If you have no desire to sell your home, you might be interested in finding out how to lower your property taxes. Anybody who has been following the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog for any period of time can tell you that property values in Tallahassee have fallen as much as 25% in some areas, but [...]
How often do we see reports about the housing market that seem to show that things are improving, only to find another report that seems to completely contradict the first? And how about when two reports “hit the headlines” at the same time, and seem to be covering the exact same issue, yet conclude with [...]
Tallahassee has a lot of subdivisions for the number of homes in town. In 2009, there were home sales recorded in 806 of these Tallahassee neighborhoods (legally called Subdivisions). I decided to take a fairly quick look to see which neighborhoods were selling the most properties.
I went to the tax records for all of Leon [...]
Please don’t shoot the messenger! We’ve all heard this euphamism used when somebody reacts to bad news by blaming the reporting person or agency, which is exactly what happened in yesterday’s Tallahassee Real Estate Blog about Piney-Z home sales.
I wrote an article with updated facts about the Piney-Z neighborhood in Tallahassee. The reader was obviously [...]
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Benjamin Franklin – In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789
I received an email from a client of mine who had purchased a home in Tallahassee back in 2004. Like many citizens of Florida, he is disturbed about his rising property taxes. His [...]