About Nexus
Built here. Invested here.
We develop residential real estate in the Raleigh–Durham region and share the outcome with the investors who fund it.
Our story
A firm that started with one site.
Nexus Redevelopment began in 2011 with a single infill parcel in Raleigh and a straightforward thesis: the Triangle was going to keep adding people, and it was not going to keep up on housing. Fourteen years later that thesis has not changed — only the scale has.
What started as a two-person operation buying and renovating small rental properties has grown into a vertically integrated developer handling land acquisition, entitlement, construction management, lease-up, and asset management in house.
We have deliberately stayed regional. We do not chase markets we have not walked. The relationships that let us see land before it is listed, get a difficult rezoning through a town council, or hold a general contractor to a schedule are the product of years in one place, and they do not travel.
Founding date, growth milestones, and specifics to be confirmed by client
What we believe
Four commitments we do not trade away.
Our capital sits beside yours
Principals invest personal capital in every offering we sponsor. We do not earn a promote until our limited partners have received their preferred return in full.
The best deal is often the one we pass on
We underwrite conservatively and decline far more sites than we buy. A project has to work at today's rents and a stressed exit assumption before we will bring it to investors.
We build things we would live in
Durable materials, sensible unit layouts, and amenities residents actually use. Well-built communities lease faster, hold residents longer, and sell for more.
You hear the bad news first
Construction schedules slip and markets move. When something changes, we tell investors directly rather than burying it in a quarterly footnote.
Where we work
Four counties, one hour wide.
We concentrate on Wake, Durham, Johnston, and Chatham counties — the geography that captures Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Apex, Holly Springs, Clayton, and the corridors feeding Research Triangle Park.
Staying inside that radius means our team can be on any site within an hour, which matters more during construction than almost anything else.
Capabilities
Handled in house, start to finish.
Vertical integration is how we control cost, schedule, and quality — and how we keep fees inside the deal rather than paying them out.
Land acquisition
Off-market sourcing, feasibility, and contract negotiation with study periods that let us walk away cleanly.
Entitlement
Rezoning, site plan approval, utility capacity, and neighbourhood engagement through local government processes we know well.
Design
Unit mix, product type, and value engineering with architects and civil engineers we have worked with for years.
Construction management
Contractor selection, schedule and budget control, draw administration, and quality inspection on our own account.
Lease-up
Pricing strategy, marketing, and staffing to move a community from certificate of occupancy to stabilized occupancy.
Asset management
Ongoing operations oversight, capital planning, refinance evaluation, and disposition timing.
Next step
Start with a conversation.
Tell us what you are looking for and we will tell you honestly whether our projects fit it.