Property Tax Appeals · Connecticut
Appeal your property taxes
in Connecticut.
Connecticut towns assess property at 70% of fair market value as of the October 1 grand list date, with a full revaluation at least every five years. To contest your value, you file a written application with your town’s Board of Assessment Appeals by February 20 and appear at a March hearing — New Englanders often call the resulting reduction an abatement. If the board won’t move, you can take the case to Superior Court. Revaluation years are when values jump and when appeals are most worth a hard look.
Written appeals to your town’s Board of Assessment Appeals are due February 20 (March 20 in towns granted a grand list extension). Hearings follow in March.
Because of the 70% ratio, the assessment on your card isn’t the town’s market-value claim — divide by 0.70 to see what the assessor really thinks your home is worth, then test that number. A licensed appraisal pegged to the October 1 valuation date answers it directly.
The evidence
Boards act on value,
not frustration.
However Connecticut labels the process, the case underneath is identical: show what your home was actually worth on the assessment date. A licensed, USPAP-compliant appraisal — comparable sales, documented adjustments, a signed opinion of value — is that showing. Start with the $5 check to see if the numbers are on your side before you spend real money.
- Valued as of your assessment date — not today
- Comparable sales with adjustments and citations
- Signed by a state-licensed CT appraiser
- Phone walkthrough — no stranger in your home
- Delivered in 48–72 hours, rush available
Connecticut counties
Connecticut questions
File a written appeal with your town’s Board of Assessment Appeals by February 20 (March 20 where the grand list was extended). The board hears cases in March.
Connecticut assesses at 70% of fair market value. To check the town’s actual opinion of value, divide your assessment by 0.70 — that implied market value is what your appeal contests.
You present evidence of market value as of October 1 — comparable sales with adjustments, the core of a licensed appraisal — to a panel of local officials. Decisions arrive by mail; further appeal goes to Superior Court.
We’re not an AVM, a computer model, or a real-estate agent estimate. Every report is prepared under the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and signed by a licensed appraiser in your state — the same qualification required for mortgage appraisals.