Search the Assessment, Decode the Value, Finish the Property Task
Use the Allegheny County Real Estate Portal to locate a parcel by street address or Lot & Block parcel number, then review assessed values, building characteristics, ownership, tax information, Homestead status, sales, appeal activity and map details.
Allegheny County is unusually easy to misunderstand because it still uses a 2012 base-year assessment system, unrestricted owner-name searching is not part of the ordinary free public search, county taxes are separate from municipal and school taxes, and the current annual appeal being filed in August 2026 is for tax year 2027—not 2026.
Quick answer: search by address or Lot & Block number
The free Allegheny County Real Estate Portal supports public searches by property address and parcel number. For an address, enter the house number and main street name without suffixes such as Street, Road, Drive or Circle. Leave Municipality blank if you are unsure. Open the matching parcel and verify the physical address, municipality and Lot & Block ID before using the assessment or tax information.
Ten facts worth knowing before you search
Once you understand the search format above, use the official portal. Start with the fewest reliable fields; adding an incorrect municipality or street suffix can prevent a valid property from appearing.
Choose the assessment or record task
Jump to the problem you actually need to solve.
Assessment, tax payment and recorded ownership are separate jobs
Parcel data
Homestead
Corrections
Payment
Penalty
Receipt
Mortgages
Copies
Recording
Hearing
Decision
Review
School tax
Zoning
Permits
Your question |
Correct office/tool |
What it provides |
Important limitation |
|---|---|---|---|
What is the assessed value? |
Office of Property Assessments / Real Estate Portal |
Parcel characteristics, base-year value, assessed value and exemptions. |
The assessed value is not an ordinary current-market estimate. |
How much 2026 county tax is unpaid now? |
County Treasurer |
Current tax, penalty, interest, payment and receipt information. |
Municipal and school taxes may use separate collectors. |
Who legally owns the property? |
Division of Real Estate / recorded deed |
Deeds, mortgages and recorded land documents. |
Assessment owner display is not a title examination. |
Can I challenge the assessed value? |
BPAAR / Annual Appeal |
Annual assessment appeal and telephone hearing. |
The board changes assessment—not tax millage. |
I just received an assessment-change notice |
Special Appeal |
Appeal route for specific written OPA determinations. |
The deadline is generally 30 days from the official mail date. |
What are my municipal or school taxes? |
Local municipality / school tax collector |
Separate millage, billing and payment details. |
The 6.43-mill county rate is not the entire local property-tax burden. |
What is the official zoning or permit status? |
Local municipality |
Zoning, construction and occupancy decisions. |
County assessment use codes are not zoning approval. |
Search the Allegheny County assessment record correctly
- Enter the house number.
- Enter only the main street name.
- Do not add Street, Road, Drive, Circle or similar suffixes.
- Leave Municipality blank if uncertain.
- Open the closest valid possibility.
- Copy the Lot & Block ID from a tax bill or prior record.
- Enter the parcel identifier carefully.
- Check letters, leading zeros and number order.
- Open the matching result.
- Confirm address and municipality.
- Do not assume a Pittsburgh mailing address means City of Pittsburgh.
- Leave Municipality blank.
- Search the house number and street only.
- Compare borough/township results.
- Verify the school district too.
Open the parcel and save these fields
Six micro-steps from search to usable record
Free owner-name search is not the same as Allegheny’s paid subscription access
The ordinary public search is built around address and parcel number. Once a parcel opens, the current owner is visible. If you need to repeatedly search the county database by owner name, retrieve legal descriptions or access additional tax information, Allegheny County offers a separate subscription service.
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Field |
What it means |
What to do next |
|---|---|---|
Parcel ID / Lot & Block |
County identifier assigned to the property. |
Use it for taxes, deeds, appeals and county calls. |
Municipality |
The city, borough or township where the property is located. |
Use it to find local tax, permit and zoning information. |
School District |
School taxing jurisdiction associated with the parcel. |
Check school tax separately from county tax. |
Full Base Year Market Value |
Value expressed under the county’s 2012 base-year methodology. |
Do not read it as an ordinary 2026 market estimate. |
County Assessed Value |
County-certified assessment used in the property-tax system. |
Check whether exclusions reduce taxable value. |
Taxable Market Value |
Value used for county-tax calculation after applicable adjustment or exclusion. |
Confirm Homestead or other relief shown on the parcel. |
Homestead |
Shows whether an Act 50 Homestead application is reflected on the record. |
Recent buyers should confirm the status belongs to them. |
Deed Book / Page |
Clue pointing to the recorded ownership document. |
Use the Division of Real Estate land-record system. |
Building information |
Living area, year built, rooms, grade, condition and improvement characteristics. |
Factual errors can matter in assessment review or appeal preparation. |
Appeal Status |
Shows relevant assessment-appeal activity and current filing options. |
Use the 2027 option before the September 1, 2026 deadline if applicable. |
Tax Information |
County real-estate tax, payment, penalty and interest data. |
Do not assume it includes every municipal and school bill. |
Why the county still shows a 2012 base-year value
Allegheny County uses a base-year methodology with an effective date of value of January 1, 2012. The 2012 base-year system was used beginning with tax year 2013, and the last countywide reassessment occurred for that cycle.
