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Hi everyone. My husband and I have decided that we are tired of living in queens and would like to move out to Long Island to have more space, better schools, and just an overall nicer quality of life. The only problem is we cant seem to settle on an area. Most important to us is very good school district as we have young boys. Next we would like to buy a new construction, our budget is around 1 million. We would like to keep taxes around 20kish max. Also my husband commutes into queens daily for work so not too far out for his drive every day. Can anyone recommend us some places we should look into? Can anyone shed some light on the plainview/syosset area? Thank you so much.
Syosset is a good school district but further away from Queens. I suggest looking into Jericho, Manhasset, Garden City, Roslyn, Great Neck or Herricks.
I think all new construction will probably be over 20k in taxes for a large home.
Hi everyone. My husband and I have decided that we are tired of living in queens and would like to move out to Long Island to have more space, better schools, and just an overall nicer quality of life. The only problem is we cant seem to settle on an area. Most important to us is very good school district as we have young boys. Next we would like to buy a new construction, our budget is around 1 million. We would like to keep taxes around 20kish max. Also my husband commutes into queens daily for work so not too far out for his drive every day. Can anyone recommend us some places we should look into? Can anyone shed some light on the plainview/syosset area? Thank you so much.
Greenwich, Connecticut you will pay less taxes than Long Island. The schools are one of best in CT, lower property taxes, 38 min commute to NYC by express Metro North train, big space, parks and quiet.
Hi everyone. My husband and I have decided that we are tired of living in queens and would like to move out to Long Island to have more space, better schools, and just an overall nicer quality of life. The only problem is we cant seem to settle on an area. Most important to us is very good school district as we have young boys. Next we would like to buy a new construction, our budget is around 1 million. We would like to keep taxes around 20kish max. Also my husband commutes into queens daily for work so not too far out for his drive every day. Can anyone recommend us some places we should look into? Can anyone shed some light on the plainview/syosset area? Thank you so much.
That is why I specifically asked about syosset/Plainview, we seem to be finding many new constructions within our price range. Our current home is approx 2000 square feet on a 40x100 lot...these homes I am seeing are 3400 square feet on huge (by queens standards lol) lots. To me it seems almost to good to be true that there are actually nice affordable neighborhoods out there with good schools within a decent proximity to the city. Is there anything to be wary of in that part of the island? I know places like Manhasset are great but they are just so expensive, we are really looking to dramatically change our quality of life, seems like we'd be in the same boat around great neck/Manhasset area.
^ there are new construction ~$1mil houses going up in Plainview all the time these days. Many have sold at $800-$900k. The lots will be about 100x60 and upwards of 3k sqft. The area is exactly what you're looking for - good schools & safe while being close enough to Queens and quick access to all highways. Have to watch out for taxes though, as they will not stop at 20k for long. It's interesting you call it affordable - the skewed taxes are a huge drain on all of our pockets regardless of income. Syosset has slightly better schools if you go by rankings and scores, but I don't know about their new-housing stock. Feel free to PM me for specific area questions.
That is why I specifically asked about syosset/Plainview, we seem to be finding many new constructions within our price range. Our current home is approx 2000 square feet on a 40x100 lot...these homes I am seeing are 3400 square feet on huge (by queens standards lol) lots. To me it seems almost to good to be true that there are actually nice affordable neighborhoods out there with good schools within a decent proximity to the city. Is there anything to be wary of in that part of the island? I know places like Manhasset are great but they are just so expensive, we are really looking to dramatically change our quality of life, seems like we'd be in the same boat around great neck/Manhasset area.
Not really other than people can be snooty and there's a bit of a 'keeping up with joneses' attitude.
There are 14 new construction homes currently for sale in Plainview. Plus I am aware of at least 2 more that will be on the horizion. All these homes where originally small ranches or capes there were razed for the new home. 1mm will absolutely get you new construction in Plainview, Syosset that could be a stretch. Taxes 20k max is probably not going to happen. Don't listen to the realtor or builder they will both lie to you. When they say taxes 12k that was on the old 1200 sq ft cape not the new home. Usually the true taxes won't appear for 1-2 years after closing.
Both Syosset and Plainview are fine, Syosset has much more overall wealth in it's schools due to North Syosset, Muttontown and some of the wealthy north shore ares that are zoned for there schools. You can't go wrong with either, I looked at both towns.
This house is around 10k w/ star a quick glance at the county site it looks like starting in October for the 18/19 tax year it's going to be around 31-32k w/ star. After the win the grievance my bet is it will be 25-26k http://www.mlsli.com/homes-for-sale/...1803-182441464
I doubt you will get new construction on a Syosset home for $1 mil. There are homes that have a Syosset address but are Hicksville schools, be very careful since you are not familiar with the area.
$1 mm in Plainview, unreal. Good luck with your home search.
Thank you for the advice! We will be eliminating our mortgage and tuitions by moving so essentially we will just be paying taxes, our taxes on our home now are just over 10k in queens! So many things to consider...So stressful. Sometimes I wish we could just jump ship and head out of state!
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