I'm looking for houses in Mid cities, Keller, Colleyville area and am seeing houses double what mine cost currently but are paying half of what I am on property tax. Is what Zillow reports anyway accurate? Are property tax lawyers that good? I feel like I find this a lot in the houses in colleyville especially.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7005-Lismore-Ct-Colleyville-TX-76034/29281971_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare



*to all the awesome realtors on this site, my FIL is my real estate agent and I promise you, you won't be able to beat his collision rate.

I have a feeling the raw tax assessment is public, but the actual tax paid due to homestead and whatnot may not be.

Yes, county appraisal district website has a wealth of information available to you on a property.

Okay so here's another one:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4720-Bill-Simmons-Rd-Colleyville-TX-76034/68518203_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

Tax appraised at over a million. Pays around $6,000 a year. I just don't understand I guess. There's a ton of houses like this. And I feel like a sucker because my house is definitely not tax appraised this high but am paying more in property tax

As said all the data you want is free and on the internet. Every CAD has site. Hint. 95% use 1990's web site. So most are hard to search unless you know how that site works. I used to search them weekly but now I've found better options.

If you do the CAD search as simple as possible. Say it's 11234 long avenue. Start with just long. Then expand long ave. Never use street address. Drill down to it.

If you want to use Zillow instead, spot check their accuracy to the CAD a couple of their listings. If they match you are good to go. No muss or fuss.

But it's a ton of house taht pay next to nothing property taxes

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4808-Prestwick-Dr-Colleyville-TX-76034/29266885_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4600-Lakeside-Dr-Colleyville-TX-76034/29225928_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4905-Behrens-Rd-Colleyville-TX-76034/54043877_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

And there's a lot more. I just don't know if it's some tax loophole or what.

SteveBott said:

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As said all the data you want is free and on the internet. Every CAD has site. Hint. 95% use 1990's web site. So most are hard to search unless you know how that site works. I used to search them weekly but now I've found better options.

If you do the CAD search as simple as possible. Say it's 11234 long avenue. Start with just long. Then expand long ave. Never use street address. Drill down to it.

If you want to use Zillow instead, spot check their accuracy to the CAD a couple of their listings. If they match you are good to go. No muss or fuss.

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Gotcha. That's what those screen shots were. I'll spot check some of these others. I know my own property was right

Here's for the Behrens Road. Anyway, I won't clog up the thread anymore but it seems common enough for there to be some pattern and it could make all the difference in home buying for us so wanted to see if there was something y'all knew that I didn't.

I guess taxnet has changed to a subscription. If you want to see data on an address, email me. I subscribe to their service.

Rexter1200 at yahoo.

Rexter said:

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TAD records on the account breakdown only show county, hospital district, and county college fees. It doesn't show school district fees, which will be a substantial amount. It also doesn't show city and special taxes.

ETA: Grapevine school tax on 800K at 1.50 is 12,000, so add that to what you see above.


You can look at taxnetusa.com for free, and it will show an estimated tax amount. 4905 Behrens is estimated at $17,156

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Thank you so much for clearing that up and the offer. I am good for now. I see now that GCISD actually collects their own taxes while most of the other school districts in the area, it gets lumped in with all of the other taxes.

Its Called an API...