Multifamily · KY

Passco Riverside DST

Name: Passco Riverside DST
Brand: Passco

Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) · 1031 exchange‑eligible · sponsored by Passco

Total Offering

$89,701,000

Equity Offering

$48,900,000

Debt

$40,801,000

Loan-to-Value

45.49% LTV

Minimum Investment

$100,000

Overview

A 265-unit, 11.68-acre Class A apartment community (Velo Riverside, 1181 Manhattan Blvd.) completed in 2024, sited on the Northern Kentucky riverfront in Dayton, KY (Campbell County) directly across the Ohio River from downtown Cincinnati within the Cincinnati OH-KY-IN MSA. The mix is weighted to one-bedroom (~39% of units) and two-bedroom (~46%) product at a 1,042 SF blended average across four residential buildings with structured/garage parking. The thesis monetizes cross-river cost arbitrage—CBD employer access (Procter & Gamble 4.1 mi, Kroger 4.4 mi) and the CVG/DHL/Amazon Air logistics cluster 17 mi south—against a lower Kentucky tax basis, layered onto a forecast 2026 contraction in submarket deliveries. The asset-specific operating plan targets occupancy normalization from the 91.69% in-place rent roll toward a modeled 94.24%, executed through revenue-management pricing (YieldStar / Passco Pricing Model), an ancillary-income ramp (valet trash, utility reimbursement, parking, pet revenue), and light amenity capex under an affiliate master lease with Arlington Properties as third-party manager. Capitalized at 45.49% loan-to-cost on fixed-rate Fannie Mae DUS debt across a 10-year hold.

Investment highlights

The submarket is transitioning through a supply-absorption inflection that underpins the rent thesis. Trailing deliveries ran hot—roughly 3,200 units, up ~44% versus the recent average—and supply outpaced demand over the prior twelve months, but Kentucky alone captured more than one-third of market-wide net absorption, and deliveries are slated for a notable pullback in 2026 that supports vacancy stabilization. The asset enters this window already constructed and amenitized, positioning it to absorb residual demand without competing against a fresh wave of lease-up concessions from later-cycle starts.
The location exploits a structural cross-river labor and cost arbitrage. The Kentucky riverfront delivers downtown-Cincinnati employment access while sitting on a lower Kentucky tax basis, and the property manager reports a median resident household income near $97,656 with approximately 53.30% of units occupied by households earning above $90,000. That income profile implies a meaningful rent-to-income cushion relative to in-place rents, supporting renewal pricing power and reducing collection-loss sensitivity through a softening labor cycle.
Demand drivers are diversified across non-correlated employment verticals within the commute shed rather than concentrated in a single industry. The CVG aviation/logistics hub (DHL's primary U.S. international gateway undergoing a $292M expansion; Amazon Air's 800,000 SF facility), aerospace via GE Aerospace, and a deep healthcare/education base (the sector is the MSA's largest employment concentration at 15.8%) are reinforced by announced expansions including Medpace's $327M tower (~1,500 jobs) and Resilience's biomanufacturing build-out. This breadth dampens idiosyncratic tenant-demand risk across the hold.
The capital structure is conservatively levered and rate-insulated. The Fannie Mae DUS facility carries a fixed 4.85% coupon bought down for $816,020, with a 7-year interest-only runway before 30-year amortization, on a nonrecourse basis at 45.49% loan-to-cost. The resulting 2.16x Year 1 DSCR and an ascending coverage profile through the I/O window provide substantial debt-service headroom, while loan assumability (subject to lender approval and a 1% fee) furnishes financing optionality that can widen the buyer pool at disposition in a higher-rate exit environment.
The asset benefits from a property-tax abatement structure in which fee title is held by the City of Dayton under Taxable Industrial Building Revenue Bonds (Series 2022), with PILOT-style payments calibrated to what the taxing jurisdictions would otherwise receive. This vehicle supports interim net operating income during the early hold and is a structural enhancement not present in comparably situated unabated assets, even as the projections conservatively model a reassessment to 100% of purchase price beginning in 2027.

Sponsor

This offering is sponsored by Passco. Baker 1031 Investments is independent of the sponsor and provides advisory and brokerage services to accredited investors.

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Important disclosures

This material is for accredited investors only and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Any offering of interests is made solely pursuant to the sponsor’s Private Placement Memorandum (PPM), which should be read in its entirety before investing. Securities offered through Aurora Securities, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC; Baker 1031 Investments is independent of Aurora Securities, Inc. Figures shown are sponsor-reported and have not been independently verified by Baker 1031; performance figures, where shown, are net of all fees, sales load, and program expenses, and reflect realized or sponsor-projected results that are not guaranteed. Past performance does not indicate future results. DST interests are illiquid, speculative, and involve risk of loss, including loss of principal. Individual tax results vary; consult your own tax and legal advisors. Minimum investment $50,000.

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