Real estate

Our integrated tax team can help you determine the optimal tax structure and understand the tax implications of holding, buying, and selling real estate. From addressing tax legislative changes to identifying tax efficient planning opportunities, our specialists support our clients through various tax services including Canadian and US corporate tax, transfer pricing, personal tax, and wealth preservation. In addition, our legal specialists are integrated into our tax team and can help in every aspect of the real estate deal lifecycle.

As a leader in real estate audit and financial reporting, we assist clients with their financial accounting, regulatory, and compliance reporting requirements under all relevant frameworks. Whether it’s understanding new accounting standards or accounting for complex transactions, our audit and accounting advisory professionals can help you organize your financial reporting processes and ensure your accounting operations match the objectives of your business.

KPMG’s integrated team of asset management, legal, tax, corporate finance and valuation professionals are experienced at assessing asset specific and overall portfolio value creation options, pursuing informed and transparent investment, disposition and joint venture strategies, and obtaining competitive financing.

Whether it’s helping accelerate decarbonization plans, identifying metrics for ESG reporting, or developing a social impact investing strategy, our professionals can help embed ESG practices into every stage of the property lifecycle and build ESG considerations into your portfolio.

Our integrated finance transformation processes provide an analytics-driven framework that can help improve performance and transparency, enhance decision-making, and enable better use of capital in the finance function. From digital strategy and transformation, cloud integration, and the incorporation of new PropTechs and ConTechs, our technology consulting specialists can implement a robust technology strategy to transform organizations into digitally enabled businesses engineered for profitable growth.

We help real estate organizations unlock the value of their data, enabling them to make better, faster and more confident business decisions. Leveraging the latest data analytics, intelligent automation and artificial intelligence technologies, our team can deliver tailored solutions to help clients with their business goals, including gaining greater control over asset operations within their properties and across their portfolios.

Our valuations team works collaboratively with our core audit team to assess the fair value of your real estate portfolio. By adopting a holistic valuation approach, our team of certified appraisers can service any engagements that require a valuation element, including tax, legal and financial reporting. Whether your needs are local or international, our sophisticated, tailored valuation techniques can help you make optimal decisions for your business.

Our cyber security professionals help create a resilient and trusted digital world in an age where data is drastically increasing through the rise of smart buildings and interconnected technologies. In addition to assessing your cyber security and aligning it to your business priorities, our team can help create advanced cyber programs, challenge and validate your defensible security posture, and help detect and respond effectively to cyber incidents.