Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton's owners of record are public on Lackawanna County's own GIS parcel layer, and the most valuable ground belongs to its university, hospitals, school district and governments rather than to any private landlord.
10 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 14 sources · 5 tier A · 5 tier B · prepared 2026-11-03
Can you find out who owns it?
Pennsylvania has no state title register: title passes by deed recorded with the county Recorder of Deeds, and Scranton's deeds are recorded in Lackawanna County. The County's GIS server publishes a parcel layer naming the owner of every parcel, with acreage, assessed land and building value and a 'Consideration' (last sale price) field, free and with no login. Its values are still the 1968-based assessments, because the countywide reassessment only takes effect in 2026. The County's own assessment search and the Recorder's online deed index both sit behind click-through disclaimers, which we did not accept. Scranton charges 3.7% realty transfer tax on a sale, against 2% elsewhere in the county.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchNot stated: the Recorder of Deeds' recording-fee schedule (19 Feb 2026) is a scanned image with no text; the Recorder's online index (Eagle Recorder Self Service) needs an account to print copies and opens on a disclaimer page that was not accepted
Bulk ownership dataLackawanna County GIS, ArcGIS service GISViewer/LandRecords MapServer layer 85 'Parcels': owner name, location, municipality, acreage, land/improved/total assessed value, 'Consideration', deed book/page and dwelling type for every parcel; 26,845 records in Scranton; free REST query, no registration, no licence on the service. The County website's terms (on the assessment-search disclaimer) allow downloads only for personal, non-commercial use, so rows are not republished
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
Sites that forbid taking their data
- www.lackawannacounty.org (and lcao.lackawannacounty.org) — “A person visiting the Lackawanna County web site may download material only for his or her own personal, non-commercial use, or for dissemination by news media, and may not otherwise copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any material.”
- lcao.lackawannacounty.org — “The information provided herewith is solely for your own use and cannot be sold.”
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scranton City Hall 340 N Washington Ave |
Civic | City of Scranton The County parcel layer carries the City Hall lot (PIN 15628010002, Washington Ave, 130x160 ft, 0.48 acre, building and land) in the owner name 'SCRANTON CITY HALL', with a 1968-base assessed value of $300,000. Two small City of Scranton parcels adjoin it on Mulberry St and Dix Ct. Across the city the City holds about 373 records on 548 acres, including the 53-acre Lackawanna Heritage Trail strip, Nay Aug Park lots and Robinson Park. |
Government | —A |
| Lackawanna County Courthouse (Courthouse Square) 200 N Washington Ave |
Civic | Lackawanna County Parcel 15635020001, 'N WASH AVE', 4.85 acres, owner 'LACKAWANNA COUNTY COURT HOUSE', municipal exempt class, assessed $3.5M (1968 base), deed book 0403 page 0511. The County also holds its Government Center at 123 Wyoming Ave (1.51 acres, $1.06M; consideration $1.3M) and the County Prison at 1371 N Washington Ave (2.48 acres, $2.4M) - 20 records and 132 acres in the city in all. |
Government | —A |
| Steamtown National Historic Site 350 Cliff St |
Institutional | United States of America (National Park Service) Four parcels in 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA', labelled 'STEAMTOWN NATL HISTORIC SITE TRACT 101-01' (41.19 acres), 101-04 (7.51), 106-08 (1.21) and 106-09 (0.27): 50.2 acres, assessed $241,600. Wikipedia gives the site's area as 62.48 acres, its governing body as the National Park Service, and says the NPS had acquired Steamtown, USA by 1995 at a total cost of $66 million. The NPS link and the acreage gap rest on Wikipedia. |
Government | —B |
| The Marketplace at Steamtown (former Mall at Steamtown) 300 Lackawanna Ave (roll: 226 Lacka Ave) 555,815-563,774 sq ft · 2 floors |
Retail | Steamtown 300 LLC Three parcels in 'STEAMTOWN 300 LLC' (12.5 acres, assessed $1.69M), the main one 11.7 acres at 226 Lackawanna Ave. Wikipedia: the $90M mall opened in 1993 on half the former DL&W yard; a $40.5M mortgage came due in July 2013, it went into foreclosure in March 2014, and at the July 2014 sheriff's sale LNR Partners took it for $1,567.71 (costs and taxes) after a $37.3M reserve was not met. Bought at a 2015 online auction, it was renamed The Marketplace at Steamtown in 2016. The buyer's principal is a private individual and is not named here. |
