Velocis is a privately held real estate investment manager founded in 2010 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was established by industry veterans Fred Hamm, Mike Lewis, and Jim Yoder and has evolved into an institutional platform that manages multiple closed-end funds and separate accounts. Velocis operates as a vertically integrated investor focused on value creation through active asset management, development, and selective secondaries transactions.
The company’s core business spans four strategies: value-add (sourcing, repositioning, and developing assets in growth markets), industrial/logistics development (speculative and build-to-suit projects in key distribution hubs), global real estate secondaries (acquiring LP interests and direct stakes across managers and property types), and core investments (often via tax-advantaged DST structures). The portfolio mix has included healthcare, multifamily, office, retail, and industrial/logistics, with recent emphasis on Sun Belt markets.
Operationally, Velocis raises discretionary funds and also forms programmatic ventures with institutions. Its value-add strategy has targeted assets across Atlanta, Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, Nashville, Northern Virginia, Phoenix, Raleigh, San Antonio, and South Florida, while the industrial/logistics pipeline has extended into Chicago and Central/South Florida. The firm complements U.S. investing with a secondaries program that purchases interests globally.
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