The city already requires banks to register foreclosed properties and can fine property owners for code-enforcement violations or take them to court.
If the county fined property owners with code violations into penury, says Luz Borrero, deputy chief operating officer for DeKalb County, it would just mean another lien on the property, making it unsellable if an actual developer wanted to fix it up.
It was, looking back, the finest property I ever owned.
San Jose has a new plan to get downtown landlords to clean up their vacant storefronts using a pilot program that would create a registry of vacant buildings and fine property owners who are neglecting their properties, via NextCity.
Should the taxpayer carry the main burden of residential care if children who stand to inherit a fine property are unwilling or unable to look after their parents themselves?
Mr. Moore said there was a stir last week when the Noble Judah house, considered by some city residents to be the finest property in town, was put on the market as a short sale for $5.99 million.
On this once-fine property, a tiny fern, which had been tucked into place that spring, had been heaved out of the ground by some ruthless creature, maybe a raccoon.
"A fine property must be properly promoted and brought to the attention of not just the New York market, but the widest possible audience," said Alan J. Rogers, managing director of Douglas Elliman.
So the English Heritage administrators must have been pleased when they were assigned Eltham Palace, a fine property where the 15th-century banqueting hall of a former royal residence stands alongside an eclectic, extravagant house built in the 1930s for the youngest son of the wealthy Courtauld family.
A special fine property is that all the operations, including varieties of editing and even geometry transfer, do not need a reparameterization, that is, we can keep the topology of mesh while doing such editing work.
