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Welcome to the SFR and BTR Frenzy: What You Need to Know

Discussing Changing Demographics, Land Development, BTR, and Trends in Single-Family

Vincent Deorio
Deployed over $2B for private and institutional investors in SFR

Vincent Deorio

CEO

redT Homes

Jeffrey Stonger
Creating Opportunities for Suburban Attainable Housing

Jeffrey Stonger

CIO

BMC Investments

Jason Englander

Jason Englander

Principal

TPG Real Estate

Greyson Konkel
Avilla Buffalo Run, Avilla Eastlake

Greyson Konkel

Development Manager, Denver Region

NexMetro Communities

Matt de Tessan
Over $1B of Loans

Matt de Tessan

Director of Institutional Relationships

LendingOne

Mike Hills
8,000 Properties on Behalf of Institutions and $3B Under Management

Mike Hills

VP

Atlas Real Estate

Mark Barton
Avilla Eastlake, Avilla Buffalo Run

Mark Barton

Division President

Catamount Constructors

Charlie Smith
Moderator

Charlie Smith

Shareholder

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Vincent Deorio

Deployed over $2B for private and institutional investors in SFR

redT Homes

Vincent is a driven, accomplished entrepreneur and thought leader in real estate and PropTech

circles, and he has extensive experience in real estate acquisitions and development. Vincent’s

skillset and vision allow him to thrive by combining technology and traditional real estate

practices to deliver high growth strategies, lucrative returns, and successful market expansion.

He has deployed more than $2 billion for private and institutional investors in the Single Family

Rental market, generated more than $1 billion in fundraising, and scaled PropTech companies

from $0–$50M ARR.

Jeffrey Stonger

Creating Opportunities for Suburban Attainable Housing

BMC Investments

Jeffrey Stonger is a partner and serves as the Chief Investment Officer at BMC Investments. Mr. Stonger leads the investment process, overseeing acquisitions and strategic growth initiatives in order to grow and scale the company into new markets and strategies. Prior to BMC Investments, Jeffrey spent several years at Ascentris, a Denver-based real estate private equity firm with nearly $2.5 billion in assets under management, where he was responsible for leading strategic initiatives, as well as acquiring and managing investments across property types in the Western US. Prior to his role at Ascentris, Mr. Stonger was a Managing Director at Amstar, a real estate private equity firm, where he spent 10 years serving in multiple roles across both the U.S. and European investment platforms, and was responsible for sourcing and acquisitions, asset management and capital raising. Notably, Mr. Stonger helped the firm establish Amstar Advisers (which later became Ascentris) as an SEC-Registered Investment Adviser; the firm has since raised over $1 billion of equity from U.S. institutional investors. Stonger graduated cum laude from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in Business and Real Estate Finance. He also graduated from Harvard Business School (PLDA) with a concentration in General Management and Leadership and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder. Stonger previously served four years on the Portfolio Management Committee with the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries. He currently serves as a Board Trustee for MindsMatter Denver.

Greyson Konkel

Avilla Buffalo Run, Avilla Eastlake

NexMetro Communities

Greyson leads development efforts locally in the Colorado market for NexMetro Communities, a national developer of luxury rental home communities. This includes site selection, land acquisition, and entitlements for multiple communities across the front range at any given time. He has in depth knowledge of the challenges and opportunities associated with this housing type and how they vary greatly from one jurisdiction to another. Greyson has 15 years of experience in the construction and development fields and holds a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Colorado State University.”

Matt de Tessan

Over $1B of Loans

LendingOne

Matt focused on the SFR and BTR institutional segment. Matt previously held the role of Director of Portfolio Credit where he helped develop LendingOne's non-recourse portfolio program. Matt has over 15 years of real estate experience and has held roles at Redwood Trust and Jones Lang LaSalle. Matt holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Hamilton College and a JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Mike Hills

8,000 Properties on Behalf of Institutions and $3B Under Management

Atlas Real Estate

Mike joined the Atlas team in 2013 and today leads a rapidly growing team of approximately 25 employees. Mike is passionate about both disrupting the traditional brokerage model and leading by example. He personally owns more than 50 units including a condo, townhouse, single-family homes, duplexes, quad-plexes, and an apartment. In 2014 he started “Real Estate Investment Hour,” a free weekly series of events wherein he and his team teach aspiring investors on how they can get started with a buy-and-hold investment strategy.

Mark Barton

Avilla Eastlake, Avilla Buffalo Run

Catamount Constructors

Mark Barton is the Denver Division President for Catamount Constructors, Inc., a 100% employee-owned national general contractor. Barton has 23 years of construction experience and has been with Catamount since 2007. He has executive oversight on all of Catamount’s Single Family for Rent projects and is an expert in business development, building operations teams and programs, and client/subcontractor management. Barton holds a Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering Technology from Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.

Charlie Smith

Moderator

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Charlie Smith is a commercial real estate attorney whose

background in business and politics allows him to provide forward-

thinking legal advice to advance his clients' strategic interests.

