A real estate Newco collects rent on Day Two or it does not exist.

Property management systems and the lease backbone.

Yardi Voyager, MRI Software, RealPage, AppFolio, Entrata, and Buildium carry the lease abstract, the rent roll, the tenant ledger, the maintenance work order history, and the budget for every property. The Newco needs a working PMS on Day One with every active lease, every rent step, every renewal option, and every percentage rent clause loaded. A leasing agent who cannot pull a tenant ledger on Day Two is a leasing agent who cannot collect rent or respond to a tenant audit request.

CoStar, LoopNet, VTS, MRI Strategic Asset Manager, and Argus Enterprise carry deal pipeline, leasing activity, valuation, and discounted cash flow modeling. Argus models drive the appraisal, the quarterly NAV, and the underwriting for refinancings. The Newco needs the live Argus library on Day One. An asset valuation that depends on a model the Newco cannot open is an asset valuation that does not hold up at the next board reporting cycle.

Tenant portals, online payment gateways, work order portals, and tenant satisfaction surveys all carry across with the PMS. The pattern overlaps with the broader carve-out application portfolio rationalization playbook.

Lockbox, banking, and the cash management cascade.

Commercial real estate cash flows through a tiered structure. Tenants pay into a property level lockbox. The lockbox sweeps to a property operating account. The operating account pays property level expenses, debt service, and the management fee. Excess cash sweeps to a borrower account, then to the Newco's master account, then to investors. Each tier carries a deposit account control agreement, a depository bank, and a sweep instruction. The Newco needs every account opened, every DACA signed, and every sweep instruction live on Day One.

Tenants pay through ACH origination, lockbox check processing, credit card platforms, and electronic payment networks such as Stripe, Plastiq, or Yardi Payment Processing. Each payment channel has to redirect to the Newco's account on a documented cutover date. A tenant ACH that posts to the seller's account on the first of the month is rent the Newco has to reclaim through a side letter.

The plan should reference the broader Day One bank account setup playbook for the full cash management cascade.

Lender consents, CMBS, and the debt perimeter.

Property level financing carries change of control covenants, due on sale clauses, transfer fees, and lender consent requirements. CMBS loans operate under a pooling and servicing agreement that names a master servicer and a special servicer. A change of borrower requires the master servicer's consent, the rating agency confirmation in some structures, and routinely a sponsor net worth and liquidity test. Bank syndicate loans require lender group consents. Mezzanine debt requires the mezz lender's consent and a fresh intercreditor acknowledgement.

Reserve accounts for taxes, insurance, capital expenditure, tenant improvements, and leasing commissions all sit under the loan documents with specific funding and disbursement rules. The Newco needs every reserve fully funded, properly named, and reconciled on Day One. A tax reserve short of escrow leaves the Newco scrambling to fund the December tax payment.

Loan covenant reporting, the borrower compliance certificate, and the quarterly operating statement package all carry their own cadence. The pattern overlaps with the broader carve-out vendor contract assignments playbook.

REIT compliance and the qualifying asset test.

A real estate investment trust operates under tight Internal Revenue Code requirements. The seventy five percent asset test, the seventy five percent gross income test, the ninety five percent gross income test, the prohibited transactions safe harbor, and the ninety percent distribution rule all carry across with the carve-out. A REIT Newco needs a clean opening balance sheet that satisfies the asset tests on the testing date that follows close. A REIT that flunks an income test in the year of carve-out triggers a deficiency dividend or worse a loss of REIT status.

Earnings and profits allocation, the carryover and purge dividend mechanics under Section 311, and the Section 1031 like kind exchange posture for ongoing dispositions all carry specific tax requirements. The Newco's REIT compliance lead has to inherit the historical REIT tax workpapers and the quarterly compliance package from Day One.

Taxable REIT subsidiary structures, foreign investor FIRPTA mechanics, the qualified investment entity rules, and state level REIT conformity all carry across with the deal structure. The plan should reference the broader TSA tax allocation considerations playbook.

Joint ventures, ground leases, and the title perimeter.

Many real estate portfolios sit inside joint ventures with institutional partners, family offices, sovereign wealth investors, and operating partners. JV agreements carry major decision rights, buy sell provisions, ROFR, ROFO, tag along, drag along, and capital call obligations. The Newco needs every JV agreement read, the carve-out tested against major decision triggers, and the partner notified through the agreement's documented channels. A JV partner that learns about a change of sponsor from the trade press has a partner relationship the Newco starts in deficit.

Ground leases, condominium declarations, easements, and reciprocal easement agreements at retail properties all carry their own consent and notification requirements. Each one sits inside the title commitment with a specific exception. Title insurance for the carve-out should land a date down endorsement, an updated owner's policy, and confirmation that recorded transfers do not impair priority of recorded liens.

Property tax appeal proceedings, ongoing litigation, mechanics lien claims, and environmental indemnification obligations all carry across with title. The pattern overlaps with the broader carve-out insurance policies playbook.

Closing the TSA and the property exit.

A clean real estate TSA exit closes four records. Every property runs on the Newco's PMS, the Newco's banking cascade, and the Newco's accounting close cycle. Every loan reflects the Newco as borrower with consents on file. REIT compliance, partnership tax compliance, and state tax filings flow through the Newco's own framework. Joint venture partners and ground lessors receive the documented notifications and reflect the Newco as counterparty.

Open items, typically a small set of pending lender consents, in flight property tax appeals, and CAM reconciliations on a calendar year cycle, sit under a short post-close services agreement with a hard end date. The seller's cooperation on legacy tenant claims and historical operating expense audits is documented. A property tax appeal or a tenant audit during the post-close window deserves a coordinated response on both sides.

Specialist support across the real estate carve-out is part of the TSA Pre-Signing Review service when the buyer wants the lender consent risk, the REIT compliance posture, and the cutover budget quantified before signing. The work coordinates with the Newco's CFO, the head of asset management, the head of property accounting, and the seller's treasury and tax teams.

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