Ventura (San Buenaventura), California

Who owns Ventura: the City, the Ventura Port District, Ventura Unified, the County and the State hold the harbour, parks, schools and the civic centre; owner names on private land sit only on County terminals. Since 4 Nov 2026 public owners rest on the State's CPAD database, a County Grand Jury report and Wikipedia, because the City's ArcGIS Online parcel layers sit on a robots-blocked host.

8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 22 sources · 5 tier B · 3 tier A · prepared 2026-11-01

Can you find out who owns it?

California has no public title register: ownership is proved by deeds recorded with the Ventura County Clerk-Recorder, and the County Assessor keeps the roll. The Assessor's Roll Data page says 'online ownership searches are not available, but can be obtained, in person, at our self-service public information computers'; its online Property Search gives property characteristics by parcel number or address. The Auditor-Controller says real-property data is available to non-assessees 'at a fee based upon the cost of developing and providing the data'. Under Proposition 13 a sale resets a parcel's assessed value to its price.

Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time

Cost of one title searchNot available at any price

Bulk ownership dataVentura County Assessor roll data by Public Records Act request, for a fee and under a Public Info Agreement (per the Oxnard record, Oct 2026). Public land only: the State's CPAD database (gis.cnra.ca.gov) names the owning agency of every park and open-space holding; the County and City GIS parcel layers (maps.ventura.org, maps.cityofventura.ca.gov) carry APN and zoning but no owner names. The City's government-parcels layer on services.arcgis.com is robots-blocked (403)

Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address

Sites that forbid taking their data

sheahomes.com — “All Site content is provided for your personal, non-commercial usage. By accessing the Site, you agree not to copy, use, modify, republish or transmit any portion of it without Shea Homes' express written permission.”

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
Ventura City Hall (former Ventura County Courthouse) 501 Poli St	Civic	City of San Buenaventura Wikipedia (s5) says the 1912-13 Beaux-Arts courthouse at 501 Poli St was declared structurally unsound in 1968; 'The City of Ventura purchased the building from the county and renovated it at a cost of approximately $3.4 million', and it has been City Hall since 1974. No purchase price or date of sale is stated. Tier B because the owner comes from an encyclopaedia rather than a register.	Government	—B Wikipedia
Pacific View Mall 3301 E Main St 883,000 sq ft GLA (398,000 sq ft mall and freestanding)	Retail	The Macerich Company 100% (10-K, 31 Dec 2025) Macerich's 2025 10-K (s7) lists Pacific View at 100% ownership: built 1965, acquired 1996, renovated 2001; 883,000 sq ft total GLA; mall and freestanding space 79.7% leased; JCPenney and Target non-owned anchors, Macy's company-owned. Its June 2026 10-Q (s6) still carries the Pacific View mortgage at $69.2M (5.45%, due 2032). Wikipedia (s8) says Macerich bought it at the end of 1996 in a three-centre $125M deal (no single price) and that the Sears box went to Seritage in 2015. A Connect CRE headline (s11, blocked) reports Pacific Retail Capital Partners and Conversant Capital acquiring the mall; that sale is not confirmed in any filing we opened.	REIT	—A The Macerich Company via SEC EDGAR
Ventura Harbor 1198 Navigator Dr / 1431-1755 Spinnaker Dr / 947-1050 Schooner Dr	Mixed use	Ventura Port District The 2007-08 County Grand Jury report (s21) says voters formed the Ventura Port District in April 1952, that 'the District acquired title to lands that now comprise Ventura Harbor', and that its holdings are 274 acres: 152 of land and 122 of water. The County GIS district layer (s22) says the District 'owns and operates Ventura Harbor'. The District is a public special district; private marina, restaurant and hotel operators hold leaseholds. Acreage dates from 2008.	Government	—A Ventura County Grand Jury
Ventura County Medical Center 300 Hillmont Ave	Institutional	County of Ventura The CDPH facility listing (s9, data date 16 Oct 2026) shows Ventura County Medical Center, 300 Hillmont Ave, as a 180-bed general acute care hospital licensed to the County of Ventura, a Level II trauma centre. The licence names the County as operator; no open document we could reach states the land title, so the owner rests on the licence (tier B).	Government	—B California Department of Public Health via CHHS Open Data
Community Memorial Hospital - Ventura 147 N Brent St	Institutional	Not established a paid title search would answer it The CDPH facility listing (s9, data date 16 Oct 2026) shows a 250-bed general acute care hospital licensed to Community Memorial Health System, a nonprofit corporation, first licensed 1946. A licence names the operator, not the landowner; the parcel is private, so it is not in the City's government-parcels layer, and owner names for private parcels are available only at the County Assessor's terminals. The licensee is very likely also the owner, but no document we opened says so.	Not established	—A California Department of Public Health via CHHS Open Data
Ventura County Fairgrounds (Seaside Park) 10 W Harbor Blvd	Land	State of California (31st District Agricultural Association) Wikipedia (s23) says the original 65 acres were donated to the County by Eugene Preston and Orpha Foster and that 'most of the site is now owned by the State of California and is managed by the 31st District Agricultural Association, an independent state agency'; the infobox gives about 62 acres. Tier B because the owner comes from an encyclopaedia rather than a register.	Government	—B Wikipedia
Ventura College Day Rd / Loma Vista Rd	Institutional	Ventura County Community College District Wikipedia (s24) describes Ventura College as a public community college founded in 1925 whose parent institution is the Ventura County Community College District, on a 112-acre campus. The district is taken as owner of the campus; the land title itself could not be checked online (tier B).	Government	—B Wikipedia
Mission Basilica San Buenaventura 211 E Main St	Institutional	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles Wikipedia's infobox (s10) names the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles as owner; the mission was founded on 31 March 1782, secularised in 1836 and returned to the Church in 1862, and is a parish church and museum. Church property is private; the Assessor's owner record could not be checked online. Tier B because the owner comes from an encyclopaedia rather than a register.	Institution	—B Wikipedia

