Category: Fund Structure & Economics Articles

Entity architecture, waterfalls, fees, LP/LLC, economics.

Tilden Moschetti, securities attorney
Tilden Moschetti, securities attorney
Illustration of two real estate investment paths: syndication into a single property and fund capital flowing to multiple assets, joined by a balance scale.

What is Syndication? Raising Outside Capital For Investment

The Core Distinction: A Deal Versus A Mandate A syndication raises capital for one specific, identified asset. A fund raises a blind pool of capital to execute a stated investment strategy over time. That is the whole difference. Everything else – the entity chart, the waterfall, the capital call mechanics

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Illustration of real estate syndication fund structures using interconnected building blocks and icons representing various roles and mechanisms.

Real Estate Syndication Fund Structures

The Blueprint: Connecting Entities to Economics A real estate syndication structure has two parts that have to work together: a legal chassis of layered entities, and an economic engine that moves the cash. The chassis is the set of entities that hold the asset, house the investors, and separate the

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Illustration of interlocking gears representing real estate syndication fees with icons for construction, investment, and management, against a mechanical blueprint background.

Real Estate Syndication Fees

The Core Difference Between Syndication Fees and the Promote Sponsors get paid in two very different ways, and people constantly mix them up. Operational fees pay the sponsor for the work of running the business. The promote – also called carried interest – is the sponsor’s share of the upside,

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Waterfall flowing from buildings into pools of coins, symbolizing the distribution of returns in a real estate syndication investment structure.

Real Estate Syndication Waterfalls

The Waterfall Is a Legal Framework, Not Just a Spreadsheet A distribution waterfall is the binding hierarchy written into your Operating Agreement that dictates how and when cash flows to the sponsor and the limited partners. It is a legal document, not a financial one. The spreadsheet describes what you

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