2025 Real Property Tax School
October 13-17, 2025
Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center
Atlanta, Georgia
Prerequisite: Individuals must have successfully completed IPT’s Property Tax School to attend. Alternatively, those who have not attended that school may opt to take the Online Property Tax Competency Exam and must pass the exam to attend the Real Property Tax School. Successfully completing the Real Property Tax School is one of the mandatory requirements for earning the CMI - Property Tax designation.
Member Registration by July 18, 2025: $1,095 + $715 Meeting/Meal Package = $1810
Member Registration by August 15, 2025: $1,145 + $715 Meeting/Meal Package = $1860
Member Registration after August 15, 2025: $1,195 + $715 Meeting/Meal Package = $1910
For Eligible Non-Member rates add $500 to the prices listed above.
Meeting/Meals Package Fee for the 2025 Real Property Tax School is $715. The registrant will pay the Meeting/Meals package is added to the school’s registration fee. The $715 covers - breakfast in the conference dining room (Monday-Friday), lunch (Monday-Thursday), dinner on Monday evening, day-long refreshment breaks, meeting room Wi-Fi, audio/visual, and meeting room event expenses.
The Real Property Tax School is a comprehensive property tax program for professionals seeking advanced knowledge in real property taxation and who have some experience in the field. The school builds upon participants' fundamental understanding of real property tax by examining complex concepts and principles, including how to apply these in actual practice.
In 2025, the School will be held as a five-day, in-person program in Atlanta and led by a diverse faculty with deep knowledge rooted in real-world experience. With this insight, the faculty takes registrants through the differing perspectives of real property taxation, providing them with the skills to manage valuations, navigate the appeal process, and produce successful outcomes.
Topics covered at the Real Property Tax School include a comprehensive study of the property tax valuation process, concentrating on the three approaches to value.
Other related topics include:
Direct capitalization, yield capitalization, and discounted cash flow models;
Building cost estimates and types of depreciation;
Analysis of sales information;
Summation of the three approaches;
Equalization, sales ratio studies, and mass appraisal;
Assessor, appeal board, and court interactions;
and
Ethics.