Jennifer Santoso
Investment Firms Buying Single Family Homes
There have been many headlines lately about Blackstone and Investment firms buying up single family homes. There was an interesting write up by Slate covering some of the specifics and history of how investment firms acquire single family homes. The TLDR; investment firms are buying up homes that have the greatest potential for rent appreciation and value appreciation…
4 Real Estate Strategies for Multifamily Syndication Sponsors
When you are analyzing sponsors and who to invest your capital with, you should know the strategy of that sponsor. Some sponsors will be a great fit for you and some will not. Today I am going to break down just a few of the most common real estate strategies. Buy and Hold: Buying and…
5 Benefits of Real Estate Syndications
A few years ago a wealthy friend of mine told me, “the richest people on the Forbes 500 are tech ceos at the top, big business owners in the middle, and at the bottom, real estate investors”. His message stuck with me. It humbled me and made me think about the long term strategy and…
Debt vs Equity Syndications – Some Simple Differences
One of the many ways to invest in real estate is through a syndicate. A syndicate is essentially a group of investors who join together to accomplish an investment goal. There are two types of syndicates I want to cover today and those are debt syndications and equity syndications. In a debt syndication each investor…
What Are Waterfalls in a Real Estate Syndication
Waterfalls, this is a fun title for something so simple. A waterfall is basically how profits will be broken down and divided among investors and a sponsor in a syndication. When sponsors put together an apartment syndication deal, they make their money by splitting cash distributions with the limited partners (passive investors in the deal).…
Growth Vue Properties Secures $10MM Co-Investment
Growth Vue Properties and Trion Holdings have entered into a joint partnership by which they will pursue a multi-family property for acquisition in 2020. Trion Holdings and Growth Vue have committed $10 million to this joint partnership and look deploy capital in 2020. Growth Vue Properties was established in 2019 with the backing of private…
Single family investing VS. Multifamily Investing
Single Family or Multifamily investing? That is the question! In the below video, our partner Brad Penley breaks down the benefits of investing in multifamily apartments. Brad breaks down the economies of scale, how vacancy impacts each asset type, and more. Single-family is a great way to learn the ropes and start an early real…
VUE: Vested – United – Equity
As a group we are a long term holder of stable, cash producing assets that increase in cash flow and equity over time. We buy and hold long term multifamily apartments that drive safe and consistent returns, and plan to hold on to them forever-or at least until a better opportunity arrives. We only work…
Are We Hunting Elephants or Hunting Mice?
When deciding to pursue multifamily, there were 5 features that we wanted to know. Is the market big enough? Is the product better or cheaper – sometimes both – than other companies assets in the space? Can the business be scaled quickly and exponentially? Is there a significant advantage that makes it tough for competitors…
Why can’t we just build more apartments?
Multifamily housing is driven by 30-40 year long demographic cycles and the demand for apartments is not slowing down. Over the next 20 years we are going to come up short. We need 4.6 million new apartments units by 2030 In The United States The Big Idea: A good investment must have 3 things: 1. Low…
Multifamily Market Update – August 2020
In this issue of the Multifamily Market Report we are going to take a look at the current state of Commercial Real Estate, the current state of the economy, and answer the questions: How is multifamily holding up during an election year and The COVID economy? As always if you have questions please contact samson@thegrowthvue.com.
Opportunity in the Midst of Chaos
Over the course of the last two weeks, we have experienced extreme levels of volatility in our economy, society and the stock market. The threat from a systemic spread of the coronavirus and the resulting disruptions to supply chains and consumer demand, combined with the oil price conflict between Saudi Arabia and Russia, sent the…
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