Real Estate Portfolio
A concentrated portfolio of multifamily, retail, and ground lease assets across the highest-barrier submarkets in Los Angeles and New York — acquired through our proprietary deal flow network, actively operated, and held for full-cycle returns.
Stabilized
Core Holdings
Core income-producing holdings across Los Angeles's most supply-constrained submarkets — West Hollywood, Hollywood, Mid-City, Culver City, Santa Monica — and Manhattan. Each asset is managed directly with an emphasis on above-market occupancy rates, rigorous expense control, and the long-term capital appreciation that accrues from patient, hands-on ownership.
| Location | Asset Type | Status |
|---|
| West Hollywood, CA | Multifamily | Stabilized |
| Hollywood, CA | Multifamily | Stabilized |
| Mid-City, Los Angeles, CA | Multifamily | Stabilized |
| Culver City, CA | Multifamily | Stabilized |
| Santa Monica, CA | Multifamily | Stabilized |
| Manhattan, New York, NY | Multifamily | Stabilized |
| Manhattan, New York, NY | Retail | Stabilized |
| Inglewood, CA | Multifamily | Stabilized |
Development
Active Pipeline
Active development, repositioning, and commercial structuring across supply-constrained markets. This segment of the portfolio captures value-creation opportunities at their earliest stage — before stabilization, before institutional pricing, and before the market catches up.
| Location | Asset Type | Status |
|---|
| West Hollywood, CA | Multifamily | In Development |
| Inglewood, CA | Retail | In Development |
| Long Beach, CA | Ground Lease | In Development |
| West Hollywood, CA | Multifamily | Exited |
| West Hollywood, CA | Single Family | Exited |
Expansion
Target Markets
Maple Equity is actively underwriting secondary markets that offer structurally superior risk-adjusted returns relative to our primary markets. Selection criteria are non-negotiable: zero rent control exposure, demonstrable job and population growth, a supply correction already underway, and cap rate spreads of 150–200 basis points above Los Angeles and New York. These are not speculative markets — they are markets where the fundamental case is already made.
Los Angeles
California
Primary Market
New York
New York
Primary Market
Miami
Florida
Expansion Target
Columbus
Ohio
High Conviction
Private Equity
High-conviction investments alongside exceptional founders and fund managers. Technology, consumer, energy, and frontier sectors — every position sourced through direct, long-standing relationships and underwritten with the same discipline we apply to every real estate acquisition.
Investment Thesis
Access. Conviction. Long Duration.
Our private equity mandate spans the full company lifecycle — early-stage ventures through late-stage growth — across technology, gaming, consumer brands, clean energy, and frontier sectors. Capital is deployed alongside founders and operators we know personally, in situations where our relationships provide genuine access rather than auction-market participation. We do not pursue broadly marketed processes.
01
Relationship-Sourced Deal Flow
A decade and a half of operating across institutional real estate and the broader capital markets has produced a network of founders, fund managers, and strategic partners who surface opportunities before they reach the market. Our deal flow is relationship-sourced, not intermediary-dependent — which means we see the best opportunities when pricing is still rational and access is still selective.
02
Visionary Leadership
We back founders with a demonstrated capacity for unconventional thinking and execution velocity — operators building businesses with large addressable markets, durable competitive moats, and the kind of product-market fit that compounds over time. The quality of leadership is the primary underwriting criterion.
03
Strategic Capital
We are not passive capital. Our operating background in complex, multi-stakeholder real estate transactions gives us a perspective on organizational scaling, capital structure, and operational discipline that is genuinely useful to founders navigating growth. We provide introductions, strategic counsel, and hands-on support at the inflection points that matter most.
04
Cross-Asset Intelligence
Operating an active, directly managed real estate portfolio across two major markets provides a continuous, ground-level read on macro conditions — capital market sentiment, consumer behavior, labor dynamics, and supply-demand fundamentals — that informs the thesis behind every private equity co-investment we make. Cross-asset intelligence is a structural advantage, not a marketing claim.
Technology
AI · Semiconductors · SaaS
Consumer
Brands · Retail · CPG
Energy
Clean Tech · EV · AgTech
Frontier
Quantum · Gaming · Deep Tech
Portfolio
Portfolio Companies
Operator.
Financier.
Builder.
Fifteen years of direct acquisition, development, and asset management across Los Angeles and New York — combined with deep capital markets expertise, a proprietary deal network, and a track record of institutional-grade execution across every phase of the market cycle.
Founder & President
Aaron Torbati
Aaron Torbati founded Maple Equity to institutionalize what he spent 15 years building: a disciplined, operator-first approach to real estate investment that bridges the gap between deep market knowledge and institutional financial rigor. His background is uncommon in private equity — equal parts active operator and sophisticated capital allocator — and that duality defines Maple Equity's competitive positioning.
As President of Real Estate at a Beverly Hills family office, Aaron directed the full acquisition, development, and asset management lifecycle across a diverse portfolio of multifamily, commercial, and retail assets in Los Angeles and New York. He held responsibility for both operational performance and long-term portfolio strategy, overseeing a platform that grew to over $150M in asset value under his direct management.
Aaron's command of the full investment lifecycle — proprietary deal sourcing, rigorous underwriting, capital structure optimization, regulatory navigation, and exit execution — is the product of 15 years of active market participation, not advisory work. He has executed complex value-add repositions, structured and negotiated ground lease and retail transactions, raised and administered LP syndications, and managed a portfolio through multiple market cycles, including the most restrictive regulatory environment in the country.
Maple Equity is the institutional expression of that track record — built with Aaron's own capital, structured for long-term independence, and governed by the same exacting standard of execution he has applied to every transaction in his career.
Expertise
Core Competencies
Value-Add Repositioning
Financial Modeling & Underwriting
Real Estate Acquisitions
Asset & Portfolio Management
Syndication & LP Structuring
Capital Markets
Ground-Up Development
Ground Lease Transactions
01
Conviction Over Volume
We run a concentrated, high-conviction portfolio. Every position is deliberate — sourced through relationships, stress-tested against conservative assumptions, and sized for meaningful impact. We do not pursue volume for the sake of diversification.
02
Operational Excellence
Most capital allocators in real estate are financiers who hire operators. We are operators who allocate capital. That distinction matters at every stage — in how we underwrite, how we manage, and how we recover when things don't go to plan. We have managed through expansion cycles, contractions, regulatory shifts, and market dislocations. The result is a platform built on genuine operating depth.
03
Patient Capital
We structure every investment with a long-duration mandate. There is no pressure to transact, no fee-driven incentive to recycle capital, and no arbitrary timeline forcing a disposition before a position has matured. We acquire in markets we know deeply and intend to remain in. Holding is not a default — it is a deliberate expression of conviction in what we own.