The average homeowner will pay about $840 in general county property taxes, or between $15 and $20 less than this year.

Most older homeowners, especially outside Manhattan, pay less than $2,000 in property taxes.

Homeowners in the experimental neighborhood paid from $350,000 to $390,000 for their homes.

The average homeowner pays more than $6,000 in taxes a year.

Yet the average homeowner only pays about $4,500 in taxes a year.

Homeowners pay an association tax equal to 3.5 percent of a property's assessed value.

Some homeowners would pay as much as 52 percent more.

That means an average homeowner with a $230,000 house will pay $424 in garbage taxes next year, half his total town tax bill of $829.

The homeowner pays $24.70 to list details of the property for a year.

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