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Multifamily properties
for permanent trade
Duplexes, triplexes, and apartment buildings offered by investors restructuring portfolios without a brokered sale, and often without a taxable one.
What sets the price
NOI
Net operating income, verified, not pro forma
Cap rate
What income trades for in this market
Rent roll
Real tenants, confirmed by estoppels
Rebalance without liquidating
Multifamily property owners use GoSwap to restructure their real estate portfolios without cash transactions. Swapping a duplex for commercial space, or a four-unit for raw land, allows investors to shift strategy without triggering a traditional sale event. Each side of the deal is a permanent transfer of ownership, and the deed-and-escrow mechanics are covered on how property trading works.
The strategy moves behind these listings
Portfolio rebalancing: moving from residential to commercial or industrial without liquidating
1031-structured exchanges between qualifying investment properties can defer capital gains
Owners burned out on tenant management trading income property for lower-maintenance assets
Developers acquiring multifamily buildings by offering single-family inventory or land in exchange
Active multifamily trade listings
Fourplex with rental income for trade close to California coast
Santa Paula, California, United States
$994,900
2ND LOWEST PRICED 4-PLEX IN VENTURA COUNTY AT THE TIME OF THIS ENTRY. --SELLER RETIRING LEAVING THE STATE GREAT OPPORTUNITY!!!FHA OR VA OK - -:- -Upside Upside Upside!!!-For Sale Or Trade. What do you have to trade? Don't miss this Mixed Use Commercial Residential Quadplex, money-making opportunity Four-Plex to start you off as a landlord or just add 4 more units to your growing portfolio. We also have another four-plex and tri-plex for sale so you can purchase 4 units, or 7 units, or 8 units, or 11 units. These are really nice units well maintained you will be proud to own and rent or live in one. What do you have to trade???????Wonderfully designed and nicely maintained, well-built four units on extra sized lot of 8276+/- sf lot leaving the potential ADU or ADU's build out. Front Commercial Lot with a residential 2 & 1 attached residential building. In the back is a duplex with each unit being a 1 & 1 rental or personal residence. Four detached garages. All 4 units are designed for a quiet relaxing lifestyle. How many ADUs I don't know. Gas & electric bills go directly to the tenant's units-based on separate electric and gas meters for each unit!!!, so the tenant has to pay for them. The water is double master metered. There is a water meter for the front commercial unit, and a second meter for residential units, with both water bills being paid by the owner. Lots of parking for each unit on this extra sized 8,276+/- sf lot. Very nice rental income. Property sold as-is and do not talk to the tenants. Nicely maintained units. Refer to private remarks for rental income stream. Don't miss this great opportunity. What do you have to trade? Located in Ontario, CA, United States, the property is being sold as-is. Buyers are advised not to contact tenants directly. This listing may suit someone looking to exchange into a multifamily property with existing income potential and room for future planning.
Seeking:
Very flexibleHouse, Condo, Townhouse +5
The rent roll is the asset
Title transfers by deed, but because it’s an income property the leases, security deposits, and tenant relationships convey too. Verify income like the deal depends on it, because it does.
Estoppels + deposits
Verify the rent roll with tenant estoppel certificates and bank deposits
Leases + trailing-12
Review all leases, security-deposit ledgers, and the trailing-12 operating statements
Every unit, not a model
Inspect major systems across every unit, not just a model unit
Zoning + C of O
Confirm zoning and the certificate of occupancy for the unit count
Deal killer: trusting a pro-forma rent roll. Below-market or ghost tenants can inflate the value of an income property you’re trading into.
Restructurings we see
A duplex in a mid-size city traded for a retail storefront in the same area, shifting from residential to commercial income
A four-unit apartment building swapped for a combination of land and a single-family home, simplifying the portfolio
A triplex traded for a business that generates comparable income but requires less property management
Partner splits and portfolio trades
Two restructurings a listing period handles badly, because neither one is really a sale.
The partner split
Co-owners going separate ways use the building itself as the currency. One partner trades their share into a different asset, a smaller property, land, or a business, while the other consolidates ownership, and nobody is forced into a market sale to settle the split.
Portfolio for portfolio
Two investors who each want the other’s market exposure trade packages outright. Every property is valued and diligenced individually and the difference settles in cash. Heavier on paperwork, lighter than running a dozen separate transactions.
The 1031 angle
Investment multifamily is a classic 1031 candidate: exchange into qualifying investment property through a Qualified Intermediary within IRS timelines and capital gains can be deferred. Depreciation recapture applies either way: loop in a CPA before you agree on structure, not after.
Adjacent asset classes
Multifamily trade FAQ
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