About Basis Property Group

Basis Property Group is a direct-to-owner cost segregation firm for commercial, investment, and short-term rental property owners nationwide. We help owners accelerate the depreciation already sitting inside their buildings, money the tax code allows but most owners never claim.

Who We Are

We are a cost segregation advisory and brokerage built around a single idea: the value is already in the building. Every commercial property contains finishes, fixtures, equipment, and site work that the law lets an owner depreciate far faster than the standard thirty-nine-year schedule. Our work is to find that value, prove it, and put it in front of the owner. We are a new firm, and we would rather earn your trust with a number on your property than with claims about ourselves.

What Makes Us Different

Most owners learn about cost segregation by accident, years too late, usually from a passing comment by an accountant or another investor. By then a great deal of deductible value has gone unclaimed. We start from the property instead. Using a proprietary data engine covering more than 14,000 Pennsylvania commercial and industrial parcels, we identify qualifying buildings and open the conversation with an owner's specific, property-level estimate, before they pay anything. You do not have to know the rules or ask the right question first. We bring the analysis to you.

How We Work

We are an advisory and brokerage. We do the finding, the evidence, and the owner relationship. The engineered study itself is performed by licensed engineering partners and delivered under the Basis name, aligned to the IRS Cost Segregation Audit Techniques Guide. We work alongside your CPA, who files the result on your return. You keep your existing advisors. We add the piece most of them do not produce in-house: an engineering-based component study that holds up to scrutiny.

What We Believe

No owner should overpay tax on a building because the depreciation was never broken out. The deductions are lawful, the methodology is established, and the only thing standing between most owners and the cash is the study itself. We give the estimate free, and we tell you plainly when a study is not worth it. If the benefit does not clear the bar for your property, we will say so, and you will owe us nothing. A recommendation you can trust is worth more to us than a study you regret.

Who We Serve

We serve commercial and investment owners across Montgomery, Chester, Bucks, Lehigh, Monroe, and Pike counties, plus Philadelphia, Allentown, and the Poconos. That includes property owners holding multifamily, retail, industrial, hospitality, medical, mixed-use, and short-term rental buildings, as well as the CPAs and advisors who work with them. If you own commercial or investment real estate in our service area, or advise someone who does, the estimate is open to you.

Steven Ellis, Founder

I'm Steven Ellis. I started Basis Property Group.

My background is direct-to-consumer ecommerce, not accounting. I have built and scaled ecommerce brands, and managed or influenced more than 100M in Meta ad spend doing it. I built Scale With Steven and coached more than 100 entrepreneurs through it, before stepping back from active coaching in 2026. My background also includes Hollywood creative development. I am not a CPA. I am not an engineer. I am not an attorney, and nothing on this page should read as if I am.

That is deliberate, not a gap I am hiding. I am the operator. I built the estimate process, the guarantee, and the systems that get an owner a real, property-specific number before they spend a dollar with us. Our engineering team, working with one of the largest accounting firms in the country, produces the study itself. Your CPA still files your return. Those are their jobs. Mine is everything around them: finding the owners sitting on depreciation nobody has shown them yet, and building a process honest enough that saying no to a bad-fit property costs us nothing.

I started Basis because the pattern was familiar. In DTC, the brands that stall are usually sitting on a winning ad they never scaled, because nobody put the number in front of the person who could act on it. Building owners do the same thing with depreciation that was always legal and always available. So we lead with the free Preliminary Benefit Estimate before any commitment, and we tell an owner plainly when a property will not clear the bar.

Questions about how any of this works, or why we built it this way: [email protected], or find me on LinkedIn.

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