About Blue Vista

We collaborate, innovate and challenge the status quo to build lasting relationships and create successful real estate investment solutions for our investors.

OPPORTUNITY

Blue Vista offers investors well-conceived, efficiently executed real estate investment strategies to meet their performance objectives. Our professionals utilize rigorous, research-driven processes to identify opportunities and support value creation, with the goal of achieving the best possible results for our investors and operating partners.

RELATIONSHIPS

Blue Vista is focused on serving our investors and operating partners, building long-term relationships, and delivering results. We are a trusted partner for a broad range of investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, sovereign wealth funds and family offices.

EXPERIENCE

Blue Vista’s experienced professionals have proven track records, long-term industry relationships and expertise across a wide array of property sectors, investment types, real estate and capital markets, and investment management processes. Since the firm’s inception in 2002, Blue Vista has invested over $13.4 billion in total capitalized value through institutional real estate vehicles focused on U.S. and Canadian real estate strategies.

HISTORY

Blue Vista was founded in 2002 in Chicago as a real estate investment firm with a mission to invest alongside successful investors and sponsors across all property sectors in the U.S. Today, Blue Vista’s platform offers a national footprint in the U.S. and Canada, local operating expertise, and best-in-class investment strategies in exclusively student housing, middle market equity and real estate credit.

Our Values

RELATIONSHIPS

Our investors represent our most important relationships. We relentlessly strive to do what’s best for them. We listen to their needs, put their interests first, and keep them well-informed—a policy which results in rewarding, long-term relationships.

INNOVATION

By listening to both our investors and operating partners, we’ve developed innovative investment strategies focused on taking advantage of market and property type trends across market cycles. We take great pride in having created the first institutional real estate fund focused on sponsor equity, as well as the first student housing fund. We look forward to creating more industry "firsts".

PERFORMANCE

Our team culture is collaborative and research-driven, with a goal of consistently improving our investment processes, managing risk and satisfying our investors and partners. We are focused on delivering attractive risk-adjusted results across strategies, regardless of where we are in a market cycle.

TRUST

We strive to establish trust with our investors by nurturing long-term relationships, consistently exceeding expectations, and providing accurate and timely communications.

ACTION

We are a boutique-style firm structured to be nimble, responsive and able to extract maximum value from the investment opportunities we identify. Our proactive approach allows us to navigate market cycles and trends, and ultimately execute on well-informed decisions on behalf of our investors.

Meet Blue Vista

We are proud to offer best-in-class real estate investment management strategies. Please watch our video to learn more.

Responsible Investing

Sustainable Investing

Blue Vista takes the view that utilizing appropriate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives can optimize the financial and environmental performance of our assets, and bring additional value to our stakeholders. We aim to implement policies that are economically and operationally feasible in relation to our investors’ strategy and return objectives. We see these policies and actions as ever-evolving as responsible investing continues to become more deeply embedded into the real estate industry across various property sectors, markets and strategies.

Risk & Resiliency

Blue Vista has a risk rating tool that takes into account eight major risk categories which guide our investment process, outlined below. Blue Vista’s sustainability/resiliency considerations are embedded into this risk rating tool across each major category, and evaluated during the underwriting process.

1) Market

2) Asset

3) Execution

4) Leverage

5) Return on cost

6) Return characteristics

7) Liquidity

8) Climate risk

Blue Vista Responsible Investing Policy

Blue Vista ESG Policy Final (2024)