Darien’s Grand List Up 1%, But Assessments on Businesses Down

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Residential property increased slightly in value but property assessments were down for town businesses in 2015, according to figures in Darien’s Grand List of tax-assessed properties, which rose a total of 1 percent in the year leading up to Oct. 1, 2015. Commercial real estate was assessed at a quarter of 1 percent below the previous year’s value, and personal property — essentially non-real estate business property that can be taxed — fell by 2.4 percent from Oct. 1 2014 to the same date in 2015. Zotos International, a beauty products company with offices at 100 Tokeneke Road, was assessed for personal property taxes in 2015 close to half of what it had been assessed in the previous year — $3,331,734, down $2,681,728 from the previous year, a drop of 45 percent (it had been assessed at $6,013,462).

Porsche 911 Carrera RS

These are the 10 Most Expensive Cars Owned in Darien

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Six Ferarris, two Porches, a Bentley and an Aston Martin Rapide possessed by Darien residents are the 10 most expensive cars in town, according to the Oct. 1, 2015 Grand List. The Grand List is compiled annually by the Town Assessor’s Office, which releases a summary report to the state every year. According to this year’s report, these are the 10 priciest cars Darien drivers owned as of three months ago (the vehicles, like real estate are assessed at 70 percent of estimated value — we’ve added back that 30 percent here):

Porsche 911 RS — $300,000 — (assessed at $210,000) — A
Ferrari 575 Superamerica — $230,000 — (assessed at $161,000) — A
Ferrari 458 Spider — $221,357 — (assessed at 154,950)
Aston Martin Rapide — $205,000 — (assessed at $143,500)
Bentley Continental GT — $188,100 — (assessed at $131,670)
Porsche 922 GT2 — $186,000 — (assessed at $130,200)
Ferrari 365 — $175,000 — (assessed at $122,500) — A
Ferrari 599 GTB — $165,714 — (assessed at $116,000)
Ferrari 458 Italia — $155,400 — (assessed at $108,780) — A
Ferrari California — $151,000 — (assessed at $105,700)

We decided not to name the taxpayers for these cars, but there are only seven of them — the first, second, seventh and ninth cars are all owned by the same man (marked with an “A” at the end of each line). Those three Ferraris and a Porche have a total estimated value of $860,400.

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These are Darien’s 10 Most Expensive Pieces of Real Estate

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These 10 pieces of real estate have the highest assessed values in town as of Oct. 1, 2015, according to the town Assessor’s Office:

(Listed by: address — assessed value (70 percent of estimated value) — owner)

137 Hollow Tree Ridge Road — $38,365, 180 — Darien Financing LLC (Avalon Darien rental apartment complex)
410 Hollow Tree Ridge Road — $37,515,030 — Wee Burn Country Club
0 Great Island Road — $30,637,760 — William C. Steinkraus (gold-medal winner in the 1968 Olympics for individual horse jumping; his Wikipedia article)
300 Mansfield Ave. — $30,003,680 — Country Club of Darien
412 Hoyt St. — $23,096,150 — Woodway Country Club
12 Shennamere Rd. — $18,565,400 — Contentiamiento LLC (Is this residence owned by Ken Tropin?