The Market

Technology now impacts everything, and higher education is no exception. For one, it has made higher education more accessible. Currently most colleges offer basic online degrees. While this seems like progress on the surface, it's being used as a band aid to mask the real problem, rising costs of higher education and a lack of available and affordable student housing.

University Campus
As universities have become more impacted, undergraduates have been given priority for on campus housing, creating a huge void of available, affordable and livable homes for graduate students. Graduate programs are the largest profit center for universities, and in order for schools to survive on a long term basis more off campus “Graduate Student Housing” needs to become available. This problem has hit California the hardest. Landlords whose property is close to a school have raised rents beyond any level that's deemed reasonable and this rate hike reflects the robust California real estate market.


In order for the “California UC” and “State College Schools” to remain elite the UC regents have enacted a mandate to provide landlords an incentive to rent to their students. A guaranteed 20 year lease with a market average per bed cost plus an annual COLA of 5% for properties that meet the high standard they have for “Grad Student Properties”. This mandate offers UCG and its investors an opportunistic area for investment while reducing our long term rent roll exposure.

Modular Container Office Building
In addition to the student housing market, there are a multitude of applications for our construction method. There is a vastly more important worldwide need for affordable housing and our "Container/Modular" construction method fits perfectly into any sector. As in any application the two major costs in construction are time & labor. Time on one hand is reduced dramatically, due to the fact that once site work begins on each project, we can simultaneously begin pre fabricating the container units in a factory setting. By the time site clearing, underground and foundations have been completed, our units have been prefabricated and shipped to the site. Secondarily, the labor force on site is reduced dramatically compared to other methods of construction, due to the fact that the bulk of the structure is the containers themselves, so most of your shell work of any building is completed by a crane operator and a handful of ground crew.

The largest market for affordable housing, is the worldwide market. Due to the fact that our basic structure is made from stacking and combining shipping containers. Prefabrication can be done practically anywhere and containers are then shipped to each development site, with all needed additional materials stored inside each container for later use. This will substantially reduce costs in shipping construction materials and make our product feasible for use anywhere in the world. We plan to use our Emergency Housing projects as a Proof of Concept, that the homelessness problem is one that can be solved, by either simply using existing structures with limited remodeling needs or using our pre fabricated container building methods.

There are endless applications for using this method of construction, such as; student housing, affordable housing, condominiums, hotels, commercial office buildings, temporary housing, vertical farming and the list goes on. Our goal is to source, pre develop and sell shovel ready financed projects to builders all over the world. As well as, to develop projects to completion and hold the asset when the scenario offers a low risk and profitable rent roll, that will give substantially greater earnings to our LP’s and sell at a later date for a multiple of the profits that would be realized by just selling a shovel ready project.

Modular Container Residential Building
Building structures out of shipping containers, may seem to be a completely new idea. However this has been done for many years, with thousands of buildings used for any number of applications. Our position is getting into this market at the perfect time. The concept has been around long enough for most of the problems that came with this type of construction to be solved, while the use of it is still relatively small to most of the world. The reality is you can build an almost unlimited type of design and the system leans itself to almost any end use structure.


We intend to take advantage of this and market ourselves as a leader in this sector of construction. In addition to the cost savings and subsequent additional profits that can be realized. This type of construction is very “GREEN” as its basic material for building is recycled shipping containers, which will give us additional benefits in marketing as well as potential grants and tax breaks, all reducing costs and increasing profitability.