Property assessment

A revaluation of property assessment has just taken place.  For the sake of transparency, I am thankful that I can check on how the houses on my block are assessed for tax purposes.  

I realized soon into examining assessed values of other houses that there are various ways in which prices are determined.  Mine is valued on a comparison basis. 

I am thankful that someone thinks my house, in comparison to others, is a good value.  I’m not sure selling the house at this point would get the assessed value.  But I would hope to attain that price.

Which is to say, for small town Saskatchewan, prices are fairly high.  I understand that prices just an hour down the road,  in a smaller town, are much cheaper.

But this is Saskatchewan.  Assessed prices may be what they are, but the question is whether you can find a house that is available for sale.  We live in a booming economy.  Housing is at a premium.  Which may also mean that demand may even create higher prices.

Now, all this meandering is to say that I’m very glad for the purchase made a few years ago.  I have a nice house in which I live, with room for others as well!  And to be quite honest – I also live in one of the best neighbourhoods in town!  I like my neighbours!  Which is an intangible in valuing a house.  Perhaps my house is worth more just because of my good neighbours! 

I just wonder how an assessor takes that into account!!

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  1. Firas

    //For e.g if the Brahmins get 5 percent, so to say, quota, the quota will be taken by the mhtigy among them. The economically weakest like priests cant compete with their rich counterparts.It should be left to the caste leaders of brahmins to build safeguards for the weak – the priests, the women, the phycially handicapped etc. within the caste, within the 5 per cent quota.Ditto for dalits etc.//? .?.??? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ,Honest answer needed.Rather than eradicating caste differences, your idea is to perpetuate the caste identity and caste identity based differences. Yes or no ?A SC will always be a SC for the next 2000 years. An OBC will be OBC for another 2000 years and feed shit to SC people.Excellent Social Justice. Keep it up followers of EVR and his butt lickers.//When the whole population gets covered under quota, there wont be any question of merits.//Yes, because there will be none.?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ??? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? . ?? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ??? ? ? ? .? ? ? ? ? , ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? . ?? ? , ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? , ? ? ? ? ? ? ? !?? ? ? ? ? ? ?! ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?! ? ? ?? !

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