Fair Haven Boro NJ property tax rate 2025: 1.427 after reassessment
Fair Haven Boro, Monmouth County. 2,211 parcels in the MOD-IV 2026 file. Rate shown is tax year 2025 (latest available — not yet matched to assessment year).
2026 revaluation/reassessment town — 2026 general tax rate not in our warehouse yet. Showing 2025 rate against 2026 assessments; YoY % is withheld until the matching rate posts.
Fair Haven Boro at a glance
2,211 parcels are on the 2026 file. The 2025 general rate is 1.427, and the prior rate on file is 1.469 for 2024. A typical class 2 assessment is $1,450,540. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: 60, median $1,162,500. The state construction file lists 2,739 permits here. The median class 2 house was built in 1951. A property page adds that parcel’s permits, flood zone, mapped flood elevation, and high and low ground. Owner names are not shown.
How to read a Fair Haven Boro bill
Fair Haven Boro’s general rate of 1.427 is tax year 2025 on the 2026 assessment file. It is not a 2026 bill. The prior general rate on file is 1.469 for 2024. This municipality is on the 2026 reassessment list, so the rate move is the roll being reset. It is not, by itself, the change in the bill. School, county, and municipal shares of this rate are 63.0%, 15.2%, and 21.8%. The largest slice is schools. In Monmouth County the middle school share for rate year 2025 is 56.6% in Rumson Boro. Class 2 net assessments changed from $2,739,845,800 to $2,993,915,100, up 9.3%, on 2,063 parcels. Usable sales with a 2025 deed: median $1,162,500 (60 sales). The largest class share of net assessed value is Residential at 94.2%. State school aid is outside these bars.
Building permits in Fair Haven Boro
The New Jersey construction-permit file lists 2,739 permits in Fair Haven Boro. This file is a full record from 2021 on. Older permits are mostly missing. Work from before then can be missing here and still be at the Fair Haven Boro construction office.
2025 general tax rate in Fair Haven Boro: 1.427
This general rate is tax year 2025. The assessment file is 2026. It is not a 2026 bill.
In Monmouth County, the median municipality’s school share (rate year 2025) is 56.6%; this town is 63.0%. The largest slice here is schools. State school aid is not in these bars — it reduces the school levy before the rate is struck. All Monmouth towns · How NJ taxes work.
The school percent is the local property-tax levy. The district for this municipality is Fair Haven Boro (K-8 or K-6 local), FY2027 K–12 aid $1,159,750. The high school district is Rumson-Fair Haven Reg, FY2027 K–12 aid $1,444,602. Those aid figures are not slices of these bars. Monmouth district table.
Prior year (2024) general rate: 1.469.
Tax on a $200,000 or $500,000 sale in Fair Haven Boro
These figures use Fair Haven Boro’s own ratio and general rate. How the same sale price is calculated for every town. This is not an appraisal and not a collector bill.
2025
A $500,000 sale at the 2025 ratio of 93.91% would be assessed at about $469,550. At the general rate of 1.427, the estimated tax is $6,700. A $200,000 sale at that same ratio and rate would be assessed at about $187,820, with an estimated tax of $2,680.
In Monmouth County for 2025, the $500,000 bill runs from $1,895 in Loch Arbour Village to $11,813 in Allentown Boro. The middle bill is $7,130 in Eatontown Boro. All Monmouth towns.
See every New Jersey town on the same $200,000 and $500,000 sale for 2025.
Recent usable sales in Fair Haven Boro
These are the five newest usable deeds on the 2026 file for Fair Haven Boro. A $1 deed and a non-usable SR1A sale are left out. Each parcel stores one sale, so this is not every deed recorded in town.
| Address | Deed date | Sale price | Net assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 177 CAMBRIDGE AVE | 9/16/2025 | $1,050,000 | $1,084,800 |
| 10 FORREST AVE | 9/15/2025 | $1,135,000 | $1,131,400 |
| 83 LAKE AVE | 9/15/2025 | $1,080,000 | $1,027,000 |
| 33 BRIARWOOD ROAD | 9/10/2025 | $1,999,999 | $1,835,300 |
| 76 RIDGE ROAD | 8/29/2025 | $900,000 | $976,700 |
Owner names are not shown. The rate year and the assessment file year differ, so this table does not print an estimated tax. This is not a collector’s bill.
