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Homes outside Wake County's towns get new property values on January 1, 2027, with notices in January. We compared 3,558 recent sales with the 2024 values those homes still carry, and here's what we found: the typical one sold for 7.5 percent more. 23 percent sold for less.
That's more than Wake County as a whole, where the typical sale ran 4.3 percent above its 2024 value. So if the county's new values follow the market, it's likely most of these homes won't see anything like the jump they got in 2024, which is really good news for most people.
But honestly, with 23 percent of homes selling below their old value, the county's model is likely to land too high on some of them. Those are the homes where an appeal can really work, and our free check'll tell you which side you're on once the 2027 values are published in January. If you're not one of them, it'll say so.
After the 2024 revaluation, Wake ran two steps, and it'll probably look pretty similar this time. First came an informal review with the county's appraisers, from January 16 to March 1. Then there was a formal appeal to the Board of Equalization and Review, which was due May 15. That's the step where you'd bring your own sales evidence. The county says it'll post the 2027 dates and a link to its tax portal in January 2027, so you'll want to check wake.gov/revaluation then. Don't wait on it, because the informal window's short.
Now the question in a North Carolina appeal is what your home would have sold for on the revaluation date, which for this round is January 1, 2027. So the evidence that really counts is sales of genuinely similar homes near you close to that date, and today's prices don't. And if you don't agree with the Board of Equalization and Review, you've got 30 days from its decision to appeal to the state Property Tax Commission.
Also, a higher value doesn't automatically mean a higher bill. State law makes the county and towns publish a revenue-neutral tax rate in a revaluation year, which is the rate that would bring in about the same money as before. They don't have to adopt it, but if everyone's value moves by about the same amount, your share of the bill basically stays where it was. What actually costs you is your value going up more than your neighbors' did.
Basically, Wake County's own rate is 53.71 cents for every $100 of value, so a $25,000 cut saves about $134 a year on the county's part alone. Wake's next revaluation after this one is January 1, 2029, so a win's worth that for two years.
Also, if you're 65 or older, or totally and permanently disabled, and under the state's income limit, North Carolina's homestead exclusion takes off the greater of $25,000 or half your home's value. You'll apply with Wake County by June 1, and it's honestly worth more than most appeals.
And there's more on the whole county in our Wake County page.
The sales comparison is our own, from Wake County's public parcel records, read 2026-10-07. We took single-family homes built before 2024 that sold in 2025 or 2026 for at least $50,000, and compared each sale price with the home's January 1, 2024 value. We left out sales more than two and a half times the value or less than half of it, which are usually family transfers or partial sales, and tightening or loosening that screen moved the result by less than a quarter of a point. We only show a town with at least 100 sales.
And the revaluation dates and the appeal process come from Wake County Tax Administration. The tax rates are the county's and Raleigh's adopted rates for the 2026 to 2027 budget year. The elderly and disabled exclusion is North Carolina General Statute 105-277.1.
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