Free Screening Tool

Is Your Colorado Commercial Property Over-Assessed?

One search across Colorado hotels, offices, industrial buildings, and apartment communities. See where your property's value ranks against its county and statewide peers: per key for hotels, per unit for multifamily, per square foot for the rest. Built from public county assessor rolls, not estimates.

The database is Colorado data. For a property in any other state I cover, send the notice through the Free Assessment Review and I run the same screen by hand, free.

Free: no account, no sales call.

Find your Colorado property

One search across Colorado hotels, offices, industrial buildings, and 50+ unit apartment communities, by name, owner, or street address. Hotels benchmark on value per key (county, state, and quality tier); offices and industrial on value per square foot; multifamily on value per unit, each ranked against peers of the same type and size, from the latest certified county assessor rolls.

How to tell if a Colorado commercial property is over-assessed

  1. Your value per square foot, per key, or per unit ranks well above buildings of the same type and size in this lookup.
  2. Your assessed value did not fall when the rate dropped from 27% in 2025 to 25% for 2026 (26% for industrial-classed property), which means the county raised your actual value.
  3. Your value went up in an even (intervening) year like 2026 with no new construction; even years normally carry the prior year's value forward.

Ranked high? Read should you appeal your Colorado commercial assessment before you file; a high percentile is a screen, not a case.

Not in the lookup: retail, self-storage, senior housing, special-purpose property, and any property outside Colorado. Those types are not in the database yet, and the database itself is Colorado data. Send me the notice of value through the Free Assessment Review and I'll run the same screen by hand, free, in Colorado or any other state I cover: acknowledged within one business day, with a written read within one week of receiving the notice.
Business personal property is not in the lookup either. Declaration schedules are confidential by statute and never appear in this database. For equipment, machinery, and fixtures, the free declaration review is the screen: sign an agent authorization so I can pull the full property record card from the county, send your fixed-asset ledger, and you get a written declaration memo within 30 days of receiving the county's property record card and your fixed-asset ledger, or a written date ahead of your county's personal-property protest deadline (in Colorado, June 30, or July 31 from 2027 in alternate-procedure counties), whichever is sooner.

Engaged clients' parcels are removed from this public lookup and from any published property-level research for the life of the engagement.

Assessment screening:

Appraised value per key
Est. property tax per key

Source: latest certified county assessor rolls (values and mill levies), independently compiled from public records; operating names, room counts, and quality tiers confirmed from public sources. Percentiles rank against Colorado hotels; county and quality-tier ranks shown where the cohort has at least 8 hotels. Appeal history reflects the state Board of Assessment Appeals public docket (commercial classifications, tax years 2023 and 2025); county-level protests are not published. This lookup contains public-record data only; no client information is, or ever will be, included.

Get the full analysis for this hotel, free

Percentile is the screen; the decision needs the details. I'll reply with the peer comparison, the dollar exposure, and whether this year's window supports an appeal.

Free, no obligation. I read every submission personally.

OfficeAssessment screening:

Appraised value per square foot
Est. property tax per square foot

Source: latest certified county assessor rolls (values, assessed values, mill levies, and building square footage), independently compiled from public records; where a county's bulk data omits the mill levy, it is joined from the county's certified tax-district levy tables. Percentiles rank value and estimated tax per square foot against properties of the same type and building-size band (under 10k / 10k–50k / 50k–150k / 150k+ SF); ranks shown where the cohort has at least 8 properties. Tax estimates use the county's assessed value (or the statutory commercial ratio where none is published) × the latest certified mill levy. Appeal history reflects the state Board of Assessment Appeals public docket (commercial classifications, tax years 2023 and 2025); county-level protests are not published. This lookup contains public-record data only; no client information is, or ever will be, included.

Get the full analysis for this property, free

Percentile is the screen; the decision needs the details. I'll reply with the peer comparison, the dollar exposure, and whether this year's window supports an appeal.

Free, no obligation. I read every submission personally.

MultifamilyAssessment screening:

Appraised value per unit
Est. property tax per unit

Source: latest certified county assessor rolls (values, assessed values, unit counts, and mill levies where published), independently compiled from public records. Multi-parcel apartment communities are combined by address and ownership so a community assessed across several building parcels reads as one property. Where shown, appeal history reflects the state Board of Assessment Appeals public docket (commercial classifications); residential-classed multifamily appeals are not covered, so no inference should be drawn from its absence. Percentiles rank value and estimated tax per unit against 50+ unit communities in the same unit-count band (50–149 / 150+); ranks shown where the cohort has at least 8 communities. Tax estimates use Colorado's dual residential ratios where the county publishes the school / local-government split. This lookup contains public-record data only; no client information is, or ever will be, included.

Get the full analysis for this community, free

Percentile is the screen; the decision needs the details. I'll reply with the peer comparison, the dollar exposure, and whether this year's window supports an appeal.

Free, no obligation. I read every submission personally.

Not in the list? Check your building manually below
Demonstration data below. The manual checker is running on a limited demonstration sample while county benchmark sets are finalized. Its results are illustrative only; the property search above runs on certified county assessor rolls.

Check your assessment manually

Own an office or industrial building that isn't in the search above? Enter three numbers from your assessment notice; no sign-up to see your percentile. Ranked against the same Colorado county assessor cohorts, on value per square foot. Outside Colorado, the Free Assessment Review is the screen, by hand and free.

The assessor's total market (actual) value, not the assessed/taxable value.

Enter your building size and the value from your notice.

Your percentile appears here: where your building's value per square foot ranks against its county peer group.
Your screening result
PERCENTILE ON VALUE / SF

Below peersMedianHighest-valued
Your value / SF
Peer median / SF
Comparable properties

Get the full dollar analysis, free

The percentile is the screen. The decision needs the dollars. I'll reply with:

  • Your estimated value overage versus the peer median
  • The approximate annual tax dollars at stake
  • Whether your situation supports an appeal this cycle, and the filing deadline that applies

Free, no obligation. We review every submission personally; this is how engagements usually start.

How the screen works, and what it can't tell you

Every property benchmarks against peers of its own kind, using values and mill levies published on county assessor rolls, independently compiled from public records. Hotels rank on appraised value per key against three peer groups: county, state, and quality tier (economy to luxury). Offices and industrial buildings rank on value per square foot against their county and the state, always within their own type. The narrow rank is the one to watch: a property can sit high statewide simply because of its class or market, while a high rank within its own county and type means the assessor carries it richer than the properties it actually competes with. That is a screening signal, not proof: a newer or better-located property can legitimately sit high in its peer group. Because value per square foot moves with building size (a small flex unit naturally prices higher per foot than a large distribution center), office and industrial percentiles rank within building-size bands (under 10k, 10k–50k, 50k–150k, and 150k+ square feet), so a warehouse is compared to warehouse-scale buildings, not storage condos. Apartment communities rank on value per unit within unit-count bands (50–149 and 150+ units), with multi-parcel communities combined by address and ownership so a campus assessed across a dozen building parcels reads as one property.

What the screen can't see is exactly what a hospitality appeal is built from: your income in place, the business value in your flag and management that doesn't belong in the real estate, deferred maintenance, and how the assessor modeled your specific property. That's the analysis I do by hand, and why the full review is a written read, not a calculator.

Values, assessed values, and mill levies are public county assessor records; operating names, room counts, and quality tiers are confirmed from public sources. This tool provides a screening estimate only; it is not an appraisal, and nothing on this page is legal or tax advice. In Colorado, appeals are decided on market value; peer comparison informs the screen, not the legal ground. Engaged clients' parcels are removed from this public lookup and from any published property-level research for the life of the engagement.