1031 Tax Deferred Exchange: Many Options That Each Provide Many Advantages - Part 3

However, 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange is only applicable as long as you sell real estate that is investment oriented and it won’t hold true if you are selling personal residential property. Also, the properties in question must be similar or more precisely like-kind which means that if you are exchanging real property then the two properties in question must both be real properties. In fact, there is also nothing stopping you from exchanging a single property for many properties or even buying a single property from the proceeds of many properties.