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BiggerPockets Real Estate · March 5, 2026 · 50m
Tax Strategies Every Real Estate Investor Needs in 2026
CPA Amanda Han on the tax advantages that make real estate uniquely powerful: depreciation, 1031 exchanges, cost segregation, qualified opportunity zones, and the Real Estate Professional status.
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Highlights
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Depreciation is the most powerful legal tax shelter in existence
Han: real estate depreciation lets you deduct the value of a building over 27.5 years — even if the building is actually appreciating. This paper loss offsets real income, reducing your tax bill to zero in many cases.•
The 1031 exchange lets you defer taxes on property sales indefinitely — potentially forever
Han: when you sell an investment property, you can defer all capital gains taxes by reinvesting the proceeds into a new property within 180 days. There is no limit on how many times you can do this.Was this useful?