Property Assessment

Important Differences Bewteen Appraisals and Assessments While an independent appraisal prepared for the purchase or refinancing of your home may help you when challenging your assessment, it may not be the silver bullet you expect it to be for the following reasons: The "effective date" of valu...

The Real Estate Profession is a Very Mature Profession Aren't bank-owned, distressed, foreclosed, short sale and whole sale properties just another term for the real estate market?  Yes, these are new conditions in the market or influences that were not thought to be part of a normal market a fe...

Resources that Help Explain One of the Reoccurring Costs of Property Ownership: Property Taxes Fact: You will pay property taxes every year that you own your home.  While ideally you will want to try to control all of the costs of homeownership, in reality you'll need to start with those that re...

So Much Market Data, So Little Time As real estate valuation specialists we are expected to keep current on important real estate activities and trends that affect our markets.  Although monitoring the real estate market has always taken effort, with today's ever-changing market and conditions r...

Local Resources Just a Click or Call Away Ever wondered what resources are available at City Hall?  Here's your chance to take a tour of the local real estate assessor's office with a focus on resources available to businesses, home owners, and professionals who work in the field of real estate ...

Effective Tips for Non-Residential Property Owners Most public relations materials from local assessment offices are focused toward residential property owners.  Although a majority of the properties they assess may be residential, the tax payers in the community who have the largest tax burden ...

Myth Buster: Assessors Add Value for Construction Features Without Clear Reasoning There are lots of areas of misinformation in our society.  Every profession takes on an effort to try and inform the public of misconceptions, refute misinformation, and dispel myths.  For years property assessmen...

Where to Look for Real Estate News Today The inspiration for this article came from a November 2008 article by Darren Rowse (ProBlogger and Digital Photography School) on constructing your own top 10 must follow list of people on Twitter that relates to your own niche. After spending quite a bit...

The International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) will hold their 76th annual international property assessment administration conference August 29 through September 1 in Orlando, Florida.  This year's conference theme is Building Strong Communities through Assessment Innovation.  A bro...

Was there someone who helped you when you were first starting out in your profession?  Here's your chance to say thank you and give others some ideas on how to help a struggling colleague.  I wish to thank Marvin Wood, Dick Ingram, and Jerry Vander Roest for taking the time to teach me some of t...