Guidance for the entire real estate life cycle
Whether you are starting out or are immersed in operations or are thinking about a transition, we can help. Our team utilizes our deep industry knowledge to identify financial, tax, operational, and strategic opportunities across all phases of the real estate investment life cycle.
- Acquisition and development: Insights on feasibility, new geographies, or asset classes as well as guidance on building and structuring funds, including the capital stack, budgeting and modeling, and pre-development tax planning.
- Operations: Strategies to help improve net operating income and investor returns, take advantage of tax credits and deductions, and strategically plan for the future.
- Preparing for a property disposition or considering a transition or exit from the business: Transaction support and consultation, including potential estate and gift tax implications.
Experience our client-focused approach
Our team of 450+ dedicated real estate industry professionals serves more than 22,500 real estate clients across 40 client service locations and geographies. We offer a traditional accounting, tax, reporting and compliance perspective, as well as industry-specific real estate services.
Our team works with owners, operators, developers, syndicators, fund managers, investors, brokers, and mortgage companies across a wide array of asset classes and property types such as residential (including multifamily, single family rentals, senior living and affordable housing), commercial (including office, retail, and self-storage), industrial, and hotels and hospitality.
Services for real estate entities
We offer tailored approaches across finance, tax, operations, and strategy to provide support where you need it most.
- Accounting methods
- Audit, review, and compilation of financial statements
- Common Area Maintenance (CAM) and Common Interest Realty Association (CIRA) audits
- Compliance with National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) standards and investment company (i.e., fair value) reporting requirements
- Cost certifications
- Employee benefit plans
- Forensic accounting and investigation
- Forensic auditing
- Internal controls review
- Lease accounting and revenue recognition guidance
- Personal financial statements
- Renewable energy and utilities
- Sustainability and ESG
- Commercial loan and property financing evaluation and credit risk analysis
- Consulting and outsourcing
- Cybersecurity
- Feasibility and market studies
- Entity selection and fund formation
- Fair value measurement for financial reporting
- Fund administration
- Litigation support
- Outsourced finance and accounting
- Risk management
- Talent solutions
- Valuation
- Business succession planning
- Business tax planning and compliance
- Federal tax services, credits, and incentives
- Gift, estate, and charitable giving strategies
- Global
- Individual income tax return preparation and projections
- Partnership capital account maintenance
- Proactive, personal tax planning and strategies
- Section 163(j): Business Interest Deduction Limit
- Section 199A: Qualified Business Income Deduction
- State and local tax
- Passthrough-entity tax
- Personal property tax appeals
- Real property tax appeals
- Tax deferral strategies
- Acquisition and disposition of real estate
- Family office
- Insurance and risk management
- Private client tax and wealth advisory
- Private real estate investment fund consulting