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My property tax is only up $27.05 how did everyone else fair out this year?

Up nearly 200.00, 15%.

Up $47.60

Up 13%

Mine went down $70

I smell an election coming? Say no more!!

Ours went down $68

Ours went down $84 from last year.  
 
Edited by Bob43, 2018-05-15 14:51:23

My area must not be a part of the election coverage influence zone as I went up 25 friggin percent, unless my math is wrong, $1122 to $1409.  
 
Going back to 2012 as it's my earliest, easily accessed folder, I've gone up 60% since then.  
 
2012 muni general 878, school post rebate $8  
2017 muni general 905, school post rebate $178  
2018 muni general 1038, school post rebate $327  
 
2012 assessed value-102k, 2017-131k, 2018-151k

hutchster said "My area must not be a part of the election coverage influence zone as I went up 25 friggin percent, unless my math is wrong, $1122 to $1409.     Going back to 2012 as it's my earliest, easily accessed folder, I've gone up 60% since then.     2012 muni general 878, school post rebate $8   2017 muni general 905, school post rebate $178   2018 muni general 1038, school post rebate $327     2012 assessed value-102k, 2017-131k, 2018-151k "

Nope, your math is correct!  
 
But what I want to know is where you live that taxes are only $1122!! That's cheap.

hutchster said "My area must not be a part of the election coverage influence zone as I went up 25 friggin percent, unless my math is wrong, $1122 to $1409.     Going back to 2012 as it's my earliest, easily accessed folder, I've gone up 60% since then.     2012 muni general 878, school post rebate $8   2017 muni general 905, school post rebate $178   2018 muni general 1038, school post rebate $327     2012 assessed value-102k, 2017-131k, 2018-151k "

Wow. I don’t need to know exactly where you live but would be very interested to know what kind of property the province’s re-assessment system came up with that much higher of a value for. A lot of properties look like they actually assessed lower this time for the first time in a while. The link for the assessment office is below. There’s an email address where you might be able to get them to clarify directly:  
http://www.gov.mb.ca/mr/assessment/index.html

mine went up ~20% or ~$500. Seems every year I get re-assessed and with no rhyme or reason my house value goes up. Lucky me!

allice said "mine went up ~20% or ~$500. Seems every year I get re-assessed and with no rhyme or reason my house value goes up. Lucky me! "

The assessments are assumptions that you made upgrades to your home or property. These assumptions cost you money. Call & get an actual assessment.  
 
In the last decade my property taxes have doubled (99% actually). Am I getting 99% more out of my city or school division than I was 10 years ago?  
 
The value of my house has increased on average $10,000 PER YEAR and if it wasn't so pathetic, I'd laugh that two new $50 shrubs are have made my property so valuable.  
 
This year my property taxes "only" went up 10% and people ask me why I'm irritated with government spending and "budgeting". They never go DOWN.  
 
Where is this affordable housing in Brandon everyone is talking about?

Almost $200.00 down! Still too high though.

There have been years where an increase could be attributed to spending increases by the city, school div or both but this year doesnt look like thats the case. The city and division barely increased their tax collected at all. Theres some kind of redistribution based on the province's re-assessment that I'd love to try to put my finger on thats resulting in a lot of people paying less and some paying more.  
 
For fun (dont I live an interesting life ) I pulled up numbers for a couple dozen spots randomly around the city. Maybe it would take more data but so far didn't see anything that I'd say is an obvious trend. The most common scenario seems to be a re-assessment decrease of about 5% but every time you're ready to declare it a trend you find a neighbourhood that makes you think again. Cherry Cres for example it seems that for every house that had a decrease there's one that had an increase and one that was about even. Highly doubt all of those houses with increases on that street all made improvements in two years that bumped their value up? Regent Cres is another where one house got whacked with a 10%+ increase, a couple others increased, yet one other decreased 7-8%. Anyone that's feeling the pain might feel slightly better that they aren't the house on a newer street in Brookwood that went up from approx 800k to 1M, about 25%. Their property tax bill last year was already showing as over $10,000!  
 
One thing that seems more common is condos re-assessing higher, but even then I found one condo development that has a seemingly random scattering of increases and decreases after finding four developments that had almost across-the-board increases.  
 
Very possible there's something I'm missing as far as a trend that would become more obvious with more info. If you're someone that's noticed an increase you could help by:  
- telling us if there were any improvements to your property in recent years that would've increased value  
- going to the assessment search website at this link and telling us how your increase compares to your neighbours' (you dont need to tell us where you live):  
https://web22.gov.mb.ca/MAO/Public/search_select.aspx  

6 1/2 %  
$4270 to $3995

Hacked when you say "get an assessment done" is this some kind of re-assessment request by the province or something else I am missing?  
 
I emailed them last year when the I got the re-assessment notice and got a copy/paste response. What bugs me is the lack of transparency and consistency. Their reasoning is "market value", yet as Adam said there is no consistency between even houses on the same street.  
 
I have done no renovations or additions - maybe I would if I wasn't bending over every year for my taxes.

from $2661.00 to $2518.00.= $143.00.  
Just enough for a tank of gas.

Ours is about $300 less than last year, west end, on Wilnor Bay.

Our taxes are down $1000 and our property value down $60,000 from last year. I’m confused we did not have an actual adjuster come and value our home or property in the last year. Where do they pull these numbers from? Advice?

if you want to check property taxe$ around town  
https://gisapp.brandon.ca/webmaps/TaxAssessmentMap/PropertySearch.html#

allice said "Hacked when you say "get an assessment done" is this some kind of re-assessment request by the province or something else I am missing?     I emailed them last year when the I got the re-assessment notice and got a copy/paste response. What bugs me is the lack of transparency and consistency. Their reasoning is "market value", yet as Adam said there is no consistency between even houses on the same street.     I have done no renovations or additions - maybe I would if I wasn't bending over every year for my taxes. "

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I did a quick survey last night of the houses in the South east end (Magnolia Sycamore region) and all places pretty much are down around 20K in assessed value.  
 
Reasons? Well its the market. I doubt the city comes and assesses each place just runs some formula based on sells/buys in 2017 and occupancy rate, etc. Building companies are expanding both in the south east end and south west end of the city with new builds. There advertised price is a little lower than what most houses built between 2012-present would have assessed for last year or the year before. So, if you can buy a brand new house basically for the same price as an already lived in one, why would you? I guess location plays into it a bit but otherwise the new build prices are driving the market here down I would think?? I dont know much about real estate so maybe there are other factors.  
 
Most friends of ours currently trying to sell there place are listing lower or close to what they paid for it a few years back, hence taking a loss on their place..

Up $200 while both my neighbours decreased. Makes sense.

Ours went down, as did our neighbours. Our house was built in 65. I wonder if the lovely four Plex that was built on the block had any effect? The taxes on that property went up

went down, though improvements have been made...strange

A few more stats.... but please keep in mind when reading this that "increase" and "decrease" are taken literally. An increase will be an increase regardless of whether $1 or $1001.  
 
For Residential Single Family properties whose assessed value is higher than $250,000, 26% saw an increase. For values lower than $250,000 45% had an increase  
 
And a breakdown by ward of the percentage of properties that had an increase across RSF, RMD, RLD zonings....  
 
Assiniboine 39%  
Rosser, 67%  
Victoria, 34%  
University, 57%  
Meadows, 44%  
South Centre, 60%  
Linden Lanes, 42%  
Richmond, 42%  
Riverview, 44%  
Green Acres, 35%

You got to be kidding me. Ours is by 40%.