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Cortland Completes $1.2B Pure Multi-Family REIT Deal

Atlanta-based Cortland closed on its previously-announced acquisition of Pure Multi-Family REIT for $1.2 billion in cash. The deal means the multifamily real estate investment, development and management company becomes the largest apartment owner in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

Pure Multi-Family’s portfolio of 22 apartment communities and 7,085 apartment units are in five of Cortland’s high-growth markets, including the Texas cities of Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, as well as Phoenix, AZ.

Cortland’s Steven DeFrancis says, “We’re excited to bring Pure Multi-Family’s communities, associates and 11,000 new residents into the Cortland family.”

This acquisition of the Canadian-based, publicly-traded vehicle represents Cortland’s continued strategy of growth and concentration in its designated focus markets, which it believes share similarly outsized job and population growth qualities with strong affordability characteristics. Since January 2018, Cortland has conducted more than $3.7 billion in multifamily acquisitions, representing 20,639 apartment units, and it now owns and manages more than 60,000 apartment homes nationwide.

*Pictured Amalfi Stonebriar, Dallas 

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About Dennis Kaiser

Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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