Sylva board faces inevitable property tax increase
As Sylva’s leaders work toward a new budget for the new fiscal year, there’s one big question on everybody’s mind — how much will taxes increase?
Tax value notices to be issued in Jackson
Some Jackson County property owners might find themselves doing a doubletake when notice of their updated property value comes in the mail next week.
New property tax values coming to Jackson
The yardstick Jackson County will use to calculate property values next year is up for discussion at a public hearing 5:40 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Jackson County Administration Building.
Lower values lead to higher taxes in Macon
Macon County property taxes will be going up next year as the value of property values has decreased by almost $2 billion.
A spoonful of reality helps Macon property values go down
It’s been two weeks since new property values hit the mailboxes in Macon County, but there’s nary a line to be seen at the county property appraisal office.
Only 400 appeals have trickled in so far. The last property revaluation in Macon County saw a whopping 4,000 appeals.
What you really want to know when new property values arrive in the mail
Mailboxes across Macon County were blanketed with new property value notices this week, the first countywide appraisal since 2007.
As you ripped open the envelope, there were probably two things on your mind:
Meet Richard Lightner, the eagle eye of Macon’s reval
Richard Lightner isn’t one for nostalgia.
For nearly 30 years, he’s been running the property reval show in Macon County. But there’s not much he misses about the old days.
Macon’s reval: unplugged and uncensored
The time of reckoning is finally here.
Macon County’s first countywide assessment of real estate values since the bust came out this week, and it’s full of surprises. For starters, your property values probably didn’t go down as much as you thought they would.
The quest for the perfect comp
Some weeks Tommey Allen spends more time behind the wheel than a long-haul trucker.
It’s not all driving time though. Most of it is just idling along the curb, parked on the roadside and sitting in driveways. Over the past two years, Allen and the rest of the Macon County appraisal team have scouted every inch of road — paved, gravel, dirt or otherwise — to size up all 44,000 parcels of property and ultimately make a prognostication of what they’re worth.
Macon finalizes property values
Macon County’s tying up the loose ends on a property revaluation that will likely cause tax hikes for some and breaks for others, and the county’s tax director gave commissioners a heads up that they’ll probably be getting some phone calls over the next few months.