of U.S. properties are overassessed
National Taxpayers Union Foundation
average cut when a commercial appeal wins
Our analysis of 2024 certified-roll appeal outcomes
01
We review
We check your assessment against its income, comparable sales, local assessment ratios and millions of other data points.
02
We appeal
We build the valuation evidence, make the filings, and prepare and present the case through the hearing. Every jurisdiction has its own deadline, and we track yours.
03
You save, then we’re paid
Our fee is a share of your first-year savings. If we don’t lower your bill, you owe us nothing.
The math
$33M
The county’s number
$24.2M
What it’s worth: 26.6% less*
- Overpaid this year
- $176,000
- A won appeal typically holds up to
- × 4 years
- Back in your pocket
- $704,000
What would you do with $704,000?
Illustrative, not a quote or a guarantee. Assumes a 26.6% reduction (the mean among successful 2024 commercial appeals in our certified-roll data) and a 2.0% effective tax rate. Reassessment cycles vary by state; where a cycle applies, a corrected value typically remains on the roll for its remaining years, and a reduction won late in a cycle holds for fewer years, and values can change with a property’s condition. Actual results depend on each property’s facts, evidence, and millage.
How your case is built
Built from your parish’s specific results, not generic data.
Last cycle, property owners appealed and won tens of millions off their assessments in the venues we cover. Redress analyzd every decided case: what won, on what evidence, and for how much. Your case is built from that record, then filed and argued end to end.
- 5,953
- appeals decided last cycle in the venues we cover. We studied every one.
- $93M
- what commercial owners won off their assessments
- $0
- what you owe if your appeal doesn’t win
Every property type
on the roll
Redress builds appeal cases across the commercial spectrum, from multifamily portfolios to single net-lease parcels.
Multifamily
Rent rolls, vacancy, and expenses benchmarked against the assessor’s model, portfolio-wide.
Retail
We build the case around what your centers actually earn.
Hotel
We separate real estate from business value, so the building is all that’s taxed.
Office
We document the vacancy, concessions, and market rents assessors haven’t caught up with.
Industrial
We value specialized improvements at what the market would actually pay.
Other
Self-storage, senior living, mixed-use, land: if it’s on the roll, it can be appealed.
The county won’t lower your assessment on its own.
Assessors run mass-appraisal models across thousands of parcels at a time. Errors are ordinary, and the system leaves it to you to catch them.
See how an appeal works