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By Franco Faraudo · August 5, 2026

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Property tax management is one of commercial real estate’s most consequential back-office functions, yet many organizations still rely on spreadsheets, calendar reminders, and institutional knowledge to manage thousands of jurisdictions, deadlines, assessments, and payments. New technology is making that work more centralized, proactive, and reliable, giving owners better visibility into tax exposure while reducing the operational risk of missed deadlines, incorrect payments, and overlooked appeal opportunities.

But even the best private-sector platforms must contend with government systems that are often outdated, fragmented, and prone to failure. Cook County’s troubled technology overhaul delayed $186 million in refunds, disrupted billions of dollars in distributions to local governments, and forced officials to develop workarounds outside the system. Similar problems in Missouri produced inflated assessments, lawsuits, and a state-ordered rollback. See why private-sector technology may be the best answer to broken government property tax systems.

For owners, the opportunity is not simply to work around government dysfunction but to make property tax management a more strategic part of portfolio operations. Purpose-built platforms can track obligations across more than 22,000 tax authorities, automate payments, monitor tenant compliance, identify potential delinquencies, and surface assessment appeal opportunities. Learn how automation is transforming property tax management from a reactive compliance function into a source of financial intelligence.

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Streamline Commercial Property Tax Monitoring and Payment Execution

Managing property taxes across multiple jurisdictions creates compliance gaps and operational risk. Outdated manual processes only compound the challenge. Cotality’s commercial tax solutions deliver end-to-end monitoring, reporting, and payment execution backed by direct data connections to over 22,000 local tax authorities. Covering 99.9% of U.S. real estate and trusted by 7 of the top 10 commercial mortgage servicers, Cotality eliminates tedious history research and delinquency tracking. Simplify administration, ensure timely remittance, and protect your portfolio’s bottom line with nationwide tax clarity.

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Commercial Real Estate’s Tax Problem Is Finally Getting Smarter

Centralized data, automated monitoring, and managed payment platforms are helping commercial real estate owners reduce property tax risk across large and complex portfolios.

https://propmodo.com/commercial-real-estates-tax-problem-is-finally-getting-smarter/

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👷 Workforce center
Meta, Google, and BlackRock are collectively committing more than $265 million to recruit and train electricians, carpenters, and other construction workers to build AI data centers across the United States. The investment reflects a labor bottleneck that has become one of the most acute constraints on the data center building boom, with the industry competing for a finite pool of skilled tradespeople at a moment when construction demand has no real historical precedent. For commercial real estate, the implications extend beyond the data center sector itself, as the same labor pool services industrial, office, and infrastructure construction across the country.

👨‍⚖️ Deception dismissed
A federal judge in Seattle dismissed a class-action lawsuit accusing Zillow of deceiving homebuyers into working with affiliated agents and steering them toward Zillow Home Loans, finding that the plaintiffs lacked statutory standing and failed to identify deceptive conduct given Zillow's disclosures. The case had alleged that Zillow's "Contact Agent" buttons misled buyers into assuming they were reaching listing agents when they were actually being routed to Zillow Flex agents who paid the company up to 40% of their commission without disclosure. Plaintiffs will have another opportunity to refile, but the judge found that a reasonable consumer would not be deceived by Zillow's existing practices.

🔋 Power pack
Peak Energy will build what it calls America's first factory dedicated to grid-scale sodium-ion energy storage at Sacramento's Metro Air Park, a 183,000-square-foot facility designed to produce up to 4 gigawatt-hours of battery systems annually, with production expected to begin in early 2027. The technology uses passive cooling rather than the active refrigeration required by large lithium-ion installations, which the company says can cut energy storage costs by 20% while supporting longer operating lifespans and eliminating scheduled maintenance. For the real estate and data center sectors facing acute power constraints, grid-scale storage at this volume represents a meaningful addition to the infrastructure needed to keep pace with surging electricity demand.

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Propmodo Technology is edited by Franco Faraudo with contributions from readers like you and the Propmodo team.

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