Southwest Urban Ventures re-enters Multifamily Acquisitions
Jan 8, 2025 - Travis Cadman - Southwest Urban Ventures.
After a three-year pause amid an overheated market, I’m pleased to share that my team and I at Southwest Urban Ventures are once again actively acquiring undervalued and distressed multifamily assets in the Phoenix and Las Vegas markets.
From 2008 to 2018, we acquired, repositioned, and operated nearly 1,000 multifamily and single-family units across Phoenix, Houston, and Las Vegas through a full market cycle. Today, I believe we are entering another compelling window, where short-term dislocation is converging with strong long-term demographic and economic fundamentals. Loan maturities, tighter capital markets, and operational pressures are creating opportunities to acquire well-located assets at attractive, fundamentally supported pricing.
Our focus is on 100–200 unit garden-style and low- to mid-rise communities, primarily 1990s vintage or newer, where disciplined underwriting, hands-on asset management, and targeted capital improvements can unlock durable value. Phoenix continues to stand out as a long-term growth engine, while Las Vegas benefits from sustained population growth, job creation, and constrained new supply—positioning both markets well for the next phase of the cycle.
Over the coming months, I’ll be working alongside like-minded investors and partners who share a long-term, fundamentals-driven approach to multifamily real estate.
If you’re an investor, owner, broker, lender, or operator seeing distress or mispricing in these markets—or simply want to exchange perspectives on where the cycle is headed—I’m always open to the conversation.
— Travis Cadman
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