Areas of Specialty

From 2015 to 2019, tiny homes became a new, niche, popularized on reality TV shows and driven by macro trends such as Airbnb, sustainability, and a downsizing/minimalism ethos. COVID amplified their role via desire to be outside of urban areas, adoption of remote work, and a drastic housing affordability crisis driven by home appreciation.

While there is significant demand for sale and long term lease of tiny homes, the market forces and economics are most compelling for furnished short and medium-term rentals. We believe players operating in this space, especially with scale, can deliver consistent, institutionally friendly results through developing repeatable, branded tiny home resorts in locations around the world.

Food cart pods are a unique niche within the commercial real estate segment. This model allows investors to create the income stream of a multi tenant residential or commercial building without having to build or buy the building. This virtually eliminates large capital expenditures both upfront and during the holding period, maximizing returns.

Furthermore, leasing the land on a long-term basis further reduces the overall investment required. By creating a strong brand and a welcoming common area, combined with an installation of all requisite underground utilities for the food carts, we can then sub-lease spaces to individual cart owners at a cost that is far lower to what they would have to incur to lease a brick-and-mortar restaurant space, yet substantially greater than what an unimproved parking lot would typically provide, thereby creating a true win-win model for all stakeholders.

• Food carts have a higher success rate than traditional brick and mortar restaurants
• Lower initial investment with rents that are typically at or above apartment units without having to buy or build an apartment complex.
• Each space is a commercial NNN lease, so there are no tenants calling at all hours.
• This model allows for long term land leasing, thus further reducing initial investment, thereby reducing risk.

The demand in the global adult day care services market is projected for a robust growth rate for the next decade, which would be a reflection of a number of factors, such as growing elderly population, attractive government reimbursement policies, availability of low term care service providers, increasing life expectancy, change in family structure among the urban population, and increasing disposable income. Adult day care services are an important type of services, which comprises non-resident support and services related to daily living, nutritional, healthcare and social support. These services are provided to adults and elder people by the strong network of medical professionals and trained staff. Adult day care services play an important role in the provision of transitional care and rehabilitation services. In the most usual way day care centers operate for 5-10 hours in a day and provide various supportive services to the adult population such as meals, medication, general supervision and moral and physical support.

Many of the adult day care centers offer specialized focus on particular disease treatment and provide services related to that disease, such as cardiovascular diseases, services for physically or mentally disabled persons. In addition to support services, many of the adult day care services have taken the initiative to develop a diagnostic and treatment center for the patients present in their center. Such diagnostic services play a vital role in case of chronically ill patients, such as patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other similar situations.

Ancillary to the uptick in apartment rentals has been an increase in self-storage rentals from individuals or families who have needed to store their belongings as they downsize to a smaller residence. Investors in the self-storage space have continued to express optimism even during the recession of 2008-09. Interest in this asset class, particularly from private equity firms, continues to increase because of steady cash flows, high returns, and low loss ratios. In addition, investors like the fact that there are no tenant improvement costs or leasing commissions and also have limited large capital expenditures.

Popularity of the self-storage industry has grown so fast that in the past decade that use has grown from one in every seventeen households to one in every ten. As mentioned above, ownership of a self-storage facility provides relatively high returns with lower costs and without susceptibility to macroeconomic changes – growing businesses and families also require storage services during moves into larger buildings and homes. This asset’s ability to maintain value in both favorable and depressed economic situations makes it a safe bet for any real estate portfolio.