umm, are you guys talking U.S. dollars or Aussie dollars? My tax assessment for next year (I own my 30 yr old house) say it's for a $588,000 plus home. That's ridiculous. I have a modest, two story, three bedroom, brick, one full, one half bath home. But it's in a prime Washington DC suburb and I have a large lot with lots of huge trees and such. sigh