SUBSCRIBE Launches 1031 DST Exchange Transaction Platform

The technology solution combines digital workflows and critical property data to support financial advisors engaged in 1031 DST exchange transactions from start to finish. The platform also centralizes over 40 DST offerings from leading alternative asset managers and embeds qualified intermediary services from national 1031 exchange firms.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SUBSCRIBE, a global fintech company providing the leading enterprise operating system for alternative investments, today announced the launch of their 1031 DST Transaction Platform. The digital solution provides over 1200 wealth management firms and their 55,000 financial advisors access to more than 40 DST offerings from leading alternative asset managers including Blackstone, Bluerock, Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management, Capital Square, Cottonwood, ExchangeRight, Hines, Inland, Invesco, Nuveen, Palladius, Passco, Starwood, and many others. As part of the initiative, the company has also formed strategic relationships with national 1031 exchange firms, such as Accruit, digitally embedding qualified intermediary (QI) services as part of the workflow within SUBSCRIBE.

The technology-enabled 1031 exchange workflow and property data solution is designed to allow financial advisors and their clients to initiate, manage, and track an exchange transaction from start to finish. The solution seeks to close the information gap that often exists between financial advisors and their clients by capturing exchanger, relinquished property, and other critical information to help automate the multistage, paperwork-heavy process on a single platform and do so transparently for all stakeholders. The embedded QIs will provide financial advisors with educational resources and access to experienced exchange professionals, while the broad menu of DSTs centralizes access to high-quality investment options.

"SUBSCRIBE successfully innovated onboarding for private market funds in a way that allowed all the stakeholders involved in a fund transaction to benefit and efficiently scale," said Rafay Farooqui, Founder & CEO at SUBSCIRBE. "With the launch of our 1031 Exchange Transaction Platform, we seek to replicate that success for DST transactions and bring them online from their current state of messy email threads, paper forms, and fragmented workflows."

Simplified Workflows for DST Sponsors
SUBSCRIBE's 1031 DST Transaction Platform is also positioned to make offerings easily accessible, and transaction tracking simpler for alternative asset managers that have designed DST offerings to provide financial advisors and their clients with access to institutional‑quality real estate across senior housing, student housing, multifamily, and industrial property. Bringing sponsors, QIs, and financial advisors together on a single platform to consolidate and simplify the process helps clients preserve capital, defer taxes, and execute reinvestment strategies more efficiently. This creates greater confidence in DSTs as tax-deferral strategies, strengthens long-term client relationships, and delivers a more seamless experience for all stakeholders.

"For clients of wealth managers seeking to preserve equity and reposition capital, 1031 DSTs offer an effective tool," said Steve Holtkamp, President at Accruit. "SUBSCRIBE brings the QI directly into the platform, providing a modern and intuitive experience that guides financial advisors and their clients through the exchange process while creating a more seamless, connected experience from start to finish."

Powerful Tax Management Solution
The Baby Boomer generation has approximately $90 trillion in net worth, with an estimated $4 trillion concentrated in investment properties and second homes. DSTs are increasingly being used by financial advisors as a starting point to form a long-term wealth strategy, but they also act as mechanisms for execution certainty as exchangers face stringent 45-day and 180-day deadlines to complete transactions. A DST can serve as a safety net, providing the certainty of a fully structured, professionally managed property over the uncertainty of chasing a direct deal in that same time-period. DSTs can also address key investment planning objectives, deferral of capital gains taxes, risk management, asset diversification, and strategic portfolio repositioning by helping real estate investors transition away from the challenges of active real property management. Thus, many leading alternative asset managers have launched 1031 tax-advantaged wealth platforms, and some offer a potential future exit through a Section 721 UPREIT transaction, in which DST holders can contribute their interests, tax deferred, into a REIT in exchange for partnership units.

"Our Exchange platform was designed around the needs of wealth managers who require flexibility, choice, and efficiency when evaluating 1031 DST opportunities on behalf of their clients," said Nitin Chexal, CEO of Palladius Capital Management. "Our longstanding relationship with SUBSCRIBE made this a natural extension of our partnership. Its new 1031 DST Transaction Platform helps modernize and streamline the subscription process, making it easier for advisors and their clients to access Exchange offerings."

Through 2Q 2026, DST sponsors had already raised $3.75 billion, up nearly 24% from the same period in 2025, with $3.9 billion in available open inventory across 100 DST offerings. Mountain Dell, a consulting and research firm, projects $10 billion in total DST sales by year-end, up nearly 55% from 2025.

About SUBSCRIBE
SUBSCRIBE is a fintech company digitally transforming the landscape of alternative investments for alternative asset managers, institutional investors, wealth managers, law firms, and fund administrators. Our platform technology modernizes the archaic infrastructure of private fund investments by delivering a central operating system — catering to every role within the investment process empowering them to connect any fund, any investor, anywhere in the world on a single platform. SUBSCRIBE supports over $6 trillion in private market assets and is the trusted technology partner to thousands of firms that rely on our end-to-end enterprise solution to scale their private market investment programs and manage investment processes across pre-trade, trade, and post-trade fund workflows. For additional information, visit www.subscribeplatform.com or follow the company on LinkedIn and X (@esubdocs).

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