Assessment appeal
If you are disputing your property assessment, the review board tests one question: the property’s market value at July 1 of the year before your tax year, in its condition at December 31. An appraisal built for that question carries weight. An appraisal dated today answers a different one.
- Date of value
- July 1 of the valuation year
- Relied on by
- You and the review board
- Service area
- Calgary & area, Red Deer to Lethbridge
What to know before ordering
Everything hangs on it
Alberta legislation fixes the valuation date at July 1 and the condition date at December 31. We set both correctly and say so in the report, because that is the first thing a board checks.
Sometimes the honest answer is no
Weigh the annual tax saving against the fee before ordering. Where the gap between assessment and defensible value is small, we will say so; an appraisal earns its cost on the files where the gap is real.
You file, we support
The complaint, the deadline on your notice and the filing fee are yours to handle with your municipality. What we provide is the supported opinion of value your file may need. Check your assessment notice for the deadline; it differs by municipality.
Every RAM report is prepared to CUSPAP by a Candidate Member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada and co-signed by a designated CRA member who takes professional responsibility for it, covered by AIC’s mandatory professional liability insurance program. The fee and scope are confirmed in writing before any work begins.
How it runs, start to finish
- Stage 01
Order placed
You send the address, the purpose, and the deadline. We confirm scope and fee before any work starts. No surprise invoices.
- Stage 02
Site inspection
Every room inspected, every improvement photographed. Condition and quality rated against the standard your intended user requires.
- Stage 03
Market research
Closed sales, not asking prices, confirmed through MLS records and available data sources. We track how the market has moved since each one sold: sometimes sharply in weeks, sometimes not at all for months.
- Stage 04
Analysis
Every difference priced: size, age, condition, location, and time. If the market moved between a sale and our effective date, the sale is adjusted by what the data shows, not a rule of thumb.
- Stage 05
Report delivered
A signed report, prepared to CUSPAP, in your inbox, with the reasoning laid out well enough to survive review.