Where an assessment departs from market value.

County appraisers work toward market value across thousands of properties at once. The limits of mass appraisal and imperfect information mean individual assessments can miss that mark, sometimes by a wide margin.

Our practice is to find those differences and prove them: an independent view of what the property is worth, grounded in how buyers and lenders actually value real estate, documented and presented through the appeal process.

Forensic review

A forensic review reconstructs how a result was reached and tests whether it was reached correctly. Applied to a property assessment, that means working back from the county's value to the method, inputs and assumptions that produced it, then testing each one against two standards: the market, and the rules that govern the appraiser's work, from prescribed valuation methods and state directives to the decisions of the Board of Tax Appeals and the courts.

The findings are documented as evidence, in the form the appeal process requires. Where the evidence does not support an appeal, we say so.

Property

• Office
• Retail
• Industrial
• Multifamily
• Hospitality and recreation
• Land and agricultural use
• Single-family residential
• Special-purpose property

Timing

A value can be contested in the spring, within 30 days after the valuation notice is mailed, or in December, by paying the first half of the taxes under protest. A property may be appealed once in a tax year, by one route or the other. Review is most useful well before either window closes.