Property Tax Insights
Parcel-level research on what commercial owners actually pay — built from county assessor and treasurer records, not press releases. The data behind SVA's work, published.
Two Hangars, Two Tax Bills: Colorado’s Possessory-Interest Fork
Build a hangar on leased airport land in Jefferson County and the tax is capped at the value of your ground rent. Build the identical hangar one county over and you’re taxed on the full building. We compiled every possessory-interest parcel in eight Front Range counties — five run full value, two cap at NPV, one does both at once — and a March 2026 appellate decision says two lease clauses decide who’s right.
Read the AnalysisWho Actually Wins a Salt Lake County Property Tax Appeal
Salt Lake County publishes the outcome of every appeal in its parcel value histories — if you know how to read the line codes. Among decided appeals from 2021–2024: office won roughly 25%, multifamily 19%, industrial 10%. Office wins 2.5× as often as industrial, and the spread tracks the evidence, not the increase. What that means before September 15.
Read the AnalysisWhat a 95% Win Rate Actually Tells You
We pulled every commercial appeal resolved at the Colorado Board of Assessment Appeals for tax year 2023. The market settles 61%. The highest-volume advocates run 49–57%. The prettiest win rates in the data belong to the smallest books — because a win rate measures the intake filter, not the hearing room.
Read the AnalysisUtah's 2026 Values Landed: Hotels Up 12.7% — and Office Is Still Overassessed
Median changes by asset type across Utah's largest commercial properties: hospitality +12.7% (83% of hotels rose), industrial +2.4%, multifamily −3.2%, office −3.7%. Two-cycle divergence is wider still — and in a non-disclosure state, office and apartment assessments remain well ahead of a falling market. The appeal deadline is September 15.
Read the AnalysisWhat Data Centers Pay in Property Tax — and Why the Biggest Markets Pay the Most
We pulled FY2025 assessor and treasurer records for 776 data center parcels across 12 states. California tops the bill per square foot on an ordinary rate; Texas and Colorado get there on rate alone; Arizona and Oregon tax capped values that barely move. Power still outranks tax — but the spread is 10× and widening.
Read the AnalysisOn the Docket
- Denver's $24 billion of unappealed value — 46% of the county's largest properties appealed in 2025; one in three $100M+ properties didn't. Hotels are the standout.
- The office flight-to-quality tax gap — 568 Colorado office buildings: trophy-submarket Class A carries 2–3× the per-SF tax of comparable CBD product.
- Does Rushmore value the hotel — or the business? — what actual hotel leases say about the method Colorado's tribunals have embraced.
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