The Orange County Real Estate Appraiser is responsible for the appropriate identification, location, and valuation of all the county’s real and personal property and properties for tax purposes. This society is an elected constitutional officer listed in the Orange County charter as the county executive serving the people of Orange County.
An Orange County Property Appraiser plays a significant role in the area’s real estate market. Properly conducted real estate appraisals provide essential information for investors, buyers, sellers, developers, lenders, insurers, and many other market participants. Indeed, without a proper assessment of the real estate market, individuals, companies, governments, and others would not be able to adequately assess investment opportunities, rendering them virtually useless as a decision aid.
As an award-winning agency, OCPA received its prestigious “Certificate of Excellence in Assessment” from the International Association of Assessment Managers in 2018, achieved by less than 1% of assessment authorities worldwide. It has a 99.9% success rate on the Value Adjustment Board, where owners can challenge agency values. It tracks changes in ownership, manages plot boundaries, maintains descriptions of buildings, approves requests for exemptions from qualified individuals, and analyzes the evolution of sales prices, construction costs, and rents to assess the value of all available properties better.
The Orange County Real Estate Appraisal Office uses state-of-the-art technology approaches to the appraisal process. Our Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) system determines fair values for all Orange County homeowners. Our Geographic Information System (GIS) provides field inspectors with detailed, up-to-date information about property locations. To serve a community, you have to know a community,” said Rick Singh, CFA, Orange County real estate appraiser.
Orange County offers various property types with seven theme parks, four water parks, and hundreds of hotels and timeshares. Orange County is also home to approximately 1.4 million residents in about 400,000 apartment buildings. Merchants live in over 60,000 non-residential properties and provide a comparable number of business tax accounts. In 2019, Orange County’s fiscal balance was $208.2 billion.