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Mortgage Tax Expansion: New York’s Commercial Real Estate Industry Is In The Crosshairs!

  Cash Cow, Easy Money, Low-Hanging Fruit, Meal Ticket, Golden Goose… These are just some of the words and phrases to describe how the real estate industry in New York State and New York City in particular is viewed by the powers-that-be in Albany and City Hall! And of course it’s not just the developers […]

The Proposed New York City Pied-A-Terre Tax (Q&A)

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Hallmark Abstract Service received the excellent question below that’s based on a proposed New York City pied-a-terre tax we discussed in the article, ‘Oracle Chooses Tax Sanity And Is Leaving California…Is New York Paying Attention?‘: It’s an excellent question because the details of the tax and impact on homeowners in New York City at this […]