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Is a master-planned community investable for a normal LP?

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Tobias Lindqvist
Development Director, Atlas New Communities

For most individual LPs, direct exposure to the land/infrastructure phase is genuinely too illiquid and long-dated — you're underwriting a decade-plus hold with negative cash flow for years. The sane exposure is one phase down: the vertical product (apartments, BTR, retail) built within a master plan once the anchor…

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Are master-planned 'new cities' actually investable for normal LPs?

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Every few months another new-city project announces a raise. Is there a sane way for a non-billionaire to get exposure, or is this purely a vanity asset class?

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