A tax deed is a legal document that allows a city or county to transfer ownership of a property that has gone into tax foreclosure. Find out how they work.

However, when you’re added to a property deed, you may be eligible for certain property tax exemptions or deductions, especially if the property qualifies as your primary residence.

Nearly four years into California’s new property tax transfer law, just over half of applicants are being approved. From July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023, the most recent data available, 56% of ...

According to a memo from Finance Director Bina Patel, the rejected tax increase for 2024 could mean the city needs to increase property taxes as high as 14.1% in 2025.

As a homeowner, you dutifully pay your property taxes every year, no matter how painful. Notwithstanding Proposition 13’s tax limitations, California is not a low property tax state.

That would mean, if voters were to approve the amendment, the administration and city council would have the authority to raise the deed transfer tax, which is currently assessed at 2%, with 1% ...

Instead of providing relief, County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer proposed hiking taxes by $1 billion in her “State of the County” address by increasing the “transfer tax,” a tax on the transfer of ...

That would mean, if voters were to approve the amendment, City Council would have the authority to raise the deed transfer tax, which is currently assessed at 2%, with 1% going to the state and ...