152-Unit LIHTC Community

A 152-unit, 100% LIHTC community in Portsmouth, Virginia, operating at 60% AMI with affordable restrictions running through 2035. The property sits across from a major regional casino development and the city's largest private employer, in a submarket anchored by a naval shipyard, a major East Coast port, and a dense concentration of regional military installations. Market-rate rents ran well above in-place lease rates, occupancy held near full, and income limits in the metro had grown steadily since 2017. The deal required communicating something uncommon: a stabilized affordable housing asset in a secondary market with a genuinely institutional-grade investment story. The OM had to translate military permanency, port logistics, and accelerating business investment into a document that a national buyer pool would take seriously.

Designed the cover using a new branding system, establishing the visual language for the full document and marking a production quality shift from prior deals in the pipeline.

Designed the executive summary layout, including a tabbed deal tile system that organized five thesis points in a format built for quick investor orientation.

Planned and coordinated the property photography shoot, working directly with the photographer and property manager on scheduling, access, and composition priorities for the full document.

Built the market overview map, the port logistics and military presence map, and the location overview spread, annotating installations, workforce scale, port investment, and business incentives to make the permanency argument spatially clear. Also created the rent comparables map and called each property directly to gather current data, structuring the comp analysis to substantiate the spread between in-place and market-rate rents.