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What is a Class 1 property?

Class 1 is not a term the City of Saskatoon uses. Some property tax systems elsewhere sort homes into numbered classes, but the City of Saskatoon instead assigns each property a class for assessment, and the residential class is taxed on 80 percent of its assessed value, a percentage the province sets rather than a class number.

What the City of Saskatoon actually uses is a property class tied to use, residential, commercial, agricultural and so on, and each class carries its own percentage of assessed value that gets taxed, which is set by the province rather than by the city itself.

That percentage of value matters more to a seller than the class label does, because assessed value and market value are not the same thing. An assessment is a snapshot from the City of Saskatoon's own cycle, while a hand-reviewed valuation looks at the property as it stands today, including improvements an assessment notice was never updated to reflect.

A property owner curious about their own class and percentage should check their assessment notice or appeal it through the Board of Revision rather than assume a term from another jurisdiction applies here. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.

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