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Check if you're overpayingHow it works
Enter your address. We display your assessment, recent sales of comparable homes, and property class from Cook County records.
We compare your assessment to recent sales of homes in the same property class and township and show whether your property may be over-assessed. For paid reports, we prepare a 4-document evidence packet formatted for filing.
Use your evidence packet to file with Cook County yourself, or choose File For Me and we'll handle the submission when your township's Assessor window opens.
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Enter your Cook County address or PIN. We'll compare your assessment to similar homes in your neighborhood.
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Lake View Township · Cook County
Lake View Township · Class 211 · PIN 99-99-999-999-9999
Pricing
Flat upfront pricing. No contingency fees. No hidden costs.
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Get the full appeal packet. File it yourself with our step-by-step guide.
A licensed practitioner files the appeal on your behalf. You do nothing else.
Year-round monitoring + automatic re-appeal for multi-property landlords.
Features
Tier 1 · DIY
DIY Evidence Packet
$49one-time
Most popular · Tier 2
File For Me
$89one-time
Waitlist · For landlords
Portfolio Plan
$149/year
Analysis & evidence
Full evidence packet
Filing
Step-by-step self-file instructions
Handled for you
Included in plan
Practitioner files on your behalf via SmartFile (CCAO code 15481)
$40 refund if the Assessor denies your appeal
Tracking & ongoing
Township appeal window notifications
Filing status tracking dashboard
Year-round assessment monitoring
Annual automatic re-appeal
Multi-property portfolio support
All tiers use class-filtered methodology aligned with the Cook County Board of Review review criteria.
What you get, what you don't
If the Cook County Assessor issues a final denial of the Tier 2 appeal ParcelVue files for you, the $40 filing portion is refunded. The $49 evidence packet portion is non-refundable once generated.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 are one-time payments. Nothing auto-renews. You can come back next reassessment cycle if and when you need to. The Portfolio Plan is the only recurring product, designed for landlords with multiple properties to track.
Tier 1 gives you the evidence packet and a filing guide so you can submit the appeal yourself through the Cook County Assessor's portal. Tier 2 includes the same evidence packet, and ParcelVue files the appeal on your behalf using practitioner code 15481. Tier 2 is for homeowners who want the filing handled.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 are one-time payments with no auto-renewal. You pay once, get the evidence packet (and filing if Tier 2), and that's it. The only recurring product is the Portfolio Plan ($149/year), designed for landlords tracking multiple properties.
How it compares
On $1,800 in assessment savings, a contingency-fee service keeps $450 to $630. ParcelVue charges a flat $89, paid once.
$450 to $630
That's what a contingency-fee service would keep on $1,800 in assessment savings. ParcelVue charges a flat $89. The difference stays with you.
What we found
We compare your property to homes of the same class in the same neighborhood, using official Assessor data. Over-assessed means your assessed value exceeds that group median by more than 10%, the specific uniformity argument used in Board of Review appeals.
1,077,564
Residential parcels studied
250,478
Over-assessed
$10,424
Average assessment gap
Yours might be one of them. Free to check.
Cook County reassesses over a million residential properties on a three-year cycle, and a quarter of those parcels carry assessments above their own class median by more than 10%. The appeal process exists for exactly this reason. The county built it to be free, and the right of correction belongs to the homeowner. Yet the standard way to use that right is to hand a contingency-fee service 25% to 35% of the reduction they win, year after year, on appeals the homeowner could have filed themselves.
A service fee pays for the work of filing the appeal. A contingency fee keeps taking a cut of your savings every year, on the same correction you already paid to win once.
ParcelVue charges a flat price for the work itself. Your savings stay with you. Use us once. Use us every cycle. The choice is yours, and the correction is always yours to keep.
See what the county sees. Pay what you should.
None of them hold up.
“I don't even know if I'm over-assessed.”
Free lookup. Type your address. See your assessed value, see the class median for similar homes in your neighborhood, see the gap. If there isn't one, we tell you.
“The process seems too complicated.”
The complicated part is finding comparable properties, arguing assessment uniformity, and knowing what your township wants. The packet handles all three. From there you have two paths: file it yourself in about 30 minutes using the included guide, or pick File For Me ($89) and we file it for you under practitioner code 15481.
“What if it doesn't work?”
Nothing happens. Your assessment stays the same. There's no penalty for filing, and your taxes cannot go up as a result of an appeal you file. The Assessor either grants the reduction or denies it. The denial doesn't affect what you owe.
$49 covers the evidence report: a full comparable analysis for your PIN, a cover letter, and a step-by-step filing guide for your township. One payment, no subscription, no auto-renewal, no percentage of your savings. If you'd rather not file it yourself, the $89 tier includes the same packet plus we file the appeal for you under practitioner code 15481.
If the Cook County Assessor issues a final denial of the appeal we file for you, we refund the $40 filing portion of the $89 File For Me tier. The $49 evidence packet portion is non-refundable once generated.
Two differences. First, pricing: contingency services take 25% to 35% of your savings. On $1,800 in savings, that's $450 to $630 they keep. ParcelVue charges a flat $89 regardless of outcome, and the difference stays with you. Second, eligibility: if your free lookup shows you're not over-assessed, ParcelVue doesn't sell you anything. Contingency services have no incentive to turn anyone away.
No. In Cook County, an appeal can only reduce your assessment. The Assessor has no procedural path to raise your assessment as a result of an appeal you file, and the Board of Review operates under the same rule. ParcelVue also won't sell a packet to a homeowner whose lookup shows they're under-assessed, so the scenario doesn't come up for our customers in the first place.
ParcelVue does not sell to under-assessed homeowners. Your free lookup compares your assessment to the median for similar homes in your class and neighborhood. If you are at or below that median, the interface does not offer a packet to buy. There is no upsell, no “are you sure?” prompt, no fallback. The eligibility gate is a deliberate design choice, not a technical limitation. Contingency services profit from selling to every homeowner who walks in. ParcelVue does not.
ParcelVue currently covers Cook County's single-family homes and small multi-family residential properties (1,077,564 properties). We're working on appeal reports for additional property types: condos and co-ops, apartment buildings with 7+ units, commercial, industrial, vacant land, and not-for-profit properties. If your property isn't covered yet, drop your email when you search and we'll reach out as we expand.
Cook County Assessor's Office. We pull official assessment data for the county's 1,077,564 single-family and small multi-family residential parcels, then compute median values filtered by property class within each neighborhood. The over-assessment threshold (10% above the class median) is the same uniformity argument used in Board of Review appeals.
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Check if you're overpayingRefund policy
If you bought the $89 filing service and the Cook County Assessor issues a final denial of the appeal we file for you, we refund the $40 filing portion. The $49 evidence packet portion is non-refundable once generated.