Revaluator expands Valuation Analytics with Permit Review, a discovery queue for the tax roll

Revaluator LLC today announced Permit Review, the newest module in the Valuation Analytics suite - and a capability no comparable-sales tool ships: a discovery queue that finds improvements that have not reached the tax roll.

The analysis that adds to the tax base

Every other study in the suite defends value; Permit Review finds it. Counties hold two records that rarely talk to each other — the building permits that say what was built, and the assessments that may not reflect it. Permit Review crosses them and ranks every parcel by how strongly the evidence disagrees:

• New-construction permits on parcels still carrying no building value — near-certain unassessed improvements
• New construction the record's year built never caught up to
• Certified remodels and additions the record does not reflect
• Permit dollars that dwarf the current building value
• Open permits old enough that the work is likely complete

In validation against a live county dataset, the queue surfaced dozens of recent new-construction permits on parcels with no building value on the roll — millions of dollars of likely unassessed improvements — alongside a ranked worklist of thousands of parcels worth a second look. Discovery of unlisted and underlisted property is a statutory duty for North Carolina counties; Permit Review turns it from a canvassing project into a sorted queue. Like every review tool in the suite, it changes no record: it ranks candidates by evidence strength, and the appraiser confirms.

One suite, the whole valuation workflow

Permit Review joins a suite that now covers the full arc of mass-appraisal analytics: comparable sales with per-comp reports that show their arithmetic, IAAO ratio studies with confidence intervals, commercial income analysis, vacant land studies, sales verification, and printable appeal packs — capabilities counties normally assemble from a CAMA module, a separate analytics package, a discovery vendor and a consulting engagement. Because every module reads the same evidence — the county's own sales, buildings, deeds and permits — each one strengthens the others: the permits that flag an unassessed home are the same permits that caveat a comparable's condition at sale.

Availability

Valuation Analytics, including Permit Review, is available now to licensed counties, built on the county's own published assessment, sales and permit data. Counties that would like it connected to their data should contact the Revaluator team.