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CAF Management.
Property manager.

Frisco, TX · Founded 2014 · cafmanagement.com
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Can you hire them for your building?
Yes
Manages for outside owners and its own portfolio[16][40][42]
How big are they?
26,000 units
Firm's own total[16] · we count 4,796+ units in 52+ properties · our count
What do residents say?
3.7 on Google
5,480 reviews · 2025: 3.9 → 2026: 4.3
Legal or regulatory trouble lately?
None found since 2023
Lawsuits, settlements, fines and enforcement · details
What does management cost?
Not publicly disclosed
Ask for a fee proposal; see what others charge on their pages
Who runs DFW locally?
Chip Crooks, Amanda Butler +11
District Manager · District Manager · team
Growing or shrinking?
growing
8,749 units (2019) → 24,000 (2025)[16][40][42][33]
Who owns the firm?
Subsidiary
Parent: CAF Companies[15]

Dots are a quick visual read of the facts next to them, not a grade. DFW numbers are our own count from county records, HUD and firms' own sites.

Years in business
12[3]
Units nationally
26,000[16]
Assets under management
Not disclosed. Affiliate CAF Capital Partners reports more than $4 billion in closed multifamily transactions, which is deal volume, not assets under management.[16]

Not publicly disclosed: Employees

Property typesmultifamily[15]
Specialtiesworkforce housing with on-site resident services (CAF Funds impact portfolio)[23][24]
MarketsDallas-Fort Worth, TXPhoenix, AZTulsa, OKOklahoma City, OK[3][25][26][27][52][50]
01Overview

CAF Management is a multifamily property management company based in Frisco, Texas. It began operating in late 2014 and is the property management arm of CAF Companies. CAF Companies also includes an investment firm, an impact fund and a construction and maintenance company. It manages apartment communities in Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona. Most of them are in Dallas-Fort Worth.

02What sets them apart

Against the industry average.

How CAF Management compares with the other large DFW managers on each measure we track.

  • ▲Better than 86% of peers on rating change, last year (+0.40 vs +0.11 average)
  • ▼Behind all peers on occupancy (87.0% vs 93.4% average)
other firms average this firm, by rank: top third middle bottomThis firmRank
DFW unitsneither better nor worse4,796avg 6,306#15 of 30
Class A shareneither better nor worse30%avg 51%#23 of 30
Google rating↑ higher is betterworsebetter3.7avg 3.9#21 of 30
Rating change, last year↑ higher is betterworsebetter+0.40avg +0.11#5 of 30
Unit growth a year↑ higher is betterworsebetter+15%avg +7%#5 of 16
Occupancy↑ higher is betterworsebetter87.0%avg 93.4%#8 of 8
Legal events, 3 years↓ lower is betterbetterworse0avg 2#1 of 30
Industry awards, 3 years↑ higher is betterworsebetter3avg 3#9 of 30

Compared with the 30 largest DFW managers. Rank 1 is the best where higher or lower is better, else the largest. DFW units use a log scale.

03Portfolio

What they run. In 3 metro areas.

Size, building class, age and location of the properties we can tie to this firm. Compare with the kind of asset you own.

Properties
52+
found so farpartial
Units
4,796+
plus 36 properties with no unit count yetpartial
Building area, sq ft
4.0M
county recordspartial
Median year built
1985
county recordspartial
Different owners
12
owners across the 15 of 52 properties with a county owner recordpartial

Building class (public record class rating, 10 of 52 properties rated)partial

A · 3B · 3C · 4
Class AClass BClass CNot ratedSize = units

Units by ZIP code

75231720 · 3 prop.
75080622 · 1 prop.
75023576 · 2 prop.
75093459 · 1 prop.
75150442 · 1 prop.
75025376 · 1 prop.
75243326 · 1 prop.
75252274 · 1 prop.

