Every commercial building is a collection of assets depreciating at different rates. Most owners don't know this. The ones who do save six figures.
When you buy a commercial building, the IRS says you can depreciate it over 39 years. That means on a $2M property, you deduct just $51,282 per year. The problem isn't the deduction, it's the time value of money. A dollar saved today is worth dramatically more than a dollar saved in year 30.
But the IRS doesn't require you to depreciate everything at the same rate. Most property owners just don't know that.
A cost segregation study is like an MRI for your building. Licensed engineers identify every component that can be reclassified into a shorter depreciation life. On a typical property, 20-40% of the cost gets pulled forward.
Tap or hover any layer to see what's included. Only the structural shell stays at 39 years, everything else gets accelerated.
Under MACRS and Bonus Depreciation, reclassified assets can be deducted entirely in Year 1. Not spread over 5 years. All of it, immediately. Look at the spike.
For a $2M property with 35% reclassified, that's roughly $700,000 in accelerated deductions in Year 1 alone.
The real magic isn't the deduction, it's what you do with the cash. Tax savings reinvested today compound dramatically over time.
Without cost segregation, you'd wait 39 years to recover this value. With it, you put that cash to work today.
Cost segregation doesn't create new deductions. It moves them forward in time. And time, in investing, is everything.
Maven's licensed engineers have conducted over 1,000 cost segregation studies nationwide. Your preliminary estimate is free.