Commercial Real Estate Tax

  Remote work is nothing new. Many employees had occasionally been telecommuting from home or clients’ offices long before the COVID-19 turned Zoom meetings and Slack messages into the norm rather than the exception. However, despite the vaccine rollout, employees are not rushing to get back into the office. Remote work is here to stay   The   majority of employees  wish to keep working from home at least part-time in the future. They appreciate the lack of commute, flexibility, and better work-life balance that remote work provided in the past year. Work-from-home was a success for companies as well, with the   productivity of their employees  remaining stable or even increasing during the pandemic. Major companies, such as Facebook or Amazon, are switching to a fully remote or hybrid model for the foreseeable future. According to an   Upwork survey , as much as 22% of the American workforce could be fully remote by 2022 – not including employees foll...

  W hy has real estate ownership been   SO IMPORTANT   to the human race? If you have been in real estate for some time, you probably have heard Mark Twain’s opinion, “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” REAL ESTATE IS A TANGIBLE ASSET . You can touch it, see it, build on it, enhance it and manage it. Renters provide a return “on” and “of” the investment. Return on investment is a profitability measure, calculated by taking the profit and dividing it by the cost or value of the asset. The return of the investment is the rate at which the cost or value of the asset is returned to the owner. The  COMBINATION  of return on and of the investment provides the basis for determining investment-real-estate-purchase decisions. So, let’s assume you have already purchased a real estate investment and you want to be the next millionaire. The local market is in a stability stage (i.e no measurable changes in values). Few listings on the market and foreclosures are non-...

  Since Covid-19 began, real estate experts have seen major changes in business and execution of contracts. At present, some cities and states have  paused transactions for real estate . Apart from that, market prices are being monitored as there is a difference in views as to how real estate pricing will fare during the pandemic. Some are expecting a downturn, while others feel that there will be minimal effects on  how commercial real estate is priced  down the line. With that said, this is how Enriched Real Estate views the movement of real estate values in the era of the pandemic. How Real Estate Reacts to Major Financial Fallouts In the Covid-19 era, how can we understand “value” to make wise investment decisions both now and in the future? Will those decisions be based on the “old paradigm” or the new, unknown post Covid-19 paradigm? Following are material factors to consider: Real estate experts around the world are attempting to understand the impact Covid-19...