Is my Sturbridge assessment too high?

Sturbridge bills twice a year. The town's own billing page puts the first half on November 1, or thirty days after the bills are mailed if later. An abatement is due with that first actual fall installment. The printed due date on the bill is the one that controls.

The Sturbridge Board of Assessors. Assessed-value questions stay with the town, not a Worcester County board. If the town does not resolve it, the next rung is the state's Appellate Tax Board. Assessing sits inside the town Finance Department with the collector.

Sturbridge values property as of January 1 using sales along a tourism and Route 20 corridor as well as quieter residential streets. A village-adjacent sale can lift a block that never listed. The tax bill then follows that January 1 number until someone takes it up.

Not yet. Massachusetts is not a live FairAppeal market. When it is, there are no upfront costs. You pay only if FairAppeal saves you money, and the fee is a percentage of your first year's tax savings. Until then, this page is only the Sturbridge clock, not a filing kit.

The Board of Assessors cannot take a late abatement. A new fiscal year brings a new January 1 value and a new fall clock. There is no makeup window inside the same fiscal year. The next chance is the next fall bill.