The core land

The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.

Ventura's taxable base sits mostly in homes. Under Proposition 13 a parcel's assessed value is its last sale price plus at most 2% a year, so long-held ground, the downtown and Westside included, is assessed far below market. The highest-assessed single parcel could not be established, because parcel values are on the Assessor's site, which refused us.

City of San Buenaventura net assessed value, 2023-24$21.37B

Auditor-Controller district recap (s3), equalized roll run 26 Jul 2023: total assessed value $22.71B less $1.21B local exemptions and $125.6M homeowner exemptions; secured plus unsecured.

City of Ventura roll, 2025-26 (unequalized)about $23.44B

Assessor's 2025-26 roll summary as shown in search results (s15, tier C; the host blocked us), up about 5% from about $22.39B in 2024-25.

Ventura County net assessed valuation, 2025-26$190.2B

County budget, Analysis of Current Property Taxes and Assessed Valuation (s14): total gross $196.4B; net $190.2B, secured and unsecured.

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.

Ventura's biggest landholders on the open record are public bodies. The State's protected-areas database (CPAD) lists the City as holder of about 983 acres of parks, golf courses and open space; the Port District holds the 152-acre harbour (plus 122 acres of water); the State owns the 62-acre fairgrounds and San Buenaventura State Beach; the Ventura Land Trust holds the Crooked Palm land on the Ventura River. School, County and Housing Authority land is not in an open source we can reach. Private owner names are only on the County Assessor's in-person terminals.

