Former Board Member | Shelby County Board of Equalization | An Advocate for Lowering Your Property Taxes

Intro.


 2025 is a reappraisal year in Memphis & Shelby County, Tennessee. Property owners will receive their property tax assessments in the mail this spring from the Shelby County Tax Assessor. The Assessor, Melvin Burgess, has stated in the media, property owners should expect to see a "substantial" increase in property values. 
Our company acts as an advocate for our clients. If you believe your new assessment is way out of line, contact our office. 


Our Story.

Brian Mallory was appointed by the Mayor of Memphis and the Memphis City Council to serve as a board member on the Shelby County Board of Equalization from 2009-2011.  This board serves to examine, compare and equalize the county property assessments by the Shelby County Assessor and to provide citizens the opportunity to appeal and have a hearing regarding the assessed value of their property. While serving on the Board of Equalization, listening to thousands of hearings of citizens, he noted the lack of professional representation for residential taxpayers.  There was plenty of representation for commercial property owners, but a serious gap in adequate representation for homeowners.  In addition, most taxpayers representing themselves were not adequately prepared to present a case for lowering their property taxes, answer questions from the board, or answer questions by the appraiser from the Shelby County Assessor's Office. A couple of years after dropping off the Board of Equalization, Mr. Mallory obtained the tax agent license from the State of Tennessee.  Mallory Property Tax Advisors was formed to provide professional property tax appeal representation for residential taxpayers in Memphis and Shelby County. 

About Brian Mallory

Brian grew up in Central Gardens in Midtown Memphis, where he attended Grace St. Luke's elementary/middle school, graduated from Memphis University School (class of '88), and obtained a B.S. from the University of Montana (class of '92), in Missoula, MT.  

In addition to operating Mallory Property Tax Advisors every 4 years during reappraisal cycles in Shelby County, Brian owns and operates Mallory Appraisals, a company that performs appraisals for most of the local, and many national, lenders/banks.  He is also a real estate broker with Hobson Realtors, representing many buyers and sellers in the local real estate market. 

He and his wife Michele, a yoga teacher, have been married for over 22 years and have two boys. Henry will be a freshman at Duke University in the fall, and Luke is a sophomore at Columbia University in New York City. In his minimal spare time, Brian enjoys fishing at Porter Lake, and the Little Red River, in Arkansas, and cheering on the Liverpool Reds Premier League team.  

 

Brian has served the Memphis real estate community in many ways over his career: 

 

  • Served on Shelby County Board of Equalization from 2009-2011 

  • Licensed Tennessee certified residential appraiser for over 22 years 

  • Licensed Tennessee real estate principal broker/broker for over 23 years 

  • Licensed Tennessee tax agent since 2013 

  • Board of Directors at Memphis Area Association of Realtors (MAAR) from 2022-2023 

  • Served seven years on MAAR Professional Standards Committee 

  • Served three years on MAAR Grievance Committee 

  • MAAR board liaison to the MLS Committee and Fair & Affordable Housing Committee 

  • Race director for the Youth Villages 5K, 2024 & 2025, the oldest continual 5K in Memphis/Shelby County, and sponsored by the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® for the past 42 years 

  • Top individual fundraiser for the Youth Villages 5K in 2021/2022/2023/2024