How much is the conveyance tax on a typical Beacon Falls home sale?

On Beacon Falls's median single-family or condominium sale of $350,000, the state and town conveyance tax comes to $3,500: $2,625 to the state and $875 to the town.

What do homes sell for in Beacon Falls, CT?

The median arm's-length single-family or condominium sale in Beacon Falls was $350,000 between October 2024 to September 2025. The middle half of sales fell between $265,625 and $451,673.

Who pays the conveyance tax when a home sells in Beacon Falls?

In most Connecticut residential sales the seller pays both the state and the municipal conveyance tax, unless an exemption, a special rule or a contract term says otherwise.

Beacon Falls CT Conveyance Tax & Home Prices

Municipal rate: 0.25%
Median home sale: $350,000
Conveyance tax at the median: $3,500
Home sales, 2024–25: 68

What Beacon Falls charges

Beacon Falls charges the base municipal conveyance tax of 0.25% of the sale price, the rate most Connecticut towns charge.

The state adds its own tax on top. For a home or condominium it is 0.75% of the first $800,000 of the price, 1.25% of the portion from $800,000 to $2,500,000, and 2.25% of anything above that — see how the brackets work. In most Connecticut residential sales the seller pays both, unless an exemption or a contract term says otherwise; see who pays the conveyance tax.

On Beacon Falls’s median home sale of $350,000, that is $2,625 to the state and $875 to the town, or $3,500 in all.

Home sale prices in Beacon Falls

68 single-family homes and condominiums sold at arm's length in Beacon Falls between October 2024 to September 2025. The median was $350,000, and the middle half of sales fell between $265,625 and $451,673.

Type	Sales	Median
Single-family	44	$350,000
Condominium	24	$402,750

The median moved from $232,000 in the 2015 list year to $350,000 in 2024, a change of +51 percent.

Median single-family and condominium sale, Beacon Falls, by list year (a list year runs October to September). Arm’s-length sales only. A break in the line is a year the town reported no sales to the state, usually its revaluation year. Source: Connecticut Office of Policy and Management sales data.

Conveyance tax paid in Beacon Falls

Run sale by sale at today’s rates, Beacon Falls’s 2024–25 home sales carried an estimated $242,091 in conveyance tax: $181,568 to the state and $60,523 to the town. That ranks 135 of the state’s 169 towns. The town-by-town study has every town and how the estimate is built.

Nearby towns

Town	Municipal rate	Median sale	Tax at median
Bethany	0.25%	$483,000	$4,830
Naugatuck	0.25%	$325,000	$3,250
Oxford	0.25%	$528,000	$5,280
Seymour	0.25%	$355,000	$3,550

Beacon Falls in dark green, the towns next to it in light green. Every town on the map opens its own page. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file, public domain.

Common questions

What is the conveyance tax in Beacon Falls, CT?: Beacon Falls charges the base municipal conveyance tax of 0.25% of the sale price, the rate most Connecticut towns charge. The state adds its own tax on top: for a home or condominium, 0.75% of the first $800,000 of the price, 1.25% of the portion from $800,000 to $2,500,000, and 2.25% above that.
How much is the conveyance tax on a typical Beacon Falls home sale?: On Beacon Falls's median single-family or condominium sale of $350,000, the state and town conveyance tax comes to $3,500: $2,625 to the state and $875 to the town.
What do homes sell for in Beacon Falls, CT?: The median arm's-length single-family or condominium sale in Beacon Falls was $350,000 between October 2024 to September 2025. The middle half of sales fell between $265,625 and $451,673.
Who pays the conveyance tax when a home sells in Beacon Falls?: In most Connecticut residential sales the seller pays both the state and the municipal conveyance tax, unless an exemption, a special rule or a contract term says otherwise.

Sources

Primary sourceReal Estate Sales 2001-2024 GLConnecticut Office of Policy and Management, via data.ct.gov
Primary sourceReal Estate Conveyance TaxConnecticut General Assembly, Office of Legislative Research
Primary sourceConnecticut General Statutes § 12-494, Imposition of tax on conveyances of real propertyConnecticut General Assembly

Sale prices are single-family and condominium sales with no assessor non-use code, which leaves out family transfers, foreclosures and other sales that are not at a market price. Tax figures apply today’s rates. Data last updated by the state on 2026-08-12.

General information about Connecticut real estate transactions, not legal advice. Every transaction is different.