For homebuilders
Turn your model home into working capital — without giving up the sales office.
Model Home Investor is a national marketplace connecting homebuilders with investors who specifically want model home leasebacks. List your models, townhomes and condos to reach 1031 and buy-and-hold buyers directly — without a retail marketing cycle, public open houses or a traditional showing process. How you choose to be represented, and how the sale is ultimately listed or papered, stays entirely your decision.
Free up model home capital
Convert your standing inventory back into working capital while keeping the sales office operational.
Skip the retail listing cycle
No traditional retail marketing campaign, open houses, or residential lease-up process. Close on your timeline. Builders and buyers may use their own licensed real estate professionals as appropriate.
Keep the sales office
You remain in possession as tenant through the community's sales phase — no operational disruption.
Your program stays private
Listings publish with financials and market data, but your company name, street address, and sales contact are only released when an investor requests an introduction through us.
Why Model Home Investor
A buyer pool that is already looking for exactly this.
Model leasebacks normally trade quietly through existing builder-broker relationships or sit on a retail listing platform where the buyer pool has no idea what a leaseback is. We are the dedicated channel for this one structure.
A pre-qualified, structure-aware audience
Our investors are here specifically for builder leasebacks. They already understand NNN-style terms, tenant credit and post-lease economics, so you spend less time explaining the deal.
Underwriting presented for you
Every listing publishes a full pro forma, lease terms, rent comps, neighborhood data and a candid risk section. Investors arrive having already screened the numbers rather than starting from scratch.
Privacy until you approve
Financials and market data publish; your company name, street address and sales contact are withheld until an investor requests an introduction and you approve releasing them.
Portfolio-friendly
List one model or several across communities. Portfolio dispositions where a single buyer takes multiple models are welcome and attract larger buyers.
No change to your representation
You keep your own broker, in-house licensed staff and counsel. We make the introduction; you and the buyer transact directly.
Free while we build up the marketplace
Listing costs nothing today. If paid plans arrive later, listing builders get advance notice before anything changes.
Scope
What we do — and what we don't.
We want this to be unambiguous before you spend time on a listing.
What we do
- Publish your model leaseback with full financials, lease terms, rent comps and market data.
- Maintain a directory of investors who are actively seeking model home leasebacks.
- Introduce interested investors to you, and release your details only once you approve.
- Publish educational material so investors arrive understanding the structure.
What we don't do
- We are not a licensed real estate broker or agent, and we do not represent either party.
- We do not negotiate price or lease terms, draft contracts, or participate in closing.
- We do not take a commission or any transaction-based compensation.
- We do not provide legal, tax, appraisal, lending or investment advice.
Run the numbers
Capital recycling calculator
This tool is here to answer one question: what does it cost you to keep capital parked in a finished model versus selling it and leasing it back? Adjust the inputs to compare the capital released at close and the carrying cost you avoid against the rent obligation over the term — and what that released capital could do if it went back into land or new starts. Directional only, at your own assumptions.
Your model
Rough inputs are fine — this is a directional look at your capital position, not an offer or an appraisal.
Capital position over 2.0 years
Capital released at close
$600,000
Illustrative value of redeploying released capital
$216,000
Redeployment figure assumes released capital is turned into new inventory at an 18% gross margin once per year of the model period. Replace with your own margin and turn assumptions. Illustrative only — Model Home Investor is not a broker, appraiser, or advisor.
Pricing
Free while we build the marketplace.
Listing a model home leaseback is free while we build up the marketplace. If we introduce paid plans later, we'll give listing builders advance notice before anything changes.
List a leaseback
Reach investors directly.
Tell us about your model home program — how many homes (single-family, townhomes, and condos), which markets, and typical leaseback terms. We'll follow up to add your listings to the directory.
Builder inquiry
We'll respond within one business day.