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Tools to Appeal Your Property Tax Bill in a Declining Real Estate Market
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Who Should Attend?
Commercial Property Owners, Developers, Asset Managers for industrial properties, shopping centers, mixed use projects, multi-family projects, sports facilities, golf courses, pari-mutuel and gaming facilities, large vacant land parcels, and lessees of municipal land, who believe their respective properties are over assessed and would like to decrease their annual property tax assessments and reduce their annual ad valorem tax payments.
Date
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - Broward
Friday, September 5, 2008 – Miami Dade
Time
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
(FREE breakfast and registration @ 8:30 am)
Filing Deadlines for Tax Appeals
Broward: September 19, 2008
Miami Dade: September 16, 2008
| Speakers |
| Alan Koslow, Shareholder |
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Alan is a shareholder with the Firm and has over 25 years of experience in all facets of municipal law and oversees the Firm’s ad valorem property tax appeals practice. Alan has handled a wide variety of property tax appeals and uses innovative and legal arguments to create significant value for his clients and consistently applies this approach for his clients’ tax assessment appeals. |
Jennifer Drake, Shareholder |
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Jennifer leads the Commercial Real Estate Group and works with developers and property owners to develop commercial and residential projects and his significant expertise in distressed property transactions. |
Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, Shareholder |
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Miguel leads the Local Government and Land Use practice in Miami Dade. He is a former Miami Dade County Commissioner who combines his legal knowledge and political insights to assist clients with governmental issues. |
Paul Safran, Shareholder |
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Paul is Vice-Chair of the Firm's statewide Real Estate Group and a member of the Firm's Distressed Property practice. He has over twenty years experience in virtually every aspect of real estate transactions including representation of clients in sales, leasing, development, and financing; title insurance matters; all aspects of real estate owned (REO) properties, administrative real estate tax appeals. |
Robert Miller, MAI,
Real Property Appraiser
Bob Miller, President of Miller Appraisal Group, Inc. has been in the appraisal profession since 1978. Mr. Miller has successfully represented a variety of clients in tax appeals in over twenty counties in the State of Florida and has qualified as an expert witness in numerous county and federal courts. |
1. Key Issues to Consider when Appealing Your Property Tax Assessments
- Does your property qualify for a complete or partial tax exemption
- Utilizing an attorney and expert witness as a weapon in the tax appeal process
- Income approach vs. sales approach
- Recent market conditions, economic slow down distresses sales
2. Crafting the right appeal in a declining real estate market
- Comparable recent sales and distressed sales
- Land use and zoning arguments
- Changed property conditions, i.e., hurricane or storm damage
- Blocked views from new construction
- Property insurance costs
- Revised property appraisals
3. Completing and filing the assessment appeal forms with the value Adjustment Board
- Utilizing the right methodology for your particular property
- Which tax folios to appeal or combine
- How to arrive at what you believe the right assessment should be
- What information should and should not be provided
- Extending the filing period when “just cause” exists
4. Applying recent amendments to the law governing the determination of assessed values
- Property tax exemptions
- Zoning and concurrency principles
- Highest and best use principles
- Proposed amendments to the that affect property values
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