Annual Property Inspections

The Request for Information helps the County verify our assessment details. It also allows property owner the opportunity to provide this information at their convenience.

If you are located within the slated re-inspection zone and receive an RFI, an Assessor will still complete a routine drive by of your property to update photos and if needed, to verify the information submitted from the RFI. An Assessor may visit your door if additional information is required or if the RFI was not completed. If desired, a property owner may also request a full inspection of their property to review details with an assessor.

To request an inspection, call 780-513-3952.

If you requested, and the County issued, a development permit, or if any other significant changes were made to your property in the past year, Assessors may visit your property to check your progress.

The purpose of these visits is to ensure that all characteristics of the property are taken into consideration when the Assessor is determining the property's value. This ensures the assessment is fair and accurate.

Each year County Assessors will visit a segment of County properties as part of a five-year re-inspection cycle. If your property is included in the identified zone, you will be visited.

The purpose of these inspections is to confirm that the County's data assessment records are correct and up-to-date so an accurate Assessment can be developed.

Properties that were recently inspected or have had no drastic changes made to the property will not be visited. All information collected during the inspection is subject to the Freedom of Information and Privacy of Protection Act.  

Each year, Alberta Municipal Affairs audits each municipality's assessment results to ensure they are complete, correct, and meet the quality standards set out in the MGA, Regulations, and Minister's Guidelines. Assessment Auditors examine the Assessor's required data submissions and reports back to the municipality upon completion. 

Assessors determine property values using similar variables to those used by real estate agents and appraisers, including:

• Size of lot
• Lot services
• Style of building (examples: bungalow, bi-level, store, shop)
• Size of building
• Year built
• Building condition
• Building finishings (examples include: exterior finish, countertop, type of flooring, basement finish)
• Fireplaces, air conditioning, or other special features
• Garage (examples: size, detached or attached, heated)
• Site or location influences (examples: golf course, lake, park, ravine, river valley, commercial, institutional, multi-family, traffic)
• Outbuildings such as sheds.

Data collection may be in the form of a physical inspection, in-person or phone interview, by mail-in questionnaire or using electronic data available through photos, land titles, real estate listings etc. Your assessment is only as accurate as the information provided to, or gathered by, the Assessor.

If you have recently purchased the property the Assessor may also ask for information about the sale to determine if it can be used as an indication of typical market conditions.

The Municipal Government Act states in Part 9 Division1 section 294 (1),(2),(3)

294(1) After giving reasonable notice to the owner or occupier of any property, an assessor may at any reasonable time, for the purpose of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the assessor under Parts 9 to 12 and the regulations,

(a) enter on and inspect the property,

(b) request anything to be produced (to assist the assessor in preparing the assessment or determining if the property is to be assessed), and

(c) make copies of anything necessary to the inspection.

(2) When carrying out duties under subsection (1), an assessor must produce identification on request.

(3) An assessor must, in accordance with the regulations, inform the owner or occupier of any property of the purpose for which information is being collected under this section and section 295.

The MGA says it best in Part 9, Division 1, Section 295

295(1 ) A person must provide, on request by an assessor, any information necessary for the assessor to carry out the duties and responsibilities of an assessor under Parts 9 to 12 and the regulations.

(4) No person may make a complaint in the year following the assessment year under section 460 or, in the case of designated industrial property, under section 492(1) about an assessment if the person has failed to provide any information requested under subsection (1) within 60 days from the date of the request.