*That should be “**COUNTY **appraisal district listing.” Can’t edit thread titles. *
I wanted to look up a property on our local county appraisal district website. This website shows a property’s appraised value, square footage of buildings, year house was built, last couple of deed transactions.
I entered the name of the homeowner and the search returned nothing. I entered the address and again the search yielded no results. I entered just the street without the house number, and all the houses on the street came up with their house numbers except the one I was searching for.
So I went to the map and clicked on the property (it’s a regular house in a regular neighborhood) and this is what the detail for that particular address showed:
What does that mean? I know someone lives there, as I was at an event there this evening. The guy has lived there for at least 13 years.
The most likely thing is that the reverse geocoding (or spatial join) is not working properly for the particular point you clicked on the map. You might try clicking various places on the parcel and see if you get a good result. But there are lots of other possibilities: a missing or mismatched database record, or perhaps the property is listed under an alternate address, or taxed as part of a multiparcel holding, or under an alternate address.
The find-by-map option is primarily a courtesy. The assessing and taxing machinery is based on various other county records.
Thanks for the reply. All the other properties on that street yield both search results and data when I click on the map. And like I said, his address does not show up in any searches, but all the other houses on the street do.
Here’s the thing that set me wondering: the guy who lives there, far from keeping a low profile, is an Assistant District Attorney. Did he get some kind of deal on this house? He has a wife and two children.
I run a County GIS web site for a living. Been in GIS for 27 years. And my Wife is an appraiser for the county.
The simple answer is that the link between the GIS data (the parcel) and the assessor data is wrong. Not knowing exactly how the database is designed, I can’t really give more info.
Oh, I see you said the owner is an Assistant DA. At least in Colorado, if you are a member of law enforcement or judge or similar agency you can have your County GIS web presence hidden.
That’s what I was thinking, null values sounds like the data just isn’t being retrieved(And being a database guy that sort of thing annoys the hell out of me, no end user should ever see “null”)
Yeah, try Zillow. I use them whenever the GIS doesn’t give me what I want. In fact I’m doing that on a property right now that the local GIS had no data on.