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Old 07-21-2014, 11:35 AM
 
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Looks like I am focusing in on beechview. I found several houses in our price range. I keep hearing about outrageous taxes but it looks like taxes in beechview are about 600-1200 on properties I have looked at online. That is amazing! I pay over 7000 here in Cali. I got these numbers from a link from zillow to the county website. Is this accurate?

Anyone live in beechview that can give me first hand knowledge of the taxes, area, living there? Thanks so much. Hoping to make a trip out to see for myself soon.
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Old 07-21-2014, 11:42 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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The taxes that you see on the assessment page are only the county taxes, not the city property taxes. I'm not sure of Beechview's millage, but in our case, our county taxes are only about 1/8 of our total property tax bill!
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Old 07-21-2014, 11:45 AM
 
Location: Crafton via San Francisco
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tonyahunting, I moved to Pittsburgh from San Francisco a little over a year ago. Tax rates here are a lot higher than CA. In my case because the home price was so much lower here, my actual expenses for mortgage, property taxes, and insurance combined was still significantly less than what I was spending on housing in CA. Crunch the numbers before you buy.
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Old 07-21-2014, 11:51 AM
 
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Beechview is in the city so you have to pay Allegheny County, City of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh School District property taxes. You can do a lookup of your probable tax liability on this page from the city.
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Old 07-21-2014, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Honestly, when I bought my house (in Beechview) I didn't even think about taxes. My mortgage payment is half of what I was paying for rent so whatever my taxes are, I'm not displeased.
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Old 07-21-2014, 12:50 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Property tax rates are somewhat less in Beechview and the rest of the City of Pittsburgh, than they are in the suburbs.

However, the wage tax is a lot higher in the city than in most of the outlying areas.
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Old 07-21-2014, 12:56 PM
 
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Spam is correct, we pay more in local income tax than we do in property tax.
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Old 07-21-2014, 01:20 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Be careful. The property will be reassessed after purchase and based on different factors per county. Some of the counties haven't done an assessment in decades.
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Old 07-21-2014, 01:24 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Be careful. The property will be reassessed after purchase and based on different factors per county. Some of the counties haven't done an assessment in decades.
Not necessarily, most School Districts have a trigger price that causes them to act.
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Old 07-21-2014, 02:10 PM
 
Location: Crafton via San Francisco
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When you're crunching the numbers, figure your property taxes based on what you plan to spend for the house as opposed to the current assessment. That way you won't be in for a nasty surprise should your property value be re-assessed at the price you paid. My property is being re-assessed now, a little over a year after I bought the place. However, the previous owners only owned the place for a year so the difference between their assessment and what i paid is not too great. It can be a real shock if you buy a property that hadn't been re-assessed for a long time.
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