Highest estimated tax in Fair Haven Boro: $78,307
Residential
The highest residential estimate in Fair Haven Boro is $78,307 at 191 LEWIS LANE, on a net assessment of $5,487,500 and a 2025 general rate of 1.427.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191 LEWIS LANE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $5,487,500 | 2025 | $78,307 |
| 32 HOLLY LANE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $5,327,400 | 2025 | $76,022 |
| 85 GRANGE AVE | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $5,067,500 | 2025 | $72,313 |
| 117 BATTIN RD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $5,044,900 | 2025 | $71,991 |
| 78 PINE COVE ROAD | 2 — Residential (four families or less) | $5,030,100 | 2025 | $71,780 |
Business
The highest business estimate in Fair Haven Boro is $94,395 at 560 RIVER ROAD, on a net assessment of $6,614,900 and a 2025 general rate of 1.427.
| Address | Class | Net assessment | Rate year | Estimated tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 560 RIVER ROAD | 4A — Commercial | $6,614,900 | 2025 | $94,395 |
| 75 DENORMANDIE AVE | 4A — Commercial | $4,047,300 | 2025 | $57,755 |
| 740 RIVER RD | 4A — Commercial | $3,917,500 | 2025 | $55,903 |
| 623 RIVER ROAD | 4A — Commercial | $3,240,400 | 2025 | $46,241 |
| 21 CEDAR AVE | 4A — Commercial | $2,765,300 | 2025 | $39,461 |
Owner names are not shown. Every parcel in this town uses the same rate, so the highest tax is the highest assessment. Commercial and industrial parcels (class 4A and 4B) are the business list. Apartment buildings are class 4C and are not in that list. This is not a collector’s bill.
Ratable base in Fair Haven Boro, typical class 2 assessment $1,450,540
Class 2 residential in the MOD-IV file: 2,064 parcels, average net assessment $1,450,540.
How assessments changed
Class 2 residential net assessments changed from $2,739,845,800 to $2,993,915,100, up 9.3%, on 2,063 parcels that have both a prior net and a 2026 net. This is the reassessment roll. It is not the change in the tax bill.
Among 60 usable recorded sales whose latest deed on this file is in 2025, the median price is $1,162,500. A $1 deed and a non-usable SR1A sale are left out. Each parcel stores one sale, so this is not every deed recorded that year.
Share of net assessed value by property class (MOD-IV). Not a school-quality rating.
| Class | Parcels | Net assessed | % of net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential 2 | 2,064 | $2,993,915,100 | 94.2% |
| Vacant land 1 | 83 | $107,399,800 | 3.4% |
| Commercial 4A | 63 | $76,003,700 | 2.4% |
| Other / unclassified other | 1 | $541,816 | 0.0% |
Housing stock in Fair Haven Boro, median year built 1951
On the 2026 file, class 2 houses in Fair Haven Boro with a year built have a median year of 1951, about 75 years old. Of those 2,050 houses, the largest share was built 1940–1959. This is the assessor’s year built. It is not a ranking of towns.
By parcel count, Residential 93.4%, Vacant land 3.8%, Commercial 2.8%, Other / unclassified <0.1%. Those percentages are a count of parcels, not a share of tax dollars. The class table uses the tax-base share.
Year built
Assessor building line
Grouped from the assessor’s building abbreviation. One-family, two-family, and condo are the codes that read clearly. Other codes stay in their own group. This is not a bedroom count, and square feet are left off because most records do not include them.