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Volume XXVIII · Chapter II

The Strategy.

A note from the investment committee, fourth quarter, 2025.

Pacific Coast Capital Partners was founded in 1998 with a single conviction: that institutional commercial real estate investing rewards patience, not speed. Twenty-eight years later, that conviction has carried the firm through a dot-com correction, the global financial crisis, the pandemic, and the rate-hike regime that followed.

The platform has grown — six offices, $29.3 billion of equity invested, 1,360 commitments — but the discipline has not changed. PCCP underwrites every investment as if it must survive the worst quarter of the next decade. Sometimes that judgment is wrong. More often, it is what compounds across cycles.

On the three strategies.

The platform integrates three strategies under one investment committee. Equity provides joint venture, preferred equity, and recapitalization capital. Debt originates senior loans, mezzanine, and bridge financing. Advisory delivers strategic and capital markets execution. The strategies are not silos — they share underwriting, risk, and sponsor relationships.

On sponsor selection.

Every commitment begins with the sponsor. PCCP underwrites operators as carefully as it underwrites assets — track record across cycles, behavior in distress, alignment of incentives. The firm has long-running relationships with many of the country's most respected real estate operating companies; new sponsor relationships pass through the same gate.

“Capital is patient or it is not capital. The discipline that compounds across cycles is the willingness to do nothing when nothing is the right answer.”

On the next decade.

The firm enters its third decade with conviction in the same things — patience, sponsor relationships, capital structure flexibility, and a reluctance to invest at the wrong price. The asset classes will rotate. The cycles will repeat. The discipline, we hope, will not.

— The Investment Committee, fourth quarter 2025