Units by decade built

1970s1,342
1980s1,254
1990s702
2000s371
2010s459
2020s442

Largest properties

PropertyAddressUnitsBuiltClassCheck it
REGENCY SQUARE1400 CAVALIER DR, 750806221979CCounty recordGoogleFirm site
EVOKE1025 PRESTON RD, 750934592016County recordGoogleFirm siteWebsite
2025 ADDITION 1 BLDG 90% COMPLETE3701 TOWNE CROSSING BLVD, 751504422025ACounty recordGoogleFirm site
THORNBURY AT CHASE OAKS APARTMENTS7101 CHASE OAKS BLVD, 750253761994County recordGoogleFirm siteWebsite
AVALON AT CHASE OAKS APARTMENTS801 LEGACY DR, 750233261991County recordGoogleFirm siteWebsite
THE MARION9750 FOREST LN, 752433261983B-County recordGoogleFirm siteWebsite
MCCALLUM GLEN7740 MCCALLUM BLVD, 752522741985B-County recordCounty recordGoogleFirm siteWebsite
AVA WEST I9750 ROYAL LN, 752312721978C+County record

Our count from public property records, HUD and the firm's own site; a listing alone never counts.

The communities it manages are mostly older garden-style and mid-rise apartments. Many were bought by its sister firm, CAF Capital Partners, as value-add investments. CAF Funds, another sister firm, owns a set of workforce-housing properties in partnership with Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Urban Investment Group. Those properties offer free on-site tutoring and childcare. Portfolio figures below come from our own county and listing data.

04Resident experience

How residents rate their buildings.

Resident ratings drive leasing and renewals. Look at the trend and at which problems are rising, not only the average.

Average Google rating
3.7
weighted by review count
Google reviews
5,480
across 16 properties

Properties by Google rating

4.5+1
4-4.55
3.5-48
3-3.52
under 30

Resident reviews over time

Our read of public resident feedback on 13 of its DFW properties, 2019-04 to 2026-09. Years with little feedback are left out, and earlier years rest on fewer properties. No resident comments are shown.

123452022: average rating 2.4, sentiment -0.37 (from -1 to +1)20222023: average rating 3.5, sentiment +0.33 (from -1 to +1)20232024: average rating 4, sentiment +0.44 (from -1 to +1)20242025: average rating 3.9, sentiment +0.45 (from -1 to +1)20252026: average rating 4.3, sentiment +0.62 (from -1 to +1)2026

━ average rating · ╌ sentiment · higher is better for both

What residents complain about lower is better

How often residents raise each problem, our assessment: before the last 12 months and in the last 12 months. Fewer is better. Shown only when enough residents raise it.

ProblemBeforeLast 12 monthsChange
Poor communication23%12%↓ 11 pts fewer
Maintenance delays17%8%↓ 9 pts fewer
Staff unresponsive11%6%↓ 5 pts fewercould be chance
Rude staff9%5%↓ 4 pts fewercould be chance
Leasing process6%5%↓ 1 pts fewercould be chance

Other review sites, our read

BBBMixed

Unrated, not accredited; 107 complaints closed in three years across about 26,000 units, resident reviews run negative[3][4][5]

Our assessment · Sep 2026View profile ↗
ApartmentRatingsMixed

Company page covering 76 communities and about 1,800 resident reviews; middling overall, partly collected via SatisFacts surveys[6]

Our assessment · Sep 2026View profile ↗
YelpToo few reviews

No company page; largest DFW property pages found (Spring Parc, Essence, Allure) are marked closed and hold 13 reviews or fewer[7][8][9]

Our assessment · Sep 2026View profile ↗

Our assessment of each site's record, not the site's own score, which we don't reproduce. Follow the link for the profile.

The company says it was named a SatisFacts Top 50 Management Company for 2025 and has ranked in the Top 100 every year since 2022. That ranking is based on resident survey feedback. In March 2026 the National Apartment Association named CAF Management a Top Employer in its large management company class, based on an anonymous employee survey. The parent, CAF Companies, is a 2026 Freddie Mac Multifamily Impact Sponsor, a recognition it has received every year since 2022. Our overall read of employee review sites is mixed. Common positives are internal promotion and support. Common concerns are pay and management style. Resident ratings are shown from our data.

05Risk and compliance

Lawsuits, settlements and regulators.

Newest first. These are what public records and news show; allegations are reported as allegations.

