LEWISTON – Assessors will start surveying Lewiston properties by mail this week.
Property owners should start seeing assessing questionnaires in their mailboxes that show what the city knows about each property, including number of units, style, total number of rooms and the year it was built.
Assessors will use that information to help determine how much each property is worth. Property owners need to read the questionnaire, mark any wrong information and send it back. They will begin visiting homes this fall based on the questionnaires.
“We’re trying to set a baseline, to determine what’s changed in a home since the last time we were there,” said Assessor Joe Grube.
Lewiston has not updated its property values since 1988, although assessors did update land values two years ago. The city’s assessed value is currently about $1.46 billion, and Grube said that’s about 87 percent of the full market value.
Grube said his staff is on pace to wrap up the revaluation in June, about the time the city budget gets settled. Taxpayers will pay their first property tax bill based on that value in September 2006.
The city is using a private firm to survey business, commercial and multifamily properties. That company, appraisal firm CLT, began visiting those properties in June.
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