Property types
Sixteen building types, sixteen component lists
A warehouse and a restaurant do not reclassify alike. Pick your building type for the specific components we pull out, the recovery period each lands on, and a worked example at realistic scale.
Commercial
Commercial property
Office buildings
Office buildings look monolithic and reclassify better than owners expect. The structure is genuinely 39-year property, but the…
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Retail & strip centers
Retail is one of the strongest property types for cost segregation, and the reason is simple: a strip center is mostly parking, and…
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Warehouse & industrial
A distribution building is mostly slab, tilt-wall and roof, which is exactly why owners assume a study will not pay. Then you price…
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Restaurants
No property type reclassifies like a restaurant. Between the kitchen, the finish package and the drive-through, a quarter to…
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Medical & dental offices
A clinical build-out is one of the densest concentrations of five-year property in commercial real estate. The building may be…
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Hotels & hospitality
A hotel is three buildings stacked into one: a guest-room block, a food and beverage operation and a public amenity floor. Each…
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Self-storage facilities
Self-storage looks like the simplest building in commercial real estate and produces some of the most favourable reclassification…
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Manufacturing facilities
In a plant, the hard question is where the building stops and the process begins. That line is where the deduction lives, and it is…
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Auto dealerships & service
A dealership is a showroom, a service factory and several acres of finished pavement. Two of those three reclassify…
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Grocery & convenience stores
Refrigeration is the story. A grocery or convenience store carries a plant's worth of mechanical equipment devoted entirely to keeping…
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Senior living facilities
Senior living carries a hotel's finish package, a clinic's infrastructure and a resort's site plan. Studies here routinely reach the…
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Mixed-use properties
Mixed-use is the property type where the study has to answer a threshold question first: which part of this building is residential,…
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Residential rental property
Apartments & multifamily
Multifamily is the workhorse of cost segregation. The structure is 27.5-year property, but every unit contains a repeatable package of…
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Single-family rentals
A single rental house is the property type where owners most often assume a study is not worth it. Sometimes that is right.…
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Short-term rentals
Short-term rentals are the one residential category where the tax rules and the physical property both work in the owner's favour —…
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Student housing
Purpose-built student housing is multifamily with the amenity budget of a resort and the furniture package of a hotel. Both push the…
Component list →Mobile home parks
A park is mostly land improvements wearing a residential label. Roads, pads, utility laterals, site lighting and park-owned homes…
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