About CREsponsor

CREsponsor is a public directory of commercial real estate sponsors. The goal is straightforward: an allocator who has 10 minutes between meetings should be able to open a sponsor’s page, see what’s structurally distinctive about them, and verify every number against its underlying SEC filing, court record, or pension disclosure.

No marketplaces. No paywalls. No unsourced claims.

What’s on each profile

• Hero metrics with provenance per number. SEC-filed figures are clearly distinguished from sponsor-reported figures.
• Notable proceedings + adverse-event screen across CourtListener, SEC EDGAR enforcement, DOJ press, Justia federal docket index: material events surface; routine landlord-tenant disputes don’t.
• Snapshot of what’s structurally distinctive vs peer sponsors (in 4 cards).
• Fund vehicles with Form D economics (issue size, raised-to-date, investor count, minimum, placement agents).
• Institutional LP backing: pension funds, non-traded REITs, JV partners, sovereign wealth. The pension-only screen would miss most of CRE’s institutional capital: the LP section also covers non-traded REIT joint ventures, bank asset-management and insurance JV partners, and ex-officer disclosure.
• Timeline of major activity (acquisitions, fund closes, leadership changes, enforcement events).
• Key personnel cross-checked against SEC relatedPersonsList blocks.
• Geographic footprint mapped.
• Regulatory structure (SEC-IA umbrella vs 3(c)(5)/3(c)(6) exempt operator).
• Entity universe as a Mermaid chart with EDGAR links per node.

Source hierarchy

In descending order of authority:

1. SEC filings: Form D primary_doc.xml, Form ADV PDF, 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-11, PREM14A. Filed under penalty of perjury.
2. Counterparty SEC filings: a public REIT’s 10-Q listing the sponsor as a JV partner. Independent third-party SEC source.
3. State Secretary of State / OpenCorporates: entity formation date, registered agent, principal office.
4. Public pension + sovereign-wealth fund disclosures: CalPERS, CalSTRS, NYS Common, Texas TRS, OPERS, NM SIC, plus the Canadian Maple 8 (CPPIB, CDPQ, OTPP, OMERS/Oxford, HOOPP, BCI/QuadReal, AIMCo, PSP) and GIC.
5. Independent trade press: Multi-Housing News, PERE, IPE Real Assets, Bisnow, GlobeSt, The Real Deal, ConnectCRE, RENX.
6. Sponsor’s own website: clearly tagged “per sponsor” so readers can distinguish marketing from regulatory disclosure.

Never cited: Crunchbase, PitchBook limited tier, ZoomInfo, marketplace aggregators, AI-generated summaries.

On “AI-driven”: AI does the reading, cross-checking, and scoring across the hierarchy above, at a scale a human team could not cover. It is the method, not a source: no claim on this site rests on a model’s recollection, and every finding resolves to a document listed above. That is why AI-generated summaries appear in the never-cited list: a model’s output is evidence of nothing. The two bars below still gate every profile.

Verification before publishing

Every sponsor profile clears two bars before going live:

1. The 2-source bar: at least two independent verifiable sources, at least one of which is a government filing.
2. The source-fact alignment rule: every claim cites the source that explicitly asserts the fact, not the first page where the fact happened to surface.

Caveats and what CREsponsor doesn’t claim

• CREsponsor’s scores and letter grades are editorial opinion formed from the cited public record on each profile, not statements of fact, regulated ratings, or recommendations to invest. Reasonable people reading the same filings could grade differently; the grade is a starting lens, and the allocator does the underwriting. See Disclaimers for how the grade is weighted and what it is not.
• Sponsor-reported metrics (AUM, transaction volume, units under management) are tagged as such and not treated as equivalent to SEC-filed disclosures.
• For any claim a reader wants to challenge, the citation links directly to the underlying filing, no intermediation.
• CREsponsor is not investment advice and is not affiliated with any sponsor profiled.

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