How does the assessor decide which assessments to change and by how much?
In order to maintain a uniform Level of Assessment (LOA), each year your assessor will need to analyze all of the properties in the municipality to determine which assessments need to be changed. If assessments have been kept up-to-date each year, or if the real estate market has been fairly stable, it is possible that few assessments will need to be adjusted.

Where assessments do need to be changed, in some cases, your assessor will be able to increase or decrease the assessments of a neighborhood or group of properties by applying real estate market trends to those properties. This is possible only when assessments are at a uniform level. In other cases, the assessor will need to conduct physical re-inspections for reappraisals of properties. Every assessing unit should be keeping assessments at a fair and uniform level every year.

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1. Who is responsible for assessments and who is responsible for taxes?
2. What is the difference between the market value and assessed value of my property?
3. Won’t my taxes increase if my assessment is adjusted?
4. How does the assessor decide which assessments to change and by how much?
5. My assessment was adjusted last year, and it’s been adjusted again this year. Why?
6. Why does State Aid require 100 percent of market value?
7. If my home is physically re-inspected, do I have to let the assessor in?
8. How do I know that the assessor has the correct information about my property?
9. When will I know my new assessment?
10. What information is on the tentative assessment roll?
11. What if I disagree with the assessment on the tentative roll?
12. Where can I learn more?
13. What are the benefits to keeping assessments up-to-date each year?