Property Appraiser in Indian River County — Indian River County, Florida

The Indian River County Property Appraiser sets the January 1 value of every parcel and business asset account from Sebastian and Fellsmere to Vero Beach, and in 2025 certified a countywide just value of $50,576,965,743 (Indian River County Property Appraiser).

Florida law builds the office around one date. The Department of Revenue states that the property appraiser assesses all property at just value each year on January 1, and that a homestead's assessed value can rise in the next year by no more than 3 percent or the change in the Consumer Price Index (Florida Department of Revenue). The Property Appraiser decides values, exemptions and classifications. It does not set tax rates or mail tax bills: the Indian River County Tax Collector sends the bills, and the taxing authorities, which the Department of Revenue describes as the city, county and special districts plus the county schools, adopt millage rates at their own hearings.

Taxable value on the 2025 roll is about 63 percent of just value: $31,758,608,187 divided by $50,576,965,743 is 0.628 (ircpa.org). Under the Department of Revenue formula, assessed value equals just value minus assessment limits, and taxable value equals assessed value minus exemptions, so the gap is made up of those caps and exemptions (Florida Department of Revenue).

Wesley Davis, CFA, is the Indian River County Property Appraiser, a former School Board member (1994 to 2000) and county commissioner (2004 to 2016) who is licensed by the state to appraise real property (About the Property Appraiser).

His office biography notes that while on the Indian River County Commission he served on the Value Adjustment Board and worked on the property appraiser's budget (ircpa.org). The same page points residents to online homestead filing, an online tax estimator and explainer videos on what the property appraiser does and why neighboring parcels can carry different tax bills.

The Property Appraiser keeps two offices, the Vero Office at 1800 27th Street, Building B, in Vero Beach and the Sebastian Office at 1921 U.S. 1 in Sebastian, both open 8 AM to 5 PM Monday through Friday (Indian River County Property Appraiser).

The About page invites residents with questions to contact either of the two office locations (Property Appraiser). Some records live elsewhere: the Property Appraiser home page states that property deeds are available at the Clerk of the Court, and the Indian River County Tax Collector sends owners to the Property Appraiser at (772) 226-1469 for mailing address and name changes (Tax Collector).

The Indian River County Property Appraiser search lets anyone look up a parcel by owner name, location address, parcel number, Prop ID, legal information, section, township and range, neighborhood, subdivision or intersection (Searching for Real Estate Information).

Parcel numbers are forgiving. The Property Appraiser states that dots and dashes are not required, so searching for parcel number 012-345678.000 is the same as searching for 12345678000, and the parcel list fills in as digits are typed (ircpa.org FAQ). Owner Search matches names that start with the characters entered, and the office advises keeping searches simple because owner names can be spelled differently than expected. Address search works the same way, so the first few letters of a street name return every street name that begins with them.

Intersection Search behaves differently from the others. It returns a map rather than a list: the user picks a major street, waits for cross streets to load, and the interactive map zooms to that corner (Property Appraiser). Search results can show up to 100 parcels a page, sort by any column across the whole result set, print, and save to Excel.

The Property Appraiser map opens with Parcels as the default active layer, so a click with the Select By Point tool selects a parcel (Using the Map).

The Layers tab manages layer visibility and lets the user change the active layer, and the Shift key adds parcels to a selection (ircpa.org map FAQ). Measurement tools measure distance along a multi-point line and the area of a drawn shape. Maps can be printed or saved, with the map engine choosing a JPG or PNG file.

Bulk users get raw data. The Property Appraiser home page offers a downloadable CAMA extract with a data dictionary and links to the Florida Department of Revenue NAL and SDF files for Indian River County (Property Appraiser downloads).

The Tax Collector bills from the certified tax roll: it mails real estate bills by November 1st each year, and each statement goes to the owner at the address listed on that roll (Indian River County Tax Collector).

The two offices also list matching addresses. The Tax Collector's Main Office is in the County Administration Complex at 1800 27th Street, Building B, and its Sebastian Office is at Sebastian Corners, 1921 U.S. Highway #1 (Tax Collector locations), the same street numbers the Property Appraiser lists for its Vero and Sebastian offices.

The Tax Collector also spells out where questions belong. A mailing address change is made with the Property Appraiser, and an owner billed for tangible personal property that was not owned on or after January 1 is told to contact the Property Appraiser at (772) 226-1370 (About Real Estate Property Tax). Value disputes go a third way. On the Department of Revenue calendar, a value appeal to the value adjustment board is a petition filed with the clerk of the court no later than 25 days after the Notice of Proposed Property Taxes (Florida Department of Revenue), and in Indian River County the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller hosts the Value Adjustment Board page, including online petition filing (Indian River Clerk VAB page).

Indian River County property owners deal with the Property Appraiser on a fixed state calendar: January 1 values, March 1 exemption filings, April 1 tangible returns and the August TRIM notice (Florida Department of Revenue).

The Indian River County office applies the state dates directly. Its home page states that permanent Florida residency is required on January 1, that a homestead application is due to the Property Appraiser by March 1, and that as of September 6th all homestead applications submitted will be for the 2027 tax year (ircpa.org). The office also posted a caution that a mailer advertisement is being received by property owners in the county. Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the website of the Indian River County Property Appraiser at ircpa.org.