Guilford County is conducting a countywide property revaluation of all real property in the county, and, right now, it looks like housing prices in Guilford County will come in, on average, about 50 percent higher than they did when they were assessed in 2022, the last time Guilford County held a revaluation.
A look at the percentage price increase in houses, buildings and land in the counties across the state offers some interesting insight into what’s happening in North Carolina. Different counties are on different cycles and, in 2025, there were 22 counties that conducted revaluations – and almost all of them have seen big jumps in prices since the last time their county tax assessors put a value on their homes, buildings or other property.
That’s great for upping property owners’ personal wealth but the problem is that the value at which the county has assessed your property is the value you pay taxes on. The price of housing in Guilford County and across the state could go up or down between now and January 1, 2026 – when the values are fixed – however, the housing market in the state seems to be fairly stable right now, so a 50 percent increase in the value of your home is a pretty good average number to anticipate.
While Guilford County is conducting the 2026 revaluation just four years after the last one, state law only requires a revaluation once every eight years. That’s one reason why property owners in Cumberland County, the home of Fayetteville, saw a whopping 88 percent rise in their property prices. The last time Cumberland County conducted a revaluation was in 2017, so there was eight years of growth wrapped up in that percentage increase.
In the chart below, the first number after the county name is the year the county last held a revaluation and the next column is the percentage increase of the values found in the 2025 revaluation (sometimes listed as a range rather than a precise number).
County Last Revaluation Percentage Increase
Surry 2021 25
Orange 2021 49.5
Wayne 2019 50-55
Davie 2021 51.07
Transylvania 2021 54
Person 2021 54
Cleveland 2021 55
Caldwell 2021 56
Union 2021 60.05
New Hanover 2021 67
Johnston 2019 70.6
Dare 2020 73
Lenoir 2017 73
Durham 2019 75.22
Cumberland 2017 88
Stanly 2021 30-40
Chatham 2021 40-50
Cleveland 2021 40-50
Davie 2021 40-50
Forsyth 2021 55-57
Jackson 2021 60-70
The average increase of assessed property values in the counties that conducted 2025 revaluations was 61 percent.
The average for those that last did a revaluation four years ago – in 2021 – was 52.4 percent, which is slightly higher than where Guilford County is now for its 2026 revaluation (also four years after the last one).
Guilford County is actually on a five-year revaluation cycle; however, the county was forced to conduct a new revaluation a year early due to special circumstances.
At a January retreat of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, the commissioners discussed the possibility of moving to a four-year revaluation cycle or even a shorter one. That, some commissioners argued, would help residents avoid so much “sticker shock” when their new tax bills came.
What the commissioners didn’t mention at the retreat is that a shorter revaluation cycle would help the county get more money in its hands sooner from county property owners who pay the taxes.
A four-year cycle would also cost the County more to conduct the assessment. Our biggest gain as citizens would be to bargain with the Commissioners so that if home values go down, so would tax values.
Deborah,
I respect your opinions, but why do you say “Our biggest gain as citizens would be to bargain with the Commissioners so that if home values go down, so would tax values.” Where and when does it say that The People have to “bargain” with people WE hire to work for us to do what is right.
Maybe we need Elon to come in to see where all this money is going and cut the waste. Millions going to par off law suits.
Deborah, never bargain with these commissioners. Your and county citizens best bet is to elect new commissioners. Then maybe you/we can all have lower taxes and waste once the DEI progressive policies and special far left racists pet projects can be reduced or eliminated. Same idea for the schools and Greensboro City Council. The current systems need to be flushed.
We’re at the Democrat’s mercy, so I don’t suspect we’ll receive any.
If our commisioners are willing to compare data about other county’s tax data. Let them also use these statistics:
66 counties have lower tax rates
33 counties have higher tax rates
Average county tax rate is .6363
All adjacent counties have lower tax rates
Commissions want to attract development cannot succeed when all our surrounding communities have lower tax rates. They give tax breaks as incentives for new businesses, yet the new residences will be looking elsewhere for their homes.
Commissioners need to make Guilford county attractive to all residents as well as the new one relocating for the new jobs.
You’re crying with two loaves of bread under your arms. Your county tax rate is based on the services the county provides to its residents. The sell price is where buyer and seller agree, you can’t have it both ways.
Ok Phyllis,
What New services has the county provided for you personally?
I live in Greensboro, I pay separately for my water, sewer, and trash services based on my usage. City services were discontinued for Leaf pick up this past season. Mostly due to the fact council members lived in upscale neighborhoods, condos or retirment homes and had separate lawn care services. Some like in area where leaf pick up was not needed. So, they just cancel it for everyone !
