Nothing shocking going on here, just more confirmation of local neighborhoods still on the rise. Specifically, this story is about Thurston County.
South Sound’s booming housing market and recovering economy are contributing to record gains in Thurston County property values.
For the second year in a row, Thurston County set a record for gains in residential property tax assessments.
This year’s overall 12 percent gain beat last year’s 8 percent gain, which was a record dating back to at least 1999, according to Dennis Pulsipher, the county’s chief deputy assessor. Such gains are reflected in 108,000 assessment notices scheduled to be mailed Wednesday to property tax payers.
Those lucky tax payers!
(Jim Szymanski, The Olympian, 10.18.2005)