Passive Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investing,
Without the Struggle

Learn how passive real estate investing works, without the landlord headaches. Free education now, and an email notice if we open an offering to accredited investors.

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Free

Investor Club

3–7 yrs

Typical Syndication Hold

506(c)

Verified Accredited Only

Private real estate is illiquid and capital is at risk, including loss of your entire investment.

The Promise

Invest in Real Estate Without Being a Landlord

Real estate can build wealth, but tenants, toilets, and 2 a.m. phone calls are a second job. Passive real estate investing: you invest, and a sponsor operates the property. Investors may receive distributions. They depend on how the investment performs, are not guaranteed and may be reduced or suspended.

Without Urban Sun

×Active management, stress, and time consumed

×High barrier to entry on individual assets

×Finding, financing, and fixing every property yourself

×Opacity in management and reporting

×Taking a sponsor’s word with no checklist to test it

With Urban Sun

✓Passive real estate investing: you invest, and a sponsor operates the property.

✓Real estate without being a landlord.

✓Underwriting backed by data architecture

✓Direct, unmediated access to the founding principals

✓Plain education on how deals, funds, and sponsors work, and what can go wrong

The Thesis

Why Commercial Real Estate?

People always need places to live, work, store, heal, and connect. Value-add investing means buying an underperforming commercial property in a strong market, improving its operations, and holding it for 3–7 years. Any return comes from cash flow and appreciation. No return is guaranteed. Tax effects depend on your situation. Ask your CPA.

MultifamilySenior LivingSelf StorageData CentersHotels

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Our Edge

A Data-First Approach to Underwriting

Our founders come from Microsoft and Palantir, where decisions are made on data, not gut feel. We bring that same rigor to underwriting: before we bring any deal to investors, we will stress-test it against vacancy spikes, rate increases, and downturns.

We decide on evidence, not on hope.

Stress-tested underwriting

Before we bring any deal to investors, we will model it against vacancy drops, rate shocks, and recession scenarios.

Conservative assumptions

We model on evidence, never on best-case hope.

Reserves checked

We check that a deal carries enough cash reserves to weather the unexpected.

The Path

How the Investor Club Works

Join

Become a member of the Urban Sun Investor Club. It’s free, and your educational emails start right away.

Learn

Free resources and an email series that teaches how deals, funds, and sponsors work, and what can go wrong.

Connect

An optional intro call if you want to ask questions.

Invest

If we open an offering to accredited investors, we will tell members by email. Only accredited investors whose status we verify can invest.

Hold

Investors may receive distributions. They depend on how the investment performs, are not guaranteed and may be reduced or suspended.

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The Founders

Know Who You Are Dealing With

Two founders who built careers at the highest levels of technology, learned real estate from the inside, and now teach busy professionals how private real estate investing works.

Meet the team →

Mariana Briones

Co-Founder · Strategy & Execution

Ex-Microsoft Product Manager (Office, Copilot). Leads business planning and execution.

Alejandro Davila

Co-Founder · Underwriting & Data

Ex-Palantir software engineer. Brings a data-first approach to underwriting and asset management.

Questions

Frequently Asked

A syndication pools capital from multiple investors to acquire a property that would be out of reach individually. A sponsor finds, finances, and operates the property; investors participate passively and share in any profits, and in any losses.

Only accredited investors whose status we verify can invest in any offering. Generally, that means a net worth over $1M excluding your primary residence, or income over $200K individually ($300K jointly) in each of the last two years. Before any investment we verify accreditation through a CPA letter or a third-party service. No offering is open today.

Any minimum is set by an offering’s documents. No offering is open today. If that changes, we will say so plainly.

Investors may receive distributions. They depend on how the investment performs, are not guaranteed and may be reduced or suspended. Timing and amounts are set by each offering’s documents.

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Real Estate Investing,Without the Struggle