Get Help from someone who has taken BC Assessment appeals all the way to the Property Assessment Appeal Board, where every homeowner I personally helped who saw their appeal through won a reduction.
Can I hire someone to appeal my BC Assessment?
Yes. That is exactly what I do. If your BC Assessment looks too high and you want to dispute it, I check it against what homes like yours actually sold for, tell you whether you have an appeal, and help you take it to the Property Assessment Review Panel and the Property Assessment Appeal Board.
You stay in control the whole way. You remain the appellant and file your own appeal, and I help build the evidence with you: the comparable sales, the market movement and the written submissions the panel and the board read.
100%
of homeowners I personally helped who saw their appeal through won a reduction
91%
of Appeal Board decisions reduced the assessment (30 of 33)
$22.6M+
in assessment reductions
$110K+
in estimated property tax refunds and credits
40+
homeowners helped
Three ways to start
Choose the help that fits you
Start with a BC Assessment Check
Every appeal starts here, whether you file on your own or have me help you. On a 1 hour one on one call, we go through the sold comparables in your neighbourhood together and I tell you plainly whether you have an appeal. It saves you the endless nights and wasted hours most homeowners spend trying to figure it out alone.
Book a BC Assessment CheckDo your own appeal
Much of the guidance on how to appeal comes from BC Assessment, the very people you are appealing against. My DIY Property Assessment Appeal Kits are the templates and steps I built and use myself to win appeals, shared so homeowners finally have an independent resource.
See the DIY Appeal KitsLearn how it works
Get straight answers to the questions homeowners ask most, from how BC Assessment values your home to what happens at a hearing.
Get Straight AnswersThe BC Assessment appeal process
5 steps to a successful BC Assessment appeal in 2027
- December 31, 2026
Check your BC Assessment online
In my experience, your 2027 assessment shows up online at BC Assessment on the last business day of December, the day before the official release, and the notice follows in the mail in early January. The value is your property's market value as of July 1, 2026, and it is the base for your 2027 property tax.1
- Right away, every year
Request your property record card with internal notes
Your property record card is the digital fingerprint of your property. It shows what BC Assessment says about your home and how it calculated your value, including internal notes most homeowners never knew existed. BC Assessment does not hand these out on its own, and there are 2 versions, so my free course on BC Assessment property record cards shows you how to request the right one. Whether you appeal or not, every homeowner should request it every year.
- January 2027
Go through the comparables
Book your BC Assessment Check and we go through the sold comparables in your neighbourhood together. By the end of that call, I can tell you whether you have an appeal or not, saving you endless grief and time.
- By February 1, 2027
File with the Review Panel
File your Notice of Complaint, the appeal form, online by February 1, 2027. BC Assessment links to the form from its Appeal Guide. The deadline is normally January 31, but in 2027 that falls on a Sunday, so it moves to the next business day, the same way it moved to February 2 in 2026.2 Your appeal is then heard by the Property Assessment Review Panel, which sits from February 3 to March 15, 2027 and sends its decisions by April 7.1
- By April 30, 2027
Appeal to the Appeal Board
The Property Assessment Appeal Board is an independent tribunal that decides on the evidence, and the deadline to appeal to it is April 30, 2027.1 The Appeal Board hears your appeal de novo, which means as a brand new hearing. Most homeowners do not realize that nothing from the Review Panel carries over. The Appeal Board is a new chance to present your evidence. Plan for it from the start. It is not a last resort, it is one of the 5 steps.
The proof
Every result is on the record
I do not ask you to take my word for it, or BC Assessment's. The appeals I have helped with were decided by independent panels and adjudicators, and the outcomes are public. Of my 2023 appeals the Appeal Board decided, BC Assessment itself put a lower value forward in 18 of 25 (72%) before the Board ruled on a single one, for $3.34 million in reductions. Then the Board ruled. It set the value lower than BC Assessment's own figure in 21 of the 25 (84%), for $11.03 million in reductions, approximately $7.7 million more than BC Assessment put forward.3 You can see every result, property by property, on my appeal record.
See My Appeal RecordCommon questions
What homeowners ask before they start
Can I appeal my BC Assessment without a lawyer?
Yes. Most homeowners appeal on their own, and some hire a property assessment appeal agent, which is not the same as a real estate agent. The Review Panel and the Appeal Board are set up for property owners to present their own evidence. Putting the best evidence in front of the panel and the board, and following their process, is what puts you in the best position to win.
How much do companies charge for BC Assessment appeals?
It depends on the company and how far your appeal goes. In my experience, commercial property tax agents often work on contingency, taking a share of what they win, and some charge as much as 50% of the savings. That is not unusual in this industry. Many offer different payment options at tiered levels, because an appeal is a long road and the help you need depends on where yours ends up. With me, you start with the BC Assessment Check and pay only for the services you need from there.
What is the deadline to appeal my 2027 BC Assessment?
February 1, 2027, because January 31 falls on a Sunday.2 If you miss it, in my experience you lose your chance for that year. The Review Panel will not hear a late complaint, so it goes to the Property Assessment Appeal Board, which only allows it in extraordinary circumstances. The common reasons, like being out of the country or having an operation, are not accepted, because you are expected to organize your appeal before you go, and that is why January matters so much: check your assessment as soon as it comes out.
What are my chances of winning?
