pied-à-terre
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The pied-à-terre tax, estimated to bring in around $500 million, became the happy medium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Mamdani-backed pied-à-terre tax applies to homes worth $5 million or more and co-ops and condos worth $1 million or more in which the owner isn’t a primary resident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Under the pied-à-terre tax rules, a property can be exempt from the tax if it is owned by a trust with a sole beneficiary and is occupied by a primary resident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Blue Origin founder also has a huge pied-à-terre in New York City.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
They were nearing her first pied-à-terre as a married woman.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
Mastro, who served as a deputy mayor under former Mayor Eric Adams, said that in its attempt to identify the luxury pieds-à-terre in the city, the Department of Finance cast too wide a net.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It alleges the Department of Finance hasn’t done proper due diligence to identify owners of luxury pieds-à-terre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
As noted by the Wall Street Journal, the tax would “target wealthy individuals who own these pieds-à-terre but primarily live outside the city” and is aimed at closing the city’s $12 billion annual budget gap.
From MarketWatch ● May 1, 2026
Some of Dr. Zhang’s patients, envisioning further babies and more in vitro fertilization procedures and births in New York, wind up buying pieds-à-terre on West 57th Street, he told me.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2017
A proposal from the Fiscal Policy Institute would impose a graduated tax on pieds-à-terre worth $5 million or more.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2015
