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Selling a Home in Our Palm Beach County and a “Millionaire Flight” Effect

Selling a Home in Our Palm Beach County and a “Millionaire Flight” EffectNobody in Jupiter can escape the fact that we are now engulfed in the full-bore election year media onslaught. You would need to be living under a rock not to have noticed—and the rock would have to be somewhere out of earshot of radio and tv.
Fortunately, since this is a1 space where we discuss buying and selling homes in Jupiter, we try as best we can to steer clear of politics; so let’s enjoy this island of non-partisanship…or perhaps that’s impossible, because of the topic, which is too interesting to ignore…
Recently, a study came out of Stanford that answered an intriguing question: do higher taxes drive wealthy people out of state? If you ever plan on selling a high-end Palm Beach County home, the answer would be more than academic. Whether our own state’s position on the tax rate hierarchy could measurably affect high-end property marketability—that is, if the well-heeled set are beginning to allow changes in state tax tables to determine their home base—is very much at issue.
So this investigation (it was sponsored by the U.S. Treasury Department), which focused on millionaires, came up with the statistical answer ... more

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