Charities report that executors of some estates are showing reluctance to hand over bequests until next year, while others say they are in negotiations or even litigation over planned gifts from people who died this year without adjusting their wills to take into account the one-year suspension of the estate tax.
That means heirs of some estates larger than that will have to pay lawyers and accountants extra to figure out which assets to include in the $1.3 million.
The concessions he won were ultimately trivial, however: a few trading rights, a delay in paying the war indemnity, restitution of some estates belonging to Germans in the Austrian service including the Metternich family's, and the lifting of a 150,000 man limit imposed by the treaty on the Austrian army.
Deutsche Telekom and Telecom Italia recently took steps to dispose of some real estate.
All of which serves to price large segments of the middle class out of some real estate markets.
I picture it now, in the bowels of some Scottish estate perhaps, moth-eaten and with its glass eyes staring madly.
It also formed Asset Management, a joint venture with the Cologne-based Corpus Immobiliengruppe and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, in December to manage the disposal of some real estate assets.
That, and the sale of some real estate, helped profit jump 57percentt in 2001 as revenues rose just 0.8percentto to $8.5 billion.
Of course, many individual investors are also diversified in the form of some real estate holding, typically a primary residence.
It may be difficult for the 48-year-old media mogul to deplete her financial resources but she's still getting rid of some real estate she doesn't need namely a Telluride, Colo., ranch.
