West Palm Beach Homes for Sale

WEST PALM BEACH issues that can affect your home, neighborhood & social life. Huge variety of houses, condos, & town-homes for sale, historic homes, new construction, City Place, Outlet Mall, affordable to high end, gated golf communities, some with lakes & dockage. Realtor MARILYN JACOBS can sell your property quickly, and/or find you the HOME OF YOUR DREAMS (561-302-3388). Meet me at my Donohue Real Estate Palm Beach office at 256 Worth Avenue and let us go looking!

Sunday, December 08, 2013

WHERE DOES OUR COUNTY’S PROPERTY TAX MONEY COME FROM?

West Palm Beach has the highest 2013 tax bill, 69.7mm with Boca Raton next at $59.1MM), Delray Beach at $47.3MM and Palm Beach Gardens at $47MM. Palm Beach’s property tax bill of $41MM makes it 5^th highest in the county.

Largest tax bill goes to Florida Power & Light ($76.3MM), the Breakers is one of the top 10 taxpayers with the highest tax bill on the island, and includes properties in West Palm Beach.

Other high tax payers include Boca Raton Town Center’s trust, Bell South Communications, U.S. Sugar Corp and the owner of the Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens, Comcast, Boca Raton Resort & Club, and Wellington Green mall owners.

· 686,556 property tax bills are mailed out by the tax collector

· Total tax revenue is $3,025 BB.

Tax Collector is Anne Gannon, whose name you know if you pay property taxes.

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FORBES picked the best US cities to invest in and West Palm Beach came in 5th!

NOW is the time to buy. With many new developments going up, get in early! An uber golfing community is planned, Banyan Cay, a new city, Westlake, will have four builders creating communities, one of which will have 4000 units. Luxury Country Clubs like Ibis, Breakers West, Ironhorse, and Bayhill which uses PGA National courses and has a very nice public course across the street. Condo buildings are going up in various areas with midrise units and one complex with small condos for people who come on business for the weekends or for short trips – better to be in your own home than a hotel. Uber luxury condos are going up along the Intracoastal Waterway. Lots of properties available… going fast… 561-302-3388 for listings emailed as soon as we hear from you! Text OK.

WHAT TO DO IN WEST PALM BEACH

WHAT TO ENJOY IN WEST PALM BEACH

For observing wildlife, head to the nature and wildlife McCarthy’s Wildlife Sanctuary featuring “big cats”, west off Okeechobee in Loxahatchee. The Palm Beach Zoo, Grassy Waters. Okeeheelee Park and other parks, Nature & Wildlife Tours, and Mounts Botanical Garden feature animal and plant exhibits.

Want to shop and eat out, go to The Outlet Mall (great buys in new shopping center), City Place, Worth Avenue in Palm Beach (a MUST-one of the busiest luxury shopping streets in the world, have lunch at Taboo), Historic Clematis Street.

Want to see Art, Antiques and Theatre: Kravis Center, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Antiques Row (over 40 Shops), Norton Museum.

There is an antique car museum, south Florida Science Center, Ballpark of the Palm Beaches (baseball), and many boat, bike and Segway tours, fishing charters and tours.

Many other activities as well.

SOLD BY MARILYN Fabulous water views that go on forever

FLORIDA IS ONE OF THE TOP CHOICES FOR ALL AGES TO MOVE TO-MUCH DOING IN WEST PALM BEACH!

Email marilynfjacobs@gmail.com, let her know price range, # bedrooms, location (city, ocean/countryclub/active adult/ inland house condo or townhouse) and move in and move out dates. Tell your friends to call Marilyn for listings, buys and rentals. Minimum rental time is 3-4 months. NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU, YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO BUY A PIECE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM, 2ND HOME, VACATION HOME OR PERMANENT RESIDENCE. Call Marilyn at 561-513-6180 and she will find THE HOME OF YOUR DREAMS.

SIX OF MARILYN'S LISTINGS...LOOK AT HOW FASSSST THEY SOLD!

Delray Beach townhouse: 14 days. Polo Club: house-sold same day as listed; house-on market one year and when Marilyn listed the house it went under contract in 90 days; condo under contract in 21 days; townhouse under contract in 21 days. Smith Farm house (when market was DEAD) had dozens of showings and closed in 63 days. Out-of-town buyers, on the first day out, saw 7 houses with Marilyn and bought one. Marilyn sold TWO PROPERTIES over the internet! See MARKETING PLAN at www.MarilynJacobs.com. If you list with Marilyn, start looking now for your next home... you may be there sooner than you think! If you click on the SOLD SIGN ABOVE, you will see TESTIMONIALS but first copy the URL below so you can return to the blog.