Westchester County Property Tax Appeals

Westchester County has some of the highest property taxes in the entire United States, and it also has the most complicated assessment landscape in the Hudson Valley. If you own a home here and suspect you are overpaying, working with a Westchester County Property Tax Appeals Lawyerwho knows each municipality’s rules is the surest way to put real savings back in your pocket. AAA Property Tax Appeal maintains its main office in Westchester for exactly that reason — to stay close to the assessors, hearing rooms, and courthouses where these cases are decided.

Why Westchester Is Different

Westchester is made up of six cities, nineteen towns, and twenty-three villages — and many of those villages assess independently of the town around them. Some communities, including coterminous town-villages like Scarsdale, Bronxville, and Pelham Manor, function as their own assessing jurisdiction with their own taxable status date. Some towns reassess every year; others have carried antiquated assessments for decades. The result is a patchwork where two neighbors can face completely different procedures and deadlines.

Towns and Cities We Serve in Westchester

We file grievances across every assessing unit in the county, including the towns of Bedford, Cortlandt, Eastchester, Greenburgh, Harrison, Lewisboro, Mamaroneck, Mount Pleasant, New Castle, North Castle, North Salem, Ossining, Pelham, Pound Ridge, Rye, Scarsdale, Somers, and Yorktown, and the cities of Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Peekskill, Rye, White Plains, and Yonkers.

Villages We Serve in Westchester

Because villages so often have separate deadlines, we pay special attention to them — including Ardsley, Bronxville, Buchanan, Croton-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco, Pleasantville, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, and Tuckahoe, among others.

Westchester Filing Deadlines

Deadlines vary by the type of municipality:

• Most towns: Grievance Day is in June.
• Many villages: February (some villages file in June — always confirm).
• City of White Plains: January.
• City of Yonkers: November.

Note that some jurisdictions have changed their dates in recent years, so confirming your exact deadline before relying on it is essential.

Aggressive Boards Call for a Relentless Approach

Many Westchester assessing units defend their rolls aggressively, denying grievances at the Board of Assessment Review stage and sending experienced municipal counsel to Small Claims Assessment Review hearings. Where many firms accept that first “no,” an experienced Westchester property tax appeals attorneywill press further — and, when a hearing determination is unjust, petition the Supreme Court to overturn it. That willingness to go the extra step is what separates a real result from a token reduction.

What a Reduction Is Really Worth

Because Westchester carries such high tax rates, even a modest percentage reduction in your assessment can translate into thousands of dollars in annual savings — and those savings repeat every year the lower assessment stays in place. A reduction also tends to grow more valuable over time: as tax rates climb, the dollar value of the assessment cut you secured climbs right along with them. That is why so many savvy Westchester homeowners revisit their assessment periodically rather than treating a single grievance as a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Attorney-Led From Start to Finish

Every file we accept is handled by a property tax appeals lawyer in Westchester County, not routed through an assembly line of clerks. The same attorney who screens your property reviews the comparable sales, prepares the grievance, and stands behind it if the case advances. In a county this procedurally complex, that continuity is not a luxury — it is the difference between a filing that lands and one that gets dismissed on a technicality.

Find out what you could save. Call (914) 816-2700 or request a free assessment review. No upfront fees, no hidden fees — you pay only if we lower your taxes.