≈Matched by nameA record can concern an owner, an affiliate or a similar name. We label it when the source shows that.
§Unproven until decidedA lawsuit or complaint is an allegation unless a court or regulator decided it.
↗Check the sourceEach item links to the record it comes from. Read it before relying on it.
  • 2026-08 · foreclosureAbout an owner entityThe $60.1 million loan on The Morgan in Austin, owned by the CAF-affiliated entity CAF-Citymark Morgan Owner LLC, was reported as posted for an August 2026 foreclosure auction; this concerns the affiliated owner, not a management contract.[34]
  • 2024 · litigationAbout an owner entityCAF Capital Partners and CAF-CityMark Morgan Owner LLC filed suit against TAD Recovery Services LLC and several individuals in Collin County's 366th District Court (case 366-08635-2024).[35]
Our summary

No fair housing cases, regulatory actions, data breaches or Texas layoff notices naming CAF Management were found. On the ownership side, a CAF-affiliated entity that owns The Morgan in Austin was reported in August 2026 as having its loan posted for a foreclosure auction. That loan had matured and not been refinanced. This concerns the affiliated owner, not a management contract. The same entity and CAF Capital Partners filed a lawsuit in Collin County in 2024 against a recovery services firm and several individuals.

06Key personnel

Key personnel.

For an owner, the regional leaders in its own metro matter most, so leaders in DFW are listed first.

Chris Faulkner
Chris FaulknerDFWLinkedIn
CEO, CAF Management; CEO, CAF Companies; founder of CAF Capital Partners (2010)[3][23][18]
CEO · joined 2014 (12 yrs)
Before: GE Capital Real Estate[18]
Brooke Hendry
Brooke HendryDFWLinkedIn
Co-founder and President, CAF Management[19][21]
President · joined 2014 (12 yrs)
Before: Westwood ResidentialBillingsley Company[19]
JP
Josie PowersDFWLinkedIn
Director of Centralization, leading the Central Operations & Technology team[46][48]
Operations
Before: CAF Capital PartnersCAF Management[48]
AC
Amanda CastroDFWLinkedIn
Training Manager[94]
Operations · joined 2015 (11 yrs)
Before: CAF Management[94]
CC
Chip CrooksDFWLinkedIn
District Manager[3]
Regional · joined 2019 (7 yrs)
Before: CAF Management[57]
AB
Amanda ButlerDFW
District Manager[3]
Regional
Before: CAF Management[59]
JJ
Jessica JohnsDFWLinkedIn
Area Vice President[43]
Regional · joined 2015 (11 yrs)
Before: CAF ManagementWestwood Residential[64][99]
CN
Christi NelsonDFWLinkedIn
Area Vice President[44]
Regional
Before: CAF Management[63][46]
SB
Samantha BowmanDFWLinkedIn
Regional Manager[55]
Regional · joined 2018 (8 yrs)
Before: CAF ManagementWestwood ResidentialBrown Investments[55][100]
PC
Percy CaptainDFWLinkedIn
Regional Manager[56]
Regional · joined 2017 (9 yrs)
Before: CAF Management[56]
AA
Adriana AlvarezDFWLinkedIn
District Manager[61][60]
Regional · joined 2020 (6 yrs)
Before: CAF ManagementAmerican Landmark ApartmentsKairoi ResidentialThe Lynd Company[61]
LS
Lexi SmithDFW
District Manager[92][93]
Regional · joined 2017 (9 yrs)
Before: CAF Management[92]
Jason Geer
Jason GeerDFWLinkedIn
President, CAF Capital Partners; a vendor case study on CAF Management's central operations names him President at CAF Management, and he has a page on CAF Management's team site[68][46][69]
Leadership · joined 2023 (3 yrs)
Before: CAF Capital PartnersInvesco Real Estate[70][68]
TW
Trent WoodDFWLinkedIn
Co-founder and former President of CAF Management; former President of CAF Companies[67][71][72]
Leadership
Before: PTC Investments, LLCOrthofix[71][72]
Banks Woodward
Banks WoodwardDFW
Chief Financial Officer, CAF Companies (listed elsewhere as Senior Vice President of Finance at CAF Management)[96][97]
Leadership
Before: Cornwell JacksonCliftonLarsonAllenHawkins Cloward & Simister[96]
JM
Julie McQuainLinkedIn
District Manager[51][50]
Regional · Oklahoma City, OK · joined 2022 (4 yrs)
Before: IRT Living[51]
MM
Melody MorganLinkedIn
Area Vice President[85][86]
Regional · joined 2015 (11 yrs)
Before: CAF Management[85]
BB
Brenda Brooks-HubbardLinkedIn
Area Vice President[87][86]
Regional · Houston, TX · joined 2021 (5 yrs)
Before: CAF ManagementMartin Fein InterestsWindsor Communities[87][88]
CR
CeAnn RobinsonLinkedIn
District Manager[89][91]
Regional

Average leadership tenure: 8 years. Highlighted past employers have their own page here. LinkedIn profiles are linked, not copied.

