Multifamily Development vs Acquisition Fees
I’m on the multi family development side and curious how fees on the acquisitions side work. What are the typical fees for acquiring a deal and what do you get paid for throughout the hold period through disposition. I was looking on costar in my market at the amount of multifamily deals built since 2010 and relative to how many acquisitions there have been I’m curious which is a more efficient business model in respects to just generating fees.
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We don't pay acquisition fees as an L, but 50 bps seems market for large institutional deals. I used to work for a JV with a large pension fund on the sponsor side and the acquisition fee was capped at $200k.
Development is much more of a fee generator but requires substantially more overhead.
$200K? Why would any GP work with you?
We were the GP at the time (old job) when it was capped. It was still very lucrative because the management fee was 4% and all leasing and legal was in-house. The promote was also very generous.
We are a sponsor, all of our deals are 1% acq fee, 4-5% development fee net of land and the fee, 1% dispo fee split 50-50 with LP.
Yes but you are doing ground up, right?
What do you all say to justify the disposition fee when a broker (I assume) is being hired to handle the disposition?
Preparing the deal for dispo and running the diligence surrounding that can be a time suck even when a broker is involved.
usually 25-50 bps, sometimes higher if the firm is trying to make it into a profit center rather than just cover costs... other fees come from ongoing asset management fees and promote.
I have seen acquisition fees range from 25bps to 1% of the total capitalization of the entire deal
I bought about 10,000 units and we typically charged 1% acq fee, 1% asset management fee on EGI, and we rarely got a dispo fee since we got a promote.
probably a dumb question - where exactly does the acquisition fee come from? If you go out and buy a $50m multifamily asset, and there's a 1% acquisition fee, who is actually paying you that acquisition fee? Your LP/investors?
The acquisition fee could be funded pro-rata between the equity partners and the lender at closing.
Assume equity is split 90/10, technically 90% of the acq fee is coming from LP investors and you are paying 10% of the fee to yourself. It's a deal cost and hurts the overall returns of the deal but it's standard to motivate shops to buy deals. It's not that easy to land, capitalize, and close a deal successfully!
1% of purchase price acquisition fee .5% of sale price dispo fee 1% of purchase price annual asset management fee 2%-4% of EGI annual property management fee if we manage the property internally
If you are charging 1% of PP as an annual asset fee you are getting way above market. Usually it's 1% of EGI, same as property management fees. If you buy a $40m deal you get $400k/yr in asset management fees? That's bananas and would crush returns.
I’m on the LP side and we typically only pay sponsors an acq fee if it isn’t a marketed deal and we never pay dispo/AM fees (with a one or two exceptions)
Jesus, are you one of the mfs that can dictate terms or do you play in a niche part of the market or what? Groups still have overhead
We’re a MF that invests globally in all product types. I wouldn’t say the JV partners are starving for cash to pay overhead that we work with. We tend to have fairly programmatic JVs with some of the bigger players like hines/lpc/greystar where the JV terms were agreed to long before a specific deal comes up. Also, in the cases we work with a smaller sponsor, the absence of acq/am/dispo fees can be made up for with a property management contract and/or lease override fees (on the office / industrial side).
I imagine they are only investing with established groups that have a substantial enough portfolio so as to not require fees to keep the lights on.
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