Property Taxes on the Hollywood/Hallandale Mainland

How a Florida Property Tax Bill Is Actually Assembled

Every property in this market -- whether in Hollywood Lakes, Emerald Hills, downtown Hollywood, Liberia, or the mainland grid of Hallandale west of the Intracoastal -- owes tax to several independently set authorities applied against the same assessed value: the applicable city (Hollywood or Hallandale Beach), Broward County itself, the Broward County School Board, the South Florida Water Management District, the South Broward Hospital District, and, for some parcels, a drainage district or other special taxing authority. None of these bodies coordinates its rate with the others; each adopts its own budget and millage separately, generally in the late summer ahead of the fiscal year.

This structure is standard for any Broward County municipality, not specific to this market -- what's worth understanding here is the specific current rates for the two cities this market spans, and the real, structural reason Florida's homestead rules matter more in a market built mostly of long-held single-family homes than in a heavily seasonal condo corridor.

The City of Hollywood's Confirmed FY2026 Rate: 7.9606 Mills

The City of Hollywood's own FY2026 budget materials set the total city millage at 7.9606 mills, made up of a 7.4293-mill operating rate and a 0.5313-mill voted debt-service rate -- down from the 8.0132-mill total the city carried the prior fiscal year. A mill equals $1 of tax per $1,000 of assessed taxable value, so at 7.9606 mills, a mainland Hollywood property with $600,000 in taxable value would owe roughly $4,776 to the city alone, before Broward County, the school board, and any other applicable authority add their own share. This is the one figure on this page independently confirmed from the city's own current budget materials, and it applies to the mainland market this page covers exactly as it does to the barrier island.

Hallandale Beach: A Real, Unreconciled Discrepancy This Page Doesn't Paper Over

For a mainland Hallandale property, this site's separate Hallandale Beach page documents a real problem this research could not resolve: the City of Hallandale Beach's own general FAQ page states a city millage of 5.9000 mills (described there as 28% of a resident's total bill), while separate reporting on the city's FY2025-26 budget cycle describes the City Commission setting the city's own millage at a 'rollback rate' of 7.3848 mills, plus a small parks-bond millage and, for parcels inside two named Safe Neighborhood Districts (Golden Isles and Three Islands), additional overlay millages. Those two figures are roughly 25% apart on the city's own piece of the bill, and this page does not guess which one is current for a mainland Hallandale parcel -- pull the parcel's actual current assessed value and full millage breakdown directly from the Broward County Property Appraiser rather than relying on either published figure.

The County Layer: Broward's FY2026 Rate Cut

Broward County's own countywide millage was lowered to 5.6658 mills for FY2026, described in general Broward property-tax coverage as the county's first rate reduction since 2018. That's a real, current reduction applying to every parcel in this market regardless of which mainland city it sits in. On top of the city and county layers, the Broward County School Board levies a separate, typically substantial millage for education, and the South Florida Water Management District and South Broward Hospital District each add smaller district-specific rates. General Broward property-tax guides describe the resulting fully combined rate, once every layer is stacked, as commonly running in the high teens to low twenties of total mills depending on the exact parcel -- this page does not add the individually sourced pieces above into a single official combined figure, since doing so would mean summing rates this research did not independently pull and verify for the current tax year in full.

Why Save Our Homes Matters More in This Market Than on the Barrier Island

Florida's homestead exemption reduces the taxable value of an owner-occupied primary residence by up to $50,000, and the related Save Our Homes provision caps how much a homesteaded property's assessed value can rise year over year at the lesser of 3% or the change in the Consumer Price Index, regardless of how much the property's actual market value increases. This matters structurally more in the mainland finger-canal and historic-neighborhood market this page covers than on the seasonal, investor-heavy oceanfront corridor, because Hollywood Lakes, Emerald Hills, Liberia, and the broader mainland grid skew toward long-held, owner-occupied single-family homes rather than turnover-heavy vacation condos. A longtime homesteaded owner in Hollywood Lakes can carry an assessed value dramatically below current market value after years of Save Our Homes protection, which means a new buyer purchasing that same home should expect their own first-year tax bill to reset to something much closer to full current market value -- not the seller's capped number shown on a listing sheet.

A buyer who won't be homesteading the property -- a second-home purchase, an investment property, or a purchase held in an entity or trust -- does not get the 3%/CPI cap at all. Non-homestead property in Florida instead falls under a separate 10% annual assessed-value increase cap, meaningfully less protective over time than Save Our Homes. Budget for that difference explicitly if the purchase isn't going to be a Florida primary residence.

What a Buyer Should Actually Confirm Before Closing

Before making an offer on any property in this market, pull the parcel's actual current assessed value, exemption status, and full millage breakdown directly from the Broward County Property Appraiser -- not from a real estate listing site, which frequently shows the prior owner's stale, homestead-protected figure. A sale typically removes any existing homestead exemption and resets the assessed value toward full market value the following tax year under Florida law, so a listing's stated 'current taxes' line is rarely what a new buyer will actually owe. Also confirm which city's millage applies (Hollywood or Hallandale Beach), and, for a Hallandale mainland parcel, whether it sits inside the Golden Isles or Three Islands Safe Neighborhood District overlay described on this site's separate Hallandale Beach page, since that overlay adds its own additional millage on top of the general city rate.

What This Page Doesn't Cover

This page states the confirmed City of Hollywood FY2026 rate, the Broward County FY2026 countywide rate, and the real discrepancy found in Hallandale Beach's own published figures -- and explains, without inventing precision it doesn't have, how the school board, water management district, and hospital district layers stack on top. It does not state a single, fully reconciled combined millage for any specific mainland parcel, current Value Adjustment Board appeal deadlines, or any specific parcel's actual assessed value. Confirm all of that directly with the Broward County Property Appraiser before making a purchase decision. Nothing on this page is tax or legal advice.