Estates of Teal Run, Fort Bend County: property tax data
What the public appraisal record actually shows for this neighborhood — and how to use it if your own home's value looks too high.
Estates of Teal Run by the numbers
25th to 75th percentile market value spread
Source: Fort Bend County appraisal datadata as of August 1, 2026
What this means for a protest here
Line up Estates of Teal Run against the parcels the county itself treats as comparable, and 51% of them come out with a case for a lower market value. That's not a rounding fluke — it's a direct result of how spread out the pricing is inside this one neighborhood. Homes here are valued anywhere from $89 to $168 per square foot, so two houses of nearly the same size can land on very different numbers depending on which comps the district leaned on when it set them.
Fort Bend County's notice for this area is built on market value, not the "appraised value" language some other Texas counties use — so when you're pulling comps to make your case, you're comparing your home's market value line against the market value the district assigned to similar houses nearby, not some separate appraised figure. Among the 1,299 parcels here that showed a case, the gap between the county's number and the comp-based number was modest for most: the middle half sat between 1% and 5%, with a typical (median) gap of 3%. A smaller number of parcels showed much larger gaps, up to 24% at the high end — but where any one property lands depends entirely on its own comps, not on where the neighborhood average falls.
The comparison set behind these figures pulls from 2,535 parcels treated as comparable to this neighborhood, out of 2,832 total parcels carrying the Estates of Teal Run code. A wide comp pool is useful — it means there's more room to find genuinely similar homes to build a case around — but it also means the same $89-to-$168-per-square-foot spread that creates opportunities for some owners can just as easily mean a given comp doesn't fit. Reading the comps yourself, rather than assuming the neighborhood-wide pattern applies to your specific house, is the difference between a protest packet that holds up and one that doesn't.
How filing a protest actually works
Your deadline to file a written protest is whichever comes later: May 15, or the 30th day after your appraisal district delivers your notice of appraised value. There's no single date that applies to everyone — it depends on when your own notice arrives, not a date any page can print in advance.
A protest based on unequal appraisal compares your property against similar, nearby homes in this same neighborhood. LoneStarLower prepares that comparison and the supporting materials; it does not file the protest, negotiate with the appraisal district, or represent you at a hearing. You file it, using Form 50-132 or an equivalent written notice, with your county's appraisal district office — not the Texas Comptroller, which doesn't handle individual protests. You attend the hearing and present the evidence yourself.
Questions about this data
Where do these numbers come from, and how current are they?
They come from Fort Bend Central Appraisal District's certified parcel shapefiles (source file fbcad_2026_certified_parcels_shapefiles), dated August 1, 2026. This snapshot was loaded and processed on August 22, 2026.
Why does this page say "market value" instead of "appraised value"?
Fort Bend County's own records for this neighborhood, per the August 1, 2026 certified parcel data, are built on market value as the basis for comparison. Using that same term consistently — rather than swapping in "appraised value" — keeps this page matched to what actually appears on the county's notice.
How many homes were used to check whether a property here has a case?
The comparison draws on 2,535 parcels identified as comparable to Estates of Teal Run, out of 2,832 parcels carrying this neighborhood's code, all from the Fort Bend Central Appraisal District data dated August 1, 2026.