Your house is worth what the city says.Prove it.
Assessments are written in bulk, by formula, by people who have never been inside your house. The wrong ones stay wrong until an owner objects. We read the city's own records and tell you which one you have.
A real Farmington Hills home, from public records. Address and owner withheld.
Notices are mailed in late February and appeals are heard in March. We'll tell you when yours lands and whether it's worth appealing. One or two emails a year, no selling.
1,658 sales. 318 assessed above 55%.
Michigan assessments are supposed to land at half of what a home would sell for. The City of Farmington Hills publishes the study itself: every arm's-length sale from April 2023 to March 2025, measured against its own values. The median comes in at 49.6%, which is close to correct. The tail is where the money is: 318 homes came in above 55% of their sale price, and 124 of those sat at least 20% high.
| Assessment vs. sale price | Homes | Share | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 50% | 881 | 53% | At or below the target |
| 50% to 55% | 459 | 28% | Normal variation |
| 55% to 60% | 194 | 12% | Worth checking |
| Over 60% | 124 | 7% | Assessed at least 20% high |
Source: City of Farmington Hills 2026 two-year residential sales study, 1,658 arm's-length sales. Counts computed from the published file.
A sale resets the meter
Michigan caps how fast your taxable value can climb, until the house changes hands. The year after a sale, the cap comes off and taxable value jumps to whatever the city says the house is worth. Get that number corrected and the correction follows you for as long as you own the place. Miss it and the error compounds quietly, every year, on every bill.
That makes the first assessment notice after a purchase the most valuable piece of mail a new owner gets, and the easiest one to file away unread.
- Records that describe a different house
Square footage, a finished basement, bathrooms that were never built. Factual errors can be corrected, sometimes with a refund.
- A missing homestead exemption
Without it you pay up to 18 extra mills. It can often be claimed for past years as well.
You sign it. You file it. We do the reading.
- We check your file
Your assessment against city studies, county parcel records and what comparable homes actually sold for.
- You get a straight answer
If the number is fair, or your taxable value is capped low enough that winning would change nothing, we say so and stop there.
- You get the packet
Evidence, comparable sales, the completed petition and dated instructions. Farmington Hills accepts appeals by letter, so nobody has to sit in a hearing.
Packets $149 to $199. Full service for larger cases. Prices confirmed at launch.
The calendar decides everything
You can do this yourself, for free
The Board of Review charges nothing and the state's petition form is a free download. Plenty of owners handle it alone and win. Hire us or overpay forever. We are worth paying when you would rather not spend a weekend pulling comparable sales, reading a property record card and writing the argument, or when you want someone to tell you honestly that your assessment is already fair.
Questions go to hello@boringpropertytax.com. Farmington Hills and the City of Farmington now; nearby Oakland County communities next.