Name	Type	Holdings / acres
City of San Buenaventura CPAD 2026a (s20): largest Olivas Links Golf Course (about 255 acres), Arroyo Verde Park (129), Grant Park (112), San Buenaventura Golf Course (97) and Ventura Community Park (97). CPAD covers fee-owned park and open-space land only, so City Hall, streets and other City property are extra.	Government	125 park and open-space holdings, about 983 acresA California Natural Resources Agency (CPAD by GreenInfo Network, www.calands.org, June 2026)
Ventura Port District Ventura Harbor; the District took title to the harbour lands after its 1952 formation (2007-08 Grand Jury report, s21). Private marina, restaurant and hotel operators hold leaseholds.	Government	152 acres of land, 122 acres of waterA Ventura County Grand Jury
California Department of Parks and Recreation San Buenaventura State Beach, per CPAD 2026a (s20).	Government	3 holdings, about 87 acresA California Natural Resources Agency (CPAD by GreenInfo Network, www.calands.org, June 2026)
State of California (31st District Agricultural Association) The Ventura County Fairgrounds at Seaside Park, 10 W Harbor Blvd, owned by the State and managed by the 31st District Agricultural Association (Wikipedia, s23).	Government	about 62 acresB Wikipedia
Ventura Land Trust Mostly the Crooked Palm acquisition along the Ventura River, per CPAD 2026a (s20). CPAD also lists the Trust's Ventura Hills Nature Preserve, about 1,600 acres in the hills just outside the city.	Institution	26 holdings, about 101 acres in the cityA California Natural Resources Agency (CPAD by GreenInfo Network, www.calands.org, June 2026)
County of Ventura Mainly Saticoy Regional Golf Course (about 49 acres), per CPAD 2026a (s20). The County also runs Ventura County Medical Center on Hillmont Ave (licensed to the County, s9); its campus acreage is not in an open source we can reach.	Government	3 park holdings, about 57 acresA California Natural Resources Agency (CPAD by GreenInfo Network, www.calands.org, June 2026)

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.

New housing in Ventura is mostly rental. The City's housing reports to the State (s16) show the largest permitted projects of 2018-2025 were apartment schemes: Portside at Ventura Harbor, Willows/Ravello on Johnson Dr, the Downtown Triangle site, Citrus II and Carlos/Citrus III in Saticoy, and Mar-y-Cel on Ventura Ave. For-sale tract building is confined mainly to the east end around Wells and Telegraph Roads, where Shea Homes has sold Del Sol. The State's report does not name builders, so each name below comes from a separate source. Year-by-year totals are not given because projects are re-listed across reporting years.

Name	Type	Units
Housing Authority of the City of San Buenaventura with BRIDGE Housing HACSB and the nonprofit BRIDGE Housing are rebuilding Westview Village, HACSB's oldest public housing on the Westside, in four phases: Phase I, 131 apartments (2019); Phase III, 105 (Sept 2020 to Dec 2022); Phase II, 50 (opened June 2024), for 286 new affordable rentals (s17). The State's APR (s16) shows 105 renter units permitted on 30 Nov 2020 for Westview Village III, '100% Affordable'.	Government	286 affordable rentals (Westview Village I-III, 2019-2024)A Housing Authority of the City of San Buenaventura, via Nonprofit Resource Network
Shea Homes Shea Homes' Novato at Del Sol page (s18) places Del Sol off Telegraph Rd near Wells Rd, with Fresco at Del Sol (single-family detached) in 'final homes now selling'. The APR (s16) lists 56 owner-occupied single-family units permitted on 12 Sep 2023 for 'Del Sol SFD' (Wells-Telegraph-Blackburn) and more Del Sol homes in 2024-2025 without permit counts. Shea Homes is part of the privately held J.F. Shea Co., which this record has not verified from a filing (ownership type is therefore judgement). Shea's site terms limit use to personal, non-commercial use; only single stated facts are quoted.	Family / private	56 single-family permits (Del Sol, Sept 2023)B Shea Homes

Commercial landlords

The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.

Ventura has no office towers and few institutional landlords. The filings we opened show one regional mall REIT and one apartment REIT. Grocery-anchored centres owned by Regency Centers in the county are in Westlake Village, not Ventura, and the 10-Ks of Kimco, Federal Realty, Brixmor, Rexford, Prologis, Public Storage, Extra Space, Healthpeak, Welltower, Ventas, AvalonBay, Invitation Homes and American Homes 4 Rent list no property in Ventura. Most commercial ground is held by local private owners, whose names are on the Assessor's terminals only.

