Category Archives: REIT

South Carolina Proposes Changes to Its Tax Code

Written by Jed on January 17, 2011 —

The South Carolina Tax Realignment Commission or TRAC has come out with its recommendations for Tax code changes that they believe would benefit the State’s economic prospects as well as the State’s budgetary processes. Included in the TRAC report is recommendations for property taxes and shows how the current code negatively effects commercial (rental properties) [...]

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REITs and a forecoming decline – Be ready for a quick profit?

Written by Jed on August 2, 2010 —

This is a follow up on a previous post about REITs. Since May 6th the following REITs: VNQ, REZ, FIO, RWX have bounced around, but the prices have been relatively flat. A new wrinkle that is adding negative pressure to the REIT as a predictor of the real estate market can be found in the [...]

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Predicting Strength in Commercial Real Estate

Written by Jed on May 6, 2010 —

Listening to all the real estate experts recently has been like riding a roller coaster. One minute they are telling us that future is looking better, an other minute they are saying that the market hasn’t hit bottom yet. There is one source that may provide some, and I emphasize some, indication of what is [...]

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