How Inflation Is Quietly Recalculating Your Property Tax Bill

Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation · Jun 24, 2026 · 6m · transcript

Episode 72 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna unpack a hidden inflation vector: property taxes. With home values up and local budgets under pressure, mill rates are rising faster than CPI. The hosts walk through how a $400,000 home in a typical suburb saw its tax bill jump 8% year-over-year, even as assessed values rose only 5%. They break down the lag between market value spikes and reassessment cycles, the impact of Proposition 13-style caps versus non-capped states, and one concrete strategy: challenging your assessment before the next mill rate hearing. Grounded in…