Private company | $5,512,500 2015 Auction price incl. 5% buyer's premium, from LBUBS 2003-C5 Lackawanna Retail Partnership (Wikipedia); the roll's Consideration on all three parcels is $5,512,500. B |
| Geisinger Community Medical Center 1800 Mulberry St (roll: Arthur & Mulberry) |
Institutional | Community Medical Center (d/b/a Geisinger Community Medical Center) The main hospital parcel 15714010048 (0.39 acre, $12.1M) and 316-320 Colfax Ave (3.35 acres, $8.45M) stand in 'COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER'; one record reads 'COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER D/B/A GEISINGER COMMUNITY', and about two dozen house lots on Colfax, Arthur and Roselyn Aves, bought for $100,000-$400,000 each, are held jointly in the CMC and Geisinger CMC names. In all 34 records, 17.6 acres, $23.2M (1968 base). Separately 'GEISINGER CLINIC' holds 15.5 acres at Mt Pleasant Corporate Center. |
Institution | —A |
| Regional Hospital of Scranton 746 Jefferson Ave |
Institutional | Not established the register is open, but this building was not matched The parcel layer still names 'SCRANTON HOSPITAL COMPANY LLC' for the hospital (3.86 acres, $5.15M, the city's most valuable taxable parcel), its office block and the McAuley building - 7 records, consideration $80,681,051 - and 'SCRANTON QUINCY HOSPITAL CO' for Moses Taylor Hospital (6 records). Community Health Systems' FY2025 10-K lists both hospitals as owned (May 2011; Jan 2012), its Exhibit 21 lists Scranton Hospital Company, LLC d/b/a Regional Hospital of Scranton and Moses Taylor Hospital, and says the sale to affiliates of Tenor Health Foundation closed on 1 February 2026 ($33M cash plus a $15M note). Whether real estate or the entities changed hands was not established. |
Not established | —B |
| University of Scranton campus 800 Linden St area (Monroe, Jefferson, Mulberry, Quincy Aves) |
Institutional | University of Scranton 175 records in the University's name (169 as 'UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON'), 71.2 acres, assessed $44.0M on the 1968 base - the largest non-government holding in the city by both count and value. Its biggest parcel is 3.01 acres on Monroe Ave ($13.5M); named halls include Hyland Hall (301 Jefferson Ave), Brennan Hall (320 Madison Ave) and the McDade Center (313 Monroe Ave). |
Institution | —A |
| Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine 525 Pine St |
Institutional | Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine Parcel 14669010005, 2.6 acres, owner 'GEISINGER COMM SCH OF MEDICINE', exempt, assessed $16,574,000 - the highest-valued parcel in Scranton on the County layer. A 'COMMONWEALTH MEDICAL COLLEGE' (its former name) still holds 10 records, 2.6 acres, $149,000. |
Institution | —A |
| Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel (former DL&W passenger station) 700 Lackawanna Ave |
Hotel | Akshar Lackawanna Station Hospitality LP Parcel 15643040001, 3.52 acres, owner 'AKSHAR LACKAWANNA STATION HOSPITALITY LP', taxable commercial class, assessed $1,024,974; Consideration $1 (a nominal or non-arm's-length entry). Wikipedia says the former DL&W train station 'was restored as the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel'. Nearby, 100 Adams Ave (1.0 acre, $1.31M, Consideration $10,454,150) stands in 'SCRANCHRIS HOSPITALITY LP'. |
Private company | —B |
| Montage Mountain ski resort Montage Mountain Rd |
Land | Montage Mountain Resorts LP Parcel 18602010001, 388.5 acres, buildings and land, assessed $816,284, Consideration $1. 'Montage Hotel Partners LP' holds 1.1 acres at 22 Montage Mt Rd (Consideration $8,817,190), and an owner named 'Lackawanna County Perform Arts' holds the 53.8-acre amphitheater parcel. Wikipedia: Lackawanna County bought the resort in 1991 for $14.7M and sold it in 2006 to Sno Mountain LP for $5.1M; after a 2012 bankruptcy National Penn Bank bought it at auction for $4.6M (March 2013), and it was sold in May 2013 to the real estate company Jefferson-Werner for $5.1M. |
Private company | —B |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Computed from the Lackawanna County GIS parcel layer (LandRecords layer 85), Municipality 'Scranton', read 3 Nov 2026. Its values are 1968-base assessments; the County's reassessment values take effect in 2026 and are not in this layer.
