Co-GP Firms for Ground-Up Multifamily Development

We have a couple ground-up multifamily developments (total cost of each project ~$50MM). We need a Co-GP partner that can help us take down the land as well as guarantee the debt. My firm can handle everything else including construction.

I know this is a big ask, which is why we are flexible with our partnership terms and also probably why we are struggling to find interested parties.

Does anyone know any PE firms that might fit this role?

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philthethrill

We have a couple ground-up multifamily developments (total cost of each project ~$50MM). We need a Co-GP partner that can help us take down the land as well as guarantee the debt. My firm can handle everything else including construction.

I know this is a big ask, which is why we are flexible with our partnership terms and also probably why we are struggling to find interested parties.

Does anyone know any PE firms that might fit this role?

Sounds like what you're looking for is a guarantor, not a co-GP.

And how are you going to fund the construction equity if you can't even afford the land?  

 
philthethrill

Through the Co-GP that I am looking for.

Well, not to be obnoxious about it, but it does not sound like you can handle the construction yourself, then.

What you are looking for is an LP, and probably paying a third party guarantor.

Perhaps a better way to go about this would be to sell the sites to an actual developer at a slightly stepped up basis (you make some money) and demand a CM fee or something... otherwise, why is a developer effectively paying you a huge portion of the upside here for being little more than an owner's rep?

 

Trying to understand here, but why would you take Silverlakes co-gp equity and cut them into the dev fee and possibly promote when they are not even guaranteeing the debt. Why not raise as much lp equity as possible? Only reason I see a GP using silver lake co-gp equity would be to not tie up capital in one project (assuming their capital constrained) or to diversify their capital among different investments. Even then, why not raise less sophisticated capital as part of the gp stack rather than going with Silverlake.

 

Can you explain how these Co-GP firms work in terms of most of them having the same deal? High level. Have always been curious.

They just put up equity needed for the GP Equity piece and let the other Co-GP/Development partner run the show?

 

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