Real Estate | Baker Tilly

With the increasing complexity and internationality of the real estate market, how can you always make the right decisions? With a partner who can offer all the necessary services from a single source. The real estate experts in our Real Estate sector team combine financial, performance, tax and legal expertise. They provide our clients with interdisciplinary consulting services covering a property’s entire life cycle.

Depending on the consulting project, we involve other Baker Tilly specialists in the project: auditors, tax advisors, lawyers and business consultants. We know that the combined information of many experts makes up the right overall solution that leads to an optimal result for our clients. Through our global Baker Tilly International network, we also ensure support on an international basis.

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Who is relying on our expertise?

Our real estate experts from the Competence Center Real Estate support active market participants such as institutional and private investors, commercial and mortgage banks as well as project developers, asset managers and fund initiators. We also advise listed corporations and medium-sized companies from all industries as well as the public sector.

Do you want to restructure real estate portfolios or carry out real estate transactions? Do you want to build, buy, sell, value, use or let real estate? We look forward to hearing your requirements and to talking to you.

Our services in the area of real estate

Audit & Advisory Real Estate

Highly complex consulting and auditing services

Like the economy as a whole, the real estate sector has undergone major changes in recent years. New business strategies, the transformation of the capital market and the associated change in accounting regulations, innovative financing instruments and tight public budgets are having a lasting impact on the real estate sector. This is why a partner with broad financial expertise is becoming increasingly important for players in the real estate market.

Under the term Financial Real Estate, we combine highly complex consulting and auditing services for the real estate sector, in particular in the areas of audits of annual and consolidated financial statements, corporate transactions and international accounting. Our teams of experts, who have a high level of expertise in the sector, enable us to offer our clients comprehensive support in all financial issues in the real estate market.

Our services:

Audit of annual and consolidated financial statements pursuant to German HGB, US-GAAP and IFRS
Financial due diligence
Business consulting for REITs (accounting, financing)
Special audits
Audits pursuant to the German Real estate agent and property developer ordinance (“MaBV”)
Audit of the internal control system and audit of company processes relevant to the annual financial statements
Special audits in the area of Sarbanes Oxley Act, Section 404 in the real estate industry
Due diligence
Company and real estate valuation
Risk management
Advice on public-private partnerships
Restructuring
Audit and preparation of annual financial statements, reviews of reporting packages during the year in accordance with HGB, IFRS and US GAAP

Your contacts at Audit & Advisory Real Estate

Christian P. Roos
Partner
German CPA

Andreas Weissinger
Partner
German CPA, Certified Tax Advisor

Tax Real Estate

Real estate tax consulting with a holistic consulting approach

Real estate tax advice at all levels: As part of our ongoing support, we assist you in all tax filing tasks and, as part of project-related tasks, with the tax structuring of international real estate projects to the development of strategies, for example, in order to avoid real estate transfer tax. Tax due diligence naturally also includes transactions. Furthermore, we also optimize your financing structures in the long term.

Our real estate experts always pursue the same goal: to provide our clients with consistently high-quality advice. So that you are always at the cutting edge.

Our services:

Conceptual design of national and international fund structures
Tax advice on real estate investments and investment properties with complex investment and financing structures
Tax due diligence
Tax advice for REITs
Structuring the real estate assets of German and European corporate groups and companies
Tax support for prospectus audits
Bookkeeping, preparation of tax returns
Special tax issues (expert opinions on monument depreciation, real estate leasing, etc.)

Your contacts at Tax Real Estate

Lars Lesser
Partner
Certified Tax Advisor

Peter Rohrwild
Partner
Certified Tax Advisor

Transactions Real Estate

Support for buyers and sellers

In portfolio or individual transactions, our interdisciplinary teams support both the buyer and the seller with their combined knowledge. From a large number of corporate and real estate transactions, we know the processes involved in transactions and the parties’ needs down to the smallest detail. A specialized transaction team will support you with a wide range of advisory services and guarantees a successful conclusion. We take into account all relevant framework data – financial, performance, tax and legal. Where appropriate, we expand our expertise to also include technical knowledge.

Our services:

Advice on asset and portfolio transactions
Support in purchase contract and financing negotiations
Advice on the design of financing structures, acquisition financing
Due diligence (financial, tax, legal, commercial), buy-side or sell-side
Company and real estate valuation
Post acquisition support

Your contacts at Transactions Real Estate

Peter Rohrwild
Partner
Certified Tax Advisor

Dr. Hendrik Theismann
Partner
Attorney-at-Law (Rechtsanwalt)

Legal Real Estate

Advice throughout a property’s life cycle

The range of consulting services in this area covers all phases of a property’s life cycle. From financing, land acquisition, project development, planning and construction to management, letting and sale. We support all parties involved: national and international companies, brokers, investors, banks, insurance companies and the public sector.

Our experts advise on the implementation of complex fund structures as well as on the drafting of purchase agreements or the preparation of an IPO. If the situation requires it, we call in other specialized lawyers from other areas of law, for example, capital markets and corporate law, as well as auditors, tax advisors or business consultants in order to develop a holistic solution.

Our services:

Contract design (purchase agreements, property development contracts, commercial leases)
Advice on (portfolio) transactions
Legal due diligence
Assistance with IPOs
Legal advice for REITs (corporate and capital market law)
Advising real estate funds on structuring and financing issues
Advice on project development
Asset management
Receivership of real estate and restructuring of distressed real estate funds
Implementation of institutional administrations for credit institutions
Public law (public building law, specialist planning, planning approval, real estate regulations and reallocation, soil protection law and contaminated sites, development and development contribution law)
PPP contract drafting
Drafting of property encumbrances
Drafting commercial rental and lease agreements

Your contacts at Legal Real Estate

Michael Mehler
Partner
Attorney-at-Law (Rechtsanwalt)

Dr. Hendrik Theismann
Partner
Attorney-at-Law (Rechtsanwalt)

Stephan Zuber
Partner
Attorney-at-Law (Rechtsanwalt), Specialist Lawyer for Commercial and Corporate Law

Real Estate Fonds

Commercial real estate trading, real estate transfer tax and VAT consequences are some of the tax-related pitfalls real estate investors need to be aware of.

Real estate continues to be the most popular class of investments – both as a direct investment and as a real estate fund. In addition to domestic real estate, real estate abroad also offers attractive returns. Providers of open and closed-ended real estate funds as well as private and institutional investors need advisors with experience and foresight to ensure their real estate investments’ economic success.

We offer tailor-made concepts for every form of real estate investment. Benefit from our broad range of one-stop advisory services for your investment.