Gaston County Resets Tax Values January 1. Listings Hit 1,078.

Your New Value Arrives in February. Your Tax Bill Comes in July

Gaston County is reappraising all land and buildings in the county as of January 1, 2027. Your notice of the new assessed value arrives in February 2027. Your tax bill follows in July 2027. Today's values date from the last reappraisal, effective January 1, 2023.

A new value isn't a new bill. The county says a reappraisal is separate from taxation, and that the Board of County Commissioners and each city or town set tax rates in the annual budget process, in late spring. Your bill is your tax value divided by 100, times that rate. And the county adds that a higher value may or may not mean a higher bill.

The values come from sales that already happened: the county says it models them on transactions typically within two years of the reappraisal date, and its Assessor's Office reports 4,390 qualified sales in 2025 and 4,471 in 2024 for this reappraisal.

That makes the county's value an estimate built from past sales. In our view, a price comes from what the market tells us a home is worth today. First decision: sell soon or hold. If you might sell in the next few months, get your options now. If you'll hold, February's notice is your first look at the new value.

1,078 Gaston Listings in September, the Most in the Series. Price Against Them

Realtor.com counted 1,078 active listings in Gaston County in September 2026. That's the most in any month of its series, which starts in July 2016. A year earlier, 1,004. In September 2023, 448. The count has more than doubled since.

The count covers single-family and condo or townhome listings across the whole county and leaves out pending ones, and because it counts listings rather than sales, it can't tell you who's selling or which of those homes compete with yours.

Pending listings were flat. There were 446 in September 2026 and 446 a year earlier. Price cuts ticked up. In September 2026, 498 listings had their price reduced, the most for any September in the series. September 2025 had 488.

In our view, views and offers from real buyers show a home's value better than any guess. We think a home that draws no interest is priced too high next to the homes buyers do want, and we think buyers walk when the price doesn't match the condition they see in person, so price the house as it stands today. Among comparable homes, the best value draws buyers first.

Second decision: your list price. Set it against the Gaston County homes buyers are choosing now.

Selling a Rented Gaston Home: Listing, Fast Cash Offer or Premium Cash Offer

With a tenant in your house, the win is a calendar you can keep and a closing date you help pick. Read your lease for its entry terms first.

Third decision: the route. With Cash Flow Deals, you choose between the Fast Cash Offer and the Premium Cash Offer. With the Fast Cash Offer, we buy your house as-is and close. Our team makes one walk-through, then puts the number in writing. With the Premium Cash Offer, a pre-approved FHA or conventional buyer we already have, ready to go, pays more and buys directly from you.

For Premium, you sign with us at a number you agree to and give us permission to bring in a buyer in our place. That buyer signs a new contract directly with you. Title goes straight from you to them, and their lender funds the purchase. We cover repair costs, and we figure out a way, so nothing comes out of your pocket. Only what the buyer's lender requires gets fixed, with those repair costs covered up front and settled from our share of the sale proceeds. With Fast Cash, your house is bought as-is, with no repairs for you to make.

The number is agreed before any work starts, and it changes only if you agree. The one exception: if something structural surfaces that was not visible or disclosed before we signed — foundation issues, hidden moisture, old wiring, cast-iron drain failure — we re-cost it and bring the number back to you. You decide. You can walk away. We disclose what we know at offer time so this almost never happens. That includes foundation issues, hidden moisture, old wiring or cast-iron drain failure. We disclose what we know at offer time.

If your Premium buyer's loan falls through, that is our problem, not yours, and you can still take the Fast Cash Offer at its own number. Compare the Fast Cash Offer and the Premium Cash Offer together so you can decide which works for you.

The Fast Cash inspection period is 15 business days. For Premium, read the inspection term in your written contract; do not assume the same 15 business days applies. The existing closing timeframe is 45 days or less; you help pick the date. Set aside 10 to 15 minutes to compare the written terms against your tenant's calendar.

For the Fast Cash Offer and the Premium Cash Offer, you get the amount you agree to, and we handle costs on top of that. The number is agreed before any work starts, and it changes only if you agree. The one exception: if something structural surfaces that was not visible or disclosed before we signed — foundation issues, hidden moisture, old wiring, cast-iron drain failure — we re-cost it and bring the number back to you. You decide. You can walk away. We disclose what we know at offer time so this almost never happens. Amounts owed against your house are paid first from the sale proceeds. On Premium, repair costs, closing costs and commissions come from our share, not your agreed number, and Cash Flow Deals is paid last as a separate line item on the closing statement. Nothing comes out of your pocket.

Nothing is binding until a written contract is signed by both sides. You can take it to an attorney first. Compare what you would receive after costs under each offer, along with the timing and your lease obligations, before you choose.