Texas Property Tax News

Tarrant Appraisal District works to fix protest dashboardNBC 5As appraisal notices go out, homeowners are walking into the Tarrant Appraisal District office with questions. The good thing, says Chief Appraiser Joe Don Bobbitt, is that homeowners can expect, on average, a 6% increase in home value...

'The Market Has Arrived': Investors Flood Grayson County Amid Chip Plant InvestmentsBisNowLand speculation near future semiconductor chip plants in Grayson County is on the rise as buyers eager to capitalize on the area's promising future descend in droves. But it hasn't always been this way. Com...

Hackers post Tarrant County property owners' data from ransomware attack on dark webYahoo NewsMedusa, the hacking group responsible for the ransomware attack on the Tarrant Appraisal District, has published data on the dark web it obtained from the attack, TAD said Tuesday. “TAD is aware that the...

Dallas County Commercial Property Values Spike More Than 20% Despite Deal Flow Slowing To A TrickleBisNowPreliminary values released this morning show double-digit increases across all asset types, signifying a vast divide between how property owners and the DCAD perceive the state of the market....

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Lt. Gov. Patrick asks senators to study eliminating property taxesExpress NewsPatrick, who leads the Senate, ordered legislators on Thursday to study a host of policies ahead of the upcoming legislative session, including whether Delta 8 and Delta 9 hemp products should be banned in Texas and how...

Former City Planner Says Tax Credit Programs Are Turning Dallas Into a ‘Welfare Dormitory' For Prosperous SuburbsCandys DirtSimilar to Dallas shouldering the burden of housing the homeless for the entire North Texas region, the southern sector has become a hub for affordable housing, Baker said. ...

Gregg County property appraisal increases won't be as high as recent yearsKilgore News HeraldThe good news coming out of the Gregg County Appraisal District this month is that appraisal values aren't expected to increase as much as they have in the past couple of years. Property appraisals will g...

Ranchers seek answers from KCAD officialshccommunityjournal.comAbout two dozen local ranchers attended a town hall last Wednesday evening to have their questions and concerns answered by the Kerr Central Appraisal District officials about the “2023 Agricultural Use Questionnaire” they received. T...

Texas counties, cities embrace new child care center tax credit The Texas Tribune Its reach is limited to just a fraction of the providers in the state, but the exemption will be a boon for owners who can take advantage of it, supporters say — so the push is on to make the tax credit available ...

Victoria Central Appraisal District election canceledCrossroads TodayThe Victoria Central Appraisal District election set for May 4 was canceled. Only three candidates registered in time for the election. They are certified as unopposed and elected. Joining the Victoria Central Appraisal District...

Harris County passes property tax exemption for child care providersHouston Public MediaHundreds of child care facilities throughout Harris County will now be exempt from paying local property taxes. Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday unanimously passed a 100% property tax exemption for...

Tarrant Co. Appraisal District ransomware attackers demanding $700KYahooThe Tarrant Appraisal District board held an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the impact of a recent ransomware attack. The ransomware attackers who took control of the appraisal district's systems are demanding $700,00...

Ransomware attack shuts down Tarrant County tax appraisal websiteNBC 5 Dallas-Fort WorthThe Tarrant Appraisal District says a network disruption on Thursday resulted from a criminal ransomware attack. The TAD said in a statement Friday that after learning of the network disruption they took steps...

Tarrant Appraisal District website down againNBC 5A week after launching a new website designed for the public to be easier to use, the Tarrant Appraisal District's website is once again offline due to an unspecified issue. The Tarrant Appraisal District assigns property values for ad valorem tax...

Once America's Hottest Housing Market, Austin Is Running in ReverseWSJThe Sunbelt city that came to symbolize the pandemic housing boom is now leading a national property cool-down. Home prices and apartment rents in Austin, Texas, have fallen more than anywhere else in the country, after a perio...

Texas' poorest renters face a shortage of 679,000 rental homes they can actually affordKERA NewsThe National Low-Income Housing Coalition's annual report on the nation's affordable housing shortage found that the nearly 907,000 renter households making less than 30% of their area's median income ...

Despite rising appraisals, property value loss threatens Montgomery County budgetsCommunity ImpactMontgomery County taxing entities lost over $8.4 billion in property value in fiscal year 2022-23 following a backlog of homestead exemptions and record-setting levels of protest filings. The loss se...

APPRAISAL DISTRICT PUSHED TO INCREASE COLEMAN VALUESColeman TodayThe Property Value Study conducted by the State Comptroller on all school district property values recently released its report for Coleman ISD and the results are estimated to cost the school district $500,000 in lost revenue for 2...

Some Dallas area child care centers won't have to pay county property taxKERADallas County commissioners unanimously decided to give them 100% property tax exemptions from January 2024 through September 2026. The commissioners agreed to allow the exemption, but only after candid discussion about ...

Rebound for Multifamily Rents on the Horizon in Dallas-Fort WorthCoStar NewsThe latest monthly rent growth results show early improvement in Dallas-Fort Worth with two months of essentially flat results. That's a stark change from six consecutive monthly rent cuts reported last year. Annually, re...

Texas Republicans Want to Eliminate Property TaxesNewsWeekRepublicans in Texas sent a message to their party that they want to remove property taxes in the state, after a vast majority voted yes to a proposition during Tuesday's primary on whether the state "should eliminate all property taxes wi...

How 3 Texas Cities Came To Lead The Nation In Empty Offices — And Why There May Be Further To FallBisNowVestiges of the pandemic continue to grip the office market, and four years later, hopes are fading for a return to normal. In a state where higher-than-average vacancy rates are accepted as th...

Stringer Still Delinquent On Property TaxesOdessa HeadlinesDespite drawing a taxpayer funded salary of $102,539 per year including benefits and reimbursements, just days before the March 5th primary election County Commissioner Don Stringer continues to owe thousands of dollars in unpaid and deli...

Political attack in tax assessor-collector race echoes Republican divide statewideFort Worth ReportAn increasingly contentious Republican primary for a lesser-known Tarrant County position is highlighting dueling factions of the state's Republican Party. Incumbent Tax Assessor-Collector Wendy Bur...