Inside most commercial leases for properties in special tax districts, there is a clause that passes the district's mandatory assessment obligation to your tenant.
Programming mix, tenant category drift, and board composition tell you what lease rates won't — if you know what to look for.
A corridor-level analysis of what $4.2 million in BID capital investment actually bought in measurable property value impact. The answer is more complicated than the annual report suggests.
A governance breakdown of what the renewal covers, what's changed in the proposed rate structure, and what the property-weighted vote means for owners at different assessed value tiers.
Most property owners look at a district budget the way a taxpayer does — looking for waste. Asset managers look at it differently. Here's how to shift the frame.
The property owners who show up shape the district. The property owners who don't show up fund whatever the others decide.
The assessment decline is real, the DOGE amplification is real, and the appeal window for TY2026 has already closed. Here is what to do before TY2027.
The K-shaped mall recovery is not a real estate investor story. It is a property tax story, an assessment base story, and a certiorari warning for every commercial property owner in a jurisdiction where a Class B or C mall anchors the tax roll.
Washington DC commercial property owners face a compound problem: assessed values are declining, the appeal window for TY2026 has already closed, and TY2027 assessments will be set against a market that has absorbed 56,000 net job losses. Here is what to do now.
Michigan commercial property owners have until May 31 to file tax tribunal appeals on 2026 assessments. Miss the deadline and you wait two years. Here is what the grounds for appeal are, what evidence you need, and how the process works.
Los Angeles's expanded Adaptive Reuse Ordinance is accelerating office-to-residential conversions across downtown and commercial corridors. For commercial property owners adjacent to conversion projects: what the ordinance changes, what the new residential neighbors mean for corridor demand.
Twelve North Carolina counties are conducting their first property revaluations since before the pandemic. Commercial property owners in those counties are facing assessments that reflect a 2020-2026 market that looks nothing like the 2016-2019 baseline.
When the anchor pharmacy in your building closes, the income approach valuation changes immediately. How assessors treat vacant anchor space, what comparable rents look like for large-format retail post-pharmacy, and how to position your appeal.
Vacancy taxes hit commercial property owners in two ways: the direct tax liability, and the assessment impact of reduced income from a vacant storefront. How cities are structuring vacancy tax liability and what it means for your property's assessed value.
Cook County is conducting its first real reassessment in decades. What the reassessment means for property owners and assessment appeals.
New Jersey's May 1 property tax appeal deadline is approaching. What the deadline means for property owners and assessment appeals.
The Boston Conversion Program has been reauthorized through December 31, 2026. What the reauthorization means for office-to-residential conversion and corridor recovery.
CBL Properties is cooperating with lender negotiations on three retail centers. The pattern of performing malls failing to refinance is the new owner-side story for 2026.
Distressed office sales in Chicago, Denver, and Washington DC show 90% discounts from peak. What the sales mean for assessment appeals and property valuations.
New Castle County completed its first comprehensive property reassessment in decades. The Delaware General Assembly shifted assessment burden back from residential to commercial property owners.
San Francisco Centre, the 1.2 million square foot urban indoor mall on Market Street, has officially closed. The reuse scenarios and what they mean for adjacent property values.
Multiple buildings in receivership or foreclosure are visible from Euclid Avenue and East 12th Street in downtown Cleveland. The corridor-cluster effect produces different assessment dynamics than isolated foreclosure.
Concord Capital completed an acquisition of the Pontiac Building in Chicago's Loop. The deal is one of the cleanest available 2026 examples of opportunistic acquisition pricing.
Connecticut municipalities operate on a five-year revaluation cycle with property tax appeal windows that vary by jurisdiction. Commercial owners with properties in 2026 revaluation municipalities should confirm their specific town's filing deadline.
Portland City Councilor Sameer Kanal added a note to the FY26 city budget requesting a study of a possible tax or fee on vacant residential and commercial spaces.