A Team that Offers a Holistic Understanding of Your REIT’s Needs
Whether you’re forming a new REIT to attract investors or need to ensure your existing one remains compliant, our team offers a variety of specialized services. We can help you maintain compliance, optimize financial performance and support strategic decision making surrounding your REIT. Our seasoned tax and assurance practitioners will walk you through financial and tax ramifications that can help you navigate financial complexities and maximize investment potential — with an eye toward helping you identify value-added opportunities along the way.
Our REIT Services
Our professionals combine sophisticated knowledge of the real estate, private equity and investment fund arenas to provide comprehensive services for your REIT.
Tax Compliance
- Federal, state and local tax returns
- Quarterly asset testing
- Annual income testing
- Required distribution testing
- Taxable income, earnings and profits computation and monitoring
- REIT administrator coordination
- State and local tax income, and franchise tax
- Sales and use tax
- Property tax
- Real estate transfer tax (RETT), including direct transfers and transfers of controlling interest
- REIT property services questionnaires
- Impermissible tenant services monitoring
- Tax credits
- Lease review and compliance
- International tax
- Tax returns
- Withholding tax on distributions to non-U.S. investors
- Subpart F income, foreign currency transactions and associated REIT income testing
- Structuring foreign investors into REITs, including U.S. tax exemption considerations
- Tax compliance reporting related to U.S. outbound investments
Tax Consulting
- REIT structuring and roll-up transactions
- Real property acquisition/ disposition due diligence
- Other tax advisory services, including structuring Taxable REIT Subsidiaries (TRS)
- Prohibited transaction planning
- Private Letter Ruling assistance
- Tax abatement and tax incentives identification
Assurance
- Audits, reviews and compilations
- Rule 3-14 of SEC Regulation S-X Audits for Acquisition of Real Estate Operations, such as office, retail or multifamily properties
- Rule 3-05 of SEC Regulation S-X Audits for Acquisition of Businesses, such as hotels
- Rule 3-09 of SEC Regulation S-X Audits of Investments of Real Estate Ventures
Who We Serve
- Public and Private REITs
- Office
- Retail
- Residential
- Industrial
- Hospitality
- Senior living
- Self-storage
- Mortgage
- Property owners and managers
- Private equity funds
- Private and institutional real estate investors
- Real estate advisers
- Development companies
- Pension funds