Indiana Administrative Code
Title 50 - DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE
Article 27 - ANNUAL ADJUSTMENTS AND EQUALIZATION STANDARDS
Rule 2 - Definitions
Section 2-11 - "Sales chasing" defined

Authority: IC 6-1.1-4-4.5; IC 6-1.1-31-1; IC 6-1.1-31-12

Affected: IC 6-1.1-4-4.5

Sec. 11.

"Sales chasing" has the meaning set forth in the IAAO Standard on Ratio Studies (April 2013), which is the practice of using the sale of a property to trigger a reappraisal of that property at or near the selling price. If sales with such appraisal adjustments are used in a ratio study, the practice causes invalid uniformity results and causes invalid appraisal level results, unless similar unsold parcels are reappraised by a method that produces an appraisal level for unsold properties equal to the appraisal level of sold properties. By extension, this term means any practice that causes the analyzed sample to misrepresent the assessment performance for the entire population as a result of acts by the assessor's office. A subtle, possibly inadvertent, variety of sales chasing may occur when the recorded property characteristics of sold properties are differentially changed relative to unsold properties. Then the application of a uniform valuation model to all properties results in the recently sold properties being more accurately appraised than the unsold ones.