Check My Assessment Washington State property valuation

Washington assesses at 100% of market value โ€” RCW 84.40.030

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See what your property is worth under every method state law allows.

Washington gives assessors three approaches to value and several alternative bases entirely. Your county picked one. Enter an address and this pulls your actual assessment and building record straight from Yakima County, runs the other methods, and shows the arithmetic with the statute behind each step.

The three approaches Washington allows

WAC 458-07-030(3) โ€” an assessor "may use the sales (market data) approach, the cost approach, or the income approach, or a combination of the three."

The 1% limit, and what it does not cover

Most people believe property taxes cannot rise more than 1% a year. That is true of one category of levy and false of the rest.

How the state grades your assessor

Every year the Department of Revenue compares assessments against actual sale prices and publishes the result. These are the state's own numbers, not ours.

Alternative bases of value

These are not appeals. They are separate statutory programs where the legislature decided market value is the wrong measure โ€” and several of them dwarf anything an appeal can win.

If you decide to appeal