Most 1031 conversations begin with a property. A broker mentions a building, a sponsor sends a deck, a friend recommends a sponsor's recent offering. The investor reads the materials and forms a view. The numbers — the deferred tax liability, the realistic distribution rate net of fees, the structural illiquidity — arrive afterward, if at all.

That ordering is the reason 1031 DST Hub was built as a research-and-calculator resource rather than as a marketplace.

What this site does

There are three calculators on the homepage. The capital gains tax calculator takes your original purchase price, cost-basis adjustments, accumulated depreciation, and sale price, and returns your federal and state tax liability in the absence of an exchange. The depreciation recapture calculator isolates the 25% recapture component, which surprises many investors who assumed their entire gain would be taxed at the long-term capital gains rate. The boot calculator tells you how much taxable boot you would incur if your replacement property carries less debt or receives less equity than your relinquished property did.

The research library is intended to do something parallel for the qualitative side of the decision. A short primer on Delaware Statutory Trusts. A property-types overview that does not pretend any one sector is the right answer. A piece on illiquidity and the realistic exit paths. A diligence framework for evaluating a sponsor.

None of these replace a CPA, a qualified intermediary, or a registered representative. They are designed to let you arrive at those conversations already understanding the structure of the decision.

How we are paid

We are paid a flat fee by our broker-dealer partner. Not a commission. Not a per-investor fee. Not a percentage of what you invest. The same number whether you qualify, whether you invest, and whether the investment performs. We have no financial incentive to push you through the qualification gate or toward any specific offering.

That flat-fee arrangement is worth stating plainly because the economics of most 1031-DST platforms run the other way. We think the research is more useful when the publisher has no interest in what you do with it.

What we do not do

We do not publish projected returns, target IRRs, or yield estimates for specific sponsor offerings. We do not recommend specific sponsors. We do not publish anonymous or AI-generated content. Every article in this library carries a named byline.

The suitability questionnaire is five screens and takes about three minutes. It exists because federal securities rules require accredited-investor qualification before our broker-dealer partner can share specific offering details. It also exists because it filters out conversations that would waste everyone's time.

One email per week

If you want updates when new research or calculator improvements are published, there is a newsletter. One Tuesday email. Free. No tracking pixels in the email body — if you open it, we do not know. If you click a link, we know only that the link was clicked, not who clicked it. Unsubscribe at any time with one click.

That is the whole offer. Calculators, a small research library, a transparent cost structure, and a quiet newsletter. If that is useful for where you are in your 1031 process, we are glad you found us.

T. Reed Calloway, Markets Editor