Alamance County outlines 2027 property revaluation process as sales push some values sharply higher
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County tax staff and outside appraisers described the 2027 revaluation timeline—data collection, schedule-of-values in the fall and notices in winter 2027—and showed recent residential and commercial sales that in some cases doubled assessed values, while stressing appeals will be available after notices.
Alamance County tax officials on March 2 outlined the schedule and methods for the 2027 countywide property revaluation, saying the effort will update market values and redistribute the property tax burden.
"Reappraisal is required based on General Statute 1 0 5 2 86," said Brad Fowler, Alamance County tax administrator, and he told commissioners the county has advanced to a four-year revaluation cycle to keep values current. Fowler said the county is responsible for more than 79,000 parcels and expects that number to exceed 80,000 by Jan. 1, 2027.
Ryan Vincent of Vincent Valuations, the contractor working with the county, described the field work and timeline: staff have completed just under 60,000 field visits and nearly 9,000 vacant-parcel visits and expect to finish data collection in the next one to two months. Vincent said the office will compile a schedule of values to present to the board in the fall, with notices mailed in late winter 2027 and an appeals process to follow.
Vincent cautioned that values reflect market sales as of Jan. 1, 2027: "If someone came to your house, knocked on the door, asked a few questions, bedrooms, bathrooms ... that is to make sure that we have correct and accurate data," he said. He showed examples where recent sales produced large increases over current tax-assessed values, including several commercial transactions that rose 100% or more compared with existing assessments.
Commissioners pressed how the county handles properties that haven't sold in decades and whether non-sale sources such as online estimates are used. Vincent said the schedule is built on local sales; components (porch, garage, land) are valued and combined to create the total schedule value, and comparable local sales drive value changes.
Fowler and Vincent emphasized that once the schedule of values is adopted, it will remain until the next reappraisal and that property owners will be able to appeal their valuations after notices are mailed. "You can appeal your property tax value," Vincent said, noting that appeals are the statutory remedy for taxpayers.
Next steps: data collection completion, staff review and modeling through the summer, a schedule-of-values presentation to the board in the fall, mailings early in 2027 and a public appeals period thereafter.