The firm
Islamont acquires, improves and operates buildings in Orlando and the South Carolina Lowcountry. Self funded since 2011, with the principals' capital in first position.
Orlando, Florida
Charleston, South Carolina
$60M+Real estate owned and operated
40+Acquisitions since 2011
150,000+Square feet of industrial and flex
6Asset classes across two states
50+Tenants and residents
Figures as of September 2026.
Value created
The value is the work.
Why we bought it, and what we did to it.
For the building
A 1925 estate that sat empty for years is booked for weekends.
The firm bought a landmark 1925 estate that had been abandoned, spent nine months on the restoration alongside historical experts and skilled craftsmen, and runs it today as one of Central Florida's most sought after venues for weddings, events, historic tours and overnight stays. The same sequence runs through the rest of the portfolio: buy the building, improve it, then put something in it that works. Islamont owns and operates its own restaurant group inside its own buildings, so it has been its own tenant, and it knows what a building costs to run before it asks anyone else to pay for it.
For the block
Working businesses, in buildings that were not working.
The industrial and flex portfolio sits on the west side of downtown Orlando, in an urban core where the alternative to an improved building is usually a vacant one. The tenants are working businesses, and they lease from the people who own the building and answer the phone rather than from an asset manager three states away. The firm holds for the long term, which means the roof, the yard and the power service get done for the building's next fifteen years instead of for a sale next spring.
For the partners
Our capital goes in first, and it stays in.
Islamont has been self funded since 2011. The principals' own money takes first position in every deal, with lenders and a select circle of limited partners invited in beside it on projects of scale. Partners own real assets in real places, with direct access to the people running the buildings and the same time horizon as the owners. There is no fund, no outside sponsor, and no committee standing between the opportunity and the answer.
The portfolio
Held
Six asset classes, two states. A selection follows.
1010 West ChurchOrlando, Florida
Selected holdings
What we own, and what we run inside it.
Bought directly, improved, and held.
PropertyClassMarketScale
1016 West ChurchIndustrial and flexOrlando, Florida23,916 SF · 1.82 acres · held since 2014
1012 West ChurchRetail and mixed useOrlando, FloridaConverted warehouse · brewery and taproom
1010 West ChurchRetail and mixed useOrlando, FloridaIndoor event venue
King Street OfficesOffices over retailCharleston, South CarolinaBoutique offices · King Street
The portfolio in full
Development
PALMA at Nexton.
A gathering place on five acres of pond frontage, in the part of the Charleston region that is moving fastest.
Concept rendering · Brighton Park Boulevard, Charleston region
PALMA is designed as Nexton's gathering place: a two storey office building, a food hall with a curated collection of vendors and self pour taps, an event venue for the region's weddings and corporate calendar, and retail at the corner, all arranged around the water. Islamont owns the land, is delivering the project, and will operate the hall and the venue itself.
The project in full
- Program
- Office, food hall, event venue, retail
- Site
- Five acres, pond frontage, Brighton Park Boulevard
- Status
- Sitework complete, vertical construction to follow
Partners
Our capital goes in first.
A select circle of lenders and limited partners comes in beside it.
The Howey MansionHowey-in-the-Hills, Florida
Partner with us
Real assets, in real places, with the people who run them a phone call away.
Islamont finances its portfolio through relationships built over more than a decade and, on projects of scale, invites a small number of limited partners to invest alongside the principals. Quarterly reporting, direct access to the people operating the buildings, and the same time horizon as the owners.
The principals' equity is in first position in every deal. That does not change when a partner comes in.
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