The Fair Share Report

109 E 23rd St

Ship Bottom, NJ 08075

The town catches up with market prices only once a year — and only based on the average change of all homes in the area. This report checks whether this house's assessment kept pace.

This home's payments are about right

It sits inside Ship Bottom's normal range — market price changes haven't singled it out. No case for a tax appeal.

Step 1 · Market value

≈ $762,349

Likely range $674,475 – $1,078,505, from 12 comparable Ship Bottom sales in the past 18 months (home size estimated from assessor data — range widened).

Step 2 · The Director's Ratio

53.09%

The state's official measure of how far Ship Bottom assessments sit below market value — republished every October, applied town-wide. A $762,349 home should be assessed near $404,731.

Step 3 · Assessed value

$310,000

Set at the last town-wide revaluation and mostly frozen since. That's $94,731 below what the ratio math suggests (23.4%).

Step 4 · The tax rate — same for every Ship Bottom home

$1.241 per $100 assessed

$0.249 Schools · 20% $0.567 County · 46% $0.425 Town · 34%

Step 5 · The bill

$3,847/yr
Public schools$772
Ocean County$1,758
Town of Ship Bottom$1,318
Ship Bottom average$8,589

This home vs. every recent Ship Bottom sale · assessed ÷ market

Town median 44.0%
This home · 40.7%

23%67%

The evidence · comparable sales (SR1A usable-sale records)

AddressSoldPriceSq ftRatio
101 E 30TH ST2025-05$1,350,0001,00836.3%
253 W 21ST ST2025-01$999,99983433.1%
276 W 16TH ST UNIT "1"2025-10$731,00086446.0%
707 BARNEGAT AVE2025-06$650,0001,02451.5%
2109 CENTRAL AVE2025-12$765,0001,09345.9%
2109 CENTRAL AVE2025-06$729,0001,09348.1%
123 E 17TH ST C17.022025-09$885,00078058.7%
104 E 17TH ST2026-05$825,0001,06250.4%
280 W 15TH ST2025-08$2,000,00039.5%
1810 CENTRAL AVE UNIT #152026-02$725,00086053.9%
1810 CENTRAL AVE UNIT #132025-01$735,00086053.1%
255 W 27TH ST2025-09$1,750,00090043.4%

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