ABOUT
An operator first. A sponsor second.
Mercer Asset Partners is the operating entity of the M Companies family of companies, a vertically integrated real estate investment and development platform focused on value-add multifamily, mixed-use, and ground-up residential development across the Gulf Coast and Mid-Atlantic.
Leadership
OUR FOUNDERS
The M Companies are led by founders with multi-decade experience across the full real estate value chain — acquisitions, ground-up development, vertical construction, capital structuring, and operations. Careers span hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction volume across multifamily, mixed-use, and residential product types in the Mid-Atlantic and Gulf Coast.
The leadership group has owned and operated construction companies on both coasts of operation, giving the platform direct, in-house command of cost, schedule, and quality — not just oversight of third-party contractors. That operational depth informs underwriting: deals are evaluated by people who have personally executed similar projects, swung the hammer, sat across from the bank, and signed the GMP.
Capability is broad and complementary: site selection and entitlements, value-add repositioning, ground-up construction management, brokerage and lease-up, asset management, and investor reporting. The same team that sources a deal underwrites it, builds it, manages it through stabilization, and reports to investors — one continuous chain of accountability.
The orientation is entrepreneurial and long-hold rather than fund-cycle. Founders invest meaningful personal capital alongside limited partners on every offering, aligning outcomes from day one.
VERTICALLY INTEGRATED OPERATIONS
Most sponsors who claim vertical integration are coordinating vendors. We are not. The M Companies platform owns and operates the disciplines that move a project from sourcing to closeout under one roof.
- Construction — New Jersey. D. Massimo and Sons Construction (DMSC) self-performs ground-up and value-add work across the Mid-Atlantic.
- Construction — Gulf Coast. Mossy Cypress Builders (MCB) self-performs cottage and multifamily construction across the Mobile MSA.
- Brokerage — NJ & AL. Turning Point Real Estate (TPRE) is the platform’s in-house brokerage, licensed in both New Jersey and Alabama. Sourcing, dispositions, and lease-up sit inside the firm rather than in third-party agency relationships.
Where third-party general contractors or co-brokers are engaged, they operate under master service agreements as subcontractors. The construction and brokerage P&Ls sit inside the platform.
FAMILY HERITAGE
The M Companies platform is built on a multi-generational foundation in real estate. D. Massimo and Sons reflects a construction lineage measured in decades, and the firm’s operating culture is anchored in family-held discipline rather than fund-cycle pressure. The platform is older than its current name.
WHERE WE WORK
Active markets: Mobile MSA, Alabama and New Jersey.
Planned expansion: Eastern Pennsylvania.