The owner of one of the biggest apartment complexes in the Chicago area has refinanced the property with a new mortgage, pocketing nearly $46 million in the process.
The average apartment rent has grown a lot faster than paychecks for many households. As a result, nearly half (47 percent) of the households—20.8 million—who rent their housing in the U.S. spent more than 30 percent of their income on rent in 2016, the most recent period for which data is available.
So, what is 1031? Broadly stated, a 1031 exchange (also called a like-kind exchange or a Starker) is a swap of one investment property for another. Special rules apply when depreciable property is exchanged in a 1031. Such complications are why you need professional help when you’re doing a 1031. Here are 10 things you should know.
The apartment sector notched another healthy quarterly performance as the resounding strength of the employment market sustains demand for rentals. Class B and C units maintained particularly tight vacancy levels, delivering solid rent growth. Markets with elevated construction levels could face pockets of heightened competition as new apartment facilities go through lease-up.
COST SEGREGATION CAN PROVIDE REAL ESTATE purchasers with tremendous tax benefits from accelerated depreciation deductions and easier write-offs when an asset becomes obsolete, broken or destroyed.
Developers in the U.S. built 358,000 units of new multifamily housing in 2017. That’s less than half the number of single-family homes built last year, but the gap between the two has narrowed a lot over the past decade…