By The Tim on April 16, 2012
I received the following email from a reader. He explains the issue quite well, so I’ll let his message do all the talking: My wife and I bought our home a year ago in Mill Creek, Snohomish County. On Friday, we received a bill from King County instructing us that we owed them over $2,000, [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged assessments, bills, King_County, sewer-capacity, Snohomish, surprise, utilities
By The Tim on July 9, 2010
As a follow-up on last week’s post about how falling home values can still lead to an increasing property tax bill, I thought I would go a little more detail on how the county assessor comes up with that magical home value number on which they base your tax bill. Here’s how the King County [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged assessments, property tax, Property Taxes, Tableau, ValueAppeal
By Charlie Walsh on October 29, 2009
Note from The Tim: The following is a guest post from Charlie Walsh, the Founder and CEO of ValueAppeal, a new startup based in Seattle. ValueAppeal is a simple online tool that homeowners can use to help them appeal their property tax assessments. King County Property Tax Appeal Deadline Is Soon! Each year counties around [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged assessments, guest-post, King_County, Property Taxes, Reducing taxes, Walsh
By The Tim on June 20, 2008
There have been a lot of local real estate stories this week that are worth mentioning, but aren’t big enough to merit their own post. So it’s time for another link roundup. Tax Assessments & Government Revenue First up, while tax assessments may be falling in Pierce and Snohomish, it looks like they’re still on [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged assessments, developers, fraud, layoffs, Sohn, tax revenues, WaMu
By The Tim on June 9, 2008
Declining property values are beginning to sink in at tax assessors’ offices around the sound. From the Everett Herald: Slump hits tax value of your home “I don’t think I can remember a year where we’ve decreased residential values countywide since I started working here in 1987,” county assessor Cindy Portmann said. Her chief residential [...]
Posted in News | Tagged assessments, property tax, tax revenues
