The Whitman
- Type
- Multifamily — 218 units
- Acquired
- 2003
- Size
- 212,000 sf
FFBHolding
Est. 1994
A holding company for permanent capital
Buildings, held
for generations.
FFB Holding acquires income-producing real estate and stewards it over decades, not cycles.
Founded
1994
Holdings
$2.1B
Markets
14 cities
Mandate
Long-hold
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01 — Mandate
We buy assets that ought to outlast the people who underwrite them. Office that is good office. Industrial in the path of trade. Multifamily where families have always wanted to live.
FFB Holding is a single-family vehicle for the patient ownership of income-producing real estate. We do not flip. We do not chase cap-rate compression. We hold, we maintain, and we re-underwrite at the speed of the buildings themselves.
Our capital is internal and indefinite. There is no fund clock, no LP redemption window, and no pressure to monetise an asset that is doing exactly what we asked it to do — pay rent and accrue value in the ground beneath it.
02 — Portfolio
A small number of buildings, owned attentively.
Sentinel Court
- Type
- Office — Class A
- Acquired
- 1998
- Size
- 184,500 sf
Ardmore Logistics Park
- Type
- Industrial — 2 buildings
- Acquired
- 2011
- Size
- 642,000 sf
The Lothian
- Type
- Mixed-use — Retail + 64 residences
- Acquired
- 2016
- Size
- 98,200 sf
Selected holdings shown. Full register available on request to qualified counterparties.
Request the full register →03 — Approach
Four things we believe, and one thing we do.
- 01
Buildings before spreadsheets.
We walk every asset before we wire a dollar. Concrete, glazing, mechanicals, the texture of the street it sits on. The model exists to disqualify, not to convince.
- 02
Permanent capital, patient timeline.
Internal balance sheet. No fund vintage, no exit pressure. Hold periods are measured in tenant generations, not IRR windows.
- 03
One owner, one phone number.
Tenants, brokers, and contractors deal with the principal. We do not pass calls through three layers of asset management to reach the person who decides.
- 04
Maintenance is the strategy.
A roof replaced on schedule, a lobby cleaned twice a day, a boiler retired before it fails. Operating discipline compounds quietly, and it is most of the return.
And one thing we do: we own buildings, attentively, for as long as they reward attention.
04 — In numbers
Across 14 cities, a portfolio assembled one building at a time, since 1994.
31
47
7,400+
2.6M
94%
Zero
14
3
Figures as of 31 December 2025. Past performance is not indicative of future results, but a building well-bought tends to remain so.
05 — People
A small team, in one office, who answer their own phones.
- Frederick F. BellFounder, 1994. Underwriting and acquisitions.
- Margaret SolbergOperations and asset management.
- David OkonkwoCapital structure and treasury.
- Hana ItoCapital projects and building systems.