Bexar County · San Antonio
Bexar County Property Tax Protest
If your Bexar County appraisal looks too high, you have the right to protest it — and in San Antonio's market, it's often worth doing. We review your notice, pull the comps, file with BCAD on time, and appear at the hearing so you don't have to. You only pay if we lower your taxes.
How protests work at the Bexar Appraisal District
Appraisals in Bexar County come from the Bexar Appraisal District (BCAD) at bcad.org. Notices of Appraised Value go out each spring, and you generally have until May 15 — or 30 days after your notice was delivered, whichever is later — to file.
BCAD offers an online protest portal, and many residential cases get an informal settlement offer before ever reaching an Appraisal Review Board hearing. That offer is where preparation matters: a well-documented evidence package tends to draw a meaningfully better informal number, and if the offer isn't good enough, we decline it and take the case to the ARB.
The San Antonio angle
Bexar County's housing stock is unusually mixed — 1950s ranch homes inside Loop 410, historic properties near downtown, and fast-built subdivisions out toward Alamo Ranch and Stone Oak. Mass appraisal models struggle with that variety: older homes get valued like updated ones, and newer areas get carried by a handful of high sales. Both patterns are protestable, either as excessive market value or as unequal appraisal — showing that comparable properties are assessed lower than yours.
We also see plenty of San Antonio notices missing a homestead exemption the owner qualifies for. That's free money left on the table every year, and we check it on every review.
What we handle for Bexar County owners
- Line-by-line review of your BCAD Notice of Appraised Value
- Comparable sales and unequal-appraisal evidence package
- Protest filed before your deadline
- Informal negotiation with BCAD, then the ARB hearing if needed
- Homestead, over-65, and disability exemption checks
Check your Bexar County appraisal
Free review, straight answer. Takes 60 seconds.
No obligation. We never sell your data.
Our fee, in one sentence
30% of your first-year tax savings, nothing upfront, and nothing at all if your value doesn't come down — the same terms whether your case settles informally or goes to the board.
Bexar County questions we hear
I have a homestead cap — is protesting still worth it?
Often yes. The 10% cap limits how fast your assessed value rises, but the market value on your notice keeps climbing in the background. Cutting the market value now shrinks the gap the cap will chase in future years — a reduction that keeps paying after this season.
BCAD sent me an informal settlement offer. Should I take it?
Sometimes it's fair; often it's an opening number. We compare the offer against the evidence before accepting anything — and if it's short, the ARB hearing is already on the calendar.
Do you handle small commercial property in San Antonio?
Yes — small retail, offices, duplexes and fourplexes across Bexar County. The protest mechanics are the same; the evidence (income and comps) is different, and we build it accordingly.