Ymmv
You are mistaken, Phyllis. Almost half of property taxes go toward schools not services. On top of that, Guilford is paying millions and millions to pay interest on Bond money borrowed for SCHOOLS not services. The services Guilford County provides are minuscule compared with the property taxes collected. The county at Alston’s direction has hired DEI employees not needed but hired because Blacks need government jobs because the pay is good and demands for performance are low. Blacks have turned to government jobs and the county commissioners, and the city of Greensboro council members are treating government jobs like a spoils system, except now it is about race. The city of Greensboro has made it clear that DEI is here to stay. It is DEI hires that are in the budget. Alston champions increased pay for county employees even though the job that most employees do can be accomplished with little training. Take a page from DODGE and ask the county employees to list their daily activities.
did you read the article about our guvmnt hiring ‘artists’ to paint buildings & lipstick flying pigs ? this is called being ‘proactive’. i hope they extend this perk to tattoo artists for our public servants.
So, I now live to pay my property tax.
Well at least you have answered the eternal question : what is the meaning of life?
Schopenhauer would be proud of you.
Suggestion for transparency. A recent post on Next Door by a knowledgeable individual showed several prominent Guilford County Democrat politicians as in mayor, Guilford County Board Chairman, and former U.S. Congress woman, as having very low property tax increases or even decreases based on 2022 property re-evaluation public records. Might be good for someone to post the percent increase or decrease for property tax in 2022 for each Greensboro City Council member, Guilford County Commissioner, Guilford County School Board Member, each Greensboro City and Guilford County employee making over $150K, and each elected official in Guilford County or their significant other. Would be great to see how they compare to the overall about 28% average increase for Guilford County property owners. All you have to do is find their address from NC Voter search and then Google their address along with “Zillow”. The tax value history by year will come up for that address under the Zillow listing with a percent for 2022. Investigative reporting in Guilford County!!
Not every Greensboro or Guilford County employee lives in Greensboro or Guilford County. They could live in a county with a much lower property tax rate. Yet, they still receive the benefit of a high-paying job courtesy of the property taxpayers in Greensboro and Guilford County.
And yet the rockingham county increase isn’t mentioned here. For some it was 100%. And as mentioned here by a commenter, the commissioners (in this case republicans) did not see the increases that the residents did. (Ours doubled after appealing the more than doubled amount)
Property taxes across the country are set to go up significantly. The squeeze is coming.
What was the special circumstance that required the reevaluation of property to happen sooner?
The actual sales prices of property a year later came in at less than 85 percent of the initially appraised value.
Why do I suspect the numbers were manipulated to allow for an earlier revaluation?
Commisioners want more money!
Plain and simple. They work with OPM, other peoples money.
what guvmnt service cost increases because a property owners’ ‘asset’ increases in value ? the same home needs more police, fire. sewer, water, school . . . WHAT ! ? garbage cans get heavier ?
Good point.
It’s purely a money grab, isn’t it Markle? [ You’re no kin to that dreadful Meghan Markle, I hope ]
kin to james francis connolly (easter sunday) ireland (IRA) ‘he was so badly injured they tied him to a chair before they shot him’ . glad he reproduced beforehand !
Will you be having a Guinness on Monday, then? Or do you prefer your beer green?
Cheers!
i do enjoy guinness extra stout . . . but can’t stand ‘brown ale’. jeers!
This is nothing less than a confiscation of wealth. It’s called Communism.
The voters, especially all those who didn’t bother to show up, are responsible for all this.
My wife & I are seniors. We have SS and some savings. At this time we built this up, would would have barely enough (if we didn’t live too long). Now, we would have to go into our savings, and lose the income from that. Fortunately, we are out of Guilford County now. There may be nowhere to hide.
“Doom, despair, and agony on me,
Deep dark depression and excessing misery,
If it weren’t for bad luck,
I’d had no luck at all,
Doom, despair, and agony on me.”
These Property Tax revaluations are a tax on UNREALISED gains – which is unethical and should be ruled unconstitutional. If the house I bought for $400, 000 is now supposedly worth $600,000, that does not make me any richer until I sell the asset. Its value could equally well collapse in a recession, and I would not suffer a loss unless I sold at that point.
The Bitcoin I bought at $30,000 is now worth about $85,000, but I haven’t sold it so there has been no actual gain, so there is no tax liability. Same with my house. The turning of he calendar is not a taxable event.
This is extortion, not taxation.
Very good points Austin. I believe most people don’t think in that way. How can you tax something that only exists on paper and varies so greatly. If and when the value goes down will they lower the taxes? With Skippy and his type in charge you can count on a massive NO.
