Don’t Get Spaced Out of Real Estate Profits
Don’t Get Spaced Out of Real Estate Profits
When pricing properties, sellers, sales agents, and appraisers frequently use price per square foot comparisons. For example, a 1,500-square-foot property listed at $350,000 would figure out at $233 per square foot.
The agent or seller then might toss in a [...]
Entries from April 2008
Don’t Get Spaced Out of Real Estate Profits
April 11th, 2008 · No Comments
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Tax Board of Revision and Revisions
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Meeting its owner’s request halfway, the Lorain County Board of Revision knocked off millions from the value of the former Lorain Ford plant, reducing its property tax assessment from $28 million to $16.5 million.
That’s thousands of dollars of savings in property taxes, but the plant’s owner, Industrial Realty Group, claims it should only be [...]
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State of Florida Property Tax Reforms
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
HOT NEWS! Bill HR 1876 has passed the House and is now in the hands of the Senate of this bill is to alleviate homeowners from the tax burden from a short sale. ( something similar to the tax exemption for principal residence). This bill is a sure bet on passing! It will eliminate [...]
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Warnings of Fall in US Housing Prices
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
The property value of U.S. homes will fall by $1.2 trillion, and “at least” 1.4 million homeowners will lose their properties to foreclosure in 2008, according to a study released Tuesday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Council for the New American City. The study, prepared by forecasting firm [...]
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Taxes 2008
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
The process doesn’t have to be painful though. That’s where preparation comes in. While most folks don’t like to think about taxes at this time of year, this is exactly the time when doing a little extra ruminating on your tax situation can spare you agony down the line, not to mention [...]
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Real estate gifts fulfilling fantasies and even needs
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
As the holidays come panting to our doorstep and the home becomes ground zero for our sugar plum dreams and nightmares, I’ve been thinking about all the ways real estate influences our experience of this time of year. For those lucky enough to occupy nice places, the holidays often bring a new [...]
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Senate Throws Out Single Most Needed Step to Help Hundreds of Thousands of American Families Keep Their Homes
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
WASHINGTON, April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — More than 15
national organizations (listed below) issued the following joint statement
in response to the Foreclosure Prevention Act and its failure to include
bankruptcy measures:
“The Senate Housing package misses the single most significant step
needed to help the 20,000 American families with subprime loans that are
losing their [...]
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