Private real estate investment fund · Atlanta
Capital for the neighborhoods that shape a child's future.
Conqord Capital is a private real estate investment firm based in Atlanta. We invest in attainable housing, single-family and small multifamily, where disciplined real estate strategy and access to educational opportunity intersect, because where a family can afford to live shapes what is within reach for their children.
About the firm
A real estate fund built around one question: who lives here, and where do their children go to school?
Most real estate underwriting stops at the property line. Ours does not. We look at the household that will live in the building, the school its children can reach, and whether the neighborhood is one a family can stay in. In our experience those are the things that hold value through a cycle, and they are the things a spreadsheet leaves out.
The fund acquires single-family homes and small apartment buildings below market value in a small number of Atlanta neighborhoods, rehabilitates them, and holds them as attainable rentals built for long tenancies, with the general partner investing alongside limited partners in every position. How we invest →
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Houses and small buildings
Single-family homes bought below market value, and apartment buildings of roughly eight to fifty units where the rents are already attainable and the building has been under-managed. Both rehabilitated to a standard the street is proud of.
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Two or three zones at a time
We concentrate in a few school attendance zones rather than scattering across the metro. It keeps operations tight, and it makes the school claim something you can check on a map.
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Our money is in it too
The general partner puts his own capital into every position alongside limited partners, so the fund only does well when its investors do.
Why housing. Why education.
A home decides more than an address.
It can decide the school a child attends, the length of a parent's commute, how long a household stays put, and which community resources are within reach. Families are priced out not only of houses but of the ecosystems around them.
Conqord was built on one conviction: disciplined housing investment can create financial value while helping preserve access to the neighborhoods that shape opportunity. Not philanthropy with a fund wrapped around it. An investment thesis with the consequences of ownership built in. The General Partner grew up moving; that is where this came from.
Purpose defines where we look. Underwriting decides what we buy.
On the ground in Atlanta
This is the product. One house, on one street, brought back to a standard the block is proud of.
Investment thesis
Attainable homes on the last affordable streets of a good school zone.
We do not compete for the premium blocks. We buy the tired house two streets over, inside the same attendance zone, and rent it to a family that stays. It is a social conviction, and we believe it is also sound underwriting: a family with children in a school they chose has a strong reason to stay. The full thesis →
Cost-burdened renters
56%
of metro Atlanta renters spend more than 30% of income on housing (Urban Land Institute)
School premium
2.4×
home prices near high-performing schools versus lower-performing districts, metro Atlanta
Housing shortfall
50,000+
estimated shortage of affordable units in the City of Atlanta
Fortune 500 headquarters
18
anchoring metro employment, with growth ahead of the national average
Figures from the fund's 2024 market research, citing the Urban Land Institute, U.S. Census Bureau and Georgia Department of Labor. Market data describes conditions, not the fund's results.
Before you ask
Four things this fund will not do.
Most of what a private fund publishes is what it wants you to believe. This is the other list. It is here because a limited partner will find all of it eventually, and it is better coming from us.
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We will not publish a return.
No target, no projection, no illustrative model. Not on this website and not in a first conversation. Any private fund that advertises a number to strangers is telling you something about how it intends to behave later.
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We will not pretend to a track record the fund has not built.
The principal has bought, rehabilitated, financed and sold property in metro Atlanta for a decade. The fund itself is early and has not yet completed a full cycle. Those are two different statements and we will not let one stand in for the other.
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We will not send an offering document to someone we do not know.
No memorandum, no subscription papers, no data room link, until there is a relationship and eligibility is confirmed. It is what Regulation D requires and it is also simply how a serious fund behaves.
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We will not take a position the general partner is not in.
His own capital goes into every deal, on the same terms, at the same time. If the fund is wrong about a house, he is wrong about it with his own money first.
Everything above is checkable against the Disclosures and the Summary of Risk Factors, both published in full.
Principal
Led by an operator with his own capital in every position.
Michael Olaiya, General Partner, sets the fund's strategy, leads acquisitions and underwriting, and invests alongside limited partners in every position. He came to real estate through a decade of multi-site operations, then years of buying, rehabilitating and financing houses in metro Atlanta.