Name: Tammy Goldfisher
Title: Principal/Managing Director
Company: The Henley Group
Location: 8A Pleasant St., South, Natick, MA 01760
Place of birth and year: Brockton, MA - 1964
Family: Husband David, son Wyatt, daughter Elizaveta
College: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BS Biochemistry, real estate courses at MIT
First job in real estate or allied field: Credit analyst at Shawmut Bank
Hobbies: Time with family, yoga, tennis and coach baseball
Favorite book: "The Fountainhead"
Favorite movie: "Invictus"
Person you most emulate (outside of family): Ameilia Earheart
Key to success: Perseverance
If you were forced to choose another vocation what would it be? Coach sports
How many of you remember real estate development in the late 1980s? Project sourcing was difficult, until it wasn’t. Into the 90’s, a few years after, banks and other financial institutions were very happy to fund projects.
Our current, highly competitive real estate market poses specific challenges for investors who are considering taking advantage of a tax-deferred 1031 exchange. In this market, investors will have no problem selling their current property if priced properly, but they may find it difficult to find a suitable replacement property
The purpose of this article is to address problematic or confusing issues which may help assessors and appraisers to better understand how to value real estate for tax assessment purposes.
Over the past several weeks, I have completed appraisal assignments for private clients. Interestingly, after submitting these appraisals, I received several phone calls – not to question the value, content, or any incorrect information, but rather to discuss the price per s/f compared to the comparable sales used in the report.
Attention to owners of real estate in the Commonwealth (and the title companies and other professionals who advise them), the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (the “DOR”) recently adopted a new “millionaire’s tax” via 830 CMR 62B.2.4