When the cost of debt is so high, the return becomes lower than what the 10-year actually pays. The 10-year US Treasury is currently at a level not seen since June 2007 – 4.79% after the Oct. 6 trading day and it was at 4.66% after trading on Oct. 10. Commercial real estate professionals – [...]
Last week, and despite the popularity of Proposition 13, the California Legislature passed two proposed amendments to the California Constitution that rip huge holes in that iconic taxpayer protection overwhelmingly approved by voters in 1978. But here’s the good news. These bills must be approved at a statewide election and, given the anger from [...]
Proposition 15, the statewide ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on large commercial property owners, has been defeated. Unofficial results from election night showed voters had rejected the measure. A week into counting, there are likely not enough ballots remaining to change that outcome, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing the Associated Press’ tally. [...]
California election officials assigned numbers to a dozen statewide initiatives on the November ballot, including the high-profile property tax and rent control measures that are vehemently opposed by the commercial real estate industry and other business groups. Secretary of State Alex Padilla this week presented the newly numbered rent control and split-roll property tax [...]
Some of California's commercial property owners could face a fundamental change to their property bills if voters approve a new measure to revise one of the state's most contentious pieces of legislation. Advocates seeking to reform the most populous U.S. state's landmark property tax law known as Proposition 13, which allows properties to be reassessed [...]
California’s landmark property tax law may be facing a change. An effort to repeal protections of the property tax-cutting measure known as Proposition 13 for commercial real estate has qualified for the state’s 2020 ballot. [1] The measure qualified for the ballot in October after proponents collected more than the 644,000 signatures required by [...]
