McConnell

Capital Partners

McConnell Capital Partners is a real estate investment firm, emphasizing highly localized expertise, research-intensive strategies, and personal, proactive asset management.

Along with McConnell Property Management, we form a vertically integrated team that ensures value creation and protection throughout the investment lifecycle.

Our Firm

Maximizing Your Real Estate Investment Potential

McConnell Capital Partners focuses on acquiring and managing real estate in New Jersey and Pennsylvania where it uses firsthand market knowledge and institutional-style analytics to identify investment opportunities with the potential for outsized returns. We specialize in the acquisition of undervalued multifamily properties that offer substantial upside in both investment bases and revenue generation potential.

Our investment properties are operated in-house by our management arm, McConnell Property Management, allowing our partnership complete control over its investments. This ensures that all properties are operated in a diligent, attentive, and firsthand manner that maximizes investment potential and prevents the inefficiencies and misaligned motives that arise from a lack of stakeholder involvement.

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In an economic landscape categorized by volatility and overvalued assets, multifamily real estate has consistently provided the best combination of investment security and return maximization. By applying our decades of experience and focusing solely on multifamily properties in locations where we live and are intimately familiar, we are able to ensure that our partners’ investments are completely secure and that substantial, reliable, long-term growth is realized.

*10 year annualized returns calculated as of the year ending October 2023. Figures based on the following indexes: US Equities: Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) USA Index; High Yield Debt: Bloomberg Barclays Global High Yield Index; US Treasuries: United States Department of the Treasury; Commodities: Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) Index; Cash: Bloomberg Barclays United States Treasury Bill Index. Figure displayed for McConnell Capital Partners is a minimum targeted return threshold.

Core Principles

Safety and growth through prudent investment

We take a cautiously aggressive approach to investing. This has allowed us to build a track record of protecting investments and maximizing returns. Whether our partners’ objectives are wealth preservation, investment growth, or retirement, our strategies can ensure the fulfillment of those goals. Toward this end, we constantly adhere to several core tenets:

Partners Prioritized.

The growth and protection of our partners’ investments are our foremost priority-our investments are structured so that our partners’ returns are always realized first.

Constantly accessible. Completely transparent.

We are constantly available to our partners and will provide them with the complete picture in every situation.

Local market knowledge combined with rigorous research.

We combine the knowledge of local operations with the research and analytical practices of the most competitive investment institutions.

Personal, proactive management.

All our investment properties are actively and meticulously managed in-house, ensuring accountability, efficiency, and performance. In keeping with this principle, all properties under our care, whether owned directly or managed on behalf of clients, are treated as if they were our own.

Why Invest In Real Estate?

Asset class advantage

Residential real estate has consistently outperformed other asset classes, often doing so without the risk and volatility many high growth investments regularly contend with. The benefits, however, extend well beyond this:

Dual benefits: Cash Flow + Property Appreciation.

Real estate investments produce ongoing cash flows as the value of their underlying properties increase over time. This effectively combines the ongoing payments offered by low-growth bonds and dividend stocks with the substantial point-of-sale payouts offered by high growth investments.

Inflation mitigated.

Residential real estate also offers cash flows that can match or exceed inflationary trends. Because residential real estate generally provides owners with the ability to set rents annually, property performance is not impaired by cost inflation to the extent other investments are.

Unique tax benefits.

One of the most appealing aspects of real estate is that it offers investors the ability to use depreciation and write-offs to maximize returns. It also allows an investor to continuously roll proceeds from the sale of one property into the purchase of another without incurring taxes at the time of transaction. Those taxes can be deferred until an investor decides to liquidate their proceeds, allowing them to significantly grow their wealth tax-free in the interim.

Power of Leverage.

Real estate investment enables investors to utilize capital provided through loans and re-financings to increase the scale of their investments and significantly enhance their returns.

Safety & Diversification.

Residential real estate satisfies an ever-present demand for housing that exists independent of economic cycles. Because of this, it is perhaps more resistant than any other asset class to the risk of obsolescence, and it can be relied upon as a diversified source of cash flows and long-term investment appreciation.

Our Portfolio

Please contact us for inquiries regarding our current and past holdings.

Passaic County, NJ

Bergen County, NJ

Middlesex County, NJ

Mercer County, NJ

Monmouth County, NJ

Ocean County, NJ

Bucks County, PA

Montgomery County, PA

McConnell Property Management.

Personal & Proactive.

Effectively managing a property is as essential as choosing the right one to purchase. All our investment properties are actively and meticulously managed by our in-house management arm, McConnell Property Management, ensuring accountability, efficiency, and performance. We have extensive experience in value-additive strategies including renovations, re-developments, and operational improvements. Whatever our business plans, we always treat our occupants ethically and provide the quality and care they deserve. It is our objective to make our properties ideal residences of choice

McConnell Property Management is also pleased to offer third-party management services. We understand an owner’s need for management that shares and prioritizes their interest in a property’s performance. Treating your properties as if they were our own is our foremost imperative. We offer personal, proactive management, guarantee constant accessibility, and apply the full breadth of our service and cost efficiencies to the operation of your properties. We have a proven history of fulfilling business plans, enhancing property values, and eliminating the stress and burden of property ownership.

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About Us

50 years of combined experience across the MCP team

McConnell Capital Partners has deep expertise across all facets of real estate investment, including property acquisitions, development, management, and brokerage. This knowledge has been derived from long-term experience in the industry, extending back through many disparate market cycles.

A combined $3bb of real estate underwritten, acquired, managed, or sold

Our team of professionals has been directly involved in the pursuit, acquisition, management, or sale of a combined three billion dollars of real estate, covering all aspects of the investment life cycle.

Proven performance outperforming index returns

Our professionals have a history of outperforming index returns, including the S&P 500, throughout their careers in the industry.

James McConnell

Founder & Managing Principal

James has built a successful career in the real estate investment industry, having led the underwriting, acquisition, management, or disposition of more than $1 billion of real estate across the multifamily, office, retail, industrial, and hospitality sectors.

Prior to founding McConnell Capital Partners, James worked for a New York-based real estate private equity firm, backed by global investment partners. He was responsible for leading acquisitions activities outside of NYC and handled property management for the firm's portfolio properties throughout the East Coast and Southern US. During James’ tenure, the firm’s investments consistently outperformed index returns despite the volatility of several market cycles.

James graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University and now resides in both New Jersey and New York. He is highly involved with the New York Athletic Club where he serves on the membership and club oversight committees and leads the NYAC Boxing Club. He also serves on the alumni board of his college at Columbia University and on various volunteer boards at the New York City Ballet. James is a former member of the Brookdale Community College Board of Trustees.

When working with James, you will understand that he is one of the brightest and hardest working people you will meet, but more importantly, he is one of the most ethical and honest people I know. He has been on multiple sides of the multifamily business, giving him a broader and stronger perspective than most in our industry. I couldn’t give anyone a stronger recommendation.

Jason Bilanin
Managing Member, Real Estate Growth Advisors, LLC