Our CPA experts provide fractional CFO services, accounting, and tax strategy for commercial real estate owners and investors across the San Francisco Bay Area and California, helping you manage cash flow, understand portfolio performance, and make more informed financial decisions as your holdings grow.
Some of the most consequential financial decisions in commercial real estate happen around specific transactions and deadlines — a 1031 exchange window, a refinancing decision, a property acquisition or sale, or a cost segregation opportunity that has not been evaluated. We provide fractional CFO services, accounting, and tax strategy for CRE owners across the San Francisco Bay Area and California who need a CPA thinking on that timeline.
We work with commercial real estate owners and investors to structure entities property by property, plan around 1031 exchanges and cost segregation opportunities, and consolidate reporting across a multi-property portfolio. This is a different conversation than a construction or trades business. The tax strategy here is built around depreciation, financing, and disposition timing rather than job costing.
The numbers we review together:
Financial Strategy Built Around Your Portfolio
Strong occupancy or rising property values do not always translate into strong cash flow. Debt service, capital improvements, tenant improvements, repairs, property taxes, and uneven collections can put pressure on liquidity even when a property is performing well.
We help commercial real estate owners see how each property and entity is performing, how much cash needs to stay in reserve, what can safely be distributed, and how financing, depreciation, and tax decisions affect the portfolio as a whole.
Financial challenges often start as everyday business decisions. For California companies, having the right advisor in place can help identify risks early and address them before they disrupt growth.
Commercial buildings are generally depreciated over 39 years, but a cost segregation study may identify certain building components that qualify for shorter recovery periods. We help evaluate whether the potential tax benefit justifies the cost and complexity of a study.
The identification and closing windows in a 1031 exchange are unforgiving, and getting the basis tracking wrong afterward creates problems for years. We plan around these deadlines, not after them.
Many CRE owners hold each property in a separate LLC for liability reasons, but that creates a consolidation and reporting burden if it isn’t managed deliberately. We build reporting that rolls up cleanly.
Debt service coverage ratios and covenant compliance directly affect your ability to refinance or acquire. We track this proactively, not right before a lender asks.
Passive activity loss rules and Real Estate Professional Status can materially affect the treatment of real estate losses, but qualification depends on specific participation and time requirements. We help owners understand the rules, evaluate their circumstances, and plan around the tax consequences where appropriate.
We partner best with CRE owners that:
We work with commercial real estate owners and operators throughout San Francisco, the Bay Area, and California, helping them bring more clarity to property finances, tax planning, and portfolio-level decision-making.
California owners holding several commercial properties across one or more entities.
Owners managing retail centers or mixed residential-commercial properties.
Owners of office buildings, warehouses, or industrial space with longer-term leases.
Owners actively using 1031 exchanges to grow or reposition a portfolio while deferring capital gains.
Multi-partner ownership structures needing consolidated, partner-level reporting.
The right financial strategy doesn’t just organize your books. It increases resilience and confidence.
Your financial setup should work the way you do — not the other way around. That’s when things finally make sense
Our clients gain clearer visibility into:
Growth can expose gaps in a commercial real estate company’s financial systems. As portfolios and operations become more complex, stronger reporting, financial infrastructure, and strategic oversight can help owners maintain visibility and make better-informed decisions.
Senior financial leadership on a part-time basis. Strategy, forecasting, and financial decision-making. Without the full-time salary.
Books structured to roll up cleanly across multiple property-level entities.
Plan around loan covenant timing, refinancing windows, and disposition scenarios.
Understand which properties are generating stronger NOI, where debt service and capital needs are putting pressure on cash flow, and how depreciation strategy affects after-tax portfolio performance.
Stay ahead of California taxes with year-round planning designed to legally minimize what you owe.
We run the numbers first so you can see how each move could affect cash flow and profitability.
Understand which properties are generating stronger NOI, where debt service and capital needs are putting pressure on cash flow, and how depreciation strategy affects after-tax portfolio performance.
Stay ahead of California taxes with year-round planning designed to legally minimize what you owe.
We run the numbers first so you can see how each move could affect cash flow and profitability.
Senior financial leadership on a part-time basis. Strategy, forecasting, and financial decision-making. Without the full-time salary.
Books structured to roll up cleanly across multiple property-level entities.
Plan around loan covenant timing, refinancing windows, and disposition scenarios.
Sharon Ching
SLM Architecture and Design
What a great surprise! We were expecting to pay IRS over $10,000 in additional taxes but we ended up with $4,000 tax credits and paid nothing! Samy is amazing! He knows all the recent tax reforms and patiently explains them to us and applies the relevant tax deductible tools and strategies for our business and personal taxes.
Elmira Esmaeili
As a new client I’m delighted to report that my interactions with Basta & Company have been excellent. I’m grateful for the invaluable assistance I’ve so far received from Basta & Company, and staff!
John Meloy
I cannot recommend Samy enough! He helped us with a very challenging 1031 exchange which allowed us to defer our capital gains taxes and purchase a new property. He returns e-mails and phone messages promptly and the best part is that he talks non CPA language to you in order to make sure you understand everything. If I could, I would give him 6 stars!
Michael Berke
No. We’re based in the Bay Area serving the built environment (construction and construction specialty trades, engineering and design-firms, and property managers) across California.
Yes. We assess your properties and estimate the potential benefit before you commit to the cost of a study.
Yes. We help you plan around identification and closing deadlines and track basis correctly afterward.
Yes. We build consolidated reporting that rolls up cleanly across your entity structure.
Yes. We track debt service coverage ratios and covenant requirements proactively.
We help with depreciation strategy, entity structure, passive activity loss planning, and year-end tax strategy.
Yes. We can help you understand the qualification requirements, review how the rules may apply to your circumstances, and coordinate the tax planning and documentation needed to support the analysis.
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Basta & Company guides San Francisco businesses through every financial milestone — from business structure and accounting systems to tax strategy and scaling with confidence.
Top-rated San Francisco CPA offering fractional CFO services and tax strategy in the Bay Area
With over 25 years of experience, Basta & Company has become a trusted partner for growing businesses across San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties, as well as throughout California. Led by Samy Basta, CPA, our team provides fractional CFO services, accounting, and tax strategy for the built environment: construction, planning & design, and CRE.
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