Build-to-rent

Houses that rent like units

A build-to-rent community is a rent roll whose units are houses. Altyst underwrites it on the same per-unit engine as multifamily: home types as the unit mix, monthly rents in place and at market, one debt stack over the community.

The community as a unit mix

Three-bed cottages and four-bed detached homes are rows in the mix, each with a count, an in-place rent, and a market rent. Loss-to-lease, concessions, and bad debt behave exactly as they do on an apartment deal, because it is the same machinery underneath.

  • Home types as unit-mix rows at $/month
  • In-place vs market rents with loss-to-lease
  • Reserves and a per-home renovation on a turn schedule
126-home BTR communitySample
3-bed cottage (78)$2,150In place
4-bed detached (48)$2,590In place
Market rent gap+$140Loss to lease

Still dirt? Underwrite the build

A project that has not delivered yet is a land deal with houses at the end, and that is how to run it: construction budget and carry draw on your schedule, lease-up absorbs to stabilization, and the exit capitalizes the stabilized NOI.

  • Construction budget, carry, and draw schedule
  • Lease-up absorption to stabilization
  • Development profit and margin on total cost
BTR developmentSample
Total cost
$38.7M
Stabilized value
$47.9M
Profit margin
24%

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