Patrick O'Connor

Patrick O’Connor has over 30 years for property tax appeal experience. He is president of O’Connor, the largest property tax consulting firm in the United States, handling over 200,000 property tax appeals annually. The company is actively serving clients in property tax appeals in forty-one states. O’Connor saved clients over $120 million in 2020; this is actual property tax savings, not just the reduction in assessed value aka taxable value. Clients have benefits from well in excess of $1 billion in property tax savings since 2000.

Patrick leads of team of over 300 dedicated to improving the lives of property owners through cost effective tax reduction. He is licensed as a senior property tax consultant by the state of Texas, the highest level of recognition for Texas property tax consultants.

Patrick O’Connor, MAI was awarded the highest quality designation available for commercial appraisers in 1996. The firm has prepared over 20,000 commercial real estate appraisals. He has been licensed as a real estate broker in the State of Texas since 1985.

Pat has thirty-seven years of experience in property tax reduction, real estate appraisals and federal tax reduction. He is a graduate of the University of Houston and Harvard Business School with a Master of Business Administration.

Pat O'Connor is also the author of four books; Cut Your Property Taxes (originally published in 2001), Big Data in Real Estate - Be a Millionaire, What You Need to Know About Business Personal Property and Mass Appraisal for Commercial, What Every Commercial Property Owner Needs to Know.

Pat O'Connor is a staunch advocate for property owners and firmly believes that YOU can spend your money better than the government. He has built a Facebook community of property owners, centered around property tax reduction strategies, where he provides advice to his followers year-round at Facebook.com/PropertyTaxProtectionProgram.

Passionate in his desire to protect property owners, Mr. O'Connor has developed the "Property Tax Protection Program™", which affirms O'Connor's role as an advocate for property owners. The program has encouraged appraisal districts to comply with laws regarding the timely submission of evidence prior to the hearing and properly scheduled hearings which present only lawful evidence. It has also encouraged appraisal districts to consider unequal appraisal. O'Connor & Associates is uniquely aggressive in representing property owners in appealing property taxes. Over 130,000 clients and the media rely on O'Connor & Associates as a source of timely, accurate real estate information

O'Connor is a highly regarded spokesperson for the Houston real estate community and has been interviewed on CNN and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, National Real Estate Investor, Houston Chronicle, Houston Post and Houston Business Journal. Patrick O’Connor speaks regularly regarding property tax appeals.