High-Value Home Sales Are Exposing a Tax-Planning Gap for Sellers, MetLife Poll Finds
MetLife’s 2026 poll highlights a tax-planning gap in high-value home sales, where 94% of brokers deem tax implications important yet only 33% of clients feel comfortable navigating them alone. Interest in alternatives to 1031 exchanges is rising, with 62% of brokers familiar with Structured Installment Sales and 80% identifying potential client applicability.
Key figures
- Survey respondents
- 101
- Avg transaction value
- $3.9 million
- Poll client comfort pct
- 33
- Poll brokers importance pct
- 94
- Poll tax deferral benefit pct
- 78
- Poll 1031 exchange awareness pct
- 92
- Poll market condition driver pct
- 67
- Poll structured sale adoption pct
- 26
- Poll retirement funding driver pct
- 55
- Poll barrier lack understanding pct
- 20
- Poll succession planning driver pct
- 53
- Poll structured sale familiarity pct
- 62
- Poll structured sale applicability pct
- 80
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