For the January 1, 2026 assessment date, Indiana golf courses are valued by dividing three-year average net operating income by a DLGF-set 11.96% capitalization rate — a mechanism written into IC 6-1.1-4-42 and refreshed in an annual DLGF memo.
IC 6-1.1-4-41 requires Indiana assessors to value LIHTC properties by income capitalization — with a statutory floor tied to 5% of gross rents. Market-rate comps are legally wrong for these properties, and that's the core of most successful appeals.
How to beat an inflated 2026 Indiana commercial assessment using value = NOI / cap rate, the lowest-value rule, and rent-roll evidence the PTABOA respects.
Marion County added roughly $2B of assessed value to apartment complexes for 2026. Here's how to build an income-approach rebuttal — rent roll, NOI, cap rate selection — and present it on Form 130 and at PTABOA.
Trended 2026 office assessments often assume occupancy downtown Indianapolis doesn't have. The income approach is how owners prove over-assessment and win reductions.