When a certified property assessment can change
The 2027 annual assessment appeal window is open now
2027 annual appeal filing began.
File the 2027 Annual Appeal by this date.
The county publishes no filing fee for the annual appeal.
2027 Common Level Ratio: 49.3%
Allegheny County has published a 49.3% Common Level Ratio for tax year 2027, to be applied to current market value in applicable appeals beginning in September 2026.
The CLR is not the county tax rate and it is not a blanket percentage automatically multiplied against every parcel in the ordinary Real Estate Portal.
File the annual appeal through the property record
Evidence that can answer a real valuation question
A Special Appeal is different from the annual appeal window
Special Appeals can be filed year-round in response to specified written determinations from the Office of Property Assessments. They are not a workaround for simply missing the ordinary annual appeal deadline.
Written determination |
Typical filing rule |
What must travel with the appeal |
|---|---|---|
Assessment Change Notice |
File within 30 days of official mail date. |
Copy of the notice plus the completed Special Appeal form. |
Catastrophic Loss Determination |
Follow the determination and appeal instructions. |
Determination letter and relevant evidence. |
Clean and Green determination |
Use the Special Appeal route after the written decision. |
OPA determination letter. |
Homestead/Farmstead determination |
Appeal the written determination, not the tax bill itself. |
OPA determination letter. |
Interim assessment |
File within the notice deadline, generally 30 days. |
Assessment notice and requested evidence. |
LERTA / exemption determination |
Use the written decision’s appeal period. |
OPA determination letter. |
The discount and face-payment dates have already passed
This county-tax deadline has passed.
This deadline has also passed.
Check the live penalty and interest before paying.
2026 county tax calculation
Pay or verify the current county tax
Check whether the record is missing relief you qualify for
Program |
Published benefit |
2026 filing timing |
Important rule |
|---|---|---|---|
Act 50 Homestead/Farmstead |
$18,000 reduction in assessed value for county tax purposes. |
Application due March 1. |
Primary residence; generally only one Homestead. |
Act 77 Senior Citizen Tax Relief |
30% reduction in county real-estate tax for qualifying applicants. |
2026 deadline was June 30 and has passed. |
Age/status, ownership/occupancy and income tests apply. |
LERTA / Act 76 |
Qualifying commercial or industrial abatement in participating areas. |
Project/property-specific. |
Eligibility depends on location and program requirements. |
Catastrophic Loss |
Potential proportional assessment reduction after qualifying damage. |
Application generally within six months of loss. |
Document cause, date and extent of damage. |
Act 50 Homestead/Farmstead exclusion
The county excludes the first $18,000 of assessed value from Allegheny County real-property taxation. At a 6.43-mill county rate, the county illustrates annual county-tax savings of $115.74 for a fully qualifying parcel.
A “Yes” displayed shortly after a transfer can relate to the prior owner. New owners should confirm their own qualification and submit a new application when required.
Act 77 Senior Citizen Tax Relief
Generally 10 years of continuous ownership and primary-residence occupancy, subject to the program’s published exceptions.
Age 60+, qualifying widow/widower, or qualifying permanently disabled adult under the county rules.
Published household-income limit is $30,000, with the program’s specified treatment of Social Security and related benefits.
The detailed Property Record Card contains more than the public parcel page
For assessment review or appeal preparation, a Property Record Card can be more useful than the public portal because it contains additional assessor information. Allegheny County provides several ways to obtain copies.
Fastest way to request the Property Record Card
The assessment owner history is not a complete deed search
The parcel page can show current owner information, sale dates, sale prices, deed book and deed page. Allegheny County specifically warns that the assessment system does not contain a complete ownership or sales history for every parcel.
2026 Division of Real Estate fee clues
The county’s 2026 fee schedule lists a flat $200 recording fee for many deed and mortgage document categories, subject to stated exceptions and additional-name/parcel rules.
The 2026 fee schedule lists $1 per page for copies up to 11 × 17 inches.
Historical property-card copies are separately listed at $0.25 per page.
Buyers should check more than owner name and sale price
Related CountyAuditors.org property guides
Use this for GIS, deeds, tax routing, address corrections and the broader parcel workflow.
Allegheny County Property Search, Taxes & RecordsCompare how assessment, tax collection and deed recording differ across Pennsylvania counties.
Pennsylvania County Property & Tax Search GuideUseful when a searcher is unsure whether the task belongs to an assessor, auditor, treasurer or recorder.
