Construct

Firm Overview

Construct is a boutique real estate investment and advisory firm based in Philadelphia and focused on addressing the national housing shortage and affordability crisis. We eliminate inefficiencies and mitigate risks in identifying and advancing residential development opportunities by leveraging decades of experience in residential land acquisition and development. We structure transactions that maximize risk-adjusted returns for property owners, investors, and developers by listening, understanding, and adjusting to address their specific needs.

Acquisition and Development Services

Owner Advisory

Construct takes a flexible approach to assisting existing owners of vacant or underutilized properties in evaluating and implementing residential development. We will help owners analyze whether residential (re)development would constitute the highest-and-best-use of their property, map the practical hurdles to implementation, develop physical plans, and either advance that plan on their own, in partnership with a developer, or through an outright sale.

While the path for each property is unique, we bring a deep understanding of the pain points from a developer’s perspective to advance plans or structure transactions that mitigate risks and maximize risk-adjusted returns.

Development Acquisitions and Entitlements

Real estate development is highly complicated and risky. Regulations, building technologies, demographics, consumer preferences, regional economies and financial markets are constantly evolving. Between accelerating change and lengthening project lifecycles developers have a lot to concern themselves with, and Construct is here to assist by outsourcing certain pipeline building functions and improving speed-to-market. Construct will advise, procure land directly, and create value in the design and entitlement process through a flexible approach to working with developers that allows them to focus attention on project delivery.

Capital Advisory and Investment Management

Capital allocators in the residential development space can rely on sponsors to mitigate some of the most significant project-level risks, but face additional pressures in the constant search for yield. However, sometimes investors are better equipped to act opportunistically than sponsors and assume certain risks (such as entitlements). Construct can assist in locating deals that meet your criteria, mitigating risks, improving project economics, and bringing in a vertical developer at the right time and with the optimal structure.

Founder Experience

Bryan Oos founded Construct in 2025 to build a residential land acquisition platform that leverages more than two decades of lessons learned in sourcing and entitling institutional-scale residential development projects. That experience includes single-family, multifamily, and mixed-use developments, with the multifamily projects spanning adaptive re-use, ground up (walk-up to high-rise), market-rate, mixed-income, and affordable. That experience has always been underpinned by a passion for walkable urbanism, a fascination with innovation and its spatial manifestation, and a rigorous data-centric approach to deal sourcing and underwriting. Construct is aimed at the convergence of those themes in order to accelerate the delivery of new housing supply where demand is headed.

Prior to founding Construct, Bryan worked for Toll Brothers’ Apartment Living division from its inception in 2011 until its sale in 2025. During his time at Toll Brothers Bryan served as a regional market lead with direct responsibility for deal sourcing, entitlements, and regional P&L. During his tenure he managed closed land transactions representing over 4,000 units throughout the Northeast, New England, and Mid-Atlantic regions and had significant involvement in the acquisition or development of over 3,000 additional units in closed or pipeline projects.

Bryan was previously a Vice President of Development at the Michaels Development Company (MDC) where he oversaw several public housing redevelopment projects throughout NJ and in Franklin, TN. Prior to that he was a Director of Development at Forest City Residential (later acquired by Brookfield) where he managed the land acquisition and development processes for mixed-use redevelopment and adaptive re-use projects in MA, CT, NY, and NJ. Prior to working at Forest City he was a Land Acquisition Manager at Winchester Homes (a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser acquired by Tri Pointe Homes) where he worked on single-family land acquisitions in Northern Virginia.

Bryan has spoken at numerous conferences and is a licensed real estate broker in New York State. He has been a member of ULI since 2000 and is a past Co-chair of the ULI Philadelphia Housing Council. Bryan received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Economics from James Madison University, and a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University.

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