Residential Real Estate Investments

Chesapeake Capital is an opportunistic real estate investor with a demonstrated expertise in collaborating with trusted partners to build quality projects with creative land use and project financing. Our primary focus has traditionally been on small and mid-sized real estate development projects which are residential or mixed-use with a heavy for-sale residential component.

Our existing real estate portfolio is heavily weighted in South Carolina, a market in which we have consistently operated since the firm’s inception, and continues to be extremely bullish.

Chesapeake Capital believes that formulating and implementing the optimal capital structure for each project, regardless of size, is one of the primary drivers of a successful outcome. Ample and properly-priced capital provides the project with essential flexibility to sustain unforeseeable market fluctuations and cost overruns, as well as minor strategic errors. However, many developers do not focus on this or do not have the expertise to do so.

Chesapeake Capital has provided capital for residential real estate development in a wide variety of structures. However, we are currently focused on equity joint ventures and direct purchases of real estate. Typical equity investment size is $500,000 to $3 million. Larger transactions can be accommodated through co-investments.

More and more investors have been exploring investments in alternative asset classes in order to diversify their portfolios. Chesapeake Capital has been filling this need for individual and small institutional investors since 1997 by offering investors the opportunity to participate in the attractive returns available in small private real estate investments with a reasonable fee structure and without the stress of active management of these investments.


Chesapeake Capital raises money periodically, both for closed-end Real Estate Private Equity Funds and for discrete Projects, through the issuance of Private Placement Memorandums (PPMs) to accredited investors. If you are interested in receiving future PPMs, please Contact Chesapeake Capital.

Although currently focused primarily in South Carolina, Chesapeake Capital has provided equity capital or other forms of financing to nearly 100 residential projects of various sizes in the following States:

  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey
  • Delaware
  • Maryland
  • Virginia
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Georgia

Two of the largest Projects that Chesapeake Capital has spearheaded from inception are Foxbank Plantation in Charleston, SC and O’Neal Village in Greer, SC. Chesapeake Capital has developed Foxbank and O’Neal in partnership with TRG Communities, LLC and active development of commercial buildings for lease is ongoing at these locations.