Institutional Real Estate Direct

Delivering differentiated access to high-quality US real estate investments

By the numbers

26.4K

residential units acquired1

87

total investments across the US1

$9.3B

in assets managed since inception1

Map of the United States showing various major metropolitan areas marked with blue dots. Labeled cities include Seattle, Portland, San Francisco/Oakland, San Jose, Southern California, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, Greenville, Charlotte, Raleigh, Charleston, Tampa/St. Pete, Orlando, Miami/South Florida, D.C. Metro, Philadelphia, NYC/Northern New Jersey, and Boston

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

Mesirow Financial Real Estate Value Fund V raises $1.245 billion, marking 66% growth over prior fund

“We are proud and humbled by the continued support and confidence of ourinvestors as we expand our platform of value-added, risk-balanced multifamily real estate strategies.

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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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Alasdair Cripps
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer
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Ben Blakney
President
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John Pierson
Senior Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer
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Justin Maturo
Co-Chief Investment Officer
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Kevin Price
Senior Managing Director and Head of Asset Management
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Lori Rodriguez Casey
Senior Managing Director, Asset Management
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Will Beam
Managing Director, Acquisitions
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Brian Gant
Managing Director and Head of Dispositions
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Tracey Ungaretta
Managing Director, Asset Management
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Explore private capital opportunities

Alternative Credit

Since 2013, specializing in private credit with a focus on asset-backed specialty finance

Private Equity

Investing broadly across the private equity asset class for nearly four decades

Capital Formation & Currency Solutions

With deep product knowledge and a solutions-oriented approach, the team connects investors to differentiated opportunities across private credit and other alternative asset classes.

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