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VOLUME 82 NO. 48 NOVEMBER 2-8, 2017
ARLINGTON’S SOURCE FOR HOMETOWN NEWS SINCE 1935
Homeowners Could See Higher Tax Bills
Rising Assessments Would Take $300+ More from Those with Even Modest Houses SCOTT McCAFFREY Staff Writer
Unless County Board members can find a way to cut the real-estate tax rate without raising a backlash from specialinterest groups, owners of single-family homes across Arlington likely will be on the hook for higher 2018 tax bills due to increasing assessments.
County Manager Mark Schwartz on Oct. 24 predicted a rise of 5 percent in the assessed value of single-family real estate in 2018, due to a competitive market. The owner of a typical, mid-20th-century $700,000 home that sees such a jump would pay $7,394 in real-estate taxes next year – $352 more than this year – assuming no change in the current tax rate of $1.006 per $100 assessed value.
“We see trends in residential sales and prices going up, especially on the singlefamily side,” said Emily Hughes of the county government’s Department of Management and Finance. Hughes noted that, for the first nine months of this year, the average sales price of a single-family home in Arlington was up about 7 percent from the same period a year before. Those increases will be fac-
tored into updated property assessments, to be released by the county government in late January. Those assessments will only cover half the equation that leads to a property owner’s ultimate tax bill; the other half will depend on where the county government sets the tax rate. Continued on Page 25
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