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(US) Creative Financing: A Developer financing method returns-IRS provides clarity on the use of Historical Rehabilitation Tax Credits

Part of a series on creative Real Estate financing. Using Crowdfunding to finance real estate projects Using New Market Tax Credits to finance projects Let the Purchaser do the Financing The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) recently issued important new guidelines regarding the Historic Rehabilitation Credit (“HRC”) reopening a recently moribund financing method. The new guidelines provide … Continue Reading

(US) Land Banks: Too Good to Fail

This post was also written by Gerald S. Dickinson. Pennsylvania municipalities and potential developers interested in converting vacant, abandoned, tax delinquent or foreclosed properties into productive use should take note of legislation enacted in 2012 that permits a municipality with more than 10,000 residents to create a land bank.1 Land banks are governmental entities that … Continue Reading
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