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          Sequim Property Tax – How To Use The Tax Assessment Website

          Chuck Marunde by Chuck Marunde
          January 6, 2021
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          The Sequim property tax website, aka the Clallam County Tax Assessor’s website, is full of helpful information if you are doing research on real estate taxes, but the vast majority of buyers do not realize how the Sequim property tax site can be used to compare prices of homes for sale.  I use this website all the time, and it even has photos of all the homes in the county, but it was one of my own clients who took research to entirely new levels while comparing homes we were looking at.  Thank you Bert.

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          Let’s say you’re looking at homes on the Internet, and let’s say you’re using my Sequim Homes for Sale MLS site.  [If you aren’t, you might want to try it out, because it has been programmed to be the most powerful Sequim MLS site and does not require that you register your confidential information.]  When you find a home you think has potential and you want to learn more about what it’s fair market value (FMV) might actually be in this market, you can use the Sequim property tax site to increase your personal knowledge of prices for homes like the one you’re researching.

          Before you do this advanced price analysis on the Sequim property tax site, you should finish your comparison with similar homes on my Sequim MLS site, and I recommend reading several articles I’ve written on this site to help you as a buyer understand how to analyze a listing price and arrive at a pretty accurate FMV.  [How to Determine the Price of a Sequim Home, and How to Price a Home for Sale, and Listing Price.]

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          Once you’ve compared similar homes in the MLS, and you’ve got a good handle on the listing price issues and selling price realities in Sequim from some of the hundreds of articles on this site, you can type in the address on the Sequim property tax site [Sequim Tax Assessor]and here’s the kind of relevant information you’ll find:

          1. The legal description
          2. The owner’s name and their mailing address (relevant if they do not live in the home)
          3. The number of bedrooms and bathrooms and a drawing of the floor plan
          4. The square footage
          5. The year the home was built
          6. The property tax amount and whether there are any exemptions
          7. A history of the taxes and whether they are current or in default
          8. A history of the sales of the home, including the buyers and sellers and the sales prices each time
          9. Photos of the outside of the home

          This is amazingly helpful information if you are a buyer.  This is a lot of confidential information about the sellers and their home, and it is published for all to see on the Internet.  Property tax information has legally been public information for a long time, but it almost seems unfair to publish all this information on the Internet.  Be that as it may, if you are a buyer, this becomes valuable data you can use to negotiate a good price and not over pay for a home.  [See my graph and article showing how the assessed value compares to actual sales prices of homes in the Sequim area at Assessed Tax Value vs. Sales Price.]

          The assessed value of the home is the most relevant number.  The first thing you’ll do mentally is compare the listing price of the home you’re looking at to the assessed tax value.  The county assessor is charged with the responsibility of assessing homes at their true fair market value, but some homes are assessed higher and some lower.  This means the assessed value is not definitive by any means, but it is useful.  While I have seen some dramatic variations, I have been surprised lately how often the county assessment is right on.

          For example, if you’re looking at a property like one that is listed for sale at 849 Chicken Coop Road, you’ll see it is currently listed for $475,000, but the Sequim propert tax site has it assessed at $641,000.  Clearly, the assessor doesn’t always get it right, and clearly they don’t automatically and promptly reduce the tax assessment to keep up with current fair market values.  In this case, it could tell us that the listing price is probably a fair listing price, although there is much more to think about there. 

          If you’re looking at a home and the assessed value is substantially below the listing price, that can be a red flag telling you that maybe the listing price is too high.  If you examine the tax history of the property, you can draw some conclusions about what has been done and what might be done in terms of value and taxes.

          Of course if I am your Sequim buyer’s agent, I will help you walk through all of this and make good comparisons so that when you do make an offer on a home, you’ll have a very solid foundation for negotiating the best possible price regardless of what the Sequim property tax may be.

          Last Updated on January 6, 2021 by Chuck Marunde

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          Chuck grew up in remote Alaska, graduated from the University of Alaska with a degree in Economics and Teacher Certification, and after teaching high school for two years, went to law school at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He served four years as a Captain and JAG in the USAF at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas. After practicing real estate law for 20 years in Washington, Chuck founded iRealty Virtual Brokers covering Sequim and the beautiful Olympic Peninsula. He is the author of 2,200 real estate articles and a dozen real estate books, and he produced over 100 real estate videos. Chuck combined his love for real estate and technology to create a massive Internet presence, and his articles and videos and books have been viewed by millions. Chuck is a well recognized real estate expert and his counsel is sought by other brokers and practicing attorneys around the country. Buyers from New York to Hawaii and from Florida to Alaska seek him out to retain him as their buyer's agent, and home owners around the State of Washington seek him out because of his new Flat Fee Listing Service. 

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