Real Estate Planning

Real Estate Strategies

Grow your wealth through real estate, reduce your tax liability, or diversify your portfolio. As fiduciary advisors, we bring every piece of your financial life — including real estate — into one coordinated plan.

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Why real estate?

Real estate is one of the most powerful tools in a high-net-worth plan — income, appreciation, tax benefits, and diversification all in one asset class.

Income & Appreciation

Cash flow today and long-term price appreciation — without compromising the rest of your plan.

Tax Efficiency

Depreciation, 1031/721 exchanges, opportunity zones, and conservation easements coordinated with your full tax picture.

Diversification

Real assets that don't move in lockstep with public markets — a meaningful counterweight to stocks and bonds.

Our Strategies

Solutions for growth, income, and exit

Rentals & Pooled Investments

Rental Properties & Pooled Real Estate

Is that listing worth investing in? Should you rent or sell? How will taxes, transaction fees, vacancy, or stagnant prices impact your financial health? We answer these questions through robust planning — and pair direct ownership with institutional pooled vehicles when it makes sense.

Qualified Opportunity Zones

Potentially defer or reduce capital gains

Looking to defer or reduce capital gains, diversify your real estate portfolio, and invest back into communities? Qualified Opportunity Zone funds may offer tax benefits when held for the required long-term periods, subject to program rules and your individual circumstances.

Conservation Easements

Build wealth without buildings

Building real estate wealth doesn't always involve buildings. Conservation easements preserve land, diversify your portfolio, and may offer tax benefits, subject to strict IRS requirements and substantiation, while keeping property minimally developed.

1031 / 721 Exchanges & DSTs

Step back from landlording, tax-efficiently

Want to diversify your real estate holdings, potentially defer capital gains, and reduce the day-to-day burden of being a landlord? 1031 and 721 exchanges into Delaware Statutory Trusts (DSTs) can transition active property into passive, professionally managed real estate.

The Fiduciary Difference

Real estate advice without the conflicts

Most real estate "advice" comes from people who get paid only when you transact. We don't. As fiduciaries, we're paid to give you the right answer — even when the right answer is "wait" or "sell."

  • We act as fiduciaries — recommendations are made in your best interest, not for commissions.
  • Real estate decisions are stress-tested against your full financial plan, not pitched in isolation.
  • We coordinate with your CPA and attorney so tax strategy, entity structure, and estate plan align.
  • Access to private real estate offerings that are generally available only to accredited investors, where suitable.

Ready to put real estate to work?

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Important Disclosure

This page is educational and is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation to buy, any security or real estate interest. Real estate investments involve risk, including illiquidity, loss of principal, property-specific and tenant risk, leverage, changes in interest rates, and changes in tax law. There is no guarantee that any property, program, or strategy will achieve its objectives.

1031 and 721 exchanges, Delaware Statutory Trusts, Qualified Opportunity Zone funds, and conservation easements are complex, involve strict rules and deadlines, and are generally available only to accredited investors. Failure to satisfy applicable requirements can result in the loss of the intended tax treatment. Deferral is not elimination; deferred gain may become taxable in the future. Tax outcomes depend on your individual facts and on current law, which can change.

Rigden Capital Strategies does not provide legal or tax services. Please consult your own attorney and CPA before implementing any strategy described here.