Values are up...time for my favorite thread of the year! No change in market or appraised over 2016 in The Woodlands. I protested last year and got a significant reduction (reduced to just $900 above my 2013 purchase price), so color me shocked.

down 1.7%, I'll take it

Pending in Meyerland. IIRC ours didn't come out until the middle of the summer.

7.5% less than our purchase price in 2016 in Kingwood. Went and looked friends homes all across the city, interesting the neighborhoods that moved and the ones that didn't. Oak Forest seems like the largest mover.

Pumping me for the full 10% in cypress. 77433.

Another year another 10% increase on the house.

Townhome in 77057: No change from 2016
House in 77077: 5% increase in Market Value; 10% increase in Appraised Value

25% increase

77079

They jacked up land values all over the place.

No value change for 4 straight years.

Got a question:

I'm buying a house in Kingwood and selling my house in Humble. I would/will like to protest, as I think they will hit me with 10% in either location. If I sell before I file my protest, how can I go about doing that?

TIA

~egon

Well just when I thought I knew how this system worked I get my 2017 appraisal.

Purchased in November 2013, and pulled a permit immediately to completely remodel the house. Permit closed in 2014, and we move into the house. Our "market" is significantly above the appraised value so it increases 10% year over year... until this year. The appraised value went up 28.9% from 2016. We maintained our homestead, we didn't pull any permits in 2016, and we didn't do any work whatsoever in 2016.

My initial thought was they found the permit from 2014 or figured out the house sold in 2013 and they are trying to make up for lost time. But if that was the case our appraised value and market value would be the same, but they are still nearly $40K different. I'm lost on how this stupid system works.

edit: our market value increased 5.6% from 2016.

Whos the best to use for protesting?

No change in 77055

Appraised still way behind market tho

Timbergrove: no change in Market but Appraised finally caught up

77007 - unchanged after major downward revision last year
77079 - up 11.1%

No change in value but 2017 rates are not posted yet. I could protest based on purchase price (bought last October) being $2k under appraised but don't know if it's worth going down that road.

drumboy said:

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Timbergrove: no change in Market but Appraised finally caught up

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Oak Forest here. Same deal.

I hate HCAD, the damned politicians, and the little games they play to squeeze more money out of us.

Up 4.7% in Bridgeland

77055 - market value stayed same, but we purchased last year and they adjusted appraised to market, so I'm getting a 20% hit.

Up 12.5% in 77055.

77077

Market down 6.6%

Appraised up max 10%, will catch up to market in 2019 at this rate....

Probably not worth it to fight this year

No change in market value for me in 77095. My appraised value finally crept up to match the market value though so I still got a bump on what I will owe. Is it worth protesting in that case?

You sound very upset for someone that had their value lowered.

Diggity said:

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You sound very upset for someone that had their value lowered.

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I'm glad market value went down after a huge jump last year that was unreasonable. But, I still think I'd have to spend 20k or so on repairs/improvements to sell it for what they have as the market. If I could sell it for what HCAD says is market value, I would sell yesterday. Of course, I could also be an idiot that got really lucky when we bought and the house has been the best investment ever and I should stop complaining.

Pending in Brooke Smith, but not holding my breath.

No change. Still going to protest.

MAS444 said:

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Pending in Brooke Smith, but not holding my breath.

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No change for me last year. That seemed to be the case for the whole neighborhood.

Cypress seems to have gotten hit bad this year....

After protesting last year (and "winning" by getting my value lowered less than 1%), my market went up 25% (yeah right) and my appraised got the full 10% hit this year. What a load of bullcrap. Houses around me have been sitting on the market for 6+ months cheaper than my market value, and I'm the oldest house on the block.

Where does one go to look this up? Is it in the Public Data on hcad.org?

No change last year or this year, market and appraisal are the same

77429

AlaskanAg99 said:

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Where does one go to look this up? Is it in the Public Data on hcad.org?

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Yep, you can look up any property tax record either by name or address on HCAD.org. You can also file a protest online.

dreyOO said:

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0.0%

and I'm gonna contest.

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Yep. No change in 007

77077 - Full 10%. Crooks! There's no way we could sell our house for the "market" value.