From the Jersey Journal:
10 homes socked with huge tax hikes thanks to Jersey City reval
Jersey City is conducting its first complete property revaluation since 1988 and the new assessments have started rolling in.
Appraisal Systems, the company hired to oversee the process, has been uploading the new assessment information online, thousands of properties at a time. The company expects to release a new wave of assessments each week for the next month.
Revals are intended to square each property’s assessment — the value on city tax rolls — with its true value. Because many properties have not been assessed since 1988, the average city property is assessed at less than 24 percent of its true value.
As expected, the city’s Downtown, where property values have soared since the last reval, is home to many of the large assessment hikes — and tax increases. Excluding tax abated properties, the 500 properties with the highest tax hikes have Downtown addresses.
Property owners are still able to make informal appeals to Appraisal Systems and then formal appeals to the Hudson County Board of Taxation, so the new assessments are still only proposed. And there is no 2018 budget yet for the city, county or school district, so the tax hikes are tentative as well.
The city is predicting a new tax rate of 1.62 per $100 of assessed value.
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$36,066 tax hike: 203 Washington St. (middle), 5,972 square feet
Current assessment: $175,000
New assessment: $3,068,900
Current taxes: $13,650
New taxes: $49,716
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$29,480 tax hike: 104 Morris St. (right), 4,488 square feet
Current assessment: $125,000
New assessment: $2,421,600
Current taxes: $9,750
New taxes: $39,230
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$29,115 tax hike: 69 Sussex St., 4,696 square feet
Current assessment: $135,000
New assessment: $2,447,200
Current taxes: $10,530
New taxes: $39,645
Foist!
20e Washington st is a nice brownstone in Paulus Hook section that has beem gentrified but for 49k in taxes and no parking?
Property Taxes: The Gift that keeps on giving…..
Perhaps JC should consider fewer PILOTs.
$175k to $3 million assessment….just a tiny discrepancy there.
Enjoy the crumbs
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/cvs-hikes-wages-and-announces-q4-earnings.html
When your property taxes go from $13,650 to $49,716, you are singing this little ditty…..
https://youtu.be/lHomCiPFknY?t=1m40s
Any chance the rest of N.J. will get to stop subsidizing Jersey city?
They will adjust the tax rate to match spending, but it will still be a bitter pill to swallow.
Come on now… New Jersey is a great place to live. Pay Up. LOLOLOL.
20e Washington st is a nice brownstone in Paulus Hook section that has beem gentrified but for 49k in taxes and no parking?
Isn’t it a 4 family?
I know plenty of people paying $20k for 2 family houses in Clifton. This isn’t radically out of line.
If it’s a one family, it’s 6000 square feet, that’s large even by McMansion standards.
Jobless claims down 9k to 221k, roughly 45-year low.
Grim – yes multi – was sold a year and a half ago.
From Zillow.
09/06/16 Sold $3,125,000-10.7% $456 sq ft 9/06/16
Previuos sale was 07/15/94 Sold $237,500
From Zillow. Currently, there are three 2-bedroom units providing $77,400 in rental income per year.
I gather the new owner is going to have to raise the rent.
Yes, this is the real crime… allowing countless abatements while receiving an inordinate amount of state funding.
grim says:
February 8, 2018 at 7:27 am
Perhaps JC should consider fewer PILOTs
I gather the new owner is going to have to raise the rent.
What idiot paid $3 million for that property. The rent roll doesn’t even come close to covering PITI unless they dumped a huge down payment. That’s probably less than 3% cap rate. Shit investment.
A close second is the fact that we’re used to insane property taxes so we make comments like this.
grim says:
February 8, 2018 at 8:49 am
I know plenty of people paying $20k for 2 family houses in Clifton. This isn’t radically out of line.
For these types of Browstones built in the 1800s taxes are now very very high in Hudson County.
A friend of mine has one in Hoboken and totally renovated it. Taxes were $15k a decade ago, after Hoboken Reval taxes went up to $44k, then down after appeals to $33k.
No yard to speak of, no parking. Town tickets the crap out of you and tows every chance you get. Public schools suck. So Really? Is it worth it?
Juice Millennials are waiting longer to have kids many having one and done. And some no kids at all. So it appears they don’t care all that much about schools.
Palo Alto is pretty in the morning
No yard to speak of, no parking. Town tickets the crap out of you and tows every chance you get. Public schools suck. So Really? Is it worth it?
It’s not about that. It’s about the artisinal cupcake shop around the corner
This has been a long running joke in our family.
artisinal – code name for overpriced
Not hilarious, but absolutely true.
