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Assessors finish residential data entry, plan to publish sales statistics; residents urged to check field cards
Summary
Assessors said they completed residential data entry and will publish sales statistics on the town assessor’s website after Department of Revenue confirmation; officials urged Town of Blackstone property owners to verify field-card details that affect valuations.
The Board of Assessors for the Town of Blackstone said on Nov. 20 that it has completed a residential review and is preparing to publish sales statistics and valuation data online, and officials urged property owners to check public field cards for accuracy.
At the meeting, Marcus, who led the valuation work, said, “nothing's finalized at the moment,” and described a recent overhaul of residential valuations that involved a redistribution of values to reduce extreme outliers and create a more uniform valuation curve. He said the assessors are still “waiting on DOR to confirm” the final statistics before posting them on the assessor’s page of the town website.
Chair (unnamed) told residents to "go online, check your field cards to make sure that your room counts are right, your bedrooms, your bathrooms. Make sure they're right because it does affect the value of your property." The chair said the office had completed data entry and invited property owners to report inaccuracies so the assessor's office can correct them.
Marcus said the office completed the field review and data entry for its residential update and will, once DOR confirmation is received, upload a full list of arms‑length market transactions broken down by property class and relevant valuation features "to create some consistency in the properties in town." The transcript records the number of parcels updated as "27 100"; the assessors characterized this as the full residential review and the article reports that figure as approximately 27,100 parcels, which reflects the office's spoken estimate in the meeting.
The chair also gave the public a contact email for questions: assessors@townofblackstone.org, and noted that the assessors meet monthly but may increase to twice monthly in January through March if abatement filings require additional meetings.
The next procedural step is a classification hearing at the Selectmen's meeting next Tuesday, where the assessors will seek completion of classification work and any related votes. The assessors said they will provide the updated sales statistics on the town assessor’s web page after they receive confirmation from the Department of Revenue.
