What Kind of Jobs Do You Guys Have That Allow You to Pay Such High Property Taxes?!

[Cincinnati_Kid]

Birmingham has sky-high taxes. Probably the highest in metro Detroit outside of the Detroits and Pontiacs of the region.

The upside is you get a lot for your money. Tons of parks and rec, amazing snow removal, and urban gems like the Shain Park.

It's debatable whether Birmingham is a deal, though. You get a ton of services in Bloomfield Township too, and much lower taxes.

And, in Troy, you get very good [[but not Birmingham-good) services, and super-low taxes. Troy is probably better dollar-for-dollar than most Oakland County suburbs.

I had heard Southfield has the highest property taxes in Oakland County, I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time.

[EastsideAl]

Actually, property taxes in Detroit are not any higher, and oftentimes lower, than in other major cities around the country. I was a homeowner in both San Francisco and NYC in the past, and my property taxes in both of those places were definitely higher than here in Detroit. And I have relatives in New Jersey where the average property tax is over $6,500 per year, and in some cases a lot higher.

The real problem in Detroit, as is so often noted, is what you get for your money...

[Dexlin]

The real problem in Detroit, as is so often noted, is what you get for your money...

Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show? NYC and San Francisco are ridiculously priced because they have super valuable land; they are world cities. Detroit can't even begin to justify its property taxes given how cheap land is in the city and the urban experience one receives for your money. Detroit's property taxes are not a reflection of its value, rather, straight-up, a decades'-long political calculation to try and fend off insolvency, and now it's been revealed that Detroit only gets 14% of its entire revenue from property taxes, with even a city like Pontiac, if the News had the facts right, getting upwards of 60% of its revenue from property taxes. It blows my mind that for as physically large as Detroit [[meaning that Detroit was once successful because of the sheer amont of land it had), that they are only collection 14% of their revenue from property values.

[CountrySquire]

A friend who has a 3000 SqFt house in Birmingham pays $10K per year in taxes.

[rondinjp]

A friend who has a 3000 SqFt house in Birmingham pays $10K per year in taxes.

That tax rate is the same for any house over 2500 sq feet in the Grosse Pointes.