Charlie’s expertise includes acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, land

use and public-private-partnerships (including negotiation of Tax

Increment Financing and Public Improvement Fees) for large-scale

development, redevelopment, infill, mixed-use, planned community

and transit-oriented projects. Because he is often involved in

multiple phases of a project from beginning to end, Charlie’s

unique perspective allows him to identify potential pitfalls and

opportunities for clients that result from the complex interplay

between developers and their tenants, lenders, equity investors

and public sector partners.

Charlie has advised commercial multi-family, retail, and office

developers, home builders, planned community developers, oil and

gas companies, and individual and institutional investors regarding

their projects and investments nationwide. Whether advising a

client on the acquisition of a single property, a portfolio sale, the

development of raw land in to a regional mixed-use center or the

negotiation of a public incentive package, Charlie provides nuanced

legal advice that helps his clients close their deals.

Mastering The Master Planned Community

Discussing the Status and Future of the Region's Large-Scale Commercial Developments

Jeff Handlin
Uplands, Somerset Meadows

Jeff Handlin

Founder and President

Oread Capital & Development

Heidi Majerik
Master-Planned, Mixed-Use Development, Westerly

Heidi Majerik

VP

Southern Land Company

Kyle Harris
Integration of Sustainability into Master-Planned Communities

Kyle Harris

SVP, Master-Planned Communities

McWhinney

Chad Murphy
Macanta, Parterre

Chad Murphy

Managing Director

Hines

Allison Altaras
Moderator

Allison Altaras

Shareholder

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti

Jeff Handlin

Uplands, Somerset Meadows

Oread Capital & Development

Jeff Handlin founded Oread Capital & Development in 2011. Prior to founding Oread Capital & Development, Mr. Handlin served in executive roles at recognized national homebuilding and real estate development companies including: Founding Partner of Starwood Land Ventures; Officer and National Vice President for M.D.C. Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Richmond American Homes; and Vice President with Taylor Woodrow (currently known as Taylor Morrison).

At M.D.C. Holdings, Mr. Handlin managed all acquisitions company-wide, representing over 12,000 residential lots across the U.S. between 2009 and 2011, with acquisition costs over $600 Million. Also while at M.D.C., Mr. Handlin led the acquisition of SDC Homes, at the time the third-largest homebuilder in the Seattle market. Beginning in 2007, prior to his time at M.D.C., Mr. Handlin was a founding partner in Starwood Land Ventures, based in Bradenton, Florida. Mr. Handlin led all Florida acquisitions while at Starwood Land, representing over $100 Million in direct acquisitions, including the acquisition of substantially all the Florida assets of Tousa-Engle Homes from its bankruptcy estate. Upon receiving a J.D. from Duke University, and prior to his work as a land development and homebuilding executive, Mr. Handlin began his legal career at the law firm of Carlton Fields in Tampa, Florida, where he focused on real estate development, finance, and homeowners association law. Mr. Handlin graduated cum laude with a B.A. from the University of Kansas.

Mr. Handlin is a member of the ULI’s National Community Development Council and ULI’s Colorado Community Development Council. Mr. Handlin strongly supports education; he serves as an adjunct professor at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver; and continues to serve on various boards at the University of Kansas.

Heidi Majerik

Master-Planned, Mixed-Use Development, Westerly

Southern Land Company

Heidi manages SLC’s Erie, Colorado, master-planned mixed-use development, Westerly. Since becoming part of the SLC team in 2018, Heidi has been fully ingrained in the Westerly project. Her work has included successfully annexing, zoning, and planning the community, forming a taxing district and issuing bonds to fund infrastructure construction, contracting lots to third party builder partners, commencing infrastructure construction of the first 300 lots, and selling model lots to the home builders. Upon completion, the development will include 1,200 single-family homes, paired villas, and townhomes as well as 35,000 square feet of commercial space.

Prior to SLC, Heidi worked with a Denver home builder handling land acquisition and lending, preceded by 14 years with Forest City redeveloping Denver’s former airport, Stapleton, now known as Central Park. Central Park is one of the largest Traditional Neighborhood Developments built in the country over the last 30 years and occupies more than 4,700 acres. Heidi currently serves on the Denver Planning Board, having been appointed by Denver’s Mayor, Michael B. Hancock, in 2021.

Kyle Harris

Integration of Sustainability into Master-Planned Communities

McWhinney

As Senior Vice President of Master-Planned Communities, Kyle develops and oversees the strategic vision, development and execution of large-scale, multi-use projects, in addition to sourcing new master-planned community opportunities. Kyle currently leads the community development team’s strategy and sustainable initiatives for McWhinney’s 3,000-acre award winning master-planned community, Centerra, located in Loveland, Colo., in addition to its 1,100-acre master-planned community, Baseline, situated in Broomfield, Colo. With more than two decades of expertise in developing large-scale and multi-use projects along the front range, Kyle’s keen vision, creativity and thoughtful placemaking brings long-term value and meaningful impact to residents, businesses, and visitors.

