About CO2 Homes
CO2 Homes is a full stack real estate private equity company that acquires, manages, develops middle-housing & mixed-use real estate projects in opportunity zones, path of progress areas, or high barrier to entry neighborhoods.
Our project sizes are usually between 2 units - 99 units, and are aspirationally designed for all walks of life.
We tend to focus on wealth preservation for our investors, and opportunistically seek growth when it presents itself in each respective local market we own assets in.
Our Founder — Ty Olatoye
Ty Olatoye founded CO2 Homes to focus exclusively on Middle Housing Real Estate.
CO2 Homes is a full service real estate private equity company focused on acquiring, managing, and developing middle housing projects in opportunity zones, path of progress areas, or high barrier to entry neighborhoods.
Mr. Olatoye began his career working for one of the largest & most successful REITs in the country at Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR), and as his career grew has performed every job on both the property management, and development side of the business throughout his career.
In addition to his extensive real estate background, Mr. Olatoye understood that technology was innovating in the real estate industry in new ways and most recent spent time working in Silicon Valley where he worked at real estate focused technology companies like OpenDoor Technologies (NASDAQ: OPEN), and, Omni (a self-storage play on high barrier to enter markets). During that time period, he also worked at Bird (NYSE: BRDS), where he learned the importance of government & civic relations through his collaboration with civic leaders.
Most recently, Mr. Olatoye held a national manager role within the RTM (Renovations, Turns, and Maintenance) department at Invitation Homes (NYSE:INVH), the largest single family homes REIT in the country.