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Episode 014: Business Divorce Stories: Business Appraiser Tony Cotrupe and Attorney Jeff Eilender
Episode 1: Chris Mercer Interview on Marketability Discount: Part 1
Episode 2: Chris Mercer Interview on Marketability Discount: Part 2
Episode 11: Mediating Business Valuation Disputes: Conversation with Arthur Rosenbloom
Developer beware! In Wisconsin, assessors may use an “anticipated” vacancy in making assessments. Veritas Village LLC, the owner of a property with 189 apartments in Madison, contested the city's assessment of its property at...more
Did you recently receive a real property revaluation notice? If you live in one of 21 counties across the state, the answer is yes! These counties revalued all of their commercial and residential property for ad valorem tax...more
Taxpayers in Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, may be in for an unpleasant surprise when property tax bills are mailed out in the coming days. Based on assessment data available on the Marion County Assessor’s website,...more
Because there are likely to be many more high voltage electric transmission lines (HVETL) constructed, it is important to focus on the impact these lines may have on commercial property values. The challenge is that the...more
Appraisals can be costly to prepare, in terms of dollars spent and time invested. Taxpayers would be at a disadvantage if they were compelled in every case to pay for appraisals to support claims of excessive assessments....more
This week, property appraisers from all 67 Florida counties will mail (or have mailed) Truth in Millage (TRIM) notices to property owners around the state, indicating the 2021 valuation for each property. If not already...more
Listeners in the property tax world have been clamoring for an update. Here is the latest in property taxes: pandemic implications, dark stores, intangibles, and more. Dave Ebersole joins Matt Hunsaker in the virtual studio...more
Property tax, or ad valorem tax, is a fact of life for people and businesses in Texas. As one of the few states in the United States without income tax, Texas counties rely on property tax as a source of revenue to pay for...more
Punxsutawney Area School District v. Broadwing Timber, LLC, 1209 C.D. 2018 (Pa. Commw. Ct., October 29, 2019) - Since the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s recent decision in Valley Forge Towers Apartments N, LP v. Upper...more
Name: Sheerin v. LaPorte County Assessor - Date Issued: December 11, 2019 - Property Type: Vacant lot - Assessment Year: 2015...more
In Guthrie v. Clark County Assessor (August 13, 2019), Taxpayer challenged the 2018 assessment of her home, pole barn and other improvements before the Indiana Board of Tax Review....more
Tidbit on NNN lease property valuation - A sort of a humdrum ruling on the assessment appeal of a garden variety industrial building nevertheless offers a valuable insight as to proper use of the income valuation...more
Name: Wigwam Holdings LLC v. Madison County Assessor - Date Issued: May 8, 2019 - Property Type: 220,000 SF building, including a natatorium, auditorium and 8,996 seat basketball facility...more
When I am asked what I do or what type of law I practice, my ten second “elevator speech” is to say that I primarily focus on every aspect of real estate law “from A to Z, from acquisition to zoning and everything in...more
Cuyahoga County and 18 other Ohio counties recently completed the state-mandated six-year reappraisal of all real property in those counties. In Cuyahoga County, across all property types, values rose overall by an average of...more
A recent decision by the South Carolina Administrative Law Court (ALC) highlights many of the valuation issues that can arise when property is appraised by a county assessor. In Taylor v. Aiken County Assessor, S.C. Admin....more
U.S. Supreme Court Internet Sales Tax Decision and Property Values - Your editors do not need to belabor the point that brick and mortar retail occupancies, rents and values have been pounded as a result of internet...more
Name: L&R Enterprises, LLC v. Hancock County Assessor - Date Issued: July 2, 2018 - Property Type: Restaurant (freestanding, approximately 5,500 sq. ft.)...more
The Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (Chancery Division) ruled that attorneys who referenced comparable property valuations and market values based on an income approach as part of tax appeal proceedings were simply...more
The cost approach requires the identity and quantification of three types of obsolescence – physical, functional and economic. Assessors frequently account only for physical depreciation (although some assessors/appraisers...more
Florida Property Appraisers, primarily in the populated coastal counties, are combing the nation for taxpayers availing themselves of any other resident related benefit in addition to their Florida Homestead Exemption. The...more
In my previous Ear to the Ground post, I discussed real market values and how they can become inaccurate on your tax statement. For this week's post, I wanted to offer a real-life example of how this discrepancy played out...more
On September 30, 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court heard oral argument in Nutmeg Housing Development Corp. v. Colchester. On the face of it, the ad valorem valuation of a garden variety property in the suburbanizing Town...more
We’ve all heard about India’s rape crisis, but not everyone knows that it’s the result of the larger problem of gender inequality. According to UNICEF, India is the worst place to be born a girl. The birth of a baby girl is...more
August 23, 2016 By: S. Brendan Lynch Property Appraisers in Florida have now sent out Truth in Millage (TRIM) notices to all property owners, so these notices have either already been received or will be waiting in your...more