County Auditor DirectoryUse the office that can actually complete the task
Office |
Use it for |
Contact |
Visit / timing |
|---|---|---|---|
Office of Property Assessments |
Assessment values, property characteristics, Homestead, assessment changes and search help. |
412-350-4636 · Option 2 |
542 Forbes Avenue, Room 347 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. |
BPAAR / Appeals |
Annual appeals, hearings and assessment appeal review. |
412-350-4636 · Option 2 |
542 Forbes Avenue, Room 334 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 |
County Treasurer |
Current county real-estate tax, payment, receipts, penalty and tax-bill mailing information. |
Courthouse Room 108 436 Grant Street Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. |
|
Division of Real Estate |
Deeds, mortgages, land records, copies and document recording. |
542 Forbes Avenue, Room 101 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 |
|
Real Estate Subscription Help |
Paid owner-name search and enhanced real-estate website access. |
Department of Information Technology support
|
Have this ready before you call
Allegheny County tax-assessment glossary
Term |
Meaning |
Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
Lot & Block / Parcel ID |
Unique county identifier assigned to a real-estate parcel. |
Best identifier for tax, deed, appeal and records work. |
Base Year |
Reference valuation year used in Allegheny County’s assessment methodology. |
Allegheny currently uses 2012, so assessed value is not simply today’s sale value. |
Common Level Ratio |
State-certified ratio used for specific property-assessment appeal calculations. |
2027 Allegheny County CLR is published as 49.3%. |
Millage |
Tax rate expressed in mills; one mill equals $1 per $1,000 of taxable value. |
Allegheny County’s 2026 county rate is 6.43 mills. |
Net Tax |
Discounted county amount when paid within the discount period. |
The 2026 2% discount period ended March 31. |
Gross / Face Tax |
County tax due without the early-payment discount before delinquency. |
The 2026 face deadline was April 30. |
Homestead Exclusion |
Act 50 relief reducing qualifying county taxable assessed value. |
Allegheny County publishes an $18,000 assessed-value exclusion. |
Property Record Card |
Detailed assessor record containing more assessment information than the ordinary parcel display. |
Useful for finding factual errors before an appeal. |
Annual Appeal |
Regular yearly process to challenge a certified assessment. |
The 2027 filing window is July 1–September 1, 2026. |
Special Appeal |
Year-round appeal route after specified written OPA determinations. |
Often must be filed within 30 days of the notice. |
Allegheny County tax assessment FAQs
How do I search Allegheny County tax assessment records?
Use the official Allegheny County Real Estate Portal. Search by property address or Lot & Block parcel number, open the matching parcel and verify the physical address, municipality and school district before relying on assessment or tax information.
Why does my Allegheny County address search return no result?
The portal instructs users not to include street suffixes such as Street, Road, Drive or Circle. Enter the house number and main street name, and leave Municipality blank if you are uncertain which borough, township or city contains the parcel.
Can I search Allegheny County property records by owner name?
The ordinary free public search is based primarily on address or parcel number. Current owner information appears after a parcel is opened. Allegheny County offers paid subscription access for owner-name searching and additional services.
Why does Allegheny County still use a 2012 assessment value?
Allegheny County uses a 2012 base-year assessment methodology. The base-year system was used beginning with tax year 2013, so the assessed value should not automatically be treated as the property’s current 2026 market price.
What is the 2027 Allegheny County assessment appeal deadline?
The 2027 annual appeal filing period runs from July 1 through September 1, 2026. There is no filing fee for the county annual appeal, and the online filing option can be reached through the parcel’s Appeal Status tab.
What is Allegheny County’s 2027 Common Level Ratio?
Allegheny County publishes a 2027 Common Level Ratio of 49.3%. It is used for applicable appeal calculations beginning in September 2026 and should not be confused with the county millage or a universal assessment percentage.
What are the 2026 Allegheny County property-tax deadlines?
The 2% county-tax discount period ended March 31, 2026, and the gross or face-payment period ended April 30, 2026. The past-due period began May 1, with a published one-time 5% penalty plus 1% monthly interest on delinquent county tax.
How does the Allegheny County Homestead Exclusion work?
Act 50 reduces qualifying owner-occupied property by $18,000 of assessed value for Allegheny County tax purposes. Applications are due by March 1 for current-year effect, and recent buyers should confirm that the Homestead status belongs to the new owner rather than the seller.
How do I get an Allegheny County Property Record Card?
You can request a Property Record Card electronically by emailing LandHelp@AlleghenyCounty.US. The county also publishes paper Property Record Cards at $0.25 per page through the Real Estate Department Copy Desk.
Where do I find Allegheny County deeds and mortgages?
Use the Allegheny County Division of Real Estate and its land-record resources. The assessment portal may show deed book, deed page and owner-history clues, but it does not contain every recorded ownership transaction or provide a title opinion.

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