Article by Elaine Voncannon Anyone who purchases property understands the importance of making smart financial investments. In real estate, homebuyers and sellers have the same goal – to build wealth. There are many strategies that can help real estate investors maximize their investment potential and increase their return on investment (ROI). A popular strategy that … Read more
If for some reason the investor is unable to sell the relinquished property within the strict 180 day deadline, the EAT will transfer title of the new property to the investor. The investor will end up owning both the replacement property and the relinquished property which was not sold. A failed reverse exchange will not … Read more
SAFE HARBOR GUIDANCE Tax deferred exchanges have been part of the U.S. Tax Code since 1921. Since that time, the government has approved certain methods to structure exchange transactions that are so called “safe harbors.” For example, in 1991 the U.S. Treasury issued final regulations that provided important guidance on the structure of delayed exchanges … Read more
The most successful investors know that it is best to allocate investment across several asset classes whose returns are not completely correlated with each other. Most of them have assets in cash, equities (stocks), debt instruments (bonds) and real estate. The latter asset class, real estate, is frequently under-represented in investors’ portfolios, but real estate … Read more
If you are an investor in real estate business planning to buy and sell a lot of properties to earn dividends from this booming sector, you must have already heard about ‘property exchange’. You may have already ‘exchanged’ properties. In case you are a newbie in the real estate business or somehow in need of … Read more