Property taxes in Houston

[Michael Veal]

Hi my name is Michael Veal and I’m looking to buy house in the Houston area. I was trying to figure out the property taxes but I don’t trust Zillow with that information. Just trying to do my due diligence to see if the numbers work for me. Any advice it will be a great help.

[Sudhanshu Singha]

@Michael Veal  If you go to the public website of jurisdiction of the home you are interested in you should be able to find find the property tax rate of that jurisdiction and the assessed value of the home. Since the rate and assessed value will probably not be on the same page you will need find them individually and then multiply the rate(Convert into percentage if displayed in another form) by the assessed value to come up with the property tax of the home. 

The rate might not be in percentage form and instead it could be something like the rate $1.20 for every $100 in assessed value and lets say the assessed value of your home is 100k. If it given like that just convert the $1.20 dollar value into in a percentage or a percentage in decimal form. For the example above your rate would be ($1.2/$100)=.012 or 1.2%. Once you get the rate(decimal or percentage form) all you need to do is multiply it by the assessed value for any home in the same jurisdiction to come up with the property taxes for that home. For the example above it would be $100,000 x 1.2% = $1,200.