This can be added as a new asset on your depreciation schedule since it was added cash for the exchange. Likewise any cash added to the exchange becomes a new asset.
If you "bought-up" in your exchange (your New Property cost more than you sold or traded your Old Property), the answer is easy – you treat the buy up part as you would a new addition to an existing property. In other words, you treat the amount of the buy-up the same as you would the cost of construction, for example, of a garage added to an existing house – the cost is the amount of the buy-up; the date you start depreciating it is the date you purchased the new property; and the depreciation method you use is the method most appropriate for that type of property in the year you bought the New Property (regardless of the method you used for the original house). If you think of it this way, then it's easy, even if your property is a large office building or a more complex purchase.
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