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Recent Published Property Tax Articles
Stephen Nowak: Optimize Revenue While Minimizing Property Tax Valuation
Ancillary services have become a crucial revenue generator in student housing and can help owners improve occupancy, justify higher rents and increase tenant satisfaction. In an industry that often correlates income with market value, however, it is critical to distinguish ancillary service revenue from real estate value and property tax...
Read moreProperty Tax Disaster Overshadows Memphis
Outdated valuations create risk of assessment increases under Shelby County's 2025 reappraisal.
In late 1811 and early 1812, West Tennessee's New Madrid Fault produced several earthquakes greater than magnitude 7.0, swallowing the town of Little Prairie, Missouri, in liquefaction and temporarily reversing the flow of the Mississippi River to crest its...
Read moreSingle-Family Rental Communities Suffer Excessive Taxation
To tax assessors, an investor's single-family, build-to-rent neighborhood is a cluster of separately valued properties.
Multifamily investors are accustomed to paying property taxes based on an assessor's opinion of their asset's income-based market value. But for the growing number of developers and investors assembling communities of single-family homes and townhomes for...
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