Determining a property’s market value is the first step in assessing. In order to estimate the market value, the assessor can use three different methods. They have the option of choosing any one or any combination of the three.
A property’s value can be estimated in three different ways:
1. Sales Evaluation
The assessor compares the property to similar properties that have recently sold in the area. This approach is typically used to value residential, vacant, and farm properties.
2. Cost Evaluation
The assessor determines your property value based on how much it would cost to replace it, using today’s labor and material prices minus depreciation plus the market value of the land. This approach is typically used to value industrial, special-purpose and utility properties.
3. Income Evaluation
The assessor determines your property value based on how much income you would make from the property if it were to be rented. Using this method, the assessor considers the costs of maintaining the property, managing the property, insurance, and taxes, as well as the return you could reasonably anticipate from the property.
Appraisal Districts
- Collin County: www.collincad.org
- Dallas County: www.dallascad.org
- Denton County: www.dentoncad.com
- Ellis County: www.elliscad.org
- Hood County: www.co.hood.tx.us
- Hunt County: www.hunt-cad.org
- Johnson County: www.johnsoncad.com
- Kaufman County: www.kaufman-cad.org
- Parker County: www.parkercountytx.org
- Rockwall County: www.rockwallcad.com
- Tarrant County: www.tad.org
- Wise County: www.wise-cad.com
