The Real Estate Department is part of Development and Economic Opportunity. The department acts as a central service organization, providing the purchase, sale, leasing and property management services of real estate for other City departments.
These services include the acquiring of land or easements needed for street improvements, fire stations, drainage basins, pump station sites, sewers, general utilities, ingress and egress over certain designated properties, and special development related projects.
The Real Estate Department also sells properties that are considered surplus and are not needed by the City. These properties are available for sale to the general public. The City Land For Sale Report is available at the Department's office or can be downloaded under Available Property Report.
Another service performed by the Real Estate Department is leasing vacant lands, office space, and warehouses needed by the various City Departments. The Real Estate Department also leases city-owned properties to other governmental entities, non-profit corporations, private businesses, and individuals. The Real Estate Department actively participates in the purchase of environmentally sensitive lands through the Environmental Land Acquisition and Protection Program (E.L.A.P.P.) funded by Hillsborough County and other governmental and private funding sources.
The department has no budgeted funds of its own for use in purchasing properties and thus acts only at the direction of other City Departments or Divisions.
The Real Estate Department maintains records of property owned by the City, including rights-of-way, easements or other miscellaneous parcels.