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    Default Real Estate Capital Gains after Inheritance

    After countless hours of online searching, I still can't find an answer to this question.
    Summary:
    *Father had a living trust that had our home and 180 acres of land in Dighton, MA. He passed and named me as the sole successor to the trust.
    *I still have everything in the trust. But would like to take a 30 acre portion of the land and sell it to the neighboring golf course.
    *Since there has not been a mortgage on this land in well over a hundred years (passed through the family) it would all be profit.
    *Do I have to pay Capital Gains on the whole amount and would it matter if I used that money to build a few houses?

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    Default Re: Real Estate Capital Gains after Inheritance

    If the trust was set up properly, there should have been a step up in basis such that the new basis for the property is its value at the time of the testator's death.

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