Property tax appeals in Palos

The Cook County Assessor's own record of what happened to appeals filed on properties in Palos township.

17.9%of appeals won a reduction 17.2%–18.7% at 95%

10,940appeals decided

8.1%typical cut, when one was won median over 1,963 reductions

Palos against the county as a whole: a real difference of 1.3 points — 17.9% here against 16.7% county-wide.

Does hiring someone help?

Whether an agent helps is not settled here: the advantage has changed sides between years, ahead in 3 and behind in 3. A single combined figure would report whichever side the window happened to favour.

2021: +1.22022: -4.02023: +1.22024: -3.82025: -3.92026: +0.5

Each year: how many percentage points better an agent did than an owner filing alone. Negative means the owner did better.

Firms that file on your behalf commonly take a third of the first year's saving. This is the county's own record of how the two groups actually did.

The reasons the Assessor gave

Every decision carries a stated reason. These are the ones that appear most often on Palos decisions, and how often each was attached to a reduction rather than a refusal.

Reason given	Decisions	Reduced
This is a result of a market analysis of your property as well as an analysis of comparable properties.	9,919	16.6%
This is due to income, market or cost analysis supporting the assessment.	274	0.0%
This is due to an analysis of the actual sale transaction of the property.	251	0.0%
This is the result of an income, market or cost analysis.	190	100.0%
This is due to your property's uniformity with comparable properties.	88	0.0%

A reason seen fewer than 30 times shows no rate, for the same reason a township with a handful of appeals shows none.

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Source. Cook County Assessor, published appeal decisions (dataset y282-6ig3). Counted, not modelled. Undecided appeals are excluded from rates rather than counted as losses. Rates carry a 95% Wilson interval and none is shown below 30 decided appeals.