Build-to-Rent/Single-Family Rentals
Understanding opportunities & navigating risks
As the build-to-rent trend gains momentum in markets across the country, we help clients stay ahead of the curve.
- We represent national multifamily developers and investors who are expanding into the space or have experience with single-family rentals.
- We advise on all aspects of the project, from land acquisition and development, to construction, equity and debt financing, land use and zoning, and tax.
- We address the unique legal issues involving elements of both multifamily developments and single-family developments.
Covering all your needs
- Ground up developments or purchases of existing property
- Financing — securing special financing arrangements including land banking instruments for investors
- Land use & zoning — anticipating potential permitting and local government issues
- Shared amenities — structuring common areas and shared amenities to maximize protections
- Industry insight — understanding how materials, availability, cost, and location impact feasibility
Savvy counsel for successful investments
- Purchasing land, acquiring finished lots, or buying into an existing subdivision
- REITs, institutional investors, equity partners, or joint ventures seeking high returns
- Builders investing in single family rentals to diversify operations
- Multifamily developers entering the single-family rental space
- Developing and selling lots or building to sell to an operator
- Flexible exit strategy
Our team
- Regularly represents multifamily developers throughout the United States
- Handles condominium law, municipal finance, land use and zoning, private club work, and real estate finance
- Navigates the complexities of single-family developments with multifamily components
- Understands the demographics of the rental market
- Negotiates contracts to close deals
- Identifies opportunities — and risks
Experience
Following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.
- Representation of a regional multifamily developer and manager in their first development of single-family homes in southern Florida within a larger master-planned community.
- Representation of an investment fund in the $23 million acquisition of a single-family residential community in the Florida panhandle with 70 rental homes, built within a larger master-planned community.
- Representation of investment fund in a programmatic land banking relationship for single-family rental construction nationwide.
- Representing one of the largest traditional multifamily developers in the country in its expansion of multifamily rentals in the eastern United States.
Covering all your needs
- Ground up developments or purchases of existing property
- Financing — securing special financing arrangements including land banking instruments for investors
- Land use & zoning — anticipating potential permitting and local government issues
- Shared amenities — structuring common areas and shared amenities to maximize protections
- Industry insight — understanding how materials, availability, cost, and location impact feasibility
Savvy counsel for successful investments
- Purchasing land, acquiring finished lots, or buying into an existing subdivision
- REITs, institutional investors, equity partners, or joint ventures seeking high returns
- Builders investing in single family rentals to diversify operations
- Multifamily developers entering the single-family rental space
- Developing and selling lots or building to sell to an operator
- Flexible exit strategy
Our team
- Regularly represents multifamily developers throughout the United States
- Handles condominium law, municipal finance, land use and zoning, private club work, and real estate finance
- Navigates the complexities of single-family developments with multifamily components
- Understands the demographics of the rental market
- Negotiates contracts to close deals
- Identifies opportunities — and risks
Following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.
- Representation of a regional multifamily developer and manager in their first development of single-family homes in southern Florida within a larger master-planned community.
- Representation of an investment fund in the $23 million acquisition of a single-family residential community in the Florida panhandle with 70 rental homes, built within a larger master-planned community.
- Representation of investment fund in a programmatic land banking relationship for single-family rental construction nationwide.
- Representing one of the largest traditional multifamily developers in the country in its expansion of multifamily rentals in the eastern United States.
- Strong presence and capabilities across the southeastern United States
- Industry leading clients
- Decades-long experience in residential properties
- Experience with hundreds of ground-up, multifamily apartment communities
- Well-versed on the various entry and exit points of single-family rentals
- Experience handling operational issues
- Multidisciplinary approach to provide seamless services across all related practice areas
- Market knowledge to anticipate uncertainty
