Jane McDonald appealed the county’s 2025 valuation of her Brookhaven home, presenting a spreadsheet of recent neighborhood sales and an adjusted-sales calculation yielding a preferred value of about $927,326. McDonald said her home is among the smaller houses on larger lots in Brookhaven and that some county comparables overstate the property’s market position because they include bigger homes, additional baths, a generator or a hot tub.

County appraisal staff explained Brookhaven contains sections with different lot and house size mixes; McDonald’s house sits in the larger-lot section but is one of the smaller houses there, which raises its per-square-foot measure compared with larger houses. Staff presented two outside comparables graded “excellent minus” and a set of local sales; their moving-average analysis produced a value close to the county’s original assessment and staff recommended keeping the current valuation.

Board action: After considering the homeowner’s sales table and county comparables, the board voted to accept the county’s valuation on the record. The board noted the county would review the supplemental data McDonald provided if necessary as part of its appraisal records for future cycles.

Why it matters: The case highlights how subdivision heterogeneity—different lot sizes and house mixes inside the same development—can complicate appraisal equity and generate disputes about comparable selection and per-square-foot calculations.

What’s next: McDonald asked the county to review the spreadsheet further; staff said they would accept the homeowner’s data into the record and review in future reappraisal work if sales show different trends.