Dougherty Co. Tax Assessor’s Office begins GMASS 2026 Countywide Property Revaluation

ALBANY, Ga. – The Dougherty County Tax Assessor’s Office is preparing for a major real estate survey across the county. One that will take place over the course of the next two years.

The tax assessor’s office says this will be the first revaluation of all properties in Dougherty county not done since 2007…

And… it’s being done in order to make sure that Dougherty county can maintain fair-market value, and makes a more equitable real estate market.

“…And the property values, fair-market values have just been going straight up. And, we’re charged with keeping the fair-market values and we haven’t necessarily been able to keep up with as fast as the rates have been going up with the values,” said Adam Bridges, Chief Appraiser, Dougherty Co. Tax Assessor’s Office.

While the revaluation for Dougherty county won’t take place until 2026, it’s imperative that they start surveying all county properties now.

“Total revaluation of this magnitude generally takes at least a couple of years to get that completed. And, so, we’re starting now, in order to have all the necessary values in place for the year 2026,” said Larry Thomas, Vice-Chair, Dougherty Co. Tax Assessor’s Office.

According to the tax assessor’s office, the survey will be conducted by a team of 20 over the course of the next few weeks, going everywhere in the county

“Their first steps are going to be to physically go to every single parcel in the county. Of course that’s going to be a large job, because we have roughly 38,000 parcels. But they have a large staff of 20-25 appraisers that they’ll bring in and they will literally go door to door, doing a physical inspection on every property,” said Bridges.

As these surveyors go from door to door, the tax assessor’s office just has one more message for Dougherty county residents.

“One of the things we want to be sure that people understand is, there will be people coming to your property, and they will be coming on to take measurements, or to take pictures of the property. We want to make sure the public is aware of these things going on, and not to be frightened…” said Thomas.

While the tax assessor’s office will be sending people out to survey over the next couple of weeks, they want to emphasize to the public that the surveyors are not there to do anything malicious.

In a release sent out by Dougherty county, property owners are encouraged to ask surveyors for their id to verify their legitimacy.

Brian Roche reporting.

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