SOUTHWICK — With the announcement that about 37% of single-family homes in town are undervalued and the expectation there could be more property owners than typical questioning their property’s value, the town’s assessor explained how requests for value adjustments will be handled.
“When you apply for an abatement, it allows us to put our appraiser hat on, and then go out [and conduct] an inspection … to make sure that we have all our data right, and make sure that we have an accurate value,” Town Assessor Randy Austin said during the Board of Assessors meeting Monday night.
“We are assessors. but we’re assessing [large groups]. We’re doing all the ranches together; we’re doing all the capes and colonials together. An appraiser concentrates on one property, and homes in on it and fine-tunes all the details,” he said.
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