Real estate taxes

By law, all real property in a town must be assessed at a uniform percent of value — but in Riverhead, that figure has fallen to 7.73% of market value, 46 years after the last town-wide update.

Transfers of real estate in the Town of Riverhead and selected hamlets in the Town of Southampton reported for RiverheadLOCAL by Suffolk Vision title service on Oct. 20, 2023.

Calling the town's valuation of the 350-acre golf club "improper" and based on "wishful thinking" of its potential for residential development, a State Supreme Court judge ordered the assessed valuation of the Friar’s Head Golf Club in Baiting Hollow reduced by more than 60 percent.