REAL ESTATE

Experience

The foundation of our firm is always embedded in real estate. Since the early 20th century, we have been acquiring joint venture positions with our General Partners. Backed by a vertically integrated platform, demonstrated tack record, tenured team, and thematic investment approach tailor towards our limited partners, access to proprietary deal flow, and synergies with the broader SANANIKONE platform, we are able to identify and execute on attractive risk adjusted returns with completing risk-reward profile.

REAL ESTATE EQUITY STRATEGIES


SANANIKONE targets risk-adjusted real estate products based on our risk criteria of our Limited Partners. We seek to enhance the performance of the product through capital improvements, change of use, strategic lease-up campaigns, and programs that engage SANANIKONE’s vertically integrated platform.

SANANIKONE’s investment strategies are designed ti mitigate risk and maximize value for its investors. Through the firm’s network and our institutional relationships, SANANIKONE identifies opportunities with potential to capitalize on market inefficiencies.  Or underserved niches in a effort to generate risk-adjusted returns based on our Limited Partners’ objectives. The investment approach capitalizes on the broad experience of the investment professionals at the firm to drive efficiencies throughout the life cycle of all investments, including the acquisition process, construction management, and property management, as well as disposition.

 

EQUITY PRODUCTS

We seek significant capital appreciation through the acquisition of secondary real estate funds and assets, focusing on high-quality portfolios in major commercial real estate markets and gateway cities, all capitalizing on the relatively fragmented competitive environment for real estate secondaries. We also opportunistically make secondary direct investments alongside proven sponsors, seeding capital into select general-partner-led transactions, assessing fund recapitalization opportunities, and evaluating direct co-investments in real estate assets.

 
 
  • Our Fixed Income strategy seeks to generate risk-adjusted returns that yield above-market returns by providing creative and comprehensive financing solutions underpinned by quantitative analysis of different asset grades of the real estate. We seek to lend on the risk appetites of our funds to product types with durability of demand and real constraints on new supply.

  • We tailor our Core + strategy that features stabilized asset products with a long investment horizon and moderate leverage, which can unlock additional cash flow value through risk-adjusted asset management.

    Our core/core-plus real estate strategy focuses on the acquisition of assets with strong long-term cash flow potential and durable tenancy diversified across end-user industries and geographies. Ares predominately targets industrial real estate in top-tier primary and regional distribution markets with an additional focus on other major sectors including multifamily, office, necessity-based retail and other select property types across the U.S. The strategy may also include investments in value-add and development opportunities.

  • The Value Add strategy that we focus on is primarily acquiring existing asset types that have shown stable income that we are able to identify to need capital improvements.

    SANANIKONE’s value add strategy primarily seeks to acquire existing properties that demonstrate the proposition for value creation through change of use, repositioning of the asset or hands-on property management. Our U.S value-add strategy focuses on under-managed and under-funded income-producing assets, including multifamily, office, hotel, industrial, and mixed-use retail properties and adjacent sectors across the United States. The strategy seeks to create value and generate stable and growing distributions to investors by buying properties at attractive valuations, implementing asset management initiatives to increase income and identifying multiple exit strategies upfront.

  • Our Global Opportunistic strategy seeks to partner and acquire underutilized locations that in the surrounding areas that shown growth by adding value through new positions and ground-up investment, to open a threshold of new value for the community.

    SANANIKONE’s opportunistic strategy generates value by acquiring developing and redeveloping residential, industrial, retail and mixed-use properties, as well as targeting investments in an undeveloped land parcels in order to develop the site based on the highest and best use. Our U.S. opportunistic real estate strategy capitalizes on increased investor demand for developed and stabilized assets by focusing on the repositioning of asserts, capitalization of distressed and special situations, and development of core-quality assets across all major property types including multifamily, industrial, office, hotel, and retail properties and adjacent sectors throughout the United States.

 

REAL ESTATE DEBT


SANANIKONE pursues debt investments by originating senior secured loans, mezzanine loans and preferred equity investments for the construction, acquisition, and refinancing of commercial real estate, and by acquiring non-performing loans and preferred equity investments. As an institutional private lender, SANANIKONE is a value partner to both institutional sponsor and leading independent developers, known for speed, flexibility, and pertaining of execution in complex situations.

As a purchaser of debt, the firm has established its reputation as a reliable counterparts to banks, funds, and other debt sellers seeking to deleverage and solidity their balance sheets. SANANIKONE debt investment opportunities seek to capitalize on market conditions in which liquidity is limited and financing is difficult, as well as time-constraint opportunities and special situations with non-traditional or complex underlying dynamics.

Debt Products

  • SENIOR

  • MEZZANINE

  • PREFFERED

  • LOAN ON LOAN FINANCING

  • LENDER FINANCING

  • CUSTOMIZED LOAN PRODUCT