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Brookhaven homeowner challenges valuation; county says comps justify $1.00M-range assessment
Summary
Homeowner Jane McDonald presented a neighborhood-focused sales analysis arguing her smaller house should be assessed near $927,000; county staff said comparable sales, many larger homes on similar lots and school-district alignment support the original $1.0M+ valuation and the board upheld the county value.
Jane McDonald appealed the county’s 2025 valuation of her Brookhaven home, presenting a spreadsheet of recent neighborhood sales and an adjusted-sales calculation yielding a preferred value of about $927,326. McDonald said her home is among the smaller houses on larger lots in Brookhaven and that some county comparables overstate the property’s market position because they include bigger homes, additional baths, a…
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