Florida Property Taxes – Reduce Them, Or Your Capital Gains Tax, With These Strategies

If you decide to relocate to Florida, you’ll have property taxes just as in any other state. The good news is that Florida property taxes are very reasonable. The median home value in Florida is 9,500. The average property tax is ,495, which means Florida has the 22nd highest average tax amount in a comparison … Read more

It is Time to Plan the Sale of Assets and Your Capital Gains Tax Liability

The New Year is here and yes it is time to look at your assets and see what you can do to exploit the favourable taxation of capital assets. There is little time to plan and to execute tax planning strategies before the 5th April so review your assets and act now.   Planning: I … Read more

How a 1031 Exchange Can Help You Reclaim Your Life

Too often a successful real estate investment comes at the expense of something else which is very valuable: time.  As buildings age the amount of time needed to address the rising needs of tenants, as well as increasing maintenance costs, chips away at what might otherwise have long been a great investment.  As a remedy … Read more

Investing in Real Estate

The most successful investors know that it is best to allocate investment across several asset classes whose returns are not completely correlated with each other.  Most of them have assets in cash, equities (stocks), debt instruments (bonds) and real estate.  The latter asset class, real estate, is frequently under-represented in investors’ portfolios, but real estate … Read more