CHARLOTTE, N.C. and NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Crescent Communities and Pretium today announced the formation of a joint venture to invest $1 billion in new single-family build-to-rent communities across 14 key strategic growth markets. The first community will be located in the Charleston market and will be closely followed by communities in other cities throughout the Sunbelt.

Together, Crescent Communities and Pretium will leverage each organization’s respective experience and track record to establish new communities of differentiated, high-quality single-family homes for rent in attractive markets. The venture will have a competitive advantage through Crescent Communities’ affiliate relationship with homebuilders in the Sumitomo Forestry portfolio, which operates across the U.S. and collectively builds over 10,000 homes annually. This affiliate relationship offers the venture strategic homebuilding delivery and increased sourcing opportunities that are expected to drive rapid growth for the platform. Progress Residential, Pretium’s single-family rental platform and a leading manager of build-to-rent communities, will manage the venture’s communities, which are expected to be available starting in early 2022.

“Single-family build-to-rent allows Crescent Communities to be a part of the solution to the tremendous under-supply of rental housing in the U.S., and this partnership enables us to develop more than 3,000 new rental homes,” said Tony Chen, Managing Director, Single-Family Build-to-Rent at Crescent Communities. “We look forward to applying best practices from our experience in mixed-use development and are excited to partner with Pretium, which has extensive experience scaling and managing single-family rental portfolios using technology-enabled operating processes.”

“The venture is a natural extension of our industry leading single-family rental platform and an opportunity to offer our residents a gateway opportunity to owning homes in great neighborhoods,” said Matt Johnston, Managing Director, Head of Build-to-Rent at Pretium. “With a complementary market leader in Crescent Communities, we believe this makes for a strong partnership and we look forward to working together to provide accessible, high-quality and professionally-managed build-to-rent housing options in some of the most attractive markets in the country.”

Introducing the HARMON Brand, Focusing on Providing Residents with the Benefits of Single-Family Living

The venture’s new communities will operate under the HARMON brand, with a focus on offering a premier rental experience with the benefits of single-family living – including privacy, extra space, and sense of community pride – without the friction of homeownership.

Residents will have the option to choose amongst a combination of three- and four-bedroom townhomes and/or detached single-family houses, and each community will include features that will offer interactive spaces – such as dedicated outdoor space, walking trails, pocket parks and more – to encourage residents to fully immerse themselves into the neighborhood.

The first community of 109 townhomes, located 25 miles from downtown Charleston in the town of Moncks Corner, SC, will be known as HARMON Foxbank. The builder will be DRB Group, an affiliate homebuilder with Sumitomo Forestry. Construction is slated to begin in October 2021 with first units available to rent in early 2022. HARMON Foxbank will be located near the entrance of the Foxbank neighborhood, a master-planned community that includes for-sale residences, a shopping center, and a newly constructed elementary school.

About Crescent Communities

Crescent Communities is a nationally recognized, market-leading real estate investor, developer and operator of mixed-use communities. We create high-quality, differentiated residential and commercial communities in many of the fastest growing markets in the United States. Since 1963, our development portfolio has included more than 68 multifamily communities, 21 million square feet of commercial space and 60 single family master-planned communities. Crescent Communities has offices in Charlotte, DC, Atlanta, Orlando, Nashville, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City. Our multifamily communities are branded NOVEL by Crescent Communities.

About Pretium

Pretium is a specialized alternative investment management firm focused on U.S. residential real estate, residential credit, and corporate credit. Pretium was founded in 2012 to capitalize on secular investment and lending opportunities arising as a result of structural changes, disruptions, and inefficiencies within the economy. Pretium has built an integrated analytical and operational ecosystem within the U.S. housing, residential credit, and corporate credit markets, and believes that its insight and experience within these markets create a strategic advantage over other investment managers. Pretium’s platform has more than $25 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2021, and employs approximately 2,500 people across 29 offices. Please visit www.pretium.com for additional information.

About Progress Residential

Progress Residential is a market leader in intelligent single-family rental management services, with people, technology, scale, and data-driven solutions that streamline operations, optimize asset performance, and provide an exceptional renting and living experience for our residents. Progress Residential’s approximately 1,500 employees currently manage over 70,000 homes across 30 markets. Progress Residential also offers third-party property management service for investors with mid-to-large single-family rental home portfolios and Built for Rent communities through its Progress Residential Management Services. For more information, please visit www.rentprogress.com.

Contacts

Crescent Communities
Lauren Ferguson
Sprouthouse
205-383-8450
lauren@sprouthouseagency.com

Pretium
Jon Keehner / Julie Hamilton / Lyle Weston
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
212-355-4449
Media-SFR@pretium.com

NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Pretium, a specialized investment management firm with more than $26 billion in assets, today announced that it has established a legal opportunities investment team. Pretium’s legal opportunities team will work with corporations and law firms to identify and invest in legal and commercial opportunities where its team has deep knowledge and experience and that offer attractive return potential for investors.  Areas of investment will include high value complex disputes between businesses, arbitrations, antitrust, patent and intellectual property, bankruptcy, distressed debt and insolvency and monetization of judgments and awards.  Pretium will not be investing in consumer litigation finance.

Don Mullen, founder and CEO of Pretium, commented, “We are thrilled to further expand Pretium’s capabilities into this fast-growing area of the market, where we believe our combination of scale, an exceptional team, and financial sophistication meets a growing need.  As many of today’s fastest growing companies and industries mature, there will be increased demand for experienced and well-resourced firms to assist them in managing their legal risks particularly in areas of intellectual property, patents and technology.  With the expertise of our legal strategies team, we are excited to offer investors a diversifying investment with attractive returns that are minimally correlated to the broader economic cycle.”

The strategy will be led by Matthew Cantor, a Senior Managing Director who joined Pretium in May 2020 and has more than two decades of experience of creating value for investors in complex legal situations. This experience includes his tenure leading the highly successful resolution of the Lehman Brothers estate and time spent as both an investor and as a practicing attorney at leading global law firms.

Also joining Pretium as a Senior Managing Director is Charles (Chad) Schmerler, who will serve as the head of Litigation Finance. Prior to joining Pretium, he was the CEO of Yorkside Capital, a litigation finance firm he founded following his tenure as a litigation partner at Norton Rose Fulbright.  He has over a decade of experience representing funders and clients seeking funding and is a recognized expert in the field.

Mr. Cantor and Mr. Schmerler are joined by several seasoned investment, legal and financial professionals who bring a unique and diverse set of subject matter expertise in litigation finance, legal risk monetization, intellectual property, and forensic accounting and damages analysis that will differentiate Pretium from others in the space.

Mr. Cantor added, “We look forward to working with law firms, corporations, and other sophisticated parties to utilize our deep knowledge and substantial capital to provide them with bespoke financing solutions that help them efficiently and effectively manage their legal risks and pursue commercial claims that fit within our investment criteria.”

About Pretium

Pretium was founded in 2012 to capitalize on secular investment and lending opportunities arising as a result of structural changes, disruptions, and inefficiencies within the economy. Pretium has built an integrated analytical and operational ecosystem within the U.S. housing, residential credit, and corporate credit markets, and believes that its insight and experience within these markets create a strategic advantage over other investment managers. Pretium’s platform has approximately $26 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2021 and employs approximately 2,500 people across 29 offices. Please visit www.pretium.com for additional information.

For more information, please contact:

Prosek Partners

Josh Clarkson / William Szczecinski

646-818-9259 / 912-344-7423

jclarkson@prosek.com / wszczecinski@prosek.com