Urban Investment Partners

The UIP Companies, Inc. is a real estate investment firm, specializing in multi-family and mixed-use residential properties, primarily in Washington, DC. The firm’s core activities include “heavy lift” value add strategies that reposition assets and increase operating income dramatically. By preserving historic, irreplaceable assets, and upgrading building systems and finishes, UIP provides a differentiated rental product to a more discerning client/resident. DC’s neighborhoods are dotted with older, architecturally significant properties that often suffer from years of extreme deferred maintenance and a lack of meaningful upgrades. UIP renovates and restores this underutilized housing inventory, acquiring properties in core residential neighborhoods, at compelling (less than replacement value) prices often based on deferred maintenance, long-term lack of capital improvements, and constrained rents. Highly targeted, cost-efficient capital upgrades allow UIP to rent renovated apartments at market rates, and at lower overall costs, to improve cash flow.