According to the Whatcom County Tax Assessor's web page, total assessed value of county-wide real estate increased by 25% year over year, to $51 billion.

That includes $590.7 million in new construction, or about 1.15% of the total.

I am very much due to write a full deep-dive newsletter on all things property tax related.

• How the assessment process works.

• What a budget-based levy is.

• The difference between Market, Cost, and Income approaches to valuation.

• What property taxes are in other parts of the country.

• And where your property tax dollars go.

Meanwhile, here's a link to the official page with information on appealing your tax assessed value.

(Last year I received emails from multiple blog post readers who successfully appealed their assessment.)

And if you want to jump ahead and read the Dept. of Revenue's Homeowner's Guide to Property Tax, you'll find it here.