St. Lucie County Property Appraiser

The St. Lucie County Property Appraiser has two offices, one at 2300 Virginia Avenue in Fort Pierce and one at 250 NW Country Club Drive in Saint Lucie West, and both answer at 772-462-1000.

The Property Appraiser's home page lists the Fort Pierce Office at 2300 Virginia Avenue, Fort Pierce, FL 34982, and the Saint Lucie West Office at 250 NW Country Club Drive, Port Saint Lucie, FL 34986, each with the phone 772-462-1000, the email Info@paslc.gov and a Schedule Now button for appointments (St. Lucie County Property Appraiser home page). The Supervisor of Elections guide to county officers places the Fort Pierce office in Room 107 of the 2300 Virginia Ave building (St. Lucie County guide to elected and appointed officials). The Fort Pierce address is also the main address of St. Lucie County government (St. Lucie County home page), and the Saint Lucie West address is the South County Annex, where the Clerk of the Circuit Court keeps a branch (Clerk locations page).

Exemption questions have their own line: the Learn About Exemptions page sends them to 772-462-1021 (Property Appraiser exemptions page). The Property Appraiser home page also carries self-service tools, including Search by Real Estate, Search by Map, a Tax Estimator, an online exemption filing link, an Update Mailing Address form and a Public Records Request link. Last verified: October 22, 2026, on the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser home, TRIM, millage, exemption, petition and taxing authority pages and four Florida Statutes sections.

The St. Lucie County Property Appraiser values every parcel as of January 1, applies exemptions and classifications, and mails the annual TRIM notice, while taxing authorities set the rates and the Tax Collector handles property tax payments.

State law sets the calendar. Section 193.023 of the Florida Statutes requires the property appraiser to complete the assessment of all property no later than July 1 each year, to physically inspect real property at least once every 5 years (image technology may be used where suitable) and to physically inspect any parcel when the owner asks (Florida Statutes section 193.023). That rule applies in St. Lucie County as in every Florida county.

Rates come from elsewhere. The St. Lucie County millage page describes millage as the tax rate approved by local taxing authorities (Property Appraiser millage and tax rates page), and the Property Appraiser's taxing authority table lists the bodies that set those rates in the county: the County Commission funds, the School Board, the Cities of Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie, the Village of St. Lucie, the Fire District, the South Florida Water Management District, FIND, Mosquito Control, the Children's Services Council and others (Taxing Authority Rates and Hearing Information). Billing and collection sit with the St. Lucie County Tax Collector, whose services page lists property taxes, discounts and payment options among its duties (St. Lucie County Tax Collector services).

Beyond values and exemptions, the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser home page lists tangible personal property search and forms, agriculture forms, a commercial visual search, a Property Fraud Alert and a page on how to obtain a copy of a recently recorded deed (Property Appraiser home page). Deeds themselves are recorded by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, which state law makes the county recorder of deeds, mortgages and other instruments in one Official Records series (Florida Statutes section 28.222).

The TRIM notice is the Notice of Proposed Property Taxes that the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser mails in mid-August each year to the owner of record of every property in the county, and it is an estimate, not a bill.

TRIM stands for Truth in Millage. The Property Appraiser's TRIM page says the estimate is based on the proposed millage rates, the property's value as of January 1 of that year and any exemptions, and that it lists the proposed rates and estimated taxes for each Saint Lucie County taxing authority, including the County Commission, the School Board and the municipalities, along with the dates and times of their budget hearings (Learn More About TRIM Notices). It also carries the deadline for filing a formal appeal with the Value Adjustment Board; for 2026 the page gave that deadline as September 8, 2026.

The same page walks through the layout. On page 1, column 1 shows last year's taxes for comparison, column 2 shows what taxes would be if each authority raised the same revenue as the prior year, and column 3 shows the proposed rate and resulting taxes, which can still change after the public hearings. Page 2 shows the January 1 market value for the prior and current years, then assessed value, exemptions and taxable value for each taxing authority, and a gray section listing assessment reductions such as Agricultural Classification, the 3% or 10% capped benefit and any portability of a homestead cap benefit. For questions about a value or an exemption on the notice, the St. Lucie County office asks owners to call 772-462-1000.

