Property Assessments
Assessment Summaries
Several of our client municipalities have made assessment summary reports available on-line. Your may view your own property and others within your municipality (to a maximum of 5 per day). Please follow the directions below to view/download these reports.
If the municipality you’ve chosen does not have a ‘General Public’ access, and you wish to access the assessment summary for your own property, or for a comparable property, please contact your municipality or your assessor at http://kcl-consulting.com/inquiry-form/
To view your assessment report, read the directions in 1-6 below, then click on the “Assessment Summaries” button below to start:
- The link below will take you to a disclaimer. Read the disclaimer and click “I Agree”.
- Pick your municipality from the drop down list.
- Click GENERAL PUBLIC under the type of access and hit SUBMIT.
- Use the property search tool to identify the property you wish to view (by roll number, address or legal description) then click SEARCH.
- Under search results click SELECT.
- The reports will be listed and you may VIEW or DOWNLOAD them as needed.
A market value based assessment does NOT necessarily identify a property’s individual sale price or potential sale price. It attempts to provide a “fair actual” or average value based on several factors including similar properties which have sold.
Your current assessment value is based upon July 1st market conditions one year prior to today. Market trends since then may not be reflected on this assessment. See ‘valuation date’ below.
An increase or decrease in your property assessment does not automatically mean that your taxation amount will change in a similar fashion.
Assessors use a technique known as ‘mass appraisal’. ‘Mass appraisal’ is the process of valuing a larger group of properties, as of a given date, using standard methods and statistical testing. The focus in property assessment is not on the individual property, rather the entire class or group of properties.
This assessment process helps to fairly distribute the annual municipal taxes.
Legislation requires the assessment process to comply with two key dates: the “valuation date” and “condition date”.
The valuation date ensures all properties are valued as of the same date. The valuation date for the 2023 tax year is July 1, 2022. This means the assessment value on the 2023 Assessment and Tax Notice is an estimate of value as of July 1, 2022 .
The valuation date ensures all properties are valued as of the same date. The valuation date for the 2023 tax year is July 1, 2022. This means the assessment value on the 2023 Assessment and Tax Notice is an estimate of value as of July 1, 2022 .
The condition date is the “as‐of‐date” used to identify the physical state of a property for assessment purposes. The condition date for the current tax year is December 31, of the year prior.
This means the assessment on your current Assessment and Tax Notice represents the “fair actual value” as of July 1, of the year prior and represents the physical condition of the property as of December 31, of the year prior.
You cannot appeal your property taxes, nor can you request a review of your property taxes. If you feel an error has been made, you can appeal the property assessment value (there may be an appeal fee involved). You must explain why you think your assessment is incorrect and you must be prepared to provide supporting documentation and evidence to support your claim. In other words it is insufficient to simply state “my assessment is too high”.