Is your 2026 Harris County appraisal too high?
Enter your property address. We'll analyze your HCAD assessment using both legally-recognized protest methods and show you exactly where you stand, free, instant, no signup.
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Does HCAD have the wrong info on your record? Prepare a §25.25 motion for $19 →
Are you a realtor, investor, or landlord managing multiple properties? Contact us for bulk pricing.
Your $79 unlocks three purpose-built PDFs (Online Protest, Hearing Evidence, Strategy Playbook), plus a combined master with everything in one file. Preview every one of them below, real data, placeholder name.
You can do this yourself, and it's easier than you think.
You don't take a day off work. You don't argue with an appraiser. You don't even leave your house. HCAD's iSettle program lets you upload your evidence online and an HCAD appraiser emails you back a settlement offer a few days later. About 90% of Harris County homeowners never sit through a formal hearing because the appraiser sees the comp data and just adjusts the value.
Choosing iSettle replaces the traditional in-person informal hearing. The appraiser reviews your uploaded evidence and emails one take-it-or-leave-it offer. Reject it and your next stop is the formal ARB hearing, not an in-person informal meeting. If you'd rather sit down with an appraiser first, file by paper or opt out of iSettle when you submit through iFile. The step-by-step instructions below cover both paths.
If iSettle isn't right for you, there are other simple paths. Mail in a paper form. File a sworn affidavit and have the Review Board decide on the written evidence. Or attend a video conference from your couch. Filing is free at every stage. So is settling.
Walks you through iSettle, iFile, informal hearings, the formal Appraisal Review Board, sworn affidavits, and the traditional mail-in path.
HCAD has the wrong info on your record?
A protest contests the appraisal district's opinion of value. A §25.25 motion contests the factual record: a structure that no longer exists, an incorrect year of construction, a clerical defect in the property description, a parcel listed under two account numbers, or a §23.23 homestead-cap miscalculation. Refund eligibility extends up to five preceding tax years.
HCAD lists a building, shed, pool, or improvement that isn't there.
HCAD's year of construction is off because of a transcription or clerical error.
Year-over-year appraised value rose more than 10% on a homestead. We auto-check the math.
Built by longtime users of the playbook.
We were Jubally Solutions customers ourselves. As Harris County homeowners, we used their evidence packages year after year to successfully protest our own assessments. When Jubally's founders retired, we didn't want to see a playbook that had worked so well for us, and for thousands of our neighbors, quietly disappear.
So we built Property Tax Rebel to carry it forward. We use the same HCAD CAMA methodology, the same Uniform & Equal and Comparable Market Analysis approach, and the same statutory citations, now on a platform built for the long haul. We know this service works because it worked for us, and we think every Harris County homeowner deserves the same shot at a fair assessment.
Uniform & Equal and Comparable Market Analysis using HCAD's own published factor tables. Every statute we cite is real, and every case we reference is verifiable.
We've walked into informal and formal hearings with these evidence packages. We know what appraisers push back on, and we've put case-specific answers in the package.
Property Tax Rebel is a DIY tool. You file the protest and present the evidence yourself. We don't represent you, and we grade your case honestly before you pay.
More than an annual protest tool.
We expanded beyond the annual May 15 window this year. The new §25.25 Motion for Correction product helps Harris County homeowners fix factual errors on HCAD's record (a phantom structure, the wrong year built, a homestead-cap miscalculation) any month of the year at $19 flat, with refunds eligible up to five years back. The protest packet itself ships as purpose-built PDF variants for iSettle, the informal hearing, and the formal ARB panel, plus an annual subscription that auto-renews each March 1 and emails you a fresh evidence package on May 1 (after HCAD publishes the new tax year's data), so the prep is ready when you sit down to file.
The engine driving these products uses full HCAD CAMA factor tables, equity-and-sales dual analysis, the §23.23 homestead-cap math, and a 28-item objections catalogue we review against your specific case to pre-build counter-arguments. For 2027 we're already extending it. Fort Bend and Travis counties are next in line, with Polk and Montgomery in our data-acquisition pipeline. Subscription renewals will check the case before they bill, so we never charge $49 for a property HCAD priced fairly. The platform is built to keep growing without losing the math that makes it credible.
When the case is strong, the report pays for itself, and then some.
At Harris County's representative combined tax rate of 2.20%, even a few-thousand-dollar reduction in assessed value puts real money back in your pocket, not just in year one but every year the lower valuation holds.
Based on Harris County's representative combined tax rate of 2.20%. Your actual rate appears on your HCAD notice and may range 2.0–3.0%.
How it works
Enter your address
We find your property in HCAD's records and run the analysis instantly. No signup, no commitment.
Review your case
See what HCAD assessed your property at, what we think it should be, and your estimated annual tax savings, all on this page.
Download your evidence package
$79 unlocks three purpose-built PDFs (iSettle filing packet, Hearing Evidence, Strategy Playbook), plus a combined master with everything in one file. Regenerate with the latest HCAD data and neighborhood sales any time during the protest season.