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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...

A large percentage of these newly formed households will have a high propensity to rent and be drawn to Class B and C apartments. The expanding demand for Class B and Class C properties will keep their vacancy rates tight and uphold rent growth that has outpaced Class A properties, which are contending with elevated supply additions.

Rent control policies are laws that cap rents and are usually implemented with the stated purpose of improving housing affordability. In fact, they may do just the opposite, according to an in-depth review of academic research on the issue conducted by Dr. Lisa Sturtevant.