The New Jersey Gross Income Tax Act does not follow federal law regarding carry-forward and carry-back losses and the loss on the 2008 New Jersey individual income tax return can only be netted against gains or income reported in the category Net gains or income from disposition of property.
This is because if the selling taxpayer has net gain from the sale of other property that is included in investment income, he is permitted to offset that gain (but not create a net loss) with any loss generated from the sale of the stock or partnership interest.
One measure of how expensive REITs have become is capitalization rates, defined as net operating income (profit after operating expenses but before debt service) divided by a property's value.