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Choosing the Optimal Ownership Entity for Real Estate

  • Training

  • Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE)
  • ID: 5944829

THE 60-MINUTE LAWYER

The advent of limited liability companies has greatly simplified the process of choosing the best real estate ownership entity for a given situation. Practitioners need to be aware of the many legal and tax advantages that the LLC format offers for real estate ventures. But the LLC is not the only, or sometimes, the best entity option. Owners of real estate or operators of real estate ventures also frequently choose to hold their interests in limited partnerships, corporations, trusts, or other entities. Tax issues, limiting the personal liability of clients, asset protection, with or without bankruptcy, and exit strategies are usually the predominant considerations when forming a legal entity to own or manage real estate.

Learn about the basic tax, bankruptcy, debtor-creditor, and other legal issues involved in forming and operating a real estate holding entity. Learn how to choose the most appropriate vehicle for a new real estate venture, how to deal with tax and other issues involving real estate ventures that have been formed as entities other than LLCs, and how and when conversion of an entity into an LLC or other entity may be an option to consider. Hear an overview of the legal, bankruptcy, debtor-creditor, and tax issues involved in conducting real estate ventures through nominee trusts, general partnerships, limited partnerships, single member LLCs, corporations, and business trusts.

Course Content

12:00 - 12:11 pm
Forms of Entity for Owning Real Estate
Overview of Each Form of Entity as a Possible Choice to Own or Manage Real Estate - Including the Pros and Cons from a Financial, Control, Debtor-Creditor, Governance, and Liquidity Perspective
Donald E. Vaughan, Esq.,
Burns & Levinson LLP, Boston
Jennifer V. Doran, Esq.,
Hinckley Allen LLP, Boston

12:11 - 12:45 pm
Special Conveyancing Issues Involving LLCs, Trusts, Corporate Tax Issues and Other Entities
Basic Partnership, Trust, and Corporate Tax Issues Involved in Forming, Operating, and Liquidating a Real Estate Holding Entity
Donald E. Vaughan, Esq.,
Burns & Levinson LLP, Boston

12:45 - 12:58 pm
Ownership Entities for Real Estate: Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor Concerns
Jennifer V. Doran, Esq.,
Hinckley Allen LLP, Boston

12:58 - 1:01 pm
Q&A
Jennifer V. Doran, Esq.,
Hinckley Allen LLP, Boston
Donald E. Vaughan, Esq.,
Burns & Levinson LLP, Boston

Please Note
This webcast is delivered completely online, underscoring their convenience and appeal.
There are no published print materials. All written materials are available electronically only.
They are posted 24 hours prior to the program and can be accessed, downloaded, or printed from your computer.

Speakers

Faculty
Jennifer V. Doran, Esq.,
Hinckley Allen LLP, Boston
Donald E. Vaughan, Esq.,
Burns & Levinson LLP, Boston