Bryan Allen
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Up in Courtenay
Property Assessments Now Available
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casper5280
Crew Member
Down $16K in Central Saanich
I have a friend with the same scenario in kits (like most of van, I imagine). Time to sell and GTFO!
Tomfoolery
Active Member
Apparently BC assessment does access building permits to set valuations, which I suspect is why my neighbors all had nice 20-25K drops and mine only dropped 1K. It's reinforces why you never let assessors into your house to look around and always put the bare value on any building permits.
uclueletcharters
Well-Known Member
They use data from sales on your road or nearby. So if you have a couple sales at high prices nearby it can push your assessment up. Of course they do account for age of structures and a few other markers to ball park it. I always worry when homes around start selling nearby like they did in this recent last housing sale price balloon. Ukee is down a tad but the municipality I believe has some add ons this year so the tax bill probably won’t change much if at all. Cities and municipalities are to blame for the big tax bills as they keep increasing their rate. Property taxes are crazy in Ukee.
Crazy part is because we have a couple bnb rooms and a couple cabins on the property they have applied a split classification that really cranks up the tax bill. Usually 14-15k property taxes after the home owners grant pair that with a 10k annual insurance bill because of the nightly rentals, add on the rest of the utilities and maintenance is why rental prices have increased on the coast. The nightly rates haven’t followed the same inflation as operating costs so less net at the end of the day. There’s our government working for us, not!
Use link to get to website punch in your address for your assessment just in case some of you wait for snail mail are wondering.
www.bcassessment.ca
Crazy part is because we have a couple bnb rooms and a couple cabins on the property they have applied a split classification that really cranks up the tax bill. Usually 14-15k property taxes after the home owners grant pair that with a 10k annual insurance bill because of the nightly rentals, add on the rest of the utilities and maintenance is why rental prices have increased on the coast. The nightly rates haven’t followed the same inflation as operating costs so less net at the end of the day. There’s our government working for us, not!
Use link to get to website punch in your address for your assessment just in case some of you wait for snail mail are wondering.
BC Assessment - Independent, uniform and efficient property assessment
BC Assessment provides current actual value assessments for tax purposes on all properties in British Columbia and provides expertise in real estate data, mass appraisal systems and management.
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Captain PartyMarty
Crew Member
Called them today! Nice Lady had no idea why mine went up 100% and the rest of the town only went up 5-10%....Really confidence building in there assessment abilities. Now wait on a call back from the regional assessor for an explanation...
scott craven
Well-Known Member
Ours stayed flat in Saanich east.
kingblazer84
Crew Member
up 15k in west kelowna at our place lol
M1SF1T
Active Member
I wrote them and got a reply already.
They've reversed my $36K increase and I get a $22K decrease instead.
Just shows what BS this system is... complete subjective tax increases on homeowners. I felt like pushing for more, but I'm going to take the easy win.
January 31 is deadline for disputes.
I also note that my garbage collection cost is going up 50% which is paid separate from my taxes.
They've reversed my $36K increase and I get a $22K decrease instead.
Just shows what BS this system is... complete subjective tax increases on homeowners. I felt like pushing for more, but I'm going to take the easy win.
January 31 is deadline for disputes.
I also note that my garbage collection cost is going up 50% which is paid separate from my taxes.
I will be doing an appeal again this year. I am still trying to understand why a smaller lot is assessed at a higher value than a larger lot.
We have the smallest lot in the neighbourhood by over half it is 23 feet wide and our house is just over 2000 square feet and yet our land is valued significantly higher that 60 foot lots twice the size with 4500 Sq foot homes.
One thing I have learned if you are doing an appeal BC Assessment will asign someone to help you with your assessment.
Imagine my surprise when the staff person "helping" me, turned up to argue against me at the Appeals Board.They had time to prepare counter arguments.
Now that I am retired I have more time to devote to these matters.
We have the smallest lot in the neighbourhood by over half it is 23 feet wide and our house is just over 2000 square feet and yet our land is valued significantly higher that 60 foot lots twice the size with 4500 Sq foot homes.
One thing I have learned if you are doing an appeal BC Assessment will asign someone to help you with your assessment.
Imagine my surprise when the staff person "helping" me, turned up to argue against me at the Appeals Board.They had time to prepare counter arguments.
Now that I am retired I have more time to devote to these matters.
