Real Estate

The professionals at DDAF have been assisting clients in the real estate industry for decades with accounting, tax, and consulting services, offering innovative solutions to this unique and challenging industry.  Our team of real estate advisors has a wealth of knowledge, experience, and expertise essential to evaluating and analyzing the operations and transactions of our real estate clientele.  Our clients include residential and commercial real estate developers, land developers, real estate management companies, marinas, and real estate professionals. 

We understand the unique transactions and tax planning opportunities available for the real estate industry.  Our team provides a variety of services to the industry ranging from accounting services, tax compliance, and tax preparation services to in-depth sales transactions, tax-free exchanges, estate planning, and cost segregation services.  Among our services are:

Tax

• Tax return preparation
• Entity selection planning
• Tax-free exchanges
• Cost segregation services, acceleration of depreciation
• Federal and state tax audit representation
• Partnership tax planning
• Passive activity considerations
• Installment sales
• Capital gain planning for the sale of property
• Acquisition analysis
• Alternative minimum tax considerations
• Tenants-in-common structuring
• Estate planning, including charitable remainder trusts, family limited partnerships, gifting strategies, and asset transfers
• Energy tax credit studies

Accounting

• Financial statement assurance services (including audits, reviews, and compilations)
• Cash flow analysis
• Payroll services
• Clerical functions

Consulting

• Business valuations for gift and estate planning purposes

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