Prior to joining McWhinney, Kyle spent 11 years with Granby Ranch, a 5,000-acre community located in Granby, Colo., as CEO and Vice President of Development. During his time with Granby Ranch, he managed the development of 850 residential units, developed a new master plan for the community, extended entitlements by 40 years, established a variety of community amenities including a skier services building, golf clubhouse & event pavilion, community pool and fitness facility, downhill mountain bike park, and 40 miles of community trails, all while leading the team that turned these amenity operations to profitability. Additionally, Kyle served as president of the community metropolitan districts. Kyle has also held leadership positions with other noted Colorado mountain resorts, including Devil’s Thumb Ranch and Zephyr Mountain Lodge at the base of the Winter Park Resort.

Kyle believes the intrinsic value of a master-planned community lies in the benefits it provides to its users, namely families looking to connect and live a life with purpose. A committed family man himself, in his free time Kyle enjoys Nordic and alpine skiing, mountain biking, road biking, trail running, travel, food and wine.

Chad Murphy

Macanta, Parterre

Hines

Mr. Murphy is a managing director and senior partner of Hines’ southwest region land platform. He is responsible for land and residential development, acquisitions, and dispositions of projects within the Colorado market. Mr. Murphy joined Hines in 2012 and successfully established and grew Hines’ land business in Colorado. Mr. Murphy is responsible for sourcing new land acquisitions, entitling projects, managing financial relationships, managing homebuilder relationships, and executing finished-lot master planned communities.

Mr. Murphy received his MBA in Real Estate from the University of Colorado and undergraduate degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois.

Allison Altaras

Moderator

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti

Allison Altaras represents landowners and developers of all sizes in commercial real estate transactions and urban, infill, and raw land development matters. She helps her clients add value to property through collaboration with governmental authorities and strategic, well-designed entitlements. Allison’s land use work spans the entire life cycle of a project, from annexation, exactions analysis, rezoning, subdivision, and site planning to infrastructure design and financing. She has considerable experience representing single- and multi-family housing developers in master planned projects throughout Colorado. Allison began her legal career in water and environmental law, representing municipal, commercial, and industrial water users in the adjudication and protection of their water rights. She is a proud Tulanian (from before it was a football school) and former appellate law clerk to Justice Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr., of the Colorado Supreme Court. Outside the office, she can be found building trails with Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado and championing the Krewe of Cleopatra, a women’s Mardi Gras Krewe of which she is a philanthropic and parade-riding member.

Why You Can't Miss this Conference:

What You'll Learn About SFR & BTR At This Event: 

  • There has been a lot of change in the last six months in the multifamily and BTR space. How are these massive shifts in the market impacting decision-making? 

  • How are deals being financed and how capital is being raised? How have strategies for holds versus sales changed? What has changed at the macro level in recent months? 

  • BTR is a relatively new asset class and one that has received a great deal of publicity. Has the recognition of this product type created additional challenges from a permitting and approval standpoint, and apprehension at the local level?

  • Where do the greatest pricing challenge come from that make deals difficult to underwrite throughout Denver? Is it land cost, property taxes, or other factors? Which sub-markets have the highest hard costs? 

  • How do developers streamline their operations through vertical integration to reduce uncertainties in the market, whether through technologies, data, etc.?

  • How are market leaders viewing short-term holds versus long-term holds? Has the strategy changed?

  • How have Denver's demographics evolved over the past 18 months and what effect have they had on development pipelines & resident demands?

  • What is the current supply and demand of the various types of housing, from apartments to condos and townhouses to single-family homes?

  • What role does housing play in market growth, affordability, and population migration in metro Denver?

  • How do different submarkets fare for master-planned community opportunities and growth? Where are investors and owners most bullish today? 

  • How has the notion of master-planned communities changed from its initial framework, and how are today's developers, builders, and designers rethinking MPCs?

How You'll Do More Business From Attending This Conference: 

Across the Denver metro, 888 single-family rentals were added between 2017 and 2022, bringing the total supply to 1,869 — the 11th-largest in the country, according to RentCafe. Now, 920 built-to-rent units are currently under construction and expected to be completed in 2023 -  yet recent shifts in the markets and rising interest rates have made financing and finding new SFR challenges challenging.  Thus, Investors and developers are evaluating the upsides and downsides of this emerging asset class in Denver. Join us and enhance your business by understanding Denver's growing markets/submarkets as we dive deep into all aspects of SFR and BTR, and learn how to stay ahead of the curve. 

Who You’ll Network With: Owners, developers, investors, brokers, city and government officials, business consultants, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, bankers, and technology companies.

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Denver, Colorado 80202

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Agenda

Time Activity
3:00 PM
4:00 PM
Coffee & Networking
4:00 PM
4:45 PM
Welcome to the SFR and BTR Frenzy: What You Need to Know

Discussing Changing Demographics, Land Development, BTR, and Trends in Single-Family

4:45 PM
5:30 PM
Mastering The Master Planned Community

Discussing the Status and Future of the Region's Large-Scale Commercial Developments

5:30 PM
6:00 PM
Closing Networking

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