Fundamentals of Real Estate Capital Formation:

The legal building blocks of real estate joint ventures, syndications and funds.

June 2, 2026

Most real estate sponsors understand, at least in principle, that the PPM cannot be misleading. What is harder in practice…

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June 1, 2026

A real estate sponsor launches a value-add apartment offering in January. The PPM reflects the deal as it was underwritten:…

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May 31, 2026

In fiscal year 2025, the SEC filed 456 enforcement actions and obtained orders for monetary relief totaling $17.9 billion. The…

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May 30, 2026

A real estate sponsor prepares to close the first tranche of a new offering. The PPM is polished, the property…

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May 29, 2026

A real estate sponsor shows an investor a well-produced pitch deck. The property is a value-add multifamily acquisition in a…

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May 27, 2026

A real estate fund closes its second institutional raise. The GP entity sits at the top of the governance structure….

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May 26, 2026

A real estate fund sponsor preparing for its first institutional raise sits across the table from a pension fund allocator….

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May 22, 2026

A real estate fund is three years into its investment period. The founding team has three principals. One of them…

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May 21, 2026

A limited partnership agreement runs to 120 pages. The distribution waterfall is three of them. Those three pages determine who…

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May 20, 2026

A real estate fund exits its first three investments at strong returns. Carry is distributed to the GP entity, which…

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May 19, 2026

A real estate fund closes its first institutional raise. Two founding principals split the promoted interest equally. Three years into…

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May 18, 2026

A real estate fund closes. The GP entity has three principals: one who spent the prior two years building the…

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