It depends on the evidence for your property. Neither BC Assessment nor the Review Panel publishes a win rate. When I asked the Review Panel in 2024, its administrator wrote that his office "does not have any records that would help determine resolution rates."4 When I asked BC Assessment under freedom of information how many owners appealed and how many won, it first sent me a $736.49 fee estimate. I challenged it, and in the end BC Assessment told me it does not keep that record. It could tell me how many complaints were filed, 844 for single family dwellings in 2023 and 602 in 2024, but not how many were reduced or upheld, in part because "BC Assessment employees may make verbal recommendations at PARP that are not coded."5 The Appeal Board is different: it publishes annual reports showing how many appeals it receives and how they end.6 Every homeowner I have personally helped who saw their appeal through won a reduction, and 30 of the 33 Appeal Board decisions on those appeals reduced the assessment, a 91% win rate. The 3 who lost at the Board still won a reduction. One had already won at the Review Panel, and the other 2 won at the Appeal Board in a later year. And every result is on the record.
Can BC Assessment fix my value before the hearing?
Yes. You can get out in front of it. When your evidence is ready, you can send it straight to BC Assessment, make your case and ask for the reduction. If BC Assessment agrees, it confirms by email that it will recommend the lower value to the Review Panel. The Review Panel still has to confirm it, so your appeal stays on the hearing docket, but in most cases you do not even have to attend, although you still can. 5 of the results on my appeal record were won this way.
Can I get a BC Assessment Check before I decide?
Yes. That is what the Annual BC Assessment Check is for. I tell you whether you have an appeal before you commit to one.
Think your BC Assessment is too high?
Start with your address and check your eligibility.
Check My PropertySources
- BC Assessment, Key dates. Valuation date July 1, notices December 31, complaint deadline January 31, Review Panels February 1 to March 15, decisions by April 7, Appeal Board deadline April 30.
- BC Assessment, Vancouver Island 2026 Property Assessments Announced, January 2, 2026. The 2026 deadline was February 2 because January 31 fell on a Saturday.
- BC Assessment written submissions (reply reports) to the Property Assessment Appeal Board for my 2023 appeals, files 2023-04-00105 to 2023-04-00133, dated August 21 to October 10, 2023, and the Appeal Board decisions recording the Assessor's position.
- Ministry of Finance, FOI file FIN-2025-52395, pages 942 to 944: email from the Property Assessment Review Panel Administrator to Jason Anson, July 8, 2024.
- BC Assessment, FOI file 2024-29: letters to Jason Anson of October 7, 2024 (complaint counts), October 10, 2024 (fee estimate of $736.49) and December 20, 2024, Appendix A (no record of how many complaints were reduced or upheld). Cowichan Valley Citizen, Cowichan realtor files complaint over BC Assessment's failure to provide information, January 16, 2025.
- Property Assessment Appeal Board, Annual and quarterly reports.
My Record: January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2026
$22.6M+
cut from the values BC Assessment put on homeowners' properties
My 3 largest reductions for a homeowner: $2,063,000, $1,954,000 and $1,438,000
$110K+
in estimated property tax refunds and credits for homeowners
My 3 largest estimated refunds or credits for a homeowner: $10,315, $9,770 and $7,190
40
homeowners I helped appeal their BC Assessment
100% won a reduction. The average homeowner had approximately $566,000 taken off their value and an estimated $2,800 back in property tax.
63
appeals won, out of the 65 those homeowners took to a decision
97% won, at BC Assessment, the Review Panel and the Appeal Board
91%
of written Appeal Board decisions, made by an independent adjudicator, lowered the value
30 of the 33 that went that far
7,079
Vancouver Island home sales I checked against their BC Assessment
Less than 1% were assessed at what they sold for, and 40% were assessed above it
32
news stories about the appeals I helped with
Run more than 400 times in 68 news outlets across BC
23
freedom of information requests to BC Assessment for its records
$11,047.06 in fees BC Assessment estimated to release them. I paid $30 in total, after fee waiver requests on public interest and hardship grounds.
Are You Overassessed?
When BC Assessment gets your home's value wrong, I prove what it is actually worth using real sales of similar homes, so you don't pay more property tax than your fair share.
Jason Anson
I am not a lawyer or an appraiser, and nothing on this site should be considered legal or tax advice. When I help you, you are still the appellant and you file your own appeal. Every result depends on the evidence for that property, and the decision belongs to the Property Assessment Review Panel or the Property Assessment Appeal Board, not to me. My past results do not predict yours, and I cannot guarantee any outcome.
Helping homeowners with property assessment appeals is not a licensed activity in the province of British Columbia. It is not regulated by the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA) or the Real Estate Services Act, and it is not considered a real estate service.
I am also a licensed real estate agent with eXp Realty. That work gives me my experience in valuation and market movement, which is the evidence of market value the Review Panel and the Appeal Board weigh. This site and my appeal work are completely separate from eXp Realty. They are not affiliated with, endorsed by or provided through my brokerage, and the views here are my own, not eXp Realty's.
What I write about BC Assessment, the Property Assessment Review Panel, the Property Assessment Appeal Board, the Minister and Ministry of Finance, and the other public offices on this site is my own opinion, and I consider it fair comment on a matter of public interest. My opinions are my honest views, marked as my view, and based on facts anyone can check: Appeal Board decisions, public records and records released under freedom of information. Quotes from documents and news stories are the words of the people quoted. If anything here is inaccurate, let me know and I will correct it.