From the Red Bank Hub:
Red Bank’s tax base more than doubles
The total value of taxable property in the borough has increased from around $968 million to more than $2.2 billion after completion of the recent borough-wide reassessment.
Neil Rubenstein, president of Realty Appraisal Co., the firm that conducted the reassessment of borough properties, said Tuesday the total property assessment for the borough had increased more than 2 1/2 times from the previous level.
Rubenstein said taxpayers will have a chance to appeal the assessment increases.
Borough residents and other property owners received letters last week notifying them of the new, and invariably higher, assessed value of their properties.
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Danny Murphy, owner of Danny’s Steakhouse and Seafood Grill, Bridge Avenue, questioned Rubenstein on the accuracy of recent comparable sales.“A year ago,” he said, “the real estate market was hot. It’s been going down, so how can the sales of a year ago tell you anything about values now?”
Borough Tax Assessor Mitchell Elias, who was also present at the council meeting, said that the new assessed value of properties in the borough is based on what the market value of the property was on Oct. 1, 2006.
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Elias said that Realty Appraisal was required to look at neighborhood property sales for the past three years, but that more weight was given to the prices that properties had sold for in 2006.David Prown, Hillside Place, asked, “What if the most current sale in your neighborhood occurred during the hot period in the real estate market?”
Elias said that other, similar neighborhoods were also looked at, and that comparable sales of comparable houses in comparable neighborhoods were inspected to arrive at the assessments.
here is the easy to figure out how one will make out with the revaluation if your property’s assessment was 2 1/2 x’s your older value your OK if it is lower than 2 1/2 X’s your tax will be lower ,if it is higher than 2 1/2 x’s…your screwed !
NORTH DOVER, TOMS RIVER has an ongoing house-to-house Revaluation inspection and the result would effect next year !!!
Real Estate/Home prices in North Dover doubles in just approx. 3 years !!!
OK so you want the value of your house you paid $286,000 in March of 2002 to be valued at $984,000 now, but you don’t want to pay the taxes on a $984,000 house…
roger that.
I still think that if a locality wants to increase the assessed value on a home, they need to offer to buy it at that value, or reduce the assessment. If the locality wants to increase property tax revenues, they should do so by hiking rates.
People get to vote on tax rates, they don’t get to vote on assessments.
Real Estate/Home prices in North Dover doubles in just approx. 3 years !!!
Not any more they dont. The taxes will but the house values have been on a major decline.
Don’t worry with Corzine’s latest budget most property taxes will double within 5 years anyway !….remember the movie NO WAY OUT…that should be our motto