Mastering Legal Matters: Real Property Valuation and Federal Taxation Principles

Mastering Legal Matters: Real Estate Valuation and Federal Taxation Principles provides background essential to understanding property valuation fundamentals for federal tax purposes. Property valuation is fact-sensitive and elements of the valuation discipline are manifold. This work details the many factors relevant to valuation, such as selling price, "highest and best use," leases and other encumbrances, pending litigation pertinent to the property, expert opinion, zoning, access, Authors Thomas V. Glynn and Patricia Hughes Mills discuss the relative significance of such factors, whose weights on relevance are calibrated according to the facts and circumstances of the individual case.