Who publishes this, and who pays for it

The publisher is not neutral

1031 Exchange News Today is published by Easy1031, a qualified intermediary. Easy1031 makes money when readers start an exchange with it. Every call to action on this site is an advertisement for that service, placed by the company that owns the publication.

We are not going to pretend otherwise, and we are not going to bury it. That is why the disclosure appears on the masthead, in the footer, at the foot of every article, and on every advertising unit inside the copy.

What that means for the reporting

The subject matter helps. Almost everything covered here is statutory: the 45-day identification window, the 180-day completion window, what qualifies as like-kind, how boot arises, how depreciation recapture is calculated. None of it varies with which intermediary you use, so there is very little room for the publisher’s interest to bend the facts.

Where it could bend them is in what we choose to cover and how prominently. A reader should assume this site is more interested in topics that lead to someone starting an exchange than in topics that lead to someone deciding not to.

Rules we hold ourselves to

• Advertising units are visually distinct from body copy and labelled as advertisements.
• No competitor is named alongside a price anywhere on this site.
• Figures for other intermediaries are category-level market ranges, never quotes.
• Easy1031's own pricing is labelled as the publisher's when it appears.
• Articles that argue against exchanging get written when the facts point that way.

Who writes it

The Easy1031 Exchange Desk: qualified intermediary specialists with a combined seventy years in 1031 exchange, real estate and banking. Articles are reviewed against the current Internal Revenue Code, the relevant Treasury regulations and the revenue procedures cited in them.

None of it is tax or legal advice. It is reporting. Take the specifics of your own transaction to a CPA or an attorney, which is what we would do.

Corrections

There are 15 articles here and tax law moves. If something is wrong or out of date, write to support@easy1031.com and we will correct it and say that we did.

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