And fusion. Don’t forget fusion.
Speaking of.
Baking Grace (Aka Just Desserts) in Hawthorne is the best bakery in NJ. Period. No Contest.
Fusion – chef is not of the persuasion of the restaurant. Hence, Korean Tacos.
Is JC a Abbott dist as well …?
JC schools have been taken over by the state. OR at least they were in the Bebo days.
We were talking about it with my old retired coworker. Guy was hilarious. I said that artisinal has no clear definition. And he said “The definition of artisinal is that it costs 3x as much as you would expect”.
Just looked it up. Was returned to local control this past Fall.
Anybody remember Howard Jarvis, Proposition 13?
Think about it.
JC and Hoboken are both still Abbott districts, which is idiotic.
A prop 13 approach in NJ would be very interesting.
I don’t believe we have the mechanism in the state constitution to do it, do we?
Never cared much for fusion. I’m in to just about every cuisine out there but mixing never seemed to yield as good results. I’ve been to Wolfgang Puck’s restaurants and he’s the guy who really started that stuff. I’d rather have authentic cuisine. Some countries seem to be melting pots that work. Like Argentinian. Given the significant Italian popluation there, they’ve done some great things with incorporating Italian things into the Latin American cuisine.
Italian, Spanish/Portuguese, Mexican, Cuban, South/Central American, Japanese, Greek, Middle Eastern, Ethiopian. It’s all amazing stuff on its own.
Maybe it’s because most fusion places I’ve been to simply just put sesame seeds and cilantro on every damn thing. That being said, I want to try the Korean taco stand at Asbury Park.
“It smells like victory.”
Grim says:
February 8, 2018 at 9:35 am
Palo Alto is pretty in the morning
How about these guys?
http://antoinetteboulangerie.com/
grim says:
February 8, 2018 at 10:15 am
Speaking of.
Baking Grace (Aka Just Desserts) in Hawthorne is the best bakery in NJ. Period. No Contest.
BRT,
If you ever are around Bridgewater/Somerville for lunch, I’ll take you to your choice of ethnic restaurants.
Nooo, you can’t do that. It will put the company out of business or cause them to let go of workers!
Comrade Nom Deplume, whose sole regret is that he isn’t Tom Brady says:
February 8, 2018 at 7:37 am
Enjoy the crumbs
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/cvs-hikes-wages-and-announces-q4-earnings.html
Agreed re fusion. What tends to happen is the flavor tends to get toned down from the original, while the price gets hiked. Maybe there are a few exceptions if the chef is super talented and is in tight control of his kitchen. At the low end it’s basically telling a Mexican guy to for example make something halfway between Thai and American food.
“Holy Sh!t https://nypost.com/2018/02/07/st-johns-stuns-no-1-villanova/”
I miss the Big East of the 80s……
“Jobless claims down 9k to 221k, roughly 45-year low.”
careful, as the 10 approaches 3 market sentiment changes…..good news becomes bad news……
They should rejoice that they had their property taxes subsidized for this long. This is how much help they have had over the years from other state taxpayers. Now it’s time to pay fair share like everyone else.
chicagofinance says:
February 8, 2018 at 7:51 am
When your property taxes go from $13,650 to $49,716, you are singing this little ditty…..
https://youtu.be/lHomCiPFknY?t=1m40s
Suburbs looking like a value now?
Juice Box says:
February 8, 2018 at 9:12 am
For these types of Browstones built in the 1800s taxes are now very very high in Hudson County.
A friend of mine has one in Hoboken and totally renovated it. Taxes were $15k a decade ago, after Hoboken Reval taxes went up to $44k, then down after appeals to $33k.
No yard to speak of, no parking. Town tickets the crap out of you and tows every chance you get. Public schools suck. So Really? Is it worth it?
“The rent roll doesn’t even come close to covering PITI…”
Don’t know much about rental rates in the area, but $2k for a 2BR sounds cheap? Buy with intent to raise the roll?
“Palo Alto is pretty in the morning”
Really fcuking jealous. My yard – the grass – is an entire sheet of ice. Barely breaking underfoot.
People are freaks that are never happy!! Wanted inflation for how long? Can’t waot for inflation to assist me in paying off my ultra cheap loans. Planned this a long time ago, because I knew it would come.
leftwing says:
February 8, 2018 at 11:22 am
“Jobless claims down 9k to 221k, roughly 45-year low.”
careful, as the 10 approaches 3 market sentiment changes…..good news becomes bad news……
Can we make the market Great again Mr. Trump?
