Real Estate

While many firms have industry concentrations, the Real Estate Industry Group at LaPorte, a Mauldin & Jenkins Company, meets regularly to cross-train, identify best practices, review industry trends, and work together to reach collective solutions for our clients. Our industry group professionals represent the firm’s audit, tax, and business advisory practices.

Our real estate professionals include individuals who have spent their entire careers, spanning decades, serving the industry. They are well respected in their communities for their dedication to the field and to their clients. The entire team works on meeting the business planning, tax, and accounting needs of developers, owners, investors, lenders, managers, title companies and others involved in the industry.

Commitment to the Real Estate Industry

Our commitment to your industry is clearly demonstrated through our professionals’ leadership roles and firm’s membership in, sponsorship of, and participation in trade organizations and associations.

• Certified Commercial Investment Member
• Commercial Investment Division
• Commercial Real Estate Women’s Network
• Growth Coalition
• National Association of Home Builders
• National Association of Real Estate Companies
• Urban Land Institute

Real Estate Client Base

This industry group strives to make LaPorte the premier real estate accounting firm in the South. To that end, these professionals serve a variety of clients throughout all phases of the real estate cycle: acquisition, development, holding, and selling.
Our clients include:

• Closing attorneys and title companies
• Commercial and retail realtors
• Developers and operators
• Hotels and resorts
• Large-home builders
• Mortgage services and lenders
• Multi-family and affordable housing organizations
• Parking facilities
• Real estate management, brokerage, and advisory firms
• Storage facilities and mini-warehouses

Services to the Real Estate Industry

• Acquisition support services, including lease due diligence
• ALTA Title Insurance and Settlement Company Best Practices services
  • Readiness assessments and advisory services
  • Agreed-upon procedures
  • Certification package support
• Attest and assurance services – audit, review, and compilation
• Capital gain strategies
• Certifications for tax credits
  • Low-income housing
  • New markets
  • Rehabilitation
• Conservation easement planning and consultation
• Cost segregation studies
• Entity and transaction structuring, planning, and support
• Federal, state, and local tax incentives and guidelines
• Going Green incentives
• Historic rehabilitation tax credit services
• HUD and USDA assurance and compliance services
• Land banking with capital gain strategies
• Software consulting and implementation
• Tax-deferred exchanges

For more information about Mauldin & Jenkins
Real Estate Industry Group,
visit https://www.mjcpa.com/industries/real-estate.