Anchorage holds more property-appeal hearings, as hundreds of over-assessed homes get lower valuations

Anchorage property owners contesting their 2026 assessments get six more Board of Equalization hearings the week of Aug. 24 at City Hall. The board — private citizens the Assembly appoints to hear appeals over alleged valuation errors — has been working through an unusually large backlog: it nearly doubled in size this spring, to 21 seats, after the Assembly added 12 members to face down nearly 2,000 pending appeals.

Some of those disputes have already borne out. A separate city review found about 660 homes were over-assessed and will get lower valuations, after four neighborhoods were graded too high on construction quality. Assessments changed an average of about 4 percent this year.

The deadline to file an appeal, with a refundable deposit, passed in February, though the Assembly later opened a path for late appeals.