If you believe your 2025 Cuyahoga County property tax assessment was too high — and you believe you can prove it — the county’s Board of Revision is ready to hear you out. The board is now accepting complaints from property owners who want to challenge their property valuations.
Here are some of the documents you can use to plead your case:
• A complete appraisal report from the last calendar year
• Dated photographs of the property showing existing conditions
• Certified estimates from a contractor for repairs
• Purchase agreement with closing statement
More details about documentation are available here.
Property taxes up, payments down
State law requires counties to reassess property values every six years. That happened in 2024, and in Cuyahoga County values went up an average of 32%. Tax delinquencies skyrocketed. As of Dec. 10, 2025, the county was owed more than $248 million for about 25,000 parcels of land.
More than 9,600 residential and commercial property owners filed complaints for tax year 2024, according to Ron O’Leary, administrator of the Board of Revision. He declined to provide specifics — like how many complaints resulted in lower valuations — because the county isn’t finished processing all of them.
Nearly 1,800 of those complaints were challenged, typically by the school district in which the property is located. Property taxes are an important source of revenue for public schools. Almost 1,000 of the challenges were against residential properties.
A complaint can result in a higher valuation if the property was recently purchased for more than the market value on record with the county’s fiscal officer.
How to file your Cuyahoga County property tax complaint
Complaints can be filed online. Or you can download and print the form or call 216-443-7195 and ask for one to be mailed to you. Completed forms must be notarized before you mail or deliver them to the Board of Revision, 2079 E. 9th St., Second Floor, Cleveland, OH 44115.
You can also file in person at the board’s office, Monday through Friday, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The staff can answer questions about the process but cannot give legal advice.
You do not need to submit evidence when you file the complaint. The complaint gets you in line for a hearing date, and you have until seven days before that date to send in whatever documents you’re using to support your claim. The deadline to apply for a hearing is March 31.
More information about filing, and links to helpful resources, is available here.
Outreach sessions coming
The Board of Revision and the Treasurer’s Office will hold five events over the next several weeks for residents who need help with their property taxes.
Jan. 10, 10 a.m. to noon
East Cleveland Public Library
14101 Euclid Ave., East Cleveland
Jan. 28, 6 to 8 p.m.
Brook Park Recreation Center
17400 Holland Road, Brook Park
Feb. 11, 6 to 8 p.m.
Collinwood Recreation Center
16300 Lakeshore Blvd., Cleveland
Feb. 18, 6 to 8 p.m.
Gunning Recreation Center
16700 Puritas Ave., Cleveland
March 11, 6 to 8 p.m.
Garfield Heights Civic Center
25407 Turney Road, Garfield Heights
