• Municipal assessment appeals
• Office market rentals and trend studies
• Market value estimates
• Real estate investment portfolios
• Purchases/sales
• Financing
• Mergers
• Estimates for insurance purposes
• Feasibility studies
• Expropriations

Racine, Larochelle & Associates has earned a solid reputation for its successful work in reviewing and contesting municipal tax assessments of large commercial and industrial properties.

We offer our clients to verify at no cost if the municipal assessment of their property is fair and equitable. If the municipal value is too high, Racine, Larochelle & Associates will take care of all the proceedings to have the municipal assessment reduced. Tax assessment review can have several components :

• Verifying municipal property assessments with respect to other comparable properties.
• Verifying the appraisal methods of municipal authorities.
• Meeting with municipal authorities to discuss assessments.
• Preparing appraisal reports for negotiation purposes.
• Providing expert witness testimony before Quebec’s assessment review body, The Tribunal administratif du Québec (TAQ).

Over the years, Racine, Larochelle & Associates has acquired an unmatched expertise in reviewing the municipal assessment of special purpose buildings.

Please notice, for a property to be declared special purpose building, it must :

• Have a municipal value
  over 5 000 000 $.
• Be in use at the appraisal date.
• Not be of a residential, administrative or commercial nature.
  

Every year, we review more than 200 cases resulting in savings of millions of dollars by our clients.