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Pioneering Student Housing and Scaling a Development Business with Jared Hutter
Purpose-built student housing wasn't always an institutional asset class. When Jared was tracking the sector in college, two public companies dominated it and most developers hadn't touched it. His first deal in Syracuse required staking out an unresponsive seller on his morning commute just to get a conversation going — and delivered 40% net returns in 18 months when it sold to a publicly traded company.
From that first project, deal sizes have grown from $18 million to $100 million-plus, and the capital stack has evolved alongside them. What started with friends-and-family money has shifted…
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