lists the registrant as Vivmark Residential. |
REIT | 41 properties, 11,558 apartment units (San Francisco market)A |
| Essex Property Trust, Inc. 2025 10-K property list, San Francisco, CA: 500 Folsom (537 homes, 2021), Fox Plaza (445), MB 360 (360), Bennett Lofts (178), Park West (126). |
REIT | 5 communities, 1,646 apartment homes in the city (our sum)A |
| Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. (exited) 2025 10-K: it defaulted on the $725M CMBS loan on Hilton San Francisco Union Square (1,921 rooms) and Parc 55 (1,024) in June 2023. A receiver sold both on 21 Nov 2025. Park still lists the 344-room JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square, held on a ground lease to 2083. |
REIT | 2,945 rooms handed to a receiver; sold 21 Nov 2025A |
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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 buyer of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 in the 21 Nov 2025 receiver sale: Park Hotels' 10-K does not name it and no deed was opened.
- Present title-holding entities for Chase Center (Warriors), CPMC Van Ness (Sutter/CPMC) and the Transamerica Pyramid (2020 buyers SHVO / Deutsche Finance America): taken from Wikipedia, not a recorded deed. The Pyramid's infobox owner 'Yoda PLC' is unsupported and was not used.
- The owners of 250 Howard Street ($1.19B), 1800 Owens Street ($1.18B), 101 California ($1.12B) and 55 Spear ($950M), all top-ten assessed parcels: no filing opened names them.
- The Recorder's per-document copy fee: sf.gov serves a WAF challenge even on robots.txt.
- Single-family-rental holders: none established. No SFR REIT filing opened gives a San Francisco city count, and the roll has no owner field.
- City Lands acreages are our polygon calculations and include piers and water areas for some lands (Marina Green, Port, Treasure Island). They are not official acreages.
- Paramount Group's One Market Plaza (49%) and Market Center: no Paramount filing was opened for this record, so those holdings are left out.
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Sources
- Assessor Historical Secured Property Tax Rolls (wv5m-vpq2), closed roll years 2007–2025; 211,547 rows for 2025; fields include parcel_number, use_definition, exemption_code_definition, number_of_stories, property_area, lot_area, current_sales_date and assessed land/improvement/fixtures values. No owner field. — Office of the Assessor-Recorder, City and County of San Francisco (DataSF) · openA
- City Lands (gtnh-hgvs): 1,035 polygons of City-owned land from the Facility System of Record, with the department holding jurisdiction; includes lands of SFHA, OCII and City College 'for reference'; data as of 26 Oct 2026 — City Administrator, Real Estate Division and Capital Planning Program, City and County of San Francisco (DataSF) · openA
- BXP, Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 — US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 — US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Vornado Realty Trust Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 — US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 — US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Kilroy Realty Corporation Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 — US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Five Point Holdings, LLC Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 — US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Equity Residential Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 (EDGAR now lists the registrant as Vivmark Residential) — US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Essex Property Trust, Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 — US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development Affordable Housing Pipeline (aaxw-2cb8): 190 projects in construction or pre-construction, 27,009 total units; fields include project_lead_sponsor, project_owner, total_project_units, mohcd_affordable_units — MOHCD / OCII, City and County of San Francisco (DataSF) · openA
- Transamerica Pyramid (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- Westfield San Francisco Centre (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- Oracle Park (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- Chase Center (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- San Francisco City Hall (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- San Francisco International Airport (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- Presidio of San Francisco (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- California Pacific Medical Center (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- Treasure Island, San Francisco (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- University of California, San Francisco (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA
- Moscone Center (Wikipedia article) — Wikipedia · openA