California Housing

We develop, acquire and operate housing in California's supply-constrained markets.


The Martin Group is a multi-generational, California-based real estate investment, development and management firm. We focus on multifamily and student housing, primarily in coastal California markets anchored by universities, healthcare institutions, major employers and transit.

View Projects Our Approach
SF Developed
24M+
Residential Units
20,000+
Investment

We acquire existing multifamily and student housing with our capital partners, often when a loan maturity or a stalled sale creates the opening. We weigh each building's basis against what it would cost to build today.

Development

We take ground-up and adaptive-reuse projects from entitlement through construction. We often bring the landowner in as a partner in the venture, which can lower the cost of carrying land through California's approval process.

Asset Management

Our asset management is in-house. Leasing, property budgets and capital projects are run by people who work here, and the person who underwrote a building is still responsible for it years after it opens.

Placemaking

Each project's identity comes from its site and the street around it. That identity shapes the name, the design and the art we commission, and it carries through leasing and operations after the building opens.

Edson House at dusk, a seven-story apartment building with grey and orange panels on a wide Oakland street
Selected Work
All projects

Recognition.

2023Wexler — Best Real Estate Projects of 2023: Student Housing, Sacramento Business Journal
2018The Broadway — Real Estate Deal of the Year, San Francisco Business Times
Capital Partners
Pac Western
Investor Inquiries

For institutional and qualified private investors interested in investment opportunities with The Martin Group.

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