The Maricopa Community College District governing board approved a tax levy increase Tuesday for the first time in three years.

Mesa has begun an “extraordinary properties” campaign to recognize homeowners and businesses owners who exceed the design standards of the community.

Mesa voters should be asked to institute the city’s first property tax since 1945 and raise the sales tax to an all-time high, a citizen committee concluded.

Mesa voters should be asked to institute the city’s first property tax since 1945 and raise the sales tax to an all-time high, a citizen committee concluded.

An increase in commercial property and vacant land values may mean extra tax revenue for Scottsdale and East Valley municipalities and school districts, which are struggling to balance their budgets.

Property taxes in Maricopa County are steadily climbing. They’re expected to rise between 15 percent and 30 percent by 2008, according to Deron M. Webb, 40, a tax expert whose company, Wentworth Webb & Postal LLC represents companies and owners of large tracts of land in the Valley and Arizona who are trying to get their property taxes lowered.

The Maricopa County Community Colleges Governing Board will consider raising property taxes within the limit permitted by the state May 21.

A local developer plans to turn a portion of north Scottsdale’s former Rawhide western theme park site into a luxury town home development.

Sales of luxury properties are still strong in some areas of the Valley, despite recent concerns over the impact of tightened lending standards on the upper-end housing market.

Mesa is considering new regulations designed to ensure that banks will clean up abandoned properties that have fallen into disrepair and become a blight on the community.

Protecting vestiges of local history isn't just about nostalgia anymore.

Hudson & Marshall, one of the country's largest real estate auction firms, will auction nearly 200 foreclosures at 11 a.m. on Sept. 13 at the Camelback Inn in Paradise Valley.

Six years is long enough for Gilbert Councilman Dave Petersen.

The first public debate leading up to the May vote on a Mesa property tax pitted two city councilmen against each other and drew a who’s who of city politics.

The first public debate leading up to the May vote on a Mesa property tax pitted two city councilmen against each other and drew a who’s who of city politics.

An East Valley developer and downtown Mesa landowner is attempting to buy more property just west of the Arizona Mormon Temple.

Mesa leaders are divided over imposing a city property tax — an idea floated last week by the head of a local police union to help pay firefighter and police officer salaries.

State lawmakers are moving to shift the property tax burden from businesses to homeowners in the name of economic development.

An initiative drive launched Friday could give Arizonans a chance to cut their property taxes. Dubbed Prop. 13 Arizona, the measure would roll back the assessed value of homes and businesses to what they were in 2003, before speculators helped spike prices.

Mesa voters were willing to give in to a higher sales tax, but unwilling to commit to a property tax despite pleas from city leaders that it was critical to the future operations of the city.

Mesa voters were willing to give in to a higher sales tax, but unwilling to commit to a property tax despite pleas from city leaders that it was critical to the future operations of the city.

February 22, 2005

July 24, 1945 — the Mesa City Council called a special budget meeting and decided to end the city’s property tax and use utility revenue to make up the difference.