Name	Type	Holdings in Ventura
The Macerich Company Pacific View mall, 3301 E Main St: 100% owned, acquired 1996, 79.7% leased at 31 Dec 2025; $69.2M mortgage at 30 Jun 2026 (s6). A sale to a Pacific Retail Capital Partners / Conversant Capital venture is reported in a headline (s11) we could not open.	REIT	883,000 sq ft GLA (Pacific View, 100%)A The Macerich Company via SEC EDGAR
Essex Property Trust The Lofts at Pinehurst (118 units), Pinehurst (28) and Woodside Village (145), each 95% occupied at year-end 2025. Essex also holds an $11.0M preferred-equity stake in the entity that wholly owns an unnamed 400-unit Ventura apartment community sponsored partly by an affiliate of Marcus & Millichap; that entity is not named in the filing.	REIT	3 apartment communities, 291 unitsA Essex Property Trust, Inc. via SEC EDGAR

Looked for and not found

Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.

Pacific View Mall: a Connect CRE headline reports a Pacific Retail Capital Partners / Conversant Capital joint venture acquiring the mall; the article was blocked and Macerich's filings through 30 Jun 2026 still show 100% ownership, so the sale, its date and price are not established.
Ventura County Government Center (800 S Victoria Ave): the County's seat is presumed County-owned but the parcel is not in any open source we can reach and the Assessor's site refused us.
Community Memorial Hospital (147 N Brent St): the licensee, Community Memorial Health System, is probably the landowner; no document we opened states it.
Highest-assessed private parcel, largest private commercial landlords and farmland holders: owner names exist only on the Assessor's in-person terminals.
Seritage Growth Properties took the Pacific View Sears building in 2015 (Wikipedia); its 2025 10-K does not mention Ventura, so the building's current owner is not established.
Railroad and utility land (Union Pacific, Southern California Edison) within the city: no open source found with counts or acres.
Portside Ventura Harbor (947 Schooner Dr, 300 renter units permitted 24 Apr 2018 per the APR): trade press seen in search results names Portside Partners Ventura Harbor / Sondermann Ring Partners as developer on Ventura Port District land; venturaharbor.com sets a 600-second crawl delay and its page was not read in this session, so developer and lease terms are not stated here.
City government-parcels inventory: the City (incl. its Public Facilities Financing Authority) held about 130 parcels, about 963 acres, largest 3750 Olivas Park Dr (147 ac) and 5005 Foothill Rd (127); City Hall at 501 Poli St was APN 071-0-210-070, assessee 'SAN BUENAVENTURA CITY OF' / 'PUBLIC FACIL FIN AUTHORITY' — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
Ventura Unified School District: 29 parcels, about 321 acres, largest Buena High School, 5670 Telegraph Rd (about 41 acres) — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
Ventura Port District: 7 parcels assessed to the District, about 193 mapped acres, largest APN 080-0-240-325 at 1198 Navigator Dr (about 110 acres) — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
County of Ventura: 13 parcels, about 147 acres, incl. the Ventura County Medical Center campus at 300 and 375 Hillmont Ave (about 34 acres) and 759 S Hill Rd (about 75 acres) — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
Ventura College: APN 078-0-050-360, about 100 mapped acres, assessee 'VENTURA COMMUNITY COLL DIST' — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
31st District Agricultural Association: APNs 073-0-231-010 and 073-0-231-055, about 27 mapped acres — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
Housing Authority of the City of San Buenaventura: 20 parcels, about 9 acres, assessee 'HOUSING AUTHORITY-VENTURA' — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
State of California (Department of General Services): APN 128-0-050-635 at 10900 Telephone Rd, about 9 acres — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)
Ventura River flood-plain owners (City river-parcel layer, Nov 2025): of 137 parcels, 4 The Nature Conservancy, 4 United Water Conservation District, 4 Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, 3 Ventura Land Trust, 46 private; CPAD shows no Nature Conservancy or United Water land on the lower river — previously from services.arcgis.com, whose robots.txt answers 403; no other open source found (2026-11-04)