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Burke County task force reviews CAMA framework, accepts sales-ratio dataset ahead of 2027 revaluation
Summary
At a Dec. 2 task force meeting, tax office staff demonstrated how the county's CAMA model will translate 4,700 qualified sales into market-driven adjustments for the 2027 revaluation and the group voted to accept the county's sales-ratio dataset for further work; staff plans vacant-land pricing by December and to present schedules in late 2026.
Morganton, N.C. ' At a Dec. 2 meeting of the Burke County Tax Revaluation Task Force, county tax office staff laid out how a computer-assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) system will use thousands of recent sales to redraw assessed values ahead of a 2027 revaluation, and the task force moved to accept the county's compiled sales-ratio dataset for continuing work.
Nelson, the tax office presenter, told the task force: "The goal is to walk you through the process of a reevaluation and sort of build up the case for how we come up with values and that it's not sort of a random black box." She said the office has organized the county's 60,000 parcels into 13 townships and roughly 1,000 market areas and is using those market-area groupings to apply land pricing, size adjustments and building-grade factors uniformly.
Why it matters: the presentation mapped how the tax office's 2023 schedule of values will be adjusted so assessed values match market values in 2027, a statutory objective of…
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