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Real estate assessments out now
03/01/2006 7:52 PM by John M
City real estate assessments have been mailed out. Last year area assessments jumped drastically, maybe not so much this year? [via]
We only saw a 3% increase this year, while many houses in our area of Fairmount had 100%+ jumps last year.
while my house only increased slightly last year, this year i am faced with a 100% increase!
roughly where is your house located!?!?
I know at least 2 people in Westover Hills who got nailed with 60-66% increases.
I live on clay. My assesment is a s follows:
2004- 60,000
2005-110,000
2006-238,000
I think thats overdoing it.
James, sounds like it’s time to sell and buy 2 other houses to renovate!
A neat link via local houseblog Moody Blues is zillow. You can get a slightly-outdated and slightly-innacurate but still very interesting overview of the valuation of given address and the surrounding area.
Do these assessments have any basis in reality? Or do they just randomly select numbers? I’m looking at houses on our block and two un-renovated houses both jumped over $150,000 in value. They both were assessed at more than $40,000 more than our renovated house. Is this the city trying to drive out residents? Because I think it’s nuts!
I’ve heard in a few places that the city does the assessments by averages — size, sellig points in the area, condition, etc, and might not know if a specific house has been renovated. Unless you are going for a loan, a lower assessment benefits you as it keeps your taxes down.
The assessments are now online at the city GIS page if you want 100% accurate info about an address.
Yeah, my concern wasn’t about our lower assessment, I’m fine with that. My concern is for my neighbours, who to me look like they are being run out. Check out the assessments on the 600 block of 31st and then drive down the block and you will be blown away.
Our assessment keeps going up every year even though my house hasn’t had any work done to it since the 1980’s. I want to fight the assessment this year. Does anyone have experience doing this?
from the RTD:
Last year, before the assessments went out, the city said that some areas might see increases of “up to 40%”. All around us, houses were suddenly assessed at 3x or more the previous years assessment (see the link in the main post for examples). Despite hitting this point here more than once, getting quotes in the Richmond Voice, and getting a letter published in the RTD, local ‘real’ media still keep repeating the “up to 40%” fact.