Property Appraisals

While we love to complain about them, property taxes are also incredibly misunderstood. (Kind of like teenagers.) Let’s try to demystify them.

For the first time, voters had a chance to elect three of nine positions to oversee property appraisals.

It’s an election that has attracted little attention. But it could have consequences for the local property tax system.

The measures will provide limited property tax relief, but the vote comes after recent tax appraisals gave Texas homeowners sticker shock.

If passed, both initiatives would amend the Texas Constitution. According to economists and experts, the changes could help slow down property tax increases.

The Travis Central Appraisal District says appraised values, or market values, of homes went up 56% this past year. But homeowners don't pay taxes on that amount.

At a time when home appraisals are soaring, economists say the two propositions could help slow the increase of property taxes in Texas.

A new analysis by Freddie Mac has found that only 7.4% of appraisals in majority-white census tracts came in below contract price, compared with 12.5% for Black areas and 15.4% for Latino ones.

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