Real Estate Investment Blog

 

Welcome to an online discussion on real estate investing for family partnerships and high net worth individuals.  To submit a question or discussion topic for posting simply email to Investment Real Estate Blog Postings

Topics we will discuss include (in no particular order):

  • Real Estate Portfolio Management
  • Real Estate Wealth Transfer and Estate Taxes (also called Inhertiance Tax or Death Tax)
  • Proper Ways to Hold Title to Investment Real Estate
  • Tax Strategies and Tax Planning with Real Estate
  • 1031 Exchages and Capital Gains
  • Creating and Dissolving Real Estate Partnerships and Holding Companies
  • Inheriting Real Estate with Other Family Members and Outside Partners

We’d like your ideas on topics to include in future blog entries.

Friday
03Oct2008

Congress Passes Commercial Real Estate Tax Relief Extensions Today!

DateFriday, October 3, 2008 at 01:18PM

Congress Passes CRE Tax Relief Extensions

Today the House of Representatives followed the Senate’s lead and passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, H.R.1424, by a vote of 263 - 171. President Bush is expected to sign the bill into law. This represents a huge victory for the commercial real estate investors!

In addition to the financial rescue plan, it includes the following:

  • the two-year extension of both the 15-year timeline for depreciating leasehold improvements and brownfields expensing.  The two-year extensions on brownfields expensing and leasehold depreciation are retroactive to January 1, 2008 and will go through Dec. 31, 2009.
  • a 5-year extension of the tax deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings.
  • the deduction of up to $1.80/square foot for energy efficiency improvements made to commercial buildings that achieve a 50% reduction in energy use (compared to a base building defined by the ASHRAE 90.1-2001 Standard) will now expire Dec. 31, 2013.
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Monday
28Apr2008

Tax and Legal Advisors for Real Estate Investors

DateMonday, April 28, 2008 at 01:05PM

Jeff from Tenessee wrote:

My wife and I have a small but growing single family and four-plex rental property portfio at this time.  Is there any advice you can share with us regarding how we can best structure our real estate holdings?


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Monday
11Feb2008

Fed Policy, Interest Rate Movement...Recession?

DateMonday, February 11, 2008 at 08:19AM

The rate drops are getting more interesting. On February 6, a Governor from the Fed’s Penn Board said that they would likely hold rates constant as inflation was rising. Then the ISM (Institute for Supply Management) non-manufacturing index came out with the biggest drop on record consistent with the US being in a recession. The rate probabilities for the March meeting were about a 40% chance for a drop to 2.25%. As of today after the ISM announcement, there is only a 15% chance for 2.5%, but now a 25% chance for 2.00%. We need at least another point drop to get us into recovery territory. Maybe Bernanke finally realizes this and is more ready to act the Greenspan would have. Rates may get into the 50+ year low 2003 range once again.

Stuart Hardy, Ph.D.

Broker - Economist - Consultant
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