As the summer draws to a close, New Englanders take their boats out of the water, plan fall hikes and enjoy the last vestiges of warm weather. But what is on...

As written about previously, Citizen Exposes Flaws in Assessing Practices in Nashua, New Hampshire, a private citizen, Laurie Ortolano has taken on the cause...

September 3, 2019 is the deadline to challenge a municipalities’ denial of your request for refund of the 2018 real estate taxes. Please keep in mind the dea...

As written about in a previous Allobar blog, The Three Approaches to Value: The Cost, Income and Comparable Sales Methods, the sales approach is one of the ...

Effective the tax year beginning April 1, 2019, the amount of interest New Hampshire taxpayers must pay on real estate tax not paid within thirty days after ...

Yes, sometimes they can. A property may be subject to so many restrictions as to have no real value. Common area in a residential or commercial development...

Published on the New Hampshire Bar Association web site on June 21, 2013. There are still a couple of months left for taxpayers to decide where to appeal unf...

As the summer starts to heat up, assessors and appraisal companies are conducting revaluations across New Hampshire. Some of the communities that are conduct...

Every parcel of real estate in the State of New Hampshire has an assessor’s record. Commonly, we would know that record as a ‘Property Card’, ‘Assessor’s Ca...

As written about in a previous blog, municipalities in NH are required to conduct revaluations every five years. The purpose of a revaluation is to bring th...

The most counterintuitive aspect of the property tax system is the equalization ratio. If a taxpayer has very reliable information that the assessed value i...

The battle that is being fought across the country in property tax cases is the valuation of big box stores. These big box stores are generally in excess of...

Published in the February, 2019 issue of the New Hampshire Bar News and on the New Hampshire Bar Association web site. The General Court and Supreme Court e...

March 1, 2019 is the deadline to challenge your 2018 real estate taxes. Please keep in mind the deadline to challenge your 2018 real estate taxes is March 1,...

This is the time of year where everyone makes New Year’s resolutions that they are bound to break. Health club membership sales increase, and it is difficul...

From the perspective of taxpayers, the property tax certainly can seem onerous at times. The rate of the tax is based on the value of the property whether o...

Before the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, homeowners did not bear the complete burden of overpaying their property taxes because it was shared with the federal govern...

Why don’t people file for a refund for their residential property tax? The experienced professionals have seen the barriers that prevent people from receivi...

In New Hampshire, property taxpayers may file property tax abatement applications with their local municipalities by March 1 of the following year (for examp...

States have various ways of generating revenue for their operating budgets. A state like New Hampshire relies heavily on the real estate tax because it does...