MLK Real Estate Capital

Overview

MLK Real Estate Capital is a privately held, boutique commercial real estate investment banking and advisory firm headquartered in New York City. The firm specializes in special situation investments across various real estate asset classes, including multifamily, office, industrial, retail, hospitality, student housing, senior housing, and self-storage properties. MLK directly invests capital as a principal and arranges capital for real estate financing transactions across the United States. The firm's special situations investment platform focuses on providing liquidity and capital solutions for complex commercial real estate transactions. MLK's investment parameters include deal sizes ranging from $15 million to $200 million, with targeted hold periods of three to 36 months and expected returns of 20% IRR and a 2.00x equity multiple. The firm operates in the top 50 markets of the continental United States. MLK Real Estate Capital's leadership includes founder and managing principal Solomon Kinraich, who has arranged and advised on over $1 billion in real estate financing transactions. Prior to founding MLK, Mr. Kinraich spent over a decade on Wall Street as a portfolio manager and financial advisor, founding PTG Capital, an equity trading firm with over 70 traders in five branch offices. MLK Real Estate Capital's core values emphasize quality, integrity, loyalty, dedication, confidentiality, and the development of long-term relationships. The firm believes that opportunity is created through diligent effort and creativity, and that pricing, valuation, and the structure of joint ventures play an important role in successful transactions.

Investment Focus

• Special situations investments
• Complex commercial real estate transactions
• Opportunistic acquisitions