Strategy & transactions for residential real estate

Big decisions.
Real execution.

We advise the leaders of homebuilders, institutional investors and proptech platforms on the moves that define their next decade.

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Aerial view of a residential community
$600M+
In transactions
30+
Deals executed
60+
Institutional relationships
10+
Years in housing

Who we advise

CEOs, presidents and investment leaders facing their highest-stakes questions.

01 Homebuilders Build-to-rent, capital and new lines of business, including fee-build. Case studies → 02 Institutional investors Where, how and with whom to deploy capital in BTR and SFR. Case studies → 03 PropTech Go-to-market, pricing and adoption with builders and investors. Case studies → 04 Developers Highest and best use, entitlements and for-sale vs. for-rent. Case studies →

Where we
make an impact

  • Build-to-rent platform strategy
  • New markets & channels
  • Fee-build & GC partnerships
  • Underwriting & IC support
  • Equity, debt & JV structuring
  • Land banking & capital-light growth
  • Operating model & board strategy
  • Proptech go-to-market
Liya Mo, founder of Momenta Real Estate

About the founder

Liya Mo

Liya Mo founded Momenta Real Estate in 2025 to bridge Wall Street and Main Street in the residential real estate market.

A real estate executive with more than a decade across acquisitions, homebuilding and consulting, Liya has sourced and executed 30+ deals totaling $600M+, with deep expertise in single-family rental, build-to-rent, capital raising and platform scaling. Before Momenta, she was Principal of Acquisitions at Lafayette Real Estate; earlier, she advised Fortune 500 clients at Deloitte Consulting in Real Estate & Location Strategy.

She speaks frequently on build-to-rent and housing capital markets and is a past SFR Awards winner who now serves as a judge. Liya holds an MBA/MA from the Wharton School and the Lauder Institute and graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis.

Featured speaker
  • IMN
  • Bisnow
  • John Burns
  • Zonda
  • ULI

Mo's Memos

All memos →
Rents Are Turning. Cash Flow Might Not Be. The market now agrees rents have been weak and is debating when the recovery starts. The more important question for 2027 is whether owners’ cash flow recovers with them. Read the memo → The Policy Signal Investors Are Actually Reacting To A shift in investor appetite across build-to-rent, driven less by fundamentals than by policy signaling. Read the memo →

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