Property Assessment

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 ...

As a service to local real estate professionals the following links (click here) will allow you direct access to 14 assessors in the Greater Northern Virginia Area.  Both assessment office website links and links to assessment databases are provided.  This is not an advertisement.  I encourage y...

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...