Any recommendations for law firm to appeal property tax assessment in Monmouth Co?

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Alright, that’s enough - just got notification of my 2026 property tax assessment and it’s 33% higher than my 2025 assessment and 20% higher than what Zillow values the place at.

Anyone got a recommendation for a law firm to file a property tax assessment appeal? Ideally in Monmouth County.

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This is something I was wondering if towns/counties were going to do. It looks like house prices have topped out, and starting to roll over. As prices start coming back down (to more realistic prices), will these towns rush to re-evaluate all the houses, so they can boost their tax revenues?? It wouldn’t put it past them…

Many years ago (I don’t know if it still works this way) when I lived in Freehold, I went to appeal my taxes. At that time, they said I had to bring in comps of recent sales, showing that the houses sold for less than the tax assessed value. Then, they might consider the adjustment.

If that process is still in place, with these crazy sale prices lately, it might be tough to find comparable past house sales that came in under your assessment. I’d do a quick search on Zillow for past sales, and see what the numbers look like.

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My tax’s jumped $ 550. Last quarter, the school tax jumped 22%

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Between Senior Freeze, Anchor, and Stay NJ our taxes will have gone down by 6500 bucks. If Sherrill gets rid of this program I will be forced to leave this god awful state. That is the only thing keeping me here.

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AI-searched for some firms, this place appears to have been “in the game” for a while, trying them:

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I’d also suggest getting a copy of your assessment card. when my town was doing a reassessement about 10 years ago, they had my house being built in 1957. I live in an old craftsman that was built in 1917. I sent all the documentation I could scrounge and ended up shaving 1/3 off the new assessment.

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same here. my town has my home listed as built when the town incorporated in 1921, not when house was built in late 1890s.

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Ours are up $3k over 2 years. The Dems hate our town and have massively cut school funding
As for fighting the assessment, before you pay someone it’s best for you to do some research to see if it’s worth it.

Retired commercial real estate broker here.
Go though the “Pink Sheets” which are the public records showing sales in your town. Sift though to find the ones that are closest to your home both in location and size and see where you fit. If your assessment is much more, then you have a fight you can win. If not then you might be pissing in the wind.

You can do a non-guaranteed preliminary search using Zillow. Some listing my not be perfectly correct. It may not list details like quick claim / family sales. If you see a number that seems out of place that could be why.
https://www.zillow.com/nj/sold/