Comey is racing the cash register, hoping to get there pre-indictment. I’m still wondering if Comey saw himself as the supreme leader of the free world (via dirt on both Clinton and Trump), or was he was just a generic Obama stooge?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/08/comey-memoirs-release-date-moved-up-publisher-says.html
For all you – I hate the government, privatize everything.
Background. Jeb Bush as governor of FL, privatize the equivalent of DYFS/CPS. State oversees system (DFS), but contractors (aka pay to play-ers) run it (Eckerd + YFS).
Enjoy the news reports
https://youtu.be/268Y9s99yN4
Beginning on 7/14/16 (just after Brexit) I noticed a new phenomena in the market; the shelf. The stock market stayed ridiculously flat with very low volatility for somewhere around 60 days straight. Every now and then we’d have these little bungee jumps off the shelf, but then it was right back up. After a while I realized this was just a different shape to a market correction; If the stock market goes nowhere for a couple months, the endpoint is the same as if it dropped and then came back over the same period. What we are witnessing now seems to be another new shape, the elevator; a massive and short repricing of all equities. If we are up to old highs 60-90 days from now, it is no different than a shelf or a shallow downturn followed by an upturn…except for traders.
I’ve heard some noise that there was a massive and crowded trade that was short volatility outright and also selling out of the money puts, which is essentially the same thing. If true, that is the great unwinding regular investors are witnessing.
Can we make the market Great again Mr. Trump?
Don’t worry BJ Pumps, you will never have a shortage of like-minded neighbors.
Suburbs looking like a value now?
Yes left the rent roll should be closer to 120k annually, maybe a bit higher. Jersey city has a rent leveling ordinance(pretty much all new buildings are exempt, old brownstones not so much), so it is tough to raise rents on long term tenants, they’ll have to apply for a hardship increase based on the new property taxes and hope their tenants move.
Tesla with another >$3 per share loss. What is their accumulated debt? 2.2 billion? Or is that 22 billion. I’m not good with math. But hey…Elon only exercised 1.4 billion
And people laugh at Bitcoin.
Grim, NJ law doesn’t have initiative and referendum. The constitution would have to be amended to allow I and R. So a prop 13 can’t happen here. Guadagno said during campaign she supported I and R.
Pwease pwease Pwesident Twump – make the market go up!!
Are you not from NJ? Are you not familiar with NJ DFYS (or whatever they changed their name to in an attempt at rebranding post scandals)?
And there’s a difference between outsourcing and privatization – not that it always matters.
PredatoryMarkeeterNot says:
February 8, 2018 at 12:53 pm
For all you – I hate the government, privatize everything.
Background. Jeb Bush as governor of FL, privatize the equivalent of DYFS/CPS. State oversees system (DFS), but contractors (aka pay to play-ers) run it (Eckerd + YFS).
Enjoy the news reports
https://youtu.be/268Y9s99yN4
Interesting that the 10 year yield has risen so far, so fast, yet I can’t get a better 1 year brokered CD rate than was available back in December. 1.85% is still the best I can get for a true 1 year CD. Conclusion: This build in the 10 year yield might just be a mirage.
The Original NJ ExPat says:
December 27, 2017 at 11:53 am
chifi et al – Anybody looking to stash cash for a year and doesn’t necessarily believe interest rates are going to the moon? I was able to buy 1.85% FDIC insured 1 year CDs today (mature 12/28/18).
Cusip 09710LCQ6 , BofI Federal Bank, San Diego
Was thinking the same thing. Head fake?
This smells like an engineered downturn. Usually I can pin the decline to a sector, but not this time. It seems like the sh1tstorm is volatility, but the end result is just a massive P/E reducing series of farts.
But Who?
The cast of suspects is very big this time.
Hedgies, Quants and wannabes junior Vampire Squids Crowd / GS, JPM and other Senior Vampire Squids / China – Is having a big deleveraging moment / Saudi Princes that got hang upside down and have to pay big (Billions) in fines selling assets / Russia – China and other frenemies government manipulations.
Q- This smells like an engineered downturn.
It’s 86 Deg in Radiator Springs today!
Dude, the market is simply pricing in inflation that the majority of idiots never saw coming. Yes, the idiots finally realize how strong the economy is going to be. Maybe if people stopped focusing so much on short term bs, they could have seen a strong economy was coming. Instead they made claims that we are in a new norm of low rates and stagnation. So the yield moves up and they panic. Really can’t make this crap up. I’m convinced that most investors are idiots who have no patience whatsoever and only focus on the now.
The Original NJ ExPat says:
February 8, 2018 at 2:22 pm
This smells like an engineered downturn. Usually I can pin the decline to a sector, but not this time. It seems like the sh1tstorm is volatility, but the end result is just a massive P/E reducing series of farts.
