Property for Equity · A River Business Corp program · Serving Florida
Property for Equity
Property for Equity · Funds for Equity

Your land is your equity.
Ours is execution.

For Florida landowners with redevelopment potential: instead of selling and walking away from what the property could become, you can contribute it as equity into a project-specific joint venture — built, permitted, and managed by one accountable operator, and structured so your economics are modeled before the developer is paid.

25+ years in Florida 350+ projects delivered $200M+ value managed FL Certified General Contractor EN · ES · PT
01 · The idea

Before you sell, look at what the land could become as equity.

A traditional sale is one taxed check and a clean exit — and it hands the upside your land helps create to someone else. Property for Equity is a structured alternative for owners who want to stay in that upside, without becoming developers themselves.

You contribute the land

Your parcel is valued in diligence and may be contributed — or otherwise structured — as participation in the project, subject to legal, tax, title, and final-document review.

We assemble the rest

River coordinates engineering and permitting, licensed construction, project management, and the capital stack — so execution stays under one roof instead of a chain of hand-offs.

You're paid before we are

The structure models your preferred return and participation as a floor ahead of the developer. River's promote is subordinate to the member economics established in the final agreements.

02 · How the JV works

Two streams. One equity engine. Developer paid last.

Your land and qualified capital can both participate through one project-specific JV concept. At exit, the final documents control how proceeds are paid — and owner and capital economics are modeled before the developer's carry.

Property stream

You contribute the land at its diligence-verified value.

The Equity Engine

Project-specific JV · final documents control

Capital stream

Qualified investors may contribute cash equity through approved documents.

↑ Senior construction debt is repaid first — then the four equity tiers:

1
Property preference — yours
A preferred return on your accepted land value, modeled before any profit is split. The land is what made the project possible.
2
Capital preference
Qualified investors earn their preferred return on contributed cash. Both members are modeled whole before the developer earns.
3
Equity participation — yours
Remaining profit is shared pro-rata by stake. You take the greater of your participation or your preferred return — a floor, not a stack.
4
Developer carry — LAST
River's promote is subordinate to the owner and capital economics established in the final agreements. If the project underperforms, River earns less.

Specific preferred-return rates, splits, and project economics are set per deal in the definitive documents — never on this page. See the full walkthrough →

03 · Your options

Three ways forward. One keeps the upside.

Property for Equity is not always the right answer — sometimes a straight sale is. The point is to make the comparison honestly, before you decide.

Option 01

Sell now

Cash today, taxed today. The fastest path to liquidity — and you exit before the property becomes anything more.

Option 02

Wait & hold

Keep the land and the control — along with the taxes, insurance, and opportunity cost while it sits idle.

★ Equity path

Contribute as equity

Subject to legal and tax review, the property value may become participation in the project — keeping you in the upside it helps create, with your preferred return modeled first.

04 · Your protections

The downside is reviewed before the upside is presented.

Owner protection lives in the documents, not in promises. These are the safeguards that must be defined before any binding commitment.

Legal & tax review

Contribution, sale, exchange, debt, and entity treatment must be confirmed by your own counsel and CPA.

Obligations defined

Owner cash, lender obligations, credit support, and control rights are expressly stated in final documents — not a pitch summary.

Milestone reversion

Financing, permit, start-date, default, cure, and reversion remedies are documented before commitment.

Paid ahead of us

Owner and capital economics are modeled before River's promote. The final waterfall controls.

05 · Who you partner with

One operator. One accountable principal.

The person who reviews your property is the person who structures the partnership, coordinates the build, and reports the decision gate. No hand-off to an outside team that underperforms or walks.

Daniel Jorge Oliveira

Founder & Head of Development · River Business Corp

Florida Certified General Contractor with 25+ years across Florida real-estate development and construction. Trilingual — EN · ES · PT. Based in Orlando, serving Florida statewide.

25+
Years in Florida
350+
Projects delivered
$200M+
Value managed

An integrated platform behind the principal

River Business Corp is the developer and sponsor. Behind it sits a coordinated ecosystem so execution stays in one place and the margin an outside team would charge stays in the deal:

  • Engineering, architecture & permitting — feasibility and approval-risk review before capital is locked.
  • Licensed construction & project management — the contracting entity carries the license and pulls the permits.
  • Capital & structuring — the JV concept, budget controls, and reporting cadence.
  • Design & finishes — buyer-facing quality and market positioning at the close of the project.

River is the developer/sponsor and is unlicensed by design; the Florida contractor license and permits sit with the licensed construction entity in the ecosystem. More about the ecosystem →

We pay for diligence · you review the work · you decide

Bring us a property.

Send a Crexi, LoopNet, or Zillow link — or just the street address. We'll review it and tell you, directly, whether a sale or an equity partnership is the stronger move. No commitment until both sides agree the deal is right.