Navigating the Real Estate Market in 2025
Vance Barse Featured in USA TODAY on Home Buying and Tax Time
Did you buy or sell a home in 2025? There’s a lot to think about, especially for first-time buyers or sellers.
Expert Guidance
If you sold a home during 2025, particularly one you had owned for a while, you may have pocketed a good amount of cash. Luckily, homeowners are entitled to an exclusion on the capital gains you reap from the sale” – Vance Barse
2025 Tax Tips
“Single filers can exclude up to $250,000, while the exclusion goes up to $500,000 for taxpayers filing jointly. The exclusion does have some restrictions: you need to have lived in the home for two years in a row during the last five years, for example.” – Barse
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Vance on Bloomberg Radio: a new trend in retirement planning, dealing with market volatility, and what to look for in a financial advisor
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Vance in InvestmentNews: Opening an IRA just for Alternative Investments
Vance Barse, wealth strategist at Manning Wealth Management, acknowledged the appeal of such a platform, but stressed the importance of due diligence and suitability.
“Some alternative investment strategies are quite sophisticated and may be too advanced for the common IRA investor to fully understand,” he said. “From a planning standpoint, investors who allocate retirement assets to illiquid alternative investments should consider their required minimum distributions, because you will need to keep enough liquidity to satisfy the distribution requirements if the investors are getting close to 70.5 years old.”
“There’s also some tax-advantaged potential of investing in alternatives in an IRA, but if you sell at a loss you can’t use that for tax purposes because it’s inside a qualified account,” Mr. Barse added.
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