Parcel records in the city26,845 records; $595.9M assessed (1968 base); 13,969 acres
26,807 distinct PINs. Taxable 25,189 records ($375.7M); exempt 1,656 ($220.2M, 5,414 acres). County GIS layer, Nov 2026.
Highest assessed parcel$16.57M - Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
525 Pine St, 2.6 acres, exempt.
Highest assessed taxable parcel$5.15M - Regional Hospital of Scranton
746 Jefferson Ave, 3.86 acres, in 'Scranton Hospital Company LLC' (sold by CHS to Tenor Health affiliates 1 Feb 2026, per the CHS 10-K).
Last-sale prices on the layer17,220 records carry a Consideration over $1,000
Undated; the layer gives deed book/page on only 7,899 records.
2026 tax rates on new valuesCity about 6.35 mills; Scranton SD about 9.56; County 5.51
Lackawanna County 2026 Millage Rates sheet (its font encoding was decoded digit by digit). The reassessment FAQ says new values take effect in 2026.
Realty transfer tax3.7% in Scranton
Recorder of Deeds FAQ (May 2022): 2% elsewhere in the county; 'The total Realty Transfer Tax collected on a property in Scranton is 3.7%.'
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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.
Public and non-profit bodies hold the most valuable ground in Scranton. Of the city's $596M of (1968-base) assessed value, $220M - 37% - is in 1,656 exempt records. The University of Scranton, Geisinger's hospital and medical school, and the school district each outweigh any private owner. By area the largest holder is the Commonwealth's DCNR (2,394 acres of mountain land on the city's south-east edge), then the City, utilities and railroads. Figures are counts of records, acres and 1968-base assessed values on the County GIS parcel layer for Municipality 'Scranton' (read 3 Nov 2026); owner names vary in spelling and are grouped.
| Name | Type | Records, acres, assessed value (1968 base) |
|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (DCNR and other agencies) 16 records in 'COMMONWEALTH OF PA DCNR' hold 2,394 acres (largest tracts 532, 436 and 350 acres). Other state records: the 100 block of Lackawanna Ave (1.49 acres, $7.75M), a 4.07-acre Mulberry St parcel ($6.36M), General State Authority, and PennDOT strips. |
Government | 47 records, 2,418 acres, $16.0MA |
| City of Scranton Mostly parks, trails and small vacant lots: the Lackawanna Heritage Trail (53.5 acres), Robinson Park (25 acres), Elmhurst Blvd land (25.4 acres), dozens of Nay Aug Ave lots and Meadowbrook flood-project slivers. The Scranton Redevelopment Authority holds 37 more records (27 acres) and the Parking Authority 6 (5.6 acres, $7.2M). |
Government | about 373 records, 548 acres, $4.5MA |
| University of Scranton The largest holder by value. Marywood University holds 8 records (37.5 acres, $4.1M) and Lackawanna College 21 (17.3 acres, $5.6M, mostly as 'Lackawanna Junior College'). |
Institution | 175 records, 71.2 acres, $44.0MA |
| Scranton School District Largest: 800 block Providence Rd (37.5 acres, $8.88M) and 1000 N Everett Ave (13.5 acres, $4.34M). The Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County holds 97.5 acres at 3201 Rockwell Ave ($2.68M). |
Government | 41 records, 106.4 acres, $25.3MA |
| Scranton Housing Authority Including Adams Ave & Vine St ($3.59M), the 500 block of N Washington Ave ($1.74M), Valley View Terrace on Pear St (32.95 acres) and the S Webster/Saginaw site (24.67 acres). |
Government | 38 records, 98.2 acres, $11.7MA |
| Lackawanna County (incl. Land Bank) The Courthouse, Government Center and Prison. An owner named 'Lackawanna County Perform Arts' holds the 53.8-acre Montage amphitheater parcel (not counted here). The Lackawanna County Land Bank holds 59 small, mostly vacant parcels ($162,386). |
Government | 20 records, 132 acres, $8.2M; Land Bank 59 records, 18.4 acresA |
| United States of America Steamtown NHS (50.2 acres), the Washington Ave & Linden St block across from Courthouse Square ($2.50M) and 213-231 N Washington Ave, a 25.3-acre U S Army Corps of Engineers parcel on Olyphant Ave ($2.98M), and a 18.9-acre U S Postal Service site on Stafford Ave. A 15-acre S Washington Ave parcel ($5.52M) is carried in 'CHAMBERLAIN CORP' under an exempt class; what it is was not established from an opened source. |
Government | 14 records, 97.5 acres, $7.5MA |
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp Largest a 185-acre N Keyser Ave tract. UGI Penn Natural Gas holds 9 records (21.3 acres). |
Public company | 45 records, 419 acresA |
| Pennsylvania-American Water Co (PAWC) Lake Scranton water treatment plant and reservoir (250.5 acres) and the wastewater treatment plant off Sanders St (48.45 acres, $1.68M). The Scranton Sewer Authority keeps one 0.8-acre lot. |
Public company | 19 records, 307.5 acres, $1.8MA |
