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Taxes

Ground Rents in Baltimore: Dangerous Territory for Homeowners

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The use of ground rents is one that comes to us from colonial America. They are land leases for the land that homes are built on, originating from grants given to aristocrats from the English Royalty. Now some individuals [...]

11Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

How Will Governments Deal With Slowing Real Estate Tax Revenue?

While as consumers and real estate professionals we participate in the open market. If money is tight, we go from steak to macaroni and cheese as we say in our household. But when you are the government, very, very rarely do you ever lower your spending. And with the real estate boom these same governments ramped [...]

8Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

Florida Government Surprised By Lower Real Estate Tax Reciepts

It is amazing how dense politicians can be with your money. The Florida State Governments is surprised that real estate tax reciepts are lower than last year. To put my intellectual hat on, all I can say is well duh…
Florida, your state was infected with flippers and speculators for the past 5 years driving property [...]

15Nov2006 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Government Greed Next Real Estate Worry

Southern Florida is feeling it now, soon many other regions are going to be having to face another dangerous entity. The local governments and their taxing authorities. An honest person would think that in the face of 60 percent appreciation in real estate values, taxes would correspondingly go down as a portion of the property [...]

29Aug2006 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

New Hampshire Real Estate Tax Receipts Down in 2006

First the real estate agents are getting nervous that their sales are lower and thus their commissions are lower. Now the state of New Hampshire is concerned because their tax revenue will be down. They collect a tax of the sale of property in the state and those reciepts are running 10 percent below the [...]

23Aug2006 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued