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Oklahoma County Board of Equalization hears multiple property-assessment appeals; decisions deferred to Friday
Summary
The county Board of Equalization heard multiple residential assessment appeals — including the Dixon Family Trust, a Choctaw homeowner and a high-value remodelling dispute in Naples Hills — and the board said it will issue decisions on Friday after reviewing evidence.
The Oklahoma County Board of Equalization spent a lengthy session hearing residential assessment appeals on Tuesday, with the panel telling property owners the board would accept evidence at hearings and make decisions on Friday.
“We will not make a decision today; we make our decisions on Friday of everything that we hear during the week,” said Eleanor Thompson, the board’s presiding official, as she explained the hearing process to those who appealed their assessments. The board emphasized it considers fair market value and the assessor’s evidence and adjustments when reviewing each case.
Appeals heard included: - Dixon Family Trust (1109 Old Bridge Road, Edmond; account 126431030). The assessor’s notice placed the value at $466,500; the Dixons asked to be placed on the 2024 value of $412,000. Owner Brian Dixon said the assessor’s selected comparable sales produce an average of about $140.15 per square foot, and he questioned the assessor’s adjusted values that produced $171-plus per square foot for the subject property: “I just don't see it,” Dixon told the board. - A Choctaw property (14224 Southeast 30 Seventh Place) where the owner disputed a 2025 assessment of $640,000 and presented evidence that one of the assessor’s comps closed at $540,000 in 2025; the owner said the assessor’s record indicated a 2024 sale for $578,000 but that the listing agent told him the property did not close until February 2025. - Camilla and David Strong (West Wilshire Boulevard, Naples Hills). The pair challenged a large increase in assessed value to $2,690,000, saying the house had been substantially under-construction and that the owners lost square footage (a former apartment) while completing capital repairs and additions. The property owners cited the Oklahoma Constitution (Article 10, Section 8(b)) in arguing the increase was outside constitutional limits for damaged or altered property; the board’s assessor staff said the 2025 value reflected permitted additions, remodeling and permit records. - Other appeals presented during the hearing included James Marks (residential account 267243065) and a homeowner at 3725 Glastonbury Way who purchased a new-construction home for $949,000 in November 2024 and asked the board to consider concessions and buy-downs tied to the sale price when establishing fair market value.
Assessor’s staff repeatedly explained that their adjusted-sale analysis applies numeric adjustments for size, effective age and other characteristics to bring comparables in line with the subject property; the assessor’s representative said these adjustments are produced by the office’s valuation software and underlying adjustment tables rather than a single public “calculator.” Chad, identified in the hearing as assistant supervisor for personal property in the assessor’s office, told the board the assessor’s 2024 comps supported a median adjusted value of about $471,652 for the Dixon property and that website-listed comps were for guidance only.
When owners pressed the assessors on specific data — for example, why the assessor’s system recorded a comp’s distance as 2.65 miles when Google driving distance indicated 5.2 miles — staff said they would investigate the distance-calculation method (straight-line versus driving distance).
No final determinations were made at the hearing. The board closed each case after presentations and said it would issue written decisions on Friday following further review of the evidence and internal analysis.
