Institutional Real Estate Direct
Delivering differentiated access to high-quality US real estate investments

By the numbers
residential units acquired1
total investments across the US1
in assets managed since inception1

“Real estate investing is unrelentingly local. We vet opportunities submarket by submarket, block by block and property by property.”
Alasdair Cripps
CEO and Co-CIO | Mesirow Institutional Real Estate Direct
Our strategy
Experience
Decades of real estate investing across cycles and geographies; senior team members average 29 years of experience each.
Process
Strategic repositioning of value-added apartment assets and select ground up development opportunities in 25–30 research-approved US markets.
Value creation
Demonstrated ability to realize meaningful asset appreciation through revenue enhancement, cost reduction and implementation of best-in-class management.
Network
Proven network of industry relationships leading to off-market deals and preferred positioning with intermediaries.
Our investment tenets
Diversify risk with confidence
Seek to manage risk while tactically overweighting markets that present the best growth opportunities.


Optimize performance
Execute using a value-added property improvement plan that emphasizes capital investments, revenue growth, expense controls, proactive asset management and repositioning of the asset within its micromarket.
Enhance opportunities
Premium opportunities are enhanced by proximity to mass transit, medical centers, schools, necessity-based retail and other submarket anchors and amenities.


“Build to core”
We execute our “Build to Core” strategy with JV development partners, emphasizing construction in markets where cap rate compression has aggressively narrowed discount to replacement cost spreads and absorption confirms strong demand, all with an emphasis on using Union labor, which provides higher quality construction to these investments.
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