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The Investment Decision That Changed My Life

The story of Wildhorn Capital started four years ago, when we bought our first investment property--a duplex in south Austin. That initial purchase totally changed the trajectory of our lives, going from hard charging corporate ladder climbers, to real estate...

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Lessons Learned: Combining Two Assets

Last November we closed on a 264 unit value-add apartment in North Austin.  It's an asset that we had our eye on for over two years as we stayed in touch with the owner and let them know of our interest.  We’re very bullish on the neighborhood and have a few unique...

Building a Business With Multiple Pitches

Good baseball pitchers have 2 dominant pitches. All Star pitchers have 3.  The idea is that you want to be able to throw different pitches in different scenarios, keeping the batter off balance so they never know what is coming next.    In our business, we think about...

Protecting Investors Interests (Why We Walked $250,000)

Wildhorn Capital is a real estate company that focuses on multifamily assets in Central Texas.  More than that though, we are an alternative investment option for investors that want the security and ownership of a hard asset in the best market in the country.  We...

Creativity in Value Add

When introducing Wildhorn Capital, the words I most often use to describe our culture are “boutique” “creative” and “relationship oriented”. The most common response I get is that those words aren’t necessarily what people think of when they look at a Real Estate Firm...

You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em…

Now six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels like the world has started to adjust.  I hate the term “new normal”, but our business has a lot more going on today that it did in May.  The deal pipeline is full, as there have been a flood of apartments hit the...

Responding to the Headlines

A big part of our job at Wildhorn is to be an expert in our home market.  It's our competitive advantage, and it's a big reason we believe our partners choose to work with us. We’re born and raised in Austin, Texas.  We’re plugged into the local scene and make a major...

Scaling Strategically

We started Wildhorn Capital almost 5 years ago, making the transition from investing on our own into investing with and for others.  Over that time, we’ve been quite fortunate to see the business and portfolio grow just about how we planned it.  Today, we sit here...

7.13.2020 Press Release

For Immediate Release    Wildhorn Capital is pleased to announce Cooper Drenner is joining as a Partner AUSTIN, Texas, July 13, 2020– Wildhorn Capital, a leading multifamily investment firm in Central Texas markets, today announced the appointment of a new...

Cap Rates, Where Are They Going?

We’ve spent a lot of time in this blog over the last several months focused on the economy, the impacts of COVID-19 and the recession we’re now in, and talking through how that might impact our industry.  In that time, we’ve asked whether investors are ready to...

Investing Again – Is Now The Time?

When Do You Hop Back In? Almost every industry conference, lunch or round table dinner I attended for the last 5 years has asked some form of the question “what inning are we in?” Cyclicality has long been the reality of the real estate industry and after 10 years of...

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