ABOUT US

The platform is new.
The people behind it have
done this 110,000 times.

Allegiant Multifamily Partners is a vertically integrated multifamily platform operating across seven Southeast states, focused on the renters the market is failing. The firm is new. The judgment running it is not. In careers spanning more than 30 years, our principals have led, owned, and operated over 110,000 apartment homes and purpose-built student units, and bought and sold well over $15 billion of multifamily real estate, most of it across the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Texas. That includes $4 billion acquired since 2018 through Carter Funds, where they remain partners today. They have also developed over $5 billion of garden, mid-rise, and high-rise communities.* Allegiant is where that experience now points: housing the American workforce.

* Adjusted for inflation.

Every step stays in-house, so

the promise never changes hands.

Site Selection

We source and secure the land worth building on.

Acquisitions

We buy communities that already exist and run them better

Development

We design and entitle what gets built.

Construction

We deliver the communities ourselves.

Property Management

We operate what we own.

Asset Management

We protect the investment long after lease-up.

The experience behind Allegiant

Capital runs 60 years deep.

Founder & CEO

Ray Hutchinson

Thirty years in institutional multifamily, $9B+ transacted. Founding CEO of Carter Funds, earlier a senior executive at Colonial Properties Trust and Summit Properties.

Ray has spent 30+ years in institutional multifamily and moved $9B+ in transactions. He was Founding Partner and CEO of Carter Funds, the Tampa firm that acquired over $4B of Southeast multifamily from 2018 to 2025. Earlier, he held senior executive roles at Colonial Properties Trust (45,000 units, $3.5B) and Summit Properties (10,000+ apartment homes).
Founder & President

James S. Sauls

Thirty years across Southeast multifamily. Co-founded Carter Funds with Ray; founded Benchmark Asset Management, 28,000+ units and $5B in portfolio value since 1998.

James has built a 30-year career across conventional, student, and scattered-site multifamily in the Southeast. He co-founded Carter Funds with Ray, leading $4B+ in acquisitions from 2018 to 2025. He also founded Benchmark Asset Management in 1998, which has participated in 28,000+ units and $5B in portfolio value from the Carolinas to Texas.
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