| Railroads: Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority, Norfolk Southern, Conrail The regional rail authority, a public body, holds the most rail land; Delaware Lackawanna Railroad Co holds 2 more records. |
Government | PNRRA 32 records, 129.6 acres; Norfolk Southern 9, 85.1 acres; Conrail 12, 5.2 acresA |
| Allied Services Foundation and affiliates The rehabilitation and nursing campus on Smallacombe Dr and Morgan Hwy, plus undeveloped tracts along the Turnpike (63.4 and 79.4 acres) and the Griffin Farm (48.2 acres). |
Institution | 25 records, 330.5 acres, $4.2MA |
| Theta Land Corp One 430.1-acre tract assessed at $15,117 - the largest private landholding in the city by area. Montage Mountain Resorts LP follows with 388.5 acres and D & L Realty with 24 records, 263 acres. |
Private company | 2 records, 430.6 acresA |
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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.
Scranton barely builds new homes. The Census Bureau's 2025 permit survey shows 2 single-family units ($499,572) and nothing in multifamily for the city, and the file marks 0 months reported, so even that is imputed. New housing comes from conversions of downtown buildings and small infill by local LLCs. Figures count records held inside the city by companies with builder or developer names on the County layer - lots and houses, not homes built. No national builder appears. Names that are a person's name are left out.
| Name | Type | Records held in the city |
|---|---|---|
| Alto Strada Development LLC 15 residential-class (RT) and 2 LT-class records; 2.9 acres. |
Developer | 17 recordsA |
| McKenna Court Homes LLC 2.0 acres, under two spellings of the name. |
Developer | 17 recordsA |
| Nexus Homes LLC 0.9 acres, 8 of them residential-class. |
Private company | 9 recordsA |
| JPLL Home Designs Inc 1.1 acres. |
Private company | 9 recordsA |
| Hillside Development LLC 1.0 acre. |
Developer | 8 recordsA |
| Hebron Housing Development LLC 0.5 acre. |
Developer | 7 recordsA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Scranton has no institutional office market of any size on the roll; the largest private holdings are a regional mall, an apartment-style Delaware statutory trust, a new warehouse, the downtown mall and a local realty company with dozens of downtown parcels. Values are 1968-base assessments, far below market; 'Consideration' is the last price the layer records, without a date.
| Name | Type | Holding in the city, County parcel layer |
|---|---|---|
| PR Financing Limited Partnership (Viewmont Mall) 10 Viewmont Mall, 'PR FINANCING LMTD PARTNERSHIP', deed book 1444 page 296, Consideration $10. Sam's Real Estate Business Trust holds the adjoining Sam's Club #65 (17.3 acres) and W2005/Fargo Hotels Pool C Realty a hotel at 947 Viewmont Dr (Consideration $1,942,649). |
Private company | 42.2 acres, $3.77M assessedA |
| Moosic 1031 Venture DST Glenmaura National Blvd, commercial class. Its $42.6M is the highest Consideration in the city after the $80.7M carried on the Regional Hospital parcels; STORE Master Funding XXXIII ($40.0M, Driscoll St), PA14 Taylor LLC ($39.0M, Road A Parcel 2P) and Stauffer Industrial Owner ($30.0M) follow. A Delaware statutory trust is a vehicle for tax-deferred exchange investors; its sponsor was not established. |
Private company | 21.4 acres, $3.49M assessed; Consideration $42,608,000A |
| Stauffer Industrial Owner LP Road A Ext Parcel 1P, assessed $2.12M. Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials Inc holds 18.5 acres of industrial land, and North Keyser Partners LLC 27.8 acres. |
Private company | 43.7 acres, industrial; Consideration $30,000,000A |
| JBAS Realty LLC The largest private commercial holder by count: 35 of its 42 records are commercial-class (CT), including the CAIT Center at 417 Lackawanna Ave (Consideration $2.85M) and 1008-1010 N Washington Ave. The County publishes no key to its sub-codes. |
Private company | 42 records, 14.4 acres, $2.92MA |
| STORE Master Funding XXXIII LLC Net-lease sites, including Driscoll St (Consideration $40,000,000). ARC PNSCRPA001 LLC holds 4 records at 201 Penn Ave (Consideration $7,619,173); Skyview Park Owner LLC holds 14.8 acres at Gibbons St & Crown Ave (Consideration $21,250,000). |
Private company | 7 records, 29.8 acres, $839,286A |
| Single-family and small-rental holders: Yonah Properties LLC, LWA Associates LP Yonah Properties LLC holds 36 residential-class (RT) records on 4.7 acres; LWA Associates LP 61 residential-class records on 2.9 acres; Keystone Community Resources, a non-profit, 42 records. Other LLCs hold 10-18 houses each. No holder approaches the scale of a national single-family-rental operator. |
Private company | Yonah 36 records; LWA 64 recordsA |
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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.
