CONWAY — Town Manager Tom Holmes last week asked selectmen to consider funding a revaluation next year, the $70,000 cost of which would be in the proposed 2022 operating budget. The state mandates revaluations every five years and the previous one was just done in 2019.
However, property has appreciated so quickly that some properties, mobile homes, are now selling at twice their assessed values on average. Other properties have risen at different rates.
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