Mayor Suzanne LaFrance says she has apparently taken action on the radically wild assessments.
“Last week, I directed the Property Appraisal office to reexamine areas of town that saw steep increases in their property assessments. As a result, homes in four neighborhoods will be receiving new green cards with lower property assessments,” she wrote today on social media.
“If you believe your property should be reassessed, please call (907) 343-6770 by February 11th to complete an informal review. There is no fee for homeowners to go through this informal review. As part of the normal annual assessment process, the Assessor’s Office works with community members who are concerned about their property assessments and reviews cases with unusually high increases.”
This is evidence the Assessors Office has now been politicized. It is not independent. The mayor is in charge of the assessments.
When Anchorage’s latest property assessments were released, the city reported an average increase of about 4.2%. But for many homeowners, assessments were as high as 50–58%. Neighbors with nearly identical homes experienced wildly different valuations. Entire streets showed no consistent pattern. In some cases, assessed values now exceed recent sale prices.
Mayor Suzanne LaFrance‘s property valuation decrease by 3.03%, even as the overall average climbed by as much as 30% in similar neighborhoods,. Her last valuation in 2025 was $695,800. and in 2026 it went down to $674,800.
6 thoughts on “Mayor’s magic wand? Some Anchorage property assessments will go down”
She has to calm the peasants, before they figure out that the system, software, and process has been rigged to screw the taxpayers. Well, not her obviously.
Apparently some Democrats were not happy they were left out of the Mayor Lafrance lottery
That’s why government dependents never learn their lesson about the type of leaders they support when all they have to do is make a phone call and manipulate to be included in the corruption, and then they are happy while the rest of their community gets more expensive
Mayor LaFrance’s pose is exactly the same as Cathy Giessel’s and Ted Stevens’. They both believe they are equals to that great US Senator!
What a farce!
Why neighborhoods at all? Who picked them?
Shouldn’t excessive individual assessment increases trigger a second look?
Why does the assessor’s benevolence appear to only extend to certain parts of the Muni?
Since there is clearly a problem why not an automatic Muni wide re-evaluation of ANY assessment that exceed 10% of last year’s assessment. That should be standard procedure and would be fair. Instead it once again looks like cronyism…
She traded her magic wand in on her broom for commuting
I did the “Informal Assessment Review”today and it was a bad joke. They were nice, but all they did was to rationalize why my 20% rise in assessment was fair and reasonable and since I had no evidence that it wasn’t, there was nothing they would do and I would have to make a formal review. The whole thing is rigged as you have to convince the same people who made the assessment that they were wrong. I am ashamed of the city I have worked for most of my life.