Witness Investment and Hotel Equities have launched Jali, a hospitality real estate investment platform focused on providing individual investors access to development, acquisition and value-add investment opportunities.
This platform enables accredited investors to access quality hospitality investments selected by an all-star team of multi-generational hoteliers. The Jali investment platform is a joint effort between well-known industry veterans Witness Investment and Hotel Equities.
Witness Investment’s principals Sagar Patel and Aakash Patel bring multi-generational hotel investment and operational experience to the newly launched platform. Joining forces with Hotel Equities rounds out the Jali partnership through the addition of leaders in hotel management and operations, Fred Cerrone and Brad Rahinsky. The platform aims to provide high-net worth investors the opportunity to invest in hospitality deals from established sponsors.
“As we were discussing the formation of this platform, a big emphasis early on was to provide more than a transactional platform for our community of investors,” Sagar Patel said in a statement. “Education is a core foundation of what we are trying to build. Whether it is specifics on the meaning of hotel investment acronyms, current headwinds and their impact on hotel operations or planning considerations when building a real estate portfolio, we want to provide a forum for investors to learn and evolve their strategy and investment acumen as they build an investment portfolio for themselves and their families.”
The Jali platform was developed in partnership with Capstacked founder Marshall Clark, who previously led the development of the high-net-worth investor recruitment platforms at both Crowdstreet and Cadre, two investment platforms whose combined HNW equity investments total nearly $5 billion.
“This is an ideal time to launch the Jali platform. Whether we are dealing with stabilized assets or institutional grade developments, hospitality CRE allows for predictable yields throughout the asset’s life cycle,” Rahinsky said, noting that cap rates were at historic lows and that hospitality’s dynamic rate pricing performs particularly well versus other sectors during uncertain inflationary periods.