A description of the procedures used to produce property assessments based on the values of properties sold is available in “Your Property Assessment: How the Town of Wellfleet Determines Property Values” on the Town’s website.
The Town of Wellfleet issued an undated press release on October 23, 2009, signed by the Town Collector, Town Treasurer, Town Assessor, and Town Accountant, on the Town website stating:
“Due to unavoidable delays in setting the tax rate the Town of Wellfleet will be accepting voluntary real estate tax payments for FY2010.
“Those taxpayers that wish to have credit for calendar year 2009 will be able to send payments made payable to the Town of Wellfleet and mailed to the Town Collector at 300 Main Street, Wellfleet, MA 02667.
“A copy of the last tax bill should be attached or the property address should be noted on the check.
“Any questions can be directed to the Town Collector at 508-349-0307.”
The Town has posted the Assessors’ Atlas FY2010 online, allowing property owners to view large-scale maps of all property parcels in Wellfleet.
Individual parcel assessments have long been available on the Assessors’ website.
WNSHA was formed because of unfairly high taxation of Seashore District properties. Now, by Massachusetts law, all property assessments have to be at or very near full and fair market value.
The Town Assessor’s information on assessments, abatements, and exemptions is here. We wrote about the Wellfleet assessing procedure in a publication WNSHA on Wellfleet assessments (2003).
Residential property sales in Wellfleet may be viewed on the Massachusetts Department of Revenue’s website (select “Wellfleet” as “Town”, “101-Single Family” as “Type”, click on “Search” for data results and map locations).