There’s no shortage of property owners upset over Mecklenburg County’s latest revaluation. But one group of homeowners in the northern town of Cornelius might just be more vocal, and organized, than most. “I’ve never seen such anger and frustration in all my years in office,” Cornelius Commissioner Jim Bensman said. Most of the upset homeowners [...]
With the deadline today for commercial property owners in Mecklenburg County to appeal their new values, the county assessor’s office has received 4,860 challenges, Chuck Hicks, revaluation manager, said this afternoon. Today alone, 750 appeals were filed in response to commercial revaluation notices — which includes commercial properties and condominiums — and residential new construction [...]
With Tuesday being the deadline to appeal Mecklenburg County’s new commercial property revaluation, Chuck Hicks, the county’s revaluation manager, is surprised his office hasn’t received more appeal notices. “I was expecting the volume to be heavier,” he said today. “But between today and tomorrow we may see a big spike in commercial appeals.” Hicks said [...]
Alec Polites said it’s like hitting a man when he’s down. Having slashed rents to hang on to tenants in his struggling shopping center on East Independence Boulevard, he couldn’t believe his eyes when he received his 2011 revaluation from Mecklenburg County’s assessor’s office last month. The tax value for Independence Park, which is divided into [...]
The Bissell Cos. is almost finished construction on an office building in Ballantyne in south Charlotte, one of the city’s fastest growing markets. Bissell, a Charlotte real estate firm, expects to be done in April on the Calhoun Building, a speculative, 140,000-square-foot project, said Barry Fabyan, senior vice president and manager of office leasing services. [...]
Some Mecklenburg County retail property and office building owners are going to be coughing up a lot more in property taxes. According to a Mecklenburg Times review of the county’s 2011 commercial property revaluation — the results of which were sent to property owners Monday — some retail properties throughout Charlotte more than doubled in [...]
Victims of the downturn in the housing market, unfinished subdivisions litter the Charlotte region. Some have streets and sidewalks but no homes. Others might have a completed home or two sitting next to empty lots. The Mecklenburg Times talked with Mecklenburg County’s revaluation manager, Chuck Hicks, about what impact partially built subdivisions had in the 2011 revaluation. [...]
In a move expected to make the appeals process quicker for Mecklenburg County property owners contesting their 2011 revaluations, the General Assembly today OK’d a bill to increase the number of members on the county’s Board of Equalization and Review. With the ratification this morning of Senate Bill 55, the board of equalization is expected [...]
Commercial property owners in Mecklenburg County could start receiving their 2011 revaluation notices by the second week in March. At least that’s the goal of county revaluation manager Chuck Hicks. Hicks today said he’s been working this week on the commercial revaluations. Residential property owners received their notices earlier this month. Hicks expects an overall [...]
When Mecklenburg County’s assessor’s office releases its 2011 revaluation of commercial properties in March, apartment owners may be surprised at how little their properties have increased in value since the last revaluation in 2003. Chuck Hicks, the county’s revaluation manager, said that although his office is still collecting data, he’s already noticed that there doesn’t [...]
