🛠️ BUILD OF THE WEEK

Kevin Durant's family office just bought a 515-acre Six Flags. Here are 100 families like him, and the deal each one just closed.

Most GPs can't name one family office actively buying real estate. The money's there. The families are just hard to see.

They invest through holding companies named after themselves. No website, no press team, no contact page. Search the normal way and you find the fund managers who chase them, not the family writing the check.

So I mapped the ones who are clearly active. 100 family offices, every one closed a US real estate deal in the last 12 months. Stan Kroenke's group bought the 937,000-acre Singleton Ranches, the biggest private land deal in the US in a decade. Kevin Durant's family office took a 515-acre former Six Flags to redevelop. Tilman Fertitta is buying Caesars. The rest you've probably never heard of. Those are the useful ones. They sit across 37 states, writing checks from about $5M to north of $300M.

I built it with public data and AI, not a $30K database seat.

None of these families are secret. They're scattered across public records nobody bothers to stitch together. I had an AI research agent read through real estate transaction filings, SEC records, and deal news, trace each buyer LLC back to the family behind it, and pull the person who runs it plus a way to reach them. No PitchBook, no Preqin, no five-figure data seat. Point it at your own city over a weekend and you'd have a real starter list by Monday.

What's in every row, and what isn't.

Every row has the family office, the person, their check size, and the deal they just closed. The contact is company-level: nearly every row has a LinkedIn or a website, about half have a company email, and none of it is a personal cell. I'd rather you know that now than find out three emails into a campaign. A few of the hundred are family-owned operating companies rather than pure single-family offices, and I've labeled those. Fifty-two deployed in just the last six months.

How to actually get one of them to reply.

Reaching them is the hard part. A few things that have worked for me:

Lead with their deal. Every row tells you what they just bought, so say that first. "Saw 35V picked up the Largo Six Flags site" gets read. "I have an opportunity that fits your criteria" gets deleted.

Match before you pitch. A family writing $200M land checks won't read your $3M multifamily deck, and a $5M operator can't touch an $80M raise. The check-size and asset-class columns are there, so sort before you send anything.

Meet them where you can. For most you'll have a LinkedIn or a company inbox, not a cell number. On LinkedIn, follow them and engage for a week before you message. By email, write to the actual person and keep it to five sentences.

Ask for twenty minutes. These relationships move over quarters. The first touch earns a short call, nothing more. Push for the check on day one and you'll lose the next three years with that family too.

📋 WHAT'S IN THE LIST

100 family offices, each with a US real estate deal closed in the last 12 months. For each one, where we have it:

• What they buy and where. Asset class, geography, check size, and investment style, so you can find the families that cover your market instead of guessing.

• The person who runs it. Named and titled on 95 of the rows, not "here's a firm, good luck."

• The exact deal they just closed. On every single row, with a date.

• A way in. LinkedIn or website on nearly every row, a company email on about half.

• A recency flag, so you can start with the 52 who deployed in the last six months.

Named, titled, and ready to import. Worth saving if your next raise lands this quarter.

👉 Download the 100 Family Office List

One more thing.

These 100 are a slice. The full database has 3,400+ family offices you can filter by asset class, geography, and check size, each with the decision-maker and their most recent deal. It's live at investors.homebasecre.com. If this list earns its place in your next raise, that's where the one after it gets easier.

Why this matters now

Every GP is fighting over the same handful of families they already know. The edge was never a better pitch. It's knowing who's out there that your competition doesn't, and reaching the right person before anyone else does.

The gap between operators who build a pipeline nobody else has and everyone else is widening fast.

Pick the side you want to be on.