Real Estate Taxes

Ad Valorem Taxes & The Elderly: You Can Defer Taxes for 8%

By Candy Evans / August 29, 2011 /

Last week we learned in the Dallas Morning News that about 3,000 elderly (that is, folks over age 65) and disabled Dallas County property owners are due for a fiscal surprise because of a computer glitch in the Dallas County Appraisal District that miscalculated their 2010 tax bills. That surprise is a higher tax bill than…

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Spelling Manor Sells & The Palomar Rises: Who Says The Kids Aren’t Buying Real Estate?

By Candy Evans / July 15, 2011 /

Who says the kids aren’t buying real estate? Candy Spelling closed on Spelling Manor, the most expensive real estate transaction in southern California and probably the U.S., the buyer rumored to be Petra Ecclestone, heiress to the Formula One racing empire and daughter of British billionaire Bernie Ecclestone.  Petra is all of 22 years old, by the…

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Osama’s Dead and Buried, but The Dallas County Real Estate Tax Doctor is IN

By Candy Evans / May 2, 2011 /

Meet Tiffany Hamil Mackey. She is a Dallas attorney who wants to get tough on taxes ‚Äî property taxes, that is. Tiffany is a graduate of Southern Methodist University and received her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Texas Wesleyan School of Law. She attended the University of Florida, one of the top three tax…

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