Stats from County Assessor

As a Mayor I am on the Story County Conference Board for the Assessor. As a reminder the Assessor doesn't set the taxes, he just sets the value on all properties in the county. I think he and his department do a pretty good job of setting valuations close to real world, and equal among properties.

Anyway, once a year he sends out the stats of sales in the county, and I find them to be interesting, so passing them along here. As a reminder, all numbers below are for Story County, not counting Ames, which has its own assessor.

Home sales were way up in 2013 402, from 287 in 2012. The big change is in the sub $150,000 range which went up from 143 to 232. There were 24 homes sold in 2013 from the $324,001 to $1,200,000 range.

Average sales price dipped, mainly because of the high number of properties in the sub $150k range. It went from $176,223 in 2012 to $166,332 in 2013.

The number of new homes constructed went up as well. 72 in 2012 to 115 in 2013. We had a few of those in Roland as well, as I would say 2013 has been the biggest building year in Roland in the past 10 years, by my guess.

Here are the sales in the county by quarter 61, 127, 133, 81.

New home sale price was $157.25 in 2013 vs. $158.84 in 2012. Average sale price of all houses was $108.76 in 2013 vs $113.78 in 2012.

HERE is the link to the county assessor webpage where you can search the valuation of any property in the county.