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12 Warminster residents win lowered taxesBy KEVIN HANEY Intelligencer Staff Writer About a dozen homeowners on Newtown Road in Warminster fought for and won lower real estate tax assessments after they appealed recent assessment increases, but three other homeowners on the road whose assessments were not reduced remain angry at the county.We'd like to know why, Ada Parry, one of the Newtown Road residents whose assessments were left the same after an appeal to the county Board of Assessment Mrs. Parry and two other neighbors whose assessments were not reduced live on Newtown Road, just north of Street Road.In August, the county board of assessment raised assessments on the residential properties on Newtown Road.At the time, the board identified the neighborhood as a soft area, that is, an area where assessments had not kept up with real estate market values.After kn evaluation by appraisers from the assessment board, the assessments were raised on the properties in the area by an average of GO percent The residents appealed the increases in September. Most of the residents received some reduction in their assessements, some by as much as $1,000 in value.Mrs. Parry said she and her two other neighbors were upset when they learned they were the onlyowners who had not received some reduction.I told them I hope somebody does a rotten trick like this on them, the elderly woman said.I’m not finished with it yet, vowed Allen Smith. Mrs. Parry’s neighbor and a person who did not have his assessment reduced.George Haas, chairman of the assessment board, said the properties were not reduced the properties were not reduced the properties were not reduced because the three in question were closer to Street Road than the other properties.Because of their location, those properties have a higher value because of their potential for commercial development, Haas said.The (real estate market) sales indicate the properties are worth much more than that, Haas claimed.Haas also noted the assessments reflect less than the 25 percent of market value that properties are supposed to be assesssed atHowever, Smith said he may fight his assessment in the courts.They did not give me a reason for not lowering it, he claimed.Among assessements reduced in the area was the Feite property, which was reduced from $9,900 assessed value to $8,600.However, Michael Feite said he was not satisfied with the $1,300 reduction.I’m reappealing because I don't think it’s enough, ” he said.
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Doylestown Intelligencer
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Mon, Oct 23, 1978
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