New Property Assessments Released
Home owners in the South Hills can find out what their property is valued at by going to the county's assessment website.
Property owners in the South Hills got a jolt this week when Allegheny County released the new property assessment figures online.
The new property assessments for home owners living in Bridgeville, Collier, Heidelberg and Scott can be found at www2.alleghenycounty.us/reval by punching in your street address and municipality. The 2002 property numbers are located on the left and the new assessments are on the right.
It's not immediately known how the new assessments will impact one's taxes because the overall assessment increases in the municipalities and Chartiers Valley School District have not been released. That percentage increase will show the baseline numbers that the taxing bodies need to adjust their millage rates to remain net neutral.
Anyone who thinks their assessment figures are incorrect can file an informal review by going to http://apps.alleghenycounty.us/InformalReviews or by calling 412-350-4600. Informal challenges will be scheduled until March 7.
An informal review/challenge is a one-on-one meeting between a property owner and a representative of the county Office of Property Assessments. Property owners may provide corrections to property characteristics and bring pictures and written documentation supporting a change in the 2013 assessment value. Property owners are reminded that corrections to property characteristics do not automatically result in value changes, and in some cases, a county assessor may visit a property to verify data and may adjust the value up or down based on what he or she observes.
Meanwhile, a formal appeal is a quasi-judicial hearing before the county Board of Property Assessments Appeals & Review. The formal hearing provides property owners and/or the three applicable taxing bodies (municipality, school district and county) an opportunity to challenge a property's assessed value. Property owners, other interested parties and the three taxing bodies may present evidence at the formal appeal hearing. The board will increase, decrease or sustain the assessed value based on evidence presented at the formal hearing. April 2 is the cutoff for formal appeals. Click here for more information on scheduling a formal review.
Go to http://www.alleghenycounty.us/reassessFAQ.aspx to find a full list of frequently asked questions.
Mike Jones
8:41 am on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The new property assessments for homes in the South Hills have been released and can be found at http://www2.alleghenycounty.us/reval. If you're upset with your new property assessment - or happy with it - and would like to be interviewed, contact me at mike.jones@patch.com or 412-417-8552.
MD
8:58 am on Thursday, February 23, 2012
From our first assessment in AC 2009:
The first appraisal we present at BRAAP hearing back in 2009,we also presented additional houses in our area from new construction (as we are) to houses that had more land and more square footage.Finally we resolved the so call (gold mIne) that me and my wife build.NOW the County new assessment I received yesterday two months from our agreement on $240,000.00 with the school district now it's worth $374,000.00 my gold mine has improved from two months ago by $134,000.00.From the new assessment, the county has
there comparable's listed from $235,000.00 to $245,000.00 go figure.
Just simple a waste of everybodys time and costing us ( the taxpayers) over and over again.The courts mandating new assessments costing taxpayers (your guess $11 million +) so far,then your school district will use the school tax money (for education) to fight the appeals after the county may lower your assessment.The county didn't lower the assess value in 2008,were was the FAIR MARKET VALUE THEN.........
Ask you school district how much it cost the taxpayers to have the attorney's on retainers.(Freedom of information form) you will be amazed !
WE NEED CHANGE!
MD
Collier TWP
tim
10:11 pm on Monday, March 12, 2012
The total value of household real estate in America has declined from $22.7 trillion in 2006 to $16.2 trillion.....the value of household real estate is down $6.5 trillion ....asssessments must reflect all property with LOWER assessments...
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