Our office is closed on July 4, 2024 for Independence Day and will reopen on Friday, July 5, 2024
On Monday, April 29, the Office of the Assessor-Recorder will transition to a new main office phone number, 628-652-8100. For the 12 months following this transition, constituents who call the Office’s prior phone number will automatically be transferred to our new line. As part of this transition, the Office is instituting key upgrades to improve the experience that San Franciscans have when calling us. To learn more, click here.
  • Request to Remove Homeowner’s Exemption (Tagalog Version - Kahilingang Alisin Ang Homeowners’s Exemption Ng May-ari Ng Bahay Na Kanyang Tinitirahan)

    Request to Remove Homeowner’s Exemption (Tagalog Version - Kahilingang Alisin Ang Homeowners’s Exemption Ng May-ari Ng Bahay Na Kanyang Tinitirahan)

    If the property is receiving the Homeowners’ Exemption, but the property owner has moved, it is the property owner’s responsibility to notify the Assessor to remove the exemption.

  • Residential Construction Project Information Form (Sample)

    Each year the Assessor-Recorder is required by the State of California to value all in-progress new construction. We mail a letter to property owners that have an open permit for new construction as of January 1. This form is for you to tell us what the status of your project is and how much has been completed.

  • Residential Construction Project Information Form, Chinese Version

    Each year the Assessor-Recorder is required by the State of California to value all in-progress new construction. We mail a letter to property owners that have an open permit for new construction as of January 1. This form is for you to tell us what the status of your project is and how much has been completed.

  • Residential Construction Project Information Form, Filipino Version

    Each year the Assessor-Recorder is required by the State of California to value all in-progress new construction. We mail a letter to property owners that have an open permit for new construction as of January 1. This form is for you to tell us what the status of your project is and how much has been completed.

  • Residential Construction Project Information Form, Spanish Version

    Each year the Assessor-Recorder is required by the State of California to value all in-progress new construction. We mail a letter to property owners that have an open permit for new construction as of January 1. This form is for you to tell us what the status of your project is and how much has been completed.

  • Residential Property Assessment Appeals Publication 30, Chinese Version

    Residential Property Assessment Appeals Publication 30, Chinese Version

    Pub 30

    The property taxes you pay are based on your property’s assessed value, as determined by the Assessor-Recorder’s office.

  • Residential Property Assessment Appeals (Pub 30)

    Residential Property Assessment Appeals Publication 30, English Version

    The property taxes you pay are based on your property’s assessed value, as determined by the Assessor-Recorder’s office.

  • Residential Property Assessment Appeals Publication 30, Spanish Version

    Residential Property Assessment Appeals Publication 30, Spanish Version

    Pub 30

    The property taxes you pay are based on your property’s assessed value, as determined by the Assessor-Recorder’s office.

  • Restrictive Covenant Modification Form

    Recordation of this document allows owners to strike out blatant racial, religious, or otherwise unlawfully restrictive covenants from a previously recorded document after the City Attorney's Office determines such language violates the fair housing laws and is void.

  • Restrictive Covenant Modification Program Implementation Plan

    Pursuant to the 2021 legislation set forth in Assembly Bill AB-1466 and the California Government Code Section 12956.3, the San Francisco Assessor-Recorder’s Office (ASR) has developed a plan to identity documents in its Official Record containing unlawful covenants in violation of GC Section 12955(l) and to rerecord them with the restrictive language redacted through its Restrictive Covenant...

  • RP Taxpayer Help Pages

    This user guide provides detailed instructions on how to navigate our Community Portal from submitting customer service requests to filing exemption forms and/or responding to information requests.

  • SB2 Exemption Recording Coversheet

    The California Legislature passed SB2 (Atkins) on September 29, 2017, stipulating that effective January 1, 2018, certain recordable documents will be charged an additional fee to support the Building Homes & Jobs Act.

  • Seismic/Solar Transfer Tax Exemption

    Seismic/Solar Transfer Tax Exemption (Prop N)

    A partial exemption shall only apply to the initial transfer by the person who installed the active solar system or made the seismic safety improvements.  The amount of this partial exemption shall not exceed the transferor’s cost of seismic retrofitting improvements or the active solar system.  Multi-family residential properties are eligible for this partial exemption.

  • Summary Leased Equipment Schedule

    Summary Leased Equipment Schedule

    The Summary Leased Equipment Schedule is one of two (2) templates provided by the Business Property Division of the Office of the Assessor-Recorder to assist lessors report equipment out on lease in the City and County of San Francisco.

  • Supplemental Affidavit for BOE-236

    Supplemental Affidavit for BOE-236, Housing – Lower-Income Households

    BOE-236-A

    Section 236 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code provides that property used exclusively for providing housing for lower-income households can qualify for an exemption from property taxes.