Developer Products

Solutions focused on your needs.

As your solar and battery energy storage real estate partner, SolaREIT offers developers three flexible capital solutions: land purchase, lease purchase, and solar and battery energy storage land loans.

Land Purchase

Overview

SolaREIT purchases the land, allowing developers to assign a purchase option without tying up their project capital in land acquisition costs.

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Benefits

✓ Developers may have reduced lease payments

✓ Frees up capital to use on other projects or other phases of the solar or battery energy storage project

✓ Redirect capital to project components that are ITC eligible, maximizing tax efficiency

Lease Purchase

Overview

SolaREIT prepays the value of the solar or battery energy storage lease to the developer or third-party landowner in exchange for a lease assignment and an easement over the project area. 

Benefits

✓ SolaREIT provides 100% of the capital to make a one-time, lump sum lease payment to the landowner on behalf of developer

✓ Developers who are the landowner can monetize the lease with SolaREIT

✓ Landowner retains fee simple interest in property

Solar & Storage Land Loan

Overview

Similar to a bank-issued mortgage, SolaREIT offers the landowner a lump-sum payment against the value of the solar or battery energy storage lease. .

Benefits

✓ Avoids capital gains tax

✓ Landowner retains fee simple interest in property

✓ Loan payments are based on the size of the existing lease payments.

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Here’s what our partners have to say about working with us.

  • The financial flexibility provided by SolaREIT is very important when developing solar projects and working with landowners; every landowner’s situation and needs are different—being able to provide landowners multiple compensation options greatly increases the possibility that a project gets done.

    Carl Jackson, Partner of Prospect14

  • SolaREIT is providing valuable financial innovation and flexibility to the solar industry. We are accessing low-cost capital through these deals, which provides us the flexibility to expand our solar development efforts. Financial innovation has helped grow the residential solar sector over the past decade; now SolaREIT is bringing innovation to the commercial, industrial, and community solar segments of the market.

    Rich Winter, CEO of Delaware River Solar

  • We are excited to establish a strategic relationship with SolaREIT as an investment partner for this portfolio of land assets we have held over the last several years. SolaREIT was highly efficient to work with and provides us with flexibility on how best to optimize our capital for future land holding efforts in support of TurningPoint Energy's efforts.

    Adam Beal, Principal of TPE Development LandCo