Real Estate Private Credit Fund Launch

Ballast Rock Asset Management is proud to announce the official launch of Ballast Rock’s Real Estate Private Credit Fund to be led by Max Jackson as Portfolio Manager.

CHARLESTON, S.C., May 3, 2025 -- After more than a year diligencing the space, the BRAM team believe we have identified a number of underserved niches that complement our team’s existing real estate and infrastructure experience and expertise. The fund will focus on lending to small and medium-scale real estate and solar projects, managed by high-quality preferred developers, targeting short-term hold periods of 6 to 18 months per investment, across four primary strategies:

• Lot Banking. The fund will acquire parcels of land at or below market value from developers with contractual agreements in place for the developer to buy back those parcels when ready for construction.
• Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) Financing. The fund will provide short-term bridge financing to DST sponsors for their initial equity requirements.
• Franchise Location Development. The fund will provide “last mile” development capital to select preferred franchise developers.
• Commercial Solar Development. The fund will provide “last mile” development capital to high-quality solar developers, with projects being sold to solar owner-operators after completion.

In addition, the fund will provide certain value-add services to the developers in parallel with its capital. For example, Ballast Rock will run a fully marketed competitive institutional bidding process for some projects, which will maximize project value for developers and allow the fund to potentially participate in some of the equity upside of those projects.