Surprisingly down $10K from last year (about a -2.0% decrease) in Lochwood/NE Dallas. What are others seeing?

Thanks for ruining my day dude!! J/K!

My market value went up by almost 16% - looking at about $1k more in taxes this year.

Up 22% which is ridiculous. The previous 2 year's value was already pushing full market and now it's out of control. Any recommendations from the board for the best protest company?

A company called propertytax.io came and gave a presentation to our office about the tools they have for a successful protest, and I was pretty impressed -- honestly that was whom I was going to use if I ended up protesting my personal home. But now that DCAD has lowered it below what I paid for it in late 2024, I'm not sure I'd have a leg to stand on to get it lowered further. I have a promo code for $10 off if anyone is interested (full disclosure that I'm a licensed real estate agent, but I don't get any kind of compensation from that company).

I have also heard good things about Gill Denson & Co.

Both of these, and most of the others I've heard about, only charge a percentage of the savings (seems like usually around 35%). So if they don't knock the assessed value down, you don't owe them anything.

Try ownwell. I used them and they saved me some real monies.

Up 10%.

I could not even get close to what they say the value is if I placed the home for sale.

Thankfully my value hasn't changed since 2023. In Lake Highlands.

I've used Ownwell the past couple of years and have saved some money for sure. However this year, down $18k which is right at 2% so maybe they can get it down a little further.

Ours stayed flat. Even though it's way below our purchase price. I'm not complaining.

Land increased over $100k from last year.
Lower L Streets: Lake Highlands

FincAg said:

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Land increased over $100k from last year.
Lower L Streets: Lake Highlands

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That's a 165% increase in Market Value since 2015 or a 135% in Taxable Value. Current cap is well under market.

With no major modifications.

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FincAg said:

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Land increased over $100k from last year.
Lower L Streets: Lake Highlands

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That's a 165% increase in Market Value since 2015 or a 135% in Taxable Value. Current cap is well under market.

With no major modifications.

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Rest of America: "hey you should be happy property values are going up! Good investment!"

Yeah. Not when you get bled dry by 2.5% every year.

No one cares but up 5.5% down here on the coast.

8% here when I know values are actually falling. Time to see what ownwell can do.

I'm not DCAD, but my cap breaker pretty much guarantees my taxes go up 10% no matter what happens with values.

My HS Cap Loss has steadily decreased since 2023 and now for 2026 is showing $0. Why would that be?

It's been a long day, but I think it means that (at least since 2023) the CAD has been increasing your assessed/market value at an annual % rate lower than the annual 10% cap rate.

If that overall trend continues, eventually your capped value is going to catch up to your assessed value.

It means your assessed value which is capped at a 10% increase every year due to homestead has finally caught up to their (perceived) market value so they are no longer losing revenue due to your homestead exemption cap.

4.5% increase here in Collin County

Ok thanks. My appraised was down by my assessed was a 6% increase in Collin county thanks to no longer having that.

Damn, everybody else in this thread getting small increases or even decreases while everybody I know in Lakewood hit with a 20%+ increase.

Somehow gotta pay for that $400mm police training facility.

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Damn, everybody else in this thread getting small increases or even decreases while everybody I know in Lakewood hit with a 20%+ increase.

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The rich pay more.

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*tax the rich

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YouBet said:

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FTAco07 said:

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Damn, everybody else in this thread getting small increases or even decreases while everybody I know in Lakewood hit with a 20%+ increase.

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The rich pay more.

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*tax the rich

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"Congrats, the government thinks you're rich"

10% in Prosper

I'm curious, when or where did y'all receive notices from DCAD? I got a marketing letter from Ownwell that had my values listed, but I have not received anything from DCAD. I feel like last year I didn't get anything from them until maybe October. Or is it based on your purchase date? I purchased in November a few years ago.

They don't have to send a notice if your value didn't go up. You should be able to check the value on the CAD website.

Ah. And according to the Ownwell letter it didn't go up, so that makes sense. Thank you!

I am down 3% in prosper. Unfortunately, taxes still go up because this is the first year since 2020 I have no homestead cap loss thus my assessable value still increased.

Exact same thing with me in Prosper but up a little more.

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Ours stayed flat. Even though it's way below our purchase price. I'm not complaining.

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How did you keep them from raising the value to purchase price? Seems like the county always gets it's hands on purchase price and raises accordingly but would love to find a way around that (Dallas).

We bought a home in April - am I correct in that we don't file our homestead on it until the 2027 deadline since we did not inhabit it on Jan 1 of this year?

I'm down about 6% this year in McKinney. It's probably pretty close to my real market value if I tried to sell right now. I will try to protest and see if I can get it down anymore, but I'm good with my current value.

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We bought a home in April - am I correct in that we don't file our homestead on it until the 2027 deadline since we did not inhabit it on Jan 1 of this year?

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Yes. You will get a hard reset and homestead kick in the following year. This is how they get properties up to market when they transact.

Always be weary of what you paid vs what it is on the tax rolls.

Mortgage companies just want their fee and often way overlook the tax and insurance piece of the property.

I've seen this happen multiple times with people building new homes.

"Oh hey my taxes are only $3,500!" Well yeah, because it's on the rolls as a piece of dirt, your HSE isn't going to protect that jump in year 1. Then escrows get behind and peoples house payment goes up over $1k.