- Who now owns the Regional Hospital and Moses Taylor real estate. The County layer still names Scranton Hospital Company LLC and Scranton Quincy Hospital Co; CHS says the hospitals were sold to Tenor Health Foundation affiliates on 1 Feb 2026, but no deed was read (Eagle Recorder is behind a disclaimer).
- How current the GIS layer's owner names are. It has no as-of date; the assessment site says property records are updated weekly, but that site was not used.
- Reassessed (2026) market values for any parcel. Only 1968-base values are on the open layer; the County's iasWorld site, which may hold the new values, sits behind a disclaimer.
- Dates for the 'Consideration' prices on the layer; only the price and sometimes a deed book/page are carried, so no acquired date is stated except where another source gives one.
- The sponsor behind Moosic 1031 Venture DST, and who stands behind Stauffer Industrial Owner LP, PR Financing LP after PREIT's restructuring, Steamtown 300 LLC's current status, and JBAS Realty LLC. No filing opened names their members.
- Whether the Washington Ave & Linden St federal parcels are the William J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse; the layer gives no building name.
- The Hilton Scranton's owner: 100 Adams Ave is held by Scranchris Hospitality LP on the layer, but no opened source ties that address to the hotel.
- The Recorder of Deeds' copy and search fees: the posted fee schedule is a scanned image.
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Sources
- Lackawanna County GIS - GISViewer/LandRecords MapServer, layer 85 'Parcels' (owner, location, municipality, acreage, land/improved/total value, consideration, deed book/page, dwelling type); 26,845 records with Municipality 'Scranton', queried 3 Nov 2026 — Lackawanna County · openA
- Assessment Database Search home page and Disclaimer (Tyler iasWorld Public Access); County e-Government Website Policies, Terms of Use — Lackawanna County Assessor's Office · openA
- Reassessment page and Reassessment FAQ (6-22-23): last countywide assessment 1968; Tyler contracted 18 May 2022; new values go into effect in 2026 — Lackawanna County · openA
- The Marketplace at Steamtown — Wikipedia · openA
- Community Health Systems, Inc. Form 10-K for FY2025 (filed 19 Feb 2026) and Exhibit 21 subsidiaries — U.S. SEC EDGAR · openA
- Exhibit 21 - Subsidiaries of Community Health Systems, Inc. (Scranton Hospital Company, LLC d/b/a Regional Hospital of Scranton; Moses Taylor Hospital) — U.S. SEC EDGAR · openA
- Steamtown National Historic Site — Wikipedia · openA
- Montage Mountain — Wikipedia · openA
- Scranton, Pennsylvania (population 76,328; Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel; colleges) — Wikipedia · openA
- Building Permits Survey, places, Northeast Region, 2025 annual (ne2025a.txt): Scranton city 2 one-unit buildings, $499,572 — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- Realty Transfer Tax Frequently Asked Questions (5.2.22) — Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds · openA
- 2026 Millage Rates (county, school district and municipal) — Lackawanna County Assessment Office · openA
- Recorder of Deeds page (Eagle Recorder Self Service link, e-recording and AOPC fee notices) and Recording Fees (19 Feb 2026, scanned image) — Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds · openA
- PA_Parcels MapServer layer 1 (statewide parcels: PIN, source, date only - no owner) — PASDA, Penn State · openA