Norwood Park Township 2025 Appeal Results: 18.7% of Home Appeals Won — Commercial Led, Condos Lagged

Norwood Park Township is a compact, mostly residential pocket of the near-northwest county — the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights, surrounded by the City of Chicago, with a commercial spine around Harlem Avenue and the Harlem Irving Plaza. The 2025 reassessment results follow a familiar Cook County shape: income property fared best, homes landed near the township average, and condos struggled. Here's the detail.

Overall Results

For the 2025 tax year — Norwood Park's reassessment year — the Cook County Assessor decided 2,549 homeowner appeals in the township, counting each appeal once (a condo building's units, decided together, are one appeal). Of those, 477 received a "Change" (the assessed value or classification was adjusted in the owner's favor), a success rate of 18.7%. Across the winning appeals of every property type, assessed values fell by roughly $6.1 million in total, and the average winning appeal cut its assessed value by about 8%.

A "No Change" outcome doesn't necessarily mean a property was fairly assessed. It often means the evidence didn't meet the Assessor's standard, the comparables didn't support a reduction, or the filing was missing key documentation.

Success Rate by Property Type

The township-wide average masks a wide spread — from 2 of 17 condo appeals to 43.4% for commercial:

Counted by appeal: the county decides a condo building's units, or a multi-parcel commercial filing, together, and each such case counts once. "Avg AV cut" is the average assessed-value reduction among winning appeals in each group; *the condo figure is two building appeals, so its cut is a building's. Condos (17 appeals) and multi-family (40 appeals) are very small samples, so their rates are directional only, not reliable benchmarks.

The Condo Paradox — Pronounced Here

Norwood Park shows one of the sharper condo gaps in the county: condo owners appealed 689 units, almost all of them building by building — 13 building appeals covered 685 units — and only 2 of the 17 condo appeals won. Condo values are typically set building-by-building using consistent internal data, which leaves little room for a single unit to argue it's mispriced relative to its neighbors. The condo appeals that succeed almost always lean on sales within the same association and documented unit-specific differences — floor, view, condition — rather than broad neighborhood comparisons. A generic condo filing here rarely moved the number.

Commercial Led — Income Property Wins More Often

The strongest robust result came from commercial property: 43.4% of commercial appeals won (56 of 129), with a large average winning cut of about $54,959 — reflecting the retail and commercial property along the Harlem corridor and around Harlem Irving Plaza. Income property is valued largely on what it earns, so a documented income-and-expense case — rent roll, expenses, vacancy, and the right capitalization rate — gives the Assessor concrete grounds to lower the value. Multi-family owners won an even higher share, but on just 40 appeals, so that figure is directional rather than a reliable benchmark.

Homes Landed Near the Average

Single-family homes — the bulk of the township at 2,532 appeals — won 18.8%, just above the homeowner average, with an average cut of about $3,660. For homes, the winning evidence is comparable sales and accurate property characteristics: confirm the Assessor's record of your home's size, age, and condition, and line up recent sales of similar nearby houses in Norridge or Harwood Heights.

What These Results Mean for You

• Reductions happen, but they're not automatic. About 1 in 5 homeowner appeals won, and the spread by property type is wide.
• Commercial owners have the strongest case to make — and the largest average cuts.
• Condo owners need a sharp, association-specific case. Just 2 of 17 condo appeals won, so a generic filing almost never lands.
• Don't read "No Change" as the final word. The Board of Review offers a separate, second-level appeal after the Assessor.

You Can Appeal Every Year — Here's Where Norwood Park Stands

2025 was Norwood Park's reassessment year, so its values were freshly set and generally carry forward until the next reassessment in 2028. For 2026 — an annual (non-reassessment) year — Norwood Park's Assessor appeal window has already closed (it ran April 13 to May 26, 2026). The Board of Review's Norwood Park window closed too (it ran August 3 to September 1, 2026), so the next step is a fresh annual appeal in a future year. Cook County lets you challenge your assessed value every year, not just in reassessment years. Track Norwood Park's current window on our deadlines page.

For context on dollars: Norwood Park's composite tax rate runs around 8.6% (roughly 7.8–9.5% depending on the community). As a rough guide, a $5,000 assessed-value cut translates to roughly $1,300 a year in tax savings; a commercial reduction near the township average (~$33,800) can mean well over $8,000. Estimates exclude exemptions and vary by tax code.