When Corporate-Owned Parcels Last Changed Title

Revised October 15, 2026. This article was rewritten. The earlier version said corporate landlords "closed on" 2,236 New Haven properties from 2019 through 2022 and that this tripled the earlier pace. Those figures counted each currently corporate-owned parcel once, at its most recent recorded transfer. About half of those transfers were recorded at $100 or less, and the method undercounts earlier years, so the figures did not measure purchases or a change in pace. The earlier version also ranked ownership groups by the same measure, though most of the transfers behind those rankings were recorded at $100 or less. It described Beacon Communities, a private company, as a nonprofit, and discussed national causes that the data does not test. Those sections have been removed.

§1The figures

Most recent transfer, by year and recorded price.

Of the 7,383 parcels, 5,363 have a most recent recorded transfer dated 2014 or later. They fall by year as follows:

Year of most recent transfer	Recorded above $100	Recorded at $100 or less	Total
2014	76	82	158
2015	70	59	129
2016	106	100	206
2017	91	132	223
2018	112	130	242
2019	185	185	370
2020	176	288	464
2021	330	338	668
2022	353	396	749
2023	280	240	520
2024	250	264	514
2025	315	369	684
2026 (through Aug. 24)	256	180	436

For 2,251 parcels, the most recent transfer is dated 2019 through 2022. Of those, 1,044 were recorded above $100 and 1,207 at $100 or less. A recorded price of $100 or less does not by itself establish whether a transfer was a sale.

§2What the figures measure

When title last changed, not how many sales happened.

The dataset contains only parcels that are corporate-owned today, and it counts each one once, at its latest transfer. A parcel that changed title in 2016 and again in 2023 appears only under 2023, and a parcel that a company sold to an individual does not appear at all. Earlier years are therefore undercounted relative to later ones by construction. The table shows when today's corporate-owned parcels last changed title. It does not measure the number of sales, or of purchases by companies, in any year.

Sources & Methodology

New Haven assessor records (VGSI): owner of record and the date and price of each parcel's most recent recorded transfer, for the 7,383 corporate-owned parcels in the September 3, 2026 snapshot. The latest transfer date in the snapshot is August 24, 2026. Sixty-three parcels have no usable transfer date.

All counts are parcel records, not housing units or buildings. "Corporate-owned" means the owner-of-record name contains a business-entity term such as LLC, Inc., Corp., LP, LLP, Trust, Realty or Holdings.