Plan A, B, and C: Buy More Land with Brandon Cobb

About this episode

Brandon Cobb discusses his business model of acquiring farmland for housing development and the strategies of HPG Capital in Nashville.

Brandon Cobb's business model is simple: take farmland, get it approved for housing, and sell it to national home builders like Lennar and DR Horton. The builders have no choice but to buy. They're publicly traded. Plan A is buy land and build houses. Plan B is buy more land and build more houses. There is no Plan C that doesn't involve buying land. Brandon returns to Real Estate Underground to break down how HPG Capital creates new housing neighborhoods in Nashville, why he stopped building...

People in this episode

Host: Ed Mathews

Guest: Brandon Cobb

Topics covered

• land acquisition
• housing development
• real estate investing
• business strategy
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• land
• housing
• real estate
• investment
• Nashville
• HPG Capital
• Lennar
• DR Horton

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HPG Capital, Lennar, DR Horton

Places: Nashville

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