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...Harry Mattison, a member of the Harvard Allston Task Force who runs a blog that has featured discussion of Harvard’s purchases in the past, voiced concerns about the transparency of such acquisition techniques...
...obscures the true value of the sale, and I don’t know if that’s legal or not, but from the perspective of tax assessing, if everyone did that, nobody would be able to assess any property,” Mattison said. “The whole reason all those records are public is because someone felt the sale price should be public. There should be that paper trail...
...Mattison said he was more concerned with Harvard’s ongoing purchases in Allston than with the means of the transfers...
...real concern is not so much this straw company merger as [Harvard’s] warehousing of all this property,” Mattison said. “A lot of it just sits empty and vacant in the middle of a neighborhood...
...face of historic declines in Harvard’s endowment, “to see real estate acquisition continuing is quite a development,” Mattison added...