Property Assessment

Local Government Services International (LGSI) provides professional property assessment consulting services to local governments worldwide. LGSI assists national, state, regional, and local governments in achieving property tax administration program goals. Specialty areas include: Assessment progr

In an earlier posting I encouraged real estate agents, brokers, and other real estate experts to follow Seth Godin’s advice that you must "own your zip code" by "hyperspecializing" or through "micro-specialization." My earlier posting suggested that one way of owning your zip code is to you get a ba

One Way of Owning Your Zip Code WHY Seth Godin, the man Business Week called "the Ultimate Entrepreneur of the Information Age" has authored several blog postings about real estate agents, basically saying that in order to survive in today's environment you must "own your zip code" by "hyperspeciali

The following were selected as the best free publications for property tax assessments administration during 2010. Each publication was released during 2010 and is the property of the authors and/or published. Links are provided here as a courtesy. (Selections have been arranged by date of publicati

- Action that commercial and industrial property owners can take now to get a fair property assessment for 2011. Advice from a city assessor with more than 30 years experience in assessment administration.

Local Government Services International has just released a new white paper entitled “Selected Internet Websites for Property Assessment Organizations in the United States and Canada.” The websites were collected over the last four years as part of other research but has now been compiled into a 12

- Find out the tax incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency in your state. Your property, or improvements that you are considering, could qualify for tax exemption, deduction, or other available incentives.

Make Tax Compliance as Simple as Possible When starting a small business your first thoughts will be making a profit and staying in business. But even before starting a small business your thoughts need to focus on what tax liabilities you and your business will have and how you will comply. This to

Don’t Pay for Assessment Information You Can Get for Free Several times each day appraisers, assessors, attorneys, bankers, real estate brokers and sales agents, and settlement agents search the Internet to find real estate assessment information. Since August of 2008 finding assessment information

Valuable Insight Into How Assessors Consider Prevailing Market Conditions A number of concerned taxpayers are contacting local assessors asking how the current real estate market will affect property assessments for the upcoming 2011 assessment year. While each real estate market is local in nature,