What your office can do with PVAToday
Ask the county’s record in plain English.
Your office’s own exports, ready to answer questions from staff and the public in plain English. No reports to build, no screens to learn: ask, and the answer says how current it is and where it came from.
At the counter
The questions people walk in with, answered while they're still standing there.
Answer “who owns this?” in seconds
The owner of record, assessed value, deed and last sale for any parcel, from an address, a parcel number or a spot on the map.
Try askingWho owns the McCracken County Courthouse parcel, and what is it assessed at?
Find a parcel from a landmark or half an address
People rarely know the parcel number. Name a place, a road or a neighborhood and the tools find it and what's around it.
Try askingWhich parcels are right around the National Quilt Museum?
Say what the record showed on a past date
Ask how a parcel stood on any date since the first export PVAToday holds: who owned it and what it was assessed at then.
Try askingWho owned the Courthouse parcel in February, and what was its value then?
Tell a parcel's whole story, back to 1979
Every transfer on the PVA's sales record, each year's assessment, and what changed with each delivery, newest first, with gaps in the chain pointed out.
Try askingWalk me through the ownership history of the Market House parcel.
See what's built on the land
Buildings on a parcel or across an area: type, year built, size, condition and value.
Try askingWhat buildings are on the Kentucky Oaks Mall parcel, and when were they built?
Know your county
Owners, neighbors and areas, seen whole instead of one parcel at a time.
See every parcel an owner holds
Everything held under an owner's name, and, if you ask, what that owner bought and sold in the past. Signed-in county staff can also gather everything sent to one mailing address.
Try askingWhat property does the City of Paducah own, and what has it bought since 2024?
Know who's next door
A parcel's neighbors, with the ones that actually touch it and the ones sharing an owner's mailing address pointed out (the address itself isn't shown).
Try askingWho owns the parcels that touch Noble Park?
Add up any part of the county
Parcel count, acreage, total assessed value and number of owners for a district, a street, a circle on the map or the whole county, broken down by property type.
Try askingHow much of tax district 02 is commercial, by assessed value?
Pull the list you need
Parcels by kind of owner (companies, trusts, churches, government), owners who live elsewhere, or recent construction, sorted biggest or most valuable first.
Try askingWhat are the largest government-owned parcels along the riverfront downtown?
Sales and value
What property sells for, and how the roll compares, with the method always in view.
Every sale, with the fine print
Sales by area and date with price, buyer, seller and deed, and whether each was an ordinary market sale between unrelated parties, the kind that counts for value.
Try askingWhat sold within half a mile of Paducah Tilghman High School this year?
Follow the market over time
Sales per month, quarter or year with typical prices, how values moved with each roll, and how much new construction there was.
Try askingHow have sale prices along Broadway moved over the last two years, by quarter?
Put one assessment next to real sales
Places a parcel's assessment against recent market sales of similar property nearby, and says plainly what it can't tell you: it's not an appraisal, and it doesn't see condition, age or exact location.
Try askingIs the Kentucky Oaks Mall's assessment in line with what similar commercial property nearby has sold for?
Check how well your roll matches sale prices
A ratio study (comparing assessments with what the same properties sold for) by property type and area, measured against the national standards of the IAAO, the assessors' professional association. It says which figures are in the usual range; Kentucky's own tolerances are set by the Department of Revenue.
Try askingRun a ratio study for homes in McCracken County. Are cheaper homes carrying more than their share?
Your data, delivered
What the office sent, what it changed, and where every fact came from.
Know exactly how current the data is
Which export everything reflects, when it arrived, and the export before it, in one sentence.
Try askingHow current is the McCracken County data?
See what changed between deliveries
New and retired parcels, transfers, value changes and more between any two exports, counted first, with the big changes easy to pick out.
Try askingWhat changed downtown in the latest export? Only value changes over 10%.
Catch problems in a delivery before anyone else does
Sales dated in the future, prices that look like account numbers, undated buildings, big changes to last year's values, missing files: counted, with examples to check.
Try askingIs there anything in the latest export the office should double-check?
Every delivery on the record
Each delivery the office has sent: when it arrived, what it carried and how far it got. With its office token, your office also sees the quality report on its own deliveries.
Try askingList every delivery from the McCracken PVA this year and where each one stands.
Point to the exact row you sent
For any owner, value, deed or address, which delivery first carried it and the exact line in the file the office sent.
Try askingWhen did the Courthouse parcel's current owner first appear in the PVA's exports?
Why you can trust the answers
Built to be straight with you, including about its limits.
It says how current it is
Every answer names the export it came from and that export’s date, so nobody mistakes last spring’s record for today’s.
It says where it came from
Everything comes from the files your office delivers. Nothing is scraped from elsewhere or blended in from another source.
It doesn’t guess
If a parcel isn’t found, or an address could mean several, it says so and why, instead of picking one.
It says what it can’t tell you
The value tools state how many sales they used, from when, and what they don’t see. Each sale is compared with the value from before it sold, not the value the roll set to match the price.
A record, not a mailing list
The public sees the record the PVA publishes: parcel, owner, mailing address, values and sales, the same as at the office counter. What isn’t open to everyone is turning one mailing address into a list of every parcel behind it. That takes a signed-in county account.
Technical reader, or connecting your own AI assistant? The full tool reference is at pva.today/mcp.