Category: Fund Structure & Economics Articles

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

Tilden Moschetti, securities attorney
Tilden Moschetti, securities attorney
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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