Design-led hospitality · Value-add real estate · Long-duration ownership
We don't build properties. We build places people refuse to leave.
A family-operated portfolio of design-led hospitality real estate across Scottsdale, Paradise Valley and mid-coast Maine. Twenty-six transactions since 2012, seventeen realized. We acquire scarce assets below replacement cost, reposition the property and its revenue, refinance the equity we create, and hold the assets we want to own for decades.
Figures verified 4 September 2026. Values are third-party appraisals or the operator marks identified on the performance page. Unaudited. See disclosures.
The portfolio
Nine assets held today. $37.9M on the schedule, 45% loan to value.
Estates in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale, a village of inns on the Maine coast, and one long-held building in Chicago. Every one bought below replacement cost, redesigned and operated by the people on the team page. Values, debt, revenue and photography for each are on the portfolio page; the numbers behind them are on the performance page.
Valley Vista
Wild West Estate
Sunset Valley
75th Place
North Hayden
Greenleaf Inn
Admiral's Quarters
Welch House
1022 W Belmont
What it has produced
Unrealized and realized results are shown separately throughout. Methodology and the full table are on the performance page.
How we invest
Two engines. One the currency provides. One we build.
Long-duration real estate benefits from forces we do not control: replacement cost, nominal debt and the repricing of rents. Our underwriting does not depend on them. The return we underwrite comes from the second engine: buying well, repositioning the asset, and changing its NOI.
Who we are
Not a corporate entity. A standard, applied to real estate.
Every property under this roof shares the same history: tired, overlooked or underinvested, and transformed through intentional design, character and an operator's eye for what guests actually want. It shows up in numbers a spreadsheet can see: higher nightly rate, higher occupancy, and pricing power a competitor cannot copy, because it is not a feature list. It is a place.
Style
Every property has a distinct visual identity: cohesive, intentional, memorable. Design is not decorative. It is structural to the guest experience.
Personality
Our properties have voices. Guests don't stay at a house. They stay at a character, and that character commands loyalty and premium pricing.
Experience
We engineer moments, not amenities. The goal is not comfort. Guests should leave different than they arrived.
Legacy
A family operation with a generational lens. Every acquisition and every renovation is made with the long view: real assets and real reputations, compounding.
Everything in house
Software, management, design, construction, brokerage. One roof.
Third-party managers take eight to twelve points of gross. General contractors take their margin. Software vendors optimise for their portfolio, not ours. We own all of it: the operating platform, the housekeeping and innkeeping crews, the licensed contractor, the design studio and the real estate licence. The margin stays in the asset.
Investors and lenders
Want the full book?
The portfolio book, property summaries and the schedule of real estate are in the document set. Or write to Sean directly.