What employees say, our read

GlassdoorPositive

About 70 employee reviews, mostly favourable on culture and promotion from within, with a recurring complaint about low pay[1]

Our assessment · Sep 2026View profile ↗
IndeedMixed

About 60 employee reviews split between praise for internal promotion and complaints of low pay, micromanaging and cliques[2]

Our assessment · Sep 2026View profile ↗
About the leadership

Chris Faulkner has been CEO since CAF Management began operating in 2014. He spent 15 years at GE Capital Real Estate, working in equity investments and multifamily asset management, before founding CAF. Brooke Hendry is co-founder and president. She previously worked as a regional manager at Westwood Residential from 2004 to 2014 and in leasing and marketing at Billingsley Company.

Jason Geer joined sister firm CAF Capital Partners in 2023 as head of acquisitions for the Southeast, after more than 25 years at Invesco Real Estate, where he was a managing director. CAF Capital now lists him as its president. He also has a page on CAF Management's team site, and a vendor case study on CAF Management's central operations calls him President at CAF Management. Public sources do not make clear whether he now oversees CAF Management directly or holds a group-wide role alongside Hendry. Banks Woodward is chief financial officer of the parent, CAF Companies. He is a CPA who previously worked in public accounting at Cornwell Jackson and CliftonLarsonAllen.

Trent Wood co-founded CAF Management and was its president in its early years, including in 2017. He later served as president of CAF Companies. His current consulting firm lists the CAF role as a past position, so we treat him as a former executive.

Below the president, operations are run by area vice presidents: Jessica Johns, Christi Nelson, Melody Morgan and Brenda Brooks-Hubbard. Most were promoted from within. Johns started as a leasing agent in 2015 and was named the firm's Regional Manager of the Year for 2024. Nelson and Morgan were regional managers before their current roles; Morgan joined in 2015. Brooks-Hubbard is based in Houston and joined in 2021 after about two decades at Windsor Communities and four years at Martin Fein Interests. Regional managers on the firm's team pages include Samantha Bowman, whom the team page now lists as an area vice president, and Percy Captain. Bowman joined in 2018 as a property manager after seven years at Westwood Residential, where Hendry also worked. Captain joined in 2017 as an assistant manager.

District managers listed publicly include Chip Crooks, who joined in 2019 and ran The Residence at North Dallas before his promotion, Lexi Smith, who joined in 2017 as a leasing professional, Amanda Butler, Adriana Alvarez, who joined in 2020 after work at American Landmark Apartments, Kairoi Residential and The Lynd Company, CeAnn Robinson, previously a community manager at Valiant Residential, and Julie McQuain, who is based in Oklahoma City and came from IRT Living in 2022. Josie Powers is Director of Centralization and leads the firm's central operations team. She came up through CAF's own ranks, from leasing agent to regional manager, with a stint as an analyst at CAF Capital Partners. Amanda Castro, who joined in 2015, is the firm's training manager. No public business development or new-business contact for owners seeking a manager was found; the group lists only a general phone number and email.

07Performance and fees

What they report, and what they charge.

Private managers rarely publish results. Figures the firm reports about itself are marked "firm claim"; ask for audited numbers before you sign.

Occupancyfirm claim
87.0%
Community occupancy rate
87.0% across communities supported by its central operations team, July to December 2025, up from 85.4% in January to June 2025 (firm figures published in a vendor case study)[46]
as of 2025-12
Collectionsfirm claim
89%
Rent collection rate
Rent collection stable at about 89% across communities supported by its central operations team, 2025 (firm figures published in a vendor case study)[46]
as of 2025-12
Retention and renewalsfirm claim
63.2%
Renewal retention rate
Renewal retention of 63.2% across communities supported by its central operations team, July to December 2025, up from 60.2% in January to June 2025 (firm figures published in a vendor case study)[46]
as of 2025-12
CapExreported
$1.4 million
Planned immediate capital spending
Planned immediate capital spending of $1.4 million at 2929 Wycliff in Dallas, in the 2024 Dallas Housing Finance Corporation deal where affiliate CAF Capital Partners is the applicant and project administrator (budget in a city filing, not reported actual spend)[53]
as of 2024-11

No current figure: Rent growth · NOI · Expense control · Turn times. Ask the firm for these before you sign.

