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How to Minimize the Property Tax Assessments set by the Harris County Appraisal District

Harris County Appraisal District Harris County Appraisal District each
estimates the market value for 1.6 year:
million parcels of real estate with a
staff of about 150 appraisers. That's an 1. The prior years value set an "anchor
average of over 10,000 parcels per value" for the current year's property
appraiser per year! While they value a tax protest. If your value was $200,000
large number of properties annually, you last year and the current year's proposed
can focus intense attention on reducing value is $220,000, there is a tendency to
the value of your property. set the value at or slightly above last
You can minimize your property taxes with year's value. In the case, a typical
simple steps: result might be $200,000 to $210,000.
- File a protest by May 31st for market However, if they had appealed at the
value and unequal appraisal Harris County Appraisal District the
- Obtain the Harris County Appraisal prior year and reduced the value to
District evidence two weeks before the $185,000, a typical settlement might be
hearing. This information is sometimes $185,000 - $195,000. Property tax appeals
referred to as the House Bill 201 package at Harris County Appraisal District are
or the 41.461 package. It typically an iterative process.
contains evidence regarding the subject 2. Most appeals at Harris County
property, market value and unequal Appraisal District are successful. About
appraisal. 75-80% of the property tax appeals
- Review evidence for both unequal conducted by O'Connor & Associates at
appraisal and market value. Unequal Harris County Appraisal District result
appraisal is when your property is taxed in lower property taxes.Experience shows
assessed at a higher rate than comparable that when property owners appeal, prepare
properties. For a market value appeal, for the Harris County Appraisal District
provided evidence that the appraisal hearings and attend the hearing(s), they
district's value exceeds market value. will usually be successful.
This could include information such as an Property tax consultants are willing to
error in the size of your property and handle the property tax protest process
deferred maintenance at your property. at Harris County Appraisal District for a
- Attend the informal and/or appraisal portion of the property tax savings.
review board (ARB) hearing at the Harris While there is a cost when hiring a
County Appraisal District. In many cases, property tax consultant, you realize
you can attend a hearing prior to the property tax savings. The property tax
scheduled date. HCAD prefers to have savings versus the cost of a property tax
hearings prior to rather than after the consultant are more significant when
scheduled hearing date. considering the iterative nature of the
- Repeat these steps annually.Property property tax appeal process.
owners often ask, "I appealed my property Real estate decision makers need timely
taxes at the Harris County Appraisal market data to make informed decisions.
District last year and obtained a It provides insights regarding
reduction. Harris County Appraisal construction, proposed projects,
District did not increase my assessed absorption, and occupancy and rental rate
value. Should I protest my property taxes trends. O'Connor and Associates has been
again this year?" providing real estate data since 1988.
The answer is, "Yes, you should protest." Both internal and external clients
There are 2 reasons you should protest regularly use our real estate market
the assessed value established by the research.




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