Browse properties
The Land Bank’s inventory of properties is rapidly growing. Please check back frequently to see if we have a property that interests you. Most properties are acquired through the City of Syracuse’s delinquent-tax foreclosure process, but the Land Bank also acquires properties from bank foreclosures, donation, and purchase.
Visit our Properties page to see those that are currently available for sale and a list of all properties the Land Bank currently owns if you need to report a maintenance concern. This page also includes information on donating property to the Land Bank.
Properties
Browse programs
The Greater Syracuse Land Bank operates a number of programs related to property maintenance, redevelopment, and sales designed to support sustainability, neighborhood revitalization, and engage public and private partners in redevelopment. Visit the Programs page to learn more about the Land Bank’s operations. This page also includes information on Community Garden leases.
ProgramsWhat is a Land Bank?
A land bank is typically a not-for-profit or governmental entity intended to facilitate the return of vacant and abandoned properties to productive use. Land banks ensure that properties’ return to productive use are planned for in a coordinated manner. Sometimes this requires only short-term involvement of the land bank, which may acquire a problem property so it can be quickly sold to a responsible buyer for redevelopment. Sometimes this entails longer-term stabilization of a property while waiting for an appropriate development proposal, for renovation funding to become available, or for opportunities to assemble larger parcels of land available for redevelopment.
Land banks’ preventive maintenance reduces cities’ costs of code enforcement, lawn-mowing and board-ups, and court-ordered demolitions and contributes more to the stabilization of property values than those reactive interventions. Land banks are also involved in preserving land for community use, such as parks and gardens or other natural conservation purposes. Many of the benefits of land banks are derived from assembling vacant and underutilized properties under single-ownership and coordinating their maintenance and development outcomes with long-range planning.