Thank you for this “duh” moment.
Austin,
I like your thinking, change the tax value based on the sale price to the new owners. New owner pay the higher taxes. Seller has to pay capital gains taxes based on his original price and sell price. He should not have to pay higher taxes based on a “reassement” value.
Now we need to convince 7 county commissioners and 6 city commissioners their ideas are wrong. Or vote in new commissioners who agree.
Actually, you’ll have to convince the legislature, not the BOCC
Exactly property taxes are nothing but extortion. I pay my taxes my property gets vandalized I catch the perpetrator and then the department of public safety decides they don’t want to prosecute because he’s a illegal. Now explain to me why I’m paying taxes for the police and then the police don’t do their job then the department of safety f**** everything up and now I’m stuck with a piece of property I can’t rent and make income from and have to pay to fix the repairs myself and I can’t afford to. I say we should do away with property taxes all together and find another way to fund what needs to be. But if we must keep them then you should never be taxed on any more than you paid for the said property until it’s sold .
* Thank you all for your kind words. The problem is that, although this form of taxation is closer to extortion, people have become accustomed to it and have come to accept it.
We need some radical right-thinking conservatives in local government… as we now have in the Federal Govt.
Tar, feathers and a a rail. Austin. This is exactly how the Boston Tea Party came about
It might come to that, Rebel. But, er, let’s not waste perfectly good tea. Mine is Yorkshire Tea, with a little milk, please.
Cheers!
Question. If your new neighbor paid $600,000 to stay next to you, in a house that is similar to the house you paid $400,000 for, what should their tax value be? Are you ok with them paying on a $400,000 tax value or ESCROW, eventhough they paid $200k more than you? Without reappraisals, newer owners get cheaper ESCROWs based on their tax value being based on the previous reappraisal.
Property taxes should be eliminated. Yes, other taxes would have to be increase to pay for the services that are currently provided. Schools should be paid for from state funds, no need for county boards of education; they are useless anyway. Property owners are paying the property taxes that country clubs do not, that retirement homes and nursing homes do not, that the Woolworth Museum does not. I am not a member of Starmount Country Club, I do not live in a retirement home, and the Woolworth Museum is of no value to me. Yet, my property taxes keep going up. Where is the fairness in property taxes? There is no fairness.
Yes, property taxes are iniquitous and unfair, and should be eliminated, ideally.
Why should retirees have to pay school taxes? If andcwhen thisvgoes into effect it will be devastating for seniors on SS and minimal savings. Can’t get a job at 80 years old.
ANSWER : The new neighbor should pay Property Tax based on the price they paid for their house, just as I should. Therefore I should pay property tax on $400,000 and they should pay property tax on $600,000.
Escrow is completely irrelevant.
& look what just happened to thousands of destroyed homes in NC, HI & CA: no ‘capital gain’ after years of paying the unrealized capital gain tax – do they get the tax refunded – now worth less because of inflation ? ‘tariffs’ are another sneaky tax collected from american consumers by our guvmnt . it also > the total amount of sales tax collected on the more expensive stuff. i can laugh because i am a hermit living under a rock.
Our eyes water from staring at the tax rate increases.
Speaking of inflation (the cruelest hidden tax of all). Inflation is the way our govt raises our taxes without actually raising tax rates.
I read that our national debt is approx 36.5 TRILLION dollars. Not only cannot our govt pay their bills with the revenues they get from taxation, they now have to create fiat money at the rate of approx 1 TRILLION every 30 days. Based on this metric, our (ever growing) inflation rate is 21.6%. How can you believe anything our govt tells us? At this rate, overall we will pay double for everything in 3.3 years. Bye-bye Republic, hello world chaos. You are delusional if you think that gathering interest is of any use at all. The only solution is to spend your money as soon as you get it (for things you really need; like food, housing, clothing, medicine – not a new car), or to invest in something that will beat the INFLATION MAN & THE TAX MAN. Good luck with that.
Servicing our national debt is our Country’s biggest expense. More than National Defense, more than SS, more than Medicare, more than Medicaid – to mention the largest.
Also, I have read that some 80 million Americans are on Medicaid; in Guilford County alone, circa 37% of the population. Medicaid used to be health insurance for indigents; now it covers Dialysis, and people who actually have some income and assets. We cannot afford the govt we elected. We are down to “I got mine, you get yours”.
The new Libertarian President in Argentina totally slashed the size of their socialist govt, and has gotten the inflation rate down to 5% or so, in the last year+. There was LOT of whining in the beginning, but now things have made a 180 for them. It can be done, but probably not until everyone is in the same boat. Or we could get a “Strong Man” despot.
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