 Cleveland area homeowners are among those experiencing the shock of higher property tax bills. Realtor Jeffrey Hoffman told News 5 Cleveland there's a simple explanation. The market's gone up. You know, in the past six years, overall in Cuyahoga County, values have approximately doubled, at least on average. Most of the numbers I'm seeing on the new proposed values are quite honestly still underneath what the home would probably sell for if it was on the open market.