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TOWN OF BETHELEHEM
Patricia McVee, Town Assessor
445 Delaware Avenue
Delmar, NY 12054
Phone: (518) 439-4955 Ext. 1101
Fax: (518) 439-1699
Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm
Assessment Data was last updated: 8/4/2008
Site Overview
This site is intended to provide you with information on real property data maintained by the Town of Bethlehem Assessor's Office. This site allows you to view property information, structure information, exemption information, property sale information and the most recent tax bill information. This site also offers the capability to perform comparable property assessment and sales searches.
In comparing properties to yours, it is important to remember that location, style, age, size, etc. are critical to the comparison process. You should review assessments and/or sales of truly similar homes in the same general market area, and make your adjustments to the assessments and sale prices of those homes to arrive at an indicated value for your home. If you are utilizing a comparable property’s assessed value and/or sale price per square foot of living area (SFLA) to make a case for an over assessment, be sure to use those derived from similar homes in similar market areas and of very similar SFLA. Otherwise your results will be skewed and will not be considered a valid comparison.
Tip: To search by a specific street address, the street address spelling must match the system street address spelling in order to select a parcel. Do not spell out the street type or use any punctuation (ex: Summit Rd, not Summit Road). You may find it easier to use the Street Finder option to select your street address.
Note: Please use the PDF Informal Review forms listed near the bottom of this page to record your property assessment comparisons to be used for your informal assessment review.
Assessment Calendar
Fiscal Year Start: January 1st
Valuation Date: July 1st of the previous year
Taxable Status Date: March 1st
Tentative Roll: May 1st
Grievance Day: 4th Tuesday in May
Final Roll: July 1st |
Town Assessment Statistics
Total Parcel Count: 13,170
Total Taxable Assessed Value: $3,128,941,346 (2007 Roll)
Total Exemption Amounts: $561,376,073 (2007 Roll)
Total Full Value: $3,673,501,172 (2007 Roll)*
2007 Equalization Rate: 92.45%
2007 Level of Assessment: 92.45% |
* To calculate full value, you divide the total assessed value by the most recent equalization rate.
Statistical Factors Used in Assessment Process
Equalization Rate (ER)
A weighted average ratio of the total assessed value in a municipality divided by the total market value. An ER of 90% indicates that assessments were made at an average of 10% lower than the market value when the equalization rate survey was made. Each roll year New York State sets the Town's equalization rate.
Level of Assessment (LOA)
The level of assessment is simply the percentage of full value at which properties are assessed within a community. In New York State, no matter what the LOA of a community, all of the assessments in that community are required by law to be at a “uniform percentage of value. In other words, if Bethlehem’s LOA is 90% of market value, then all of the properties in the town should be assessed at 90% of full market value. NOTE: when a municipality conducts a town-wide reassessment, as Bethlehem did in 2006, and all assessments are brought to full market value (LOA = 100%), and these assessments are not changed in the following year (2007), but the LOA drops to 90%, then all the assessments in 2007 are already at 90% of their full market value and require no further adjustment. However, new construction put on the rolls in 2007, especially in a rising market, as was the case in Bethlehem, would need to have its sale price (new) reduced by 10%.
Residential Assessment Ratio (RAR)
The residential assessment ratio is an indicator of the level of assessment of 1, 2 and 3 family homes within a municipality. The ratio is computed in the following manner. Appropriate (valid, arms length) sales of 1, 2 and 3 family homes ranging over a one year time period are selected. For the 2007 RAR, the sales used are from the final roll of 2006 (7/1/05 valuation date) to the final roll of 2007 (7/1/06 valuation date). A ratio is computed for each sale dividing the assessed value by the sale price. The ratios are sorted in ascending order with the median ratio (midpoint) selected as the Residential Ratio.
RARs are used by assessors as a general measure of assessment equity and by taxpayers in board of assessment review (BAR) grievances and small claims (SCAR) hearings (Please refer to the NOTE in the LOA discussions above.) The same principal applies in the use of the RAR. The Town of Bethlehem’s 2007 roll RAR is 92.56%.
TAX RATES
Property Tax Rates (2008) -
Property tax bills are mailed by January 1st of each year
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TAV=Taxable Assessed Value
County Tax: $2.835222/$1,000 TAV
Town Tax - General Fund: $0.423146/$1,000 TAV
Highway Tax: $1.242912/$1,000 TAV
Water District #1: $0.557415/$1,000 TAV
South Albany Water Ext: $0.963777/$1,000 TAV
Delmar Fire District: $0.786583/$1,000 TAV
Elmwood Park Fire District: $1.714804/$1,000 TAV
Elsmere Fire District: $0.853525/$1,000 TAV
Selkirk Fire District: $0.878499/$1,000 TAV
Slingerlands Fire District: $0.722606/$1,000 TAV
Advanced Life Support: $0.188587/$1,000 TAV
Delmar/Elsmere/Slingerlands Ambulance: $0.199610/$1,000 TAV
Bethlehem Volunteer Ambulance: $0.285085/$1,000 TAV
Bethlehem Volunteer Ambulance Ext: $0.124031/$1,000 TAV
School Tax Rates (2007) -
School tax bills are mailed by September 1st of each year.
Bethlehem Central School: $18.089200/$1,000 TAV
Bethelehem Library: $1.208500/$1,000 TAV< |
