American Property Tax Counsel
Recent Published Property Tax Articles
Look Beyond Price to Cut Property Taxes
The Purchase amount isn't necessarily a valid proxy for taxable value.Multifamily Property owners and Appraisers are often creatures of habit. They generally calculate a property's value for tax purposes the same way they do for an investment. If an apartment complex recently traded for 10 million, the buyer's appraiser may reason...
Read moreAssessment Shock and Awe in NYC, and your Properties are the Target
The newly released New York City Tax Assessment Roll had a total market value of$1.258 trillion. These results are shockingly bad news for the real estate industry. On average, tax assessments increased by about 9.4 percent.
The breakdown of increases in the assessments are also very surprising, with residential apartments growing...
Read moreValue the Dirt or the Dollars?
Property taxes should reflect the value of the real estate being taxed, not the needs of governmental entities that share in the tax. However, assessors are under increasing pressure to maintain or enhance property tax revenue. The result is a growing and improper tendency by assessors to use the success...
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