Enfield Things

  Unless we acknowledge the real forces behind rising property taxes in Enfield, we risk blaming the wrong people — and repeating the same mistakes. The revaluation now underway—the one that affects the 2026 fiscal year—may deliver a tax hike as steep, or worse, than the last one. Since the 2021 revaluation, property taxes have increased nearly 19% . But much of that wasn’t due to runaway spending—it was a shift in who pays. Homeowners, in particular, took the hit. Using my own Southwood Acres ranch as an example: My assessment rose 27% in 2021. My taxes rose about $800 between 2022 and 2025. Roughly $355 of that increase—about 45%—was directly tied to revaluation. That 45% didn’t improve our schools, parks, or roads. It didn’t fund new services. It simply corrected an imbalance in the grand list—and left many residents feeling squeezed. Why It’s Happening The short answer: residential values are soaring. Commercial and industrial values are not. That imbalance is shifting a greate...