BC Law IPTF Blog

To create a condominium in Boston, you must obtain a Tregor Tax stamp from the City Hall. The Tregor Tax was created by a Boston politician who wanted to curb the condo-ization of apartments and houses in the city. When you create a condo, you get the first condo for free; every condo thereafter costs $500. So if you’re creating 11 condos, you have to pay 10 * $500 = $5,000 to get your Tregor Tax stamp.

The Tregor Tax stamp goes on the master deed of your condominium project. To obtain it, go down from the third floor to the mezzanine. Go around the central offices and to Window 31. There you present your master deed for their review along with a bank check or a check from an IOLTA, conveyance, or client’s account fund. If all pans out well, you get a stamp and a signature from someone in the back.

And now the procedure for obtaining a Tregor Tax stamp in Boston is on-line. (Until this moment, there’s only a Craigslist mention of this on Google. And I’m pretty sure that “Tregor” is the correct spelling because “Traeger” and “Trager” came up with nothing.) Best of luck to all of you, and please remember to tip your waitress.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 5th, 2007 at 9:17 am and is filed under Massachusetts, Regulatory. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.