What to Know as Property Tax Assessment Season Arrives
Co-Author, Colorado Real Estate Journal, May 21, 2025
Every two years, propertyowners receive new notices of valuation for their real and personal property from Colorado county assessors. The notices of valuation for the 2025-2026 cycle arrived May 1. While residential property owners may dislike the seemingly ever-present increase in their homes’ assessment, the marginal, but often meaningful, tax savings from those appeals does not justify hiring experts or legal counsel.
In contrast, because the commercial property tax assessment rate is much higher than the residential rate, commercial property owners have much more to gain (or lose). Now is the time for commercial property owners to prepare to review their assessment notices and decide whether it makes business sense to appeal those determinations. This is especially true given that many counties have in recent years become more aggressive in valuing commercial property as budgets have gotten tighter and counties see the prospect of increasing and collecting property taxes as an untapped revenue source.
Click here to read the full article.
TAGS:
Contributors:
Recent Insights
Read MoreColorado AI law focuses on governance, not gadgets
Client Alert | March 23, 2026Fifth Circuit Refuses to Stay District Court Decision Voiding New HSR Rules
Client Alert | March 20, 2026AI Governance Takes Shape: Breaking Down Washington’s Latest AI Frameworks
Presentation | March 18, 2026State of Play
Client Alert | March 17, 2026FTC Seeks Comments on Rental Housing Fees and Negative Option Marketing
Client Alert | March 17, 2026Trump Issues Executive Orders on Mortgage Credit, Housing Construction
You have chosen to send an email to Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck or one of its lawyers. The sending and receipt of this email and the information in it does not in itself create and attorney-client relationship between us.
If you are not already a client, you should not provide us with information that you wish to have treated as privileged or confidential without first speaking to one of our lawyers.
If you provide information before we confirm that you are a client and that we are willing and able to represent you, we may not be required to treat that information as privileged, confidential, or protected information, and we may be able to represent a party adverse to you and even to use the information you submit to us against you.
I have read this and want to send an email.