A principal buyer, based where we buy.
RKG Holdings is a privately held investment firm in the Tampa Bay area. We acquire and reposition retail and industrial property across Florida, and we invest in a small number of private businesses.
The firm
We buy assets that need work, in a market we know street by street.
Most of what we buy is somewhere between overlooked and neglected: a strip center with three empty suites and a twenty-year-old roof, a small-bay industrial building with rents a third below market, a well-located property whose owner stopped paying attention years ago. We buy those, fix them, lease them and hold them.
We invest our own capital alongside a small group of private investors. There is no fund mandate to satisfy, no investment committee to schedule and no acquisition fee driving the decision. That is why we can look at a deal on Monday and have a letter of intent out the same week.
We find most of our deals ourselves, through direct contact with owners and a research process that reaches every commercial parcel in our target counties. The rest come from brokers who have learned that we answer quickly and close on what we sign.
How we work
Four things you can count on
We are a principal, not a broker
We buy for our own account. No listing, no commission from you, no shopping your deal around while it sits under contract.
We do our own underwriting
Every rent roll, lease and operating statement is modeled in house, lease by lease. If we’re wrong about your asset, we’d rather find out before we sign than after.
No blind offers
A number without context is worth nothing to either of us. We want to understand the property’s story first, then put a real price on paper.
The relationship outlasts the deal
Most sellers we meet own more than one property, and most brokers bring more than one deal. We behave accordingly.
Leadership
Who you’ll be dealing with
Rahul Gupta — Managing Partner
Rahul leads acquisitions, underwriting and asset management at RKG Holdings. He is an active principal buyer in the Tampa Bay market, with holdings that include retail, mixed-use and net-leased property across Florida, and he invests personally in private businesses and private equity funds.
Before real estate, Rahul spent his career in investment banking at JPMorgan, Greenhill and Bear Stearns, working on more than $30 billion of completed M&A and capital raises. He underwrites buildings the same way he underwrote companies: the plan has to work on the numbers in front of him, not the ones he hopes for.
He lives in St. Petersburg with his wife and two children. LinkedIn
Investors
A small group, one deal at a time
We work with a limited number of accredited individuals and family offices who invest with us on specific assets rather than into a blind pool. Most have been with us for more than one deal.
This page is for information only. It is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Any investment is offered solely through definitive documents to qualified investors.
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