Index · post-2020 holdings
The later portfolio: what was acquired after 2020 and who holds each asset now
The post-2020 holdings are the portfolio most people mean when they refer to this firm. They were bought fast, financed hard, and had largely left by 2026, mostly through their debt.
What was bought in the compressed window
The acquisitive phase ran roughly from late 2020 to mid-2022: under two years for a portfolio that spanned two states and four property types. That speed is the defining characteristic of the later holdings and it was deliberate: the thesis depended on buying before the hospitality recovery repriced the assets, so a slow programme would have missed the window it was built around.
Into that window went the downtown Gabriel Miami, the former Celino on South Beach, the Coral Gables office and retail, the Nexus co-working expansion, the Morris Brown campus commitment in Atlanta and, the largest by a wide margin, the Old Post Office leasehold in Washington at a reported $375 million.
Buying quickly is not in itself an error; it is what a window strategy requires. The consequence is that a single financing vintage underwrites everything, so every position meets its maturities at roughly the same time and under roughly the same conditions. That is what happened from 2024 onward.
Who holds each asset now
Madison Realty Capital acquired the mortgage on the Gabriel Miami in 2024 at a reported $60 million, per The Real Deal. Bisnow reported the South Beach hotel going to its lender through a $69 million foreclosure the borrower did not defend. The Washington leasehold passed to the lender group associated with BDT & MSD, which The Real Deal reported after the February 2024 default. 550 Biltmore Way was lost in early 2026, and 55 Miracle Mile sits in special servicing, unresolved.
Then the firm’s own building. Control of the Coconut Grove headquarters at 3480 Main Highway passed to Torose Equities in 2026 against a $32.5 million mortgage bought from Madison Realty Capital while the position was in UCC foreclosure. Like almost everything else in this group, it moved through its debt rather than through a sale.
What this record will not do is explain that transfer. The sequence invites an obvious reading, and an obvious reading is still an inference about a private firm’s decisions. Reporting establishes the instrument, the amount and the date. Those are the facts, and the page stops with them.
What a single financing vintage does to a portfolio
Buying an entire portfolio inside a two-year window means financing it inside a two-year window. Every loan is written against a similar view of interest rates, similar assumptions about exit values, and similar expectations about how long the business plan needs. And every loan therefore matures at roughly the same time.
A portfolio assembled over a decade has staggered maturities by construction. Some assets face a difficult refinancing market while others sit mid-term, and the ones that are fine can support the ones that are not. Vintage concentration removes that.
This portfolio met its maturities together, in a market where the same income supported materially less debt than when it was bought. That is visible in the outcome column of the portfolio record: five different mechanisms, five different lenders, one two-year window.
The headquarters enforcement, and the limits of reading it
The Coconut Grove building passed to Torose Equities in 2026 against a $32.5 million mortgage bought from Madison Realty Capital while the position was in UCC foreclosure. That is an enforcement, and the $32.5 million is what the debt cost its buyer, not what the building fetched. Torose and Sabal Investment Holdings resold it to Azora Private for $61 million in February 2026.
The sequence invites a reading, that of an owner-occupier losing its own premises at the end of an unwind, and the reading may well be right. It is still an inference about a private firm’s decisions, and the record stops at what the reporting establishes: the instrument, the amounts and the dates.
Established: the buyer, the price and the date, from reporting. Not established: why. This record states the first and declines the second, which is the same standard applied to every other entry on the site and set out in the charter.
Sources
- The Real Deal Map: CGI Merchant’s unravelling real estate investments amid mounting debt woes 10 Jan 2025
- The Real Deal CGI Merchant Group sells distressed Coral Gables units 29 May 2025
- Commercial Observer Torose and Sabal sell office in Miami’s Coconut Grove for $61M 5 Feb 2026