One mill equals $1 for every $1,000 of taxable value, so each St. Lucie County taxing authority's millage is applied to the taxable value shown on the TRIM notice.

The Property Appraiser's millage page gives its own example: a millage rate of 19.94 means paying $19.94 in taxes for every $1,000 of taxable property value, and the office offers a Tax Estimator for a range of estimated annual taxes (Millage and Tax Rates page). The same page posts the 2026 Final Tax Rates, the 2026 Saint Lucie County Final Tax Roll and the 2026 Preliminary Tax Roll as PDFs, with final rate files back through earlier years.

The taxing authority table on the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser site lists the 2025 final rate next to the 2026 rollback and 2026 proposed rates for each authority, with its budget hearing details (Taxing Authority Rates and Hearing Information). Because that table shows proposed figures, the 2026 Final Tax Rates file on the millage page is the place to confirm what was adopted. A few rows from the table:

The same table lists further lines, such as Port St Lucie Voted Debt, the Law Enforcement MSTU and the Community Development MSTU (taxing authority table), and the TRIM notice for a parcel shows the proposed rate and estimated taxes for each taxing authority that applies to it (TRIM notice page).

The St. Lucie County Property Appraiser handles the homestead exemption and a set of additional exemptions for seniors, first responders, veterans, deployed military, people with disabilities and surviving spouses.

The Learn About Exemptions page lists the homestead exemption, the Florida First Responder's exemption, the $25,000 additional homestead exemption for persons 65 and older, the $5,000 service connected disability exemption, the permanently disabled veteran's discount on homestead property, the exemption for deployed active duty military personnel, the $5,000 disability exemption, the $5,000 widow's and widower's exemption, the total exemption and the total exemption with a gross household income limit (St. Lucie County exemptions page). Exemptions reduce the assessed value of a property, the page explains, and that reduces the tax owed.

Deadlines are set in state law. Section 196.011 of the Florida Statutes says a person who holds legal title on January 1 and is entitled to an exemption must file the application with the county property appraiser on or before March 1, and that missing the deadline waives the exemption for that year except as the statute provides (Florida Statutes section 196.011). The Property Appraiser site carries a File Online link for exemptions and an Exemption Application Status check (Property Appraiser home page).

Homestead also brings an assessment cap. Under section 193.155 of the Florida Statutes, beginning the year after a property receives the homestead exemption, it is reassessed each January 1, and any increase may not exceed the lower of 3 percent of the prior year's assessed value or the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index (Florida Statutes section 193.155). The St. Lucie County TRIM notice shows that capped benefit, and any portability transferred from a previous homestead, in its assessment reductions section.

A St. Lucie County owner who disagrees with a value starts with an informal conference at the Property Appraiser's office and can then file a petition with the Value Adjustment Board through the Clerk of the Court's website.

The Property Appraiser's petition page says the Value Adjustment Board is made up of two members of the County Commission, one member of the School Board and two taxpayers, and that it decides whether a property is appraised above its just valuation as of January 1 (Filing a Value Adjustment Board Petition). The office urges owners to come to its main office and discuss the assessment before filing. A petition can challenge the value of real or personal property or the denial of a homestead exemption, another Chapter 196 exemption or a Chapter 193 special use classification, and it is filed at the Clerk of the Court's website with the Parcel ID number ready.

The informal conference is written into state law: section 194.011 of the Florida Statutes lets any taxpayer who objects to an assessment ask the property appraiser to confer, with both sides presenting the facts they consider supportive, and it allows a valuation petition to be filed on or before the 25th day after the property appraiser mails the assessment notice (Florida Statutes section 194.011). In St. Lucie County that notice is the August TRIM notice, and the 2026 petition deadline printed on the TRIM page was September 8, 2026 (TRIM notice page).