Why do you continuously think there is any difference between a govt or privately run institution. They are both run by the same damn human nature. What the hell is the difference? As if the private sector is held accountable to corruption….Enron anyone? Private sector corruption makes govt corruption look like childs play. I wonder how much private sector corruption costs the avg participant in our economy. Hell, I blame private sector corruption for corrupting, oops mean lobbying, our govt to do corrupt things.
Point is, I don’t blame public or private for corruption, I blame human nature. Too bad people think smaller govt will somehow lead to less corruption. Dream on.
joyce says:
February 8, 2018 at 2:02 pm
Are you not from NJ? Are you not familiar with NJ DFYS (or whatever they changed their name to in an attempt at rebranding post scandals)?
And there’s a difference between outsourcing and privatization – not that it always matters
You want to stop the spread of govt corruption, then get rid of the ability of heavy weights in the private sector from corrupting the govt.
Get rid of pay to play.
Make elections payed for by the taxpayer.
And you just might contain corruption to an acceptable level.
Oh yea, get rid of private contracts in the military budget. They just abuse the hell out of the taxpayer.
Prob best move we could ever do…..make every single dollar spent put in a database where anyone can analyze it. You will have free audits…freaks out there will audit every one of these budgets for free to make sure there tax money is not being robbed.
Too bad that will never happen, can’t hand out sweet taxpayer funded handouts to private businesses with all that light on the budget.
A week ago the question was how high equity markets will rise.
Now everyone wants to know how far equity markets will fall.
Is it time for SRS and TBT?
Floor is milked with pumpkin jizz yet again. That boy pumps like he never had a Dad.
Expat,
Cry me a river!
Of Dad tears?
“Interesting that the 10 year yield has risen so far, so fast, yet I can’t get a better 1 year brokered CD rate than was available back in December. 1.85% is still the best I can get for a true 1 year CD. Conclusion: This build in the 10 year yield might just be a mirage.”
Cha-CHING. That’s bank interest rate spread cash register ringing for Q1….and don’t forget the desk profit……..
Stupidity and unnecessary risk. Passive investing if done right is almost impossible to lose. Leave it to the masses to f that up. Unreal.
“The volatility of recent weeks is cause for concern, Icahn said, adding that he doesn’t remember a two-week period as turbulent as this one. He said the problem is that too much money is flowing into the index funds, where investors don’t know what they’re actually investing in.
“Passive investing is the bubble right now, and that’s a great danger,” he said.
Eventually, that will implode and could lead to a crisis bigger than in 2009, he added.
“When you start using the market as a casino, that’s a huge mistake,” Icahn said.”
Stupidity and unnecessary risk. Passive investing if done right is almost impossible to lose. Leave it to the masses to f that up. Unreal.
“The volatility of recent weeks is cause for concern, Icahn said, adding that he doesn’t remember a two-week period as turbulent as this one. He said the problem is that too much money is flowing into the index funds, where investors don’t know what they’re actually investing in.
“Passive investing is the bubble right now, and that’s a great danger,” he said.
Eventually, that will implode and could lead to a crisis bigger than in 2009, he added.
“When you start using the market as a cas!no, that’s a huge mistake,” Icahn said.”
Dude ….. STFU …..this is more of a LTCM moment….kind of like AIG-lite….some people fcuked up and there is collateral damage…..you may be correct on the trigger, but the rest of it is WAY over your head….
The Great Pumpkin says:
February 8, 2018 at 3:13 pm
Dude, the market is simply pricing in inflation that the majority of idiots never saw coming. Yes, the idiots finally realize how strong the economy is going to be. Maybe if people stopped focusing so much on short term bs, they could have seen a strong economy was coming. Instead they made claims that we are in a new norm of low rates and stagnation. So the yield moves up and they panic. Really can’t make this crap up. I’m convinced that most investors are idiots who have no patience whatsoever and only focus on the now.
The Original NJ ExPat says:
February 8, 2018 at 2:22 pm
This smells like an engineered downturn. Usually I can pin the decline to a sector, but not this time. It seems like the sh1tstorm is volatility, but the end result is just a massive P/E reducing series of farts.
Stock market volatility great for real estate, just sayin.
Assuming rates don’t get to high perhaps. Too early in the game at this point.
Suppose Trump should stop telling the 401K genius story now.
Completely disagree.
Grim says:
February 8, 2018 at 4:42 pm
Stock market volatility great for real estate, just sayin.
it’s 4:20 somewhere