Many Bowie County taxpayers are seeing an increase in the appraised value of their property, which means higher taxes.
Overall appraised property value appears to have experienced a small but steady growth in value for at least nine years, said
Bowie Central Appraisal District Chief Appraiser Mike Brower.
Most of the county's 63,000 property ownership accounts-residential, commercial and agricultural real estate-has seen a 2 to 4 percent average property value increase.
"We've been experiencing this low- to middle single-digit increase in overall property values since about the end of the last decade, following a leveling off of a national recession we were having," Brower said.
"This current steady property value increase followed about a 2 percent dip we had in overall property values ... starting in about 2010."
All of the 63,000 properties are appraised for value over a three-year period, with a third of the properties being appraised in each of the three years.
Appraised value reports for county residents have been arriving in mailboxes over the last few days.
Property tax bills will be due in October and considered delinquent after Jan. 31, 2020.