New Jersey’s Authority On Real Estate And Property Tax Matters

What Is A Property Tax Assessment?

A property tax assessment is the value placed on a property by each individual town’s assessor. The assessment may reflect exactly the market value of the property, or maybe only a small percentage of the actual current market value of the property, depending on the state issued ratio between market and assessment value.

For example, some towns may only be assessing at 20 percent of market value, meaning that a $100,000 assessment actually implies a $500,000 market value of the property.