Build Wealth in Real Estate
At Nautilus, we are exclusively focused on acquiring high-quality multifamily real estate throughout the Midwest. Leverage our team's extensive experience, local market knowledge, and longstanding relationships to access unique opportunities not available to the general public. Diversify yourself away from the public markets and benefit from the cash flow, appreciation, and tax benefits that passive real estate investing can offer.
Cash Flow
Earn passive income from institutional quality real estate. Enjoy what matters most while we handle everyday operations.
Appreciation
Preserve and build wealth for your family. Multifamily assets can grow in value over time through market growth and value-add strategies.
Tax Benefits
Keep more of your money working for you by leveraging the powerful tax benefits of private multifamily real estate.
Diversification
Insulate yourself from the volatility of public markets by allocating to private real estate, which historically performs in a variety of market cycles.
An Essential Need: Multifamily Housing
We're focused on acquiring high-quality, existing apartment communities that meet our rigorous criteria and have demonstrated proven performance. Targeting primary and secondary markets throughout the Midwest, we identify unique submarkets with strong underlying fundamentals that have the opportunity to see outsized rental demand.
Investing in multifamily real estate can provide superior, risk-adjusted returns when compared to stocks, bonds, and other real estate asset classes. The cash flow, appreciation, and tax benefits it provides can make a meaningful difference for individuals and family offices. Learn more about how multifamily real estate can be a valuable addition to your investment portfolio.
Stable Performance
Multifamily can provide stable performance and outperform other asset classes in a variety of market conditions. Featuring a relatively homogenous stock, diversified rent rolls, and staggered lease expirations, the asset class can present significantly reduced volatility and overall risk compared to other strategies.
Housing Shortage
The United States faces a shortage of 3,700,000 housing units*, all while construction costs and home prices continue to rise. Despite the shortage, multifamily supply is expected to be significantly constrained through at least 2027. As a result, we expect existing demand to continue to remain elevated.
Value-Add Opportunities
Multifamily presents significant management and ownership upside opportunities through improving operations, renovating units, or updating common areas and appearance. Making these improvements can increase the overall value of the property. We work with experienced, local managers to identify and execute on these opportunities.
Process Driven
We are committed to identifying and executing on distinctive opportunities that protect and grow our investors’ capital. Through disciplined execution of proven processes—enhanced by innovative technology, advanced analytics, and strategic insight—we aim to generate asymmetric upside while minimizing downside risk.
Unique Deal Sourcing
We source and review over 60 deals each month, leveraging established relationships and extensive local market knowledge to uncover unique opportunities at attractive pricing, often not widely marketed or available to other buyers
Operational Excellence
Real estate is not passive and requires active management. Through industry leading models and data, extensive operational knowledge, and close relationships with local management partners, we work tirelessly to maximize operations and overall returns
Analytical Focus
We utilize proprietary, class-leading models and near-real-time analytics to drive our investment process and inform calculated decision making, identifying unique opportunities to create outsized value for our investors
Exclusive Midwest Focus
At Nautilus, we are completely focused on the Midwest. We hold longstanding relationships and have extensive market knowledge that allows us to better identify, acquire, and operate properties in the region, often acquiring properties "off-market," with less or even no competition from other buyers. The Midwest uniquely benefits from stable demand drivers, low natural disaster risk, and unparalleled access to vital natural resources, making it the ideal region to protect and grow wealth in private multifamily real estate.
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Total States
$800M+
Historical Transaction Volume
1,000+
Established Relationships
100%
Midwest Multifamily
Our Story
Nautilus serves to provide individuals and family offices with superior, risk-adjusted returns through passive multifamily real estate investment opportunities in the Midwest. Built on the core principles of absolute excellence and relentless pursuit, we’re committed to protecting and growing our investors’ capital so that they can focus on what matters most to them. Leveraging extensive market knowledge, transactional experience, and local relationships, we work tirelessly to identify unique opportunities, often without competition from other buyers. We utilize proprietary models, industry leading data, and highly refined processes to create and execute on situations with the potential for asymmetric upside.
Carter Olles and Will Toonen co-founded and serve as the Managing Partners of Nautilus. Prior to joining Nautilus, Carter ran Midwest acquisitions for an institutional private equity firm, directly acquiring more than $800M of real estate and participating in over $4B of total transactions. Will facilitated corporate and commercial real estate risk management for clients at a large commercial insurance company, developed single family homes across Northeastern Wisconsin, and co-founded a podcast with 1M+ average monthly impressions.