Why Assessors Trip Up on Apartment Valuations
All too often multifamily property owners are unaware of the errors assessors make in the valuation of their properties. By understanding how these mistakes...
Taking Their Cue From Hotel Owners
Considerable debate swirls around the valuation of shopping centers for property taxation. The debate focuses on whether shopping centers contain business...
How to Avoid High Property Taxes
The foundation for a property tax appeal rests on an analysis of the property's value for real estate tax purposes. The valuation analysis can be based...
Why owners of triple-net leased properties bear an unfair burden
Owners of triple-net-leased properties too often conclude that they have no reason to appeal their property tax assessments, since the property taxes...
Assessors Exploit Their Advantage
In the late 1970s, property owners were on an equal footing with the local assessor. In those days it was almost impossible to obtain important information...
How Assessors Unfairly Penalize REITs
Taxing authorities all too quickly use the sale prices paid by real estate investment trusts (REITs) as the basis for taxable value of investment-grade,...
Why Tax Consultants Can't Serve Two Masters
For many years, corporate tax officials rarely focused on the potential issue of conflict of interest as it related to hiring outside accountants and...
The Value of Understanding Property Valuation Methods
In their quest for more revenue, taxing authorities are attempting to use theories of property valuation that unfairly raise owners' property taxes. For...
Challenging the Tax Man
For property tax purposes, the huge capital investment made in large single-tenant, corporate campuses and headquarters buildings 1 million sq. ft. or...
Knowing When To Appeal a Tax Bill
Many owners ask, Should I file a property tax appeal? If your property is not valued by the tax authorities at its market value, the answer is definitely...
