FINTRX tracked 55 direct real estate transactions in the first half of 2026 by family offices, spanning eight property types and six countries. Single family offices (SFOs) accounted for 31 of the 39 unique family offices involved, versus eight multi-family offices (MFOs), making direct real estate acquisition predominantly an SFO-driven activity this period. Multi-family residential, retail, and office led as the top property types.
• 55 transactions tracked across 1H 2026 (January through June)
• 39 unique family offices involved in real estate transactions (31 single family offices, 8 multi-family offices)
• 50 of 55 deals (91%) took place within the United States
• Five international transactions across five different countries
• Eight property types represented, led by multi-family residential
Multi-family residential led as the primary property type across 14 transactions, followed closely by retail at 13 and office at 11. Industrial accounted for six deals, mixed-use for five, hotel/motel for three, and raw land and healthcare/lab rounded out the list at two and one respectively.
Roughly a fifth of transactions spanned multiple property types, most commonly retail paired with office or multi-family paired with mixed-use. This points to a preference among family offices for flexible, income-diversified assets over single-use bets in the current cycle.
Domestic activity dominated, with 50 out of 55 total transactions taking place within the United States. The five international deals were spread across five different countries rather than concentrated in one region: Singapore (Sebrina Holdings), Norway (Smedvig Capital Family Office), Canada (Kilmer Group), Saudi Arabia (AWJ Holding Company), and India (Godrej Family Office). No single non-U.S. market saw repeat activity in the period, suggesting these were one-off opportunistic plays rather than a coordinated international expansion.
January was the busiest month by transaction count at 16 deals, more than double any other month. Activity eased to five deals in February, climbed to seven in March and 11 in April, then settled into a steady rhythm of eight deals per month across May and June. The data points to a front-loaded start to the year followed by a more measured, consistent pace through the second quarter.
• Real Capital Solutions (Arsenault Family Office) — 7 transactions, all office properties
• BruttenGlobal — 4 transactions, spanning retail and multi-family residential
• Crow Holdings — 3 transactions, spanning industrial and retail
• The Moinian Group — 2 transactions; office and residential
• Mohr Capital — 2 transactions; industrial
• Validus Capital — 2 transactions; multi-family residential
• Pamera Partners Family Office — 2 transactions; retail, mixed-use, and multi-family residential
• Rowland Taylor (Kerr Taylor Family Office) — 2 transactions; retail
Real Capital Solutions was the clear standout, closing more than double any other family office's transaction count and doing so entirely within one property type. For a family office whose founding wealth came from real estate ownership and management (Chairman Marcel Arsenault has personally acquired and managed more than 365 real estate investments totaling roughly $3.5B) that level of sector concentration isn't surprising, it's a continuation of the same playbook that built the fortune in the first place.
With 31 of 39 family offices active in real estate deals structured as SFOs, direct real estate ownership in 1H 2026 was overwhelmingly a single-family activity. SFOs typically hold structural advantages in this asset class: fewer stakeholders to align, faster decision cycles, and often a founder or family principal with direct real estate or operating experience. Real Capital Solutions' Marcel Arsenault and Inclenberg Investments' David Gochman are both examples of family principals who built their wealth in real estate or real estate-adjacent industries before formalizing a family office structure. The eight MFOs in the dataset appear to play a more selective role, participating in individual deals rather than running programmatic acquisition strategies the way the most active SFOs do.
FINTRX monitors family office real estate activity across the private wealth channel, capturing property transactions, firm structure (single vs. multi-family offices), AUM, geographic footprint, and decision-maker contact information. This allows asset managers, PE and real estate sponsors, and service providers to identify which family offices are actively deploying capital into real estate and reach the right contacts directly.
Sponsors raising capital for real estate deals should treat SFO-heavy activity as a signal to prioritize direct outreach to family principals and their investment teams over broader institutional channels. Firms like Real Capital Solutions and BruttenGlobal, which transacted repeatedly in 1H, represent warmer targets for co-investment or off-market deal flow than family offices that appear only once in the data.
Real estate activity in the first half of 2026 by family offices was dominated by single family offices moving quickly and repeatedly on multi-family, retail, and office assets, largely within the U.S. A small number of MFOs and international SFOs made more selective, one-off plays. Repeat buyers like Real Capital Solutions and BruttenGlobal show that some family offices are running real estate as an active, programmatic strategy rather than a one-off allocation.
For firms raising capital, distributing products, or recruiting talent across the private wealth channel, understanding which family offices are structurally built for fast, direct real estate decisions is critical to prioritizing outreach.
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