MN Property Tax BuddyFree metro assessment lookup

Built by an attorney who reads the fine print for a living

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My name is Dan Swenson. I am a data nerd who is also a Minnesota workers' compensation attorney and a city council member. Public information should not be hard to use, so I build this network of sites as a hobby: I pull scattered public records out of PDFs and government databases and turn them into tools regular people can actually use. I do not use these sites to find legal clients, except for MN Comp Buddy which is my actual day job. The tools are free. The sites pay for their own hosting through clearly disclosed referral links.

Every number that decides your property tax appeal is sitting in a public record. What the county thinks your home is worth is in the parcel file it publishes. What it thought last year is in the prior file. What nearby homes sold for is recorded with every deed. And the deadlines that make or break an appeal are printed in the statutes. None of it should require an account, a fee, or a phone call to find. So this site pulls the counties' own data and explains the appeal routes, with the statute cited so you can check my work.

Every factual statement traces to a source you can open yourself. Values come from county parcel data published through MetroGIS, with the last-verified date shown on every result. Deadlines cite Minnesota Statutes chapter 274 and section 278.01. Where the data has limits, and it does (some counties publish values without an assessment-year label; recorded sale prices say nothing about a home's condition), the site says so next to the number, not in fine print.

Where the data comes from

What this site is not

MN Property Tax Buddy is not a law firm and I'm not your lawyer: reading this site does not create an attorney-client relationship, and the guides are education, not legal or tax advice about your property. The site is not an appraiser, not a county office, and not affiliated with the State of Minnesota, MetroGIS, or the Metropolitan Council. The assessment figures shown are the counties' published records and can lag your mailed notice; the notice controls.

The site is free for homeowners and always will be. If you ask to be connected with a property tax professional, we may be compensated for that referral; that is disclosed on the form, in the privacy policy, and here. What we will never do: sell your lookup history (we don't keep it), shade a number to make a form convert better, or pretend data proves more than it does.

Spotted an error?

If a value, date, or statute cite on this site does not match the official source, I want to know: dan@mnbuddynetwork.com. Corrections ship fast here.

The Buddy family

MN Property Tax Buddy is one of a family of free Minnesota public-data tools I build and maintain, with the same approach on every one: official data, plain-English explanations, honest framing about what the data can and cannot prove, and no charge to homeowners or workers.