Fees paid by owners

Not publicly disclosed. Management fees are usually quoted in a proposal.

Case studies (3)
  • Centralized operations with EliseAI. Vendor case study on CAF Management's Central Operations & Technology team, launched in 2025, which uses EliseAI to handle applications, lease paperwork, renewals, move-ins, move-outs and payment posting for many of its communities. The firm reports modest gains in occupancy and renewal retention after the change.[46]
  • Portfolio-wide pet screening rollout. PetScreening announced in 2020 that CAF Management adopted its pet and animal-accommodation screening platform across its Texas communities.[47]
  • Workforce housing with on-site resident services. Sister company CAF Funds and Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Urban Investment Group partnered in 2021 on workforce-housing communities managed by CAF Management, offering on-site tutoring and childcare through KIDS-U, starting with The Residence at North Dallas.[23]
Our notes on performance and fees

CAF Management has shared some operating results through a case study published by its software vendor, EliseAI. These cover only the communities supported by its central operations team, not the whole portfolio, and are the firm's own figures. They show occupancy and renewal retention rising modestly in the second half of 2025 compared with the first half, while rent collection held steady. No independent source for these figures was found.

The one public view of capital spending is property-level. A 2024 City of Dallas filing for 2929 Wycliff, a partly affordable deal between affiliate CAF Capital Partners and the Dallas Housing Finance Corporation, budgets immediate capital work at the property. That is a planned owner budget for one community, not reported spending across the portfolio. No public information was found on rent growth, NOI, operating expenses or turn times.

No public information on the fee CAF Management charges property owners was found. SEC filings by Cantor Fitzgerald Income Trust for two Texas joint ventures, in Carrollton (2021) and Conroe (2022), say a CAF affiliate manages each property under a property management agreement, but they do not state the fee. Those filings do set out CAF's promote: a 12.5% share of distributions once investors have their capital back plus a 10% compounded annual return. That is an investment profit share for CAF as a small co-investor, not a management fee. Loan documents for commercial mortgage securitizations from 2019 to 2023 name CAF Management as property manager of several Cantor Fitzgerald-sponsored Texas apartment communities, but they do not state its contract fee either. The 2024 City of Dallas filing for 2929 Wycliff sets out fees paid to the Dallas Housing Finance Corporation but does not name a management fee. Resident fees are set by each property, and the community websites we checked did not publish them.

08Awards

Awards and recognition.

Industry rankings and awards, newest first. Many are based on surveys the firm enters or pays for, so weigh them below results and resident ratings.

2026#1 Best overall · our DFW award
2026Freddie Mac Multifamily Impact Sponsor (awarded to parent CAF Companies)[29]
2026NAA Top Employer, Large Business Management Companies (more than 500 employees)[38]
2025SatisFacts Top 50 Management Company (company says Top 100 every year since 2022)[25][26]
09Technology

Software and systems.

Matters for reporting to you, integration with your systems, and how leasing and rents are set.

Property management software
Entrata[39]
CRM and leasing
EliseCRM[46]
Resident portal
Entrata ResidentPortal[25][26][28]
AI and automation
EliseAI leasing assistantEliseAI VoiceAIEliseAI DelinquencyEliseAI Centralization[46]

Not publicly disclosed: Revenue management · BI and reporting · API and integrations

Our notes on technology

CAF Management uses Entrata as its property management system. Its job postings ask on-site staff to keep resident and leasing records in Entrata. Its community websites send residents to Entrata's ResidentPortal for payments and service requests. The community websites we checked are built on RentVision, a multifamily website and marketing platform.

For leasing and resident communication it uses EliseAI. That includes EliseCRM as the shared record of conversations and tasks, an AI leasing assistant that answers prospects and books tours, VoiceAI for phone calls, and EliseAI's delinquency tools. In June 2025 it set up a Central Operations & Technology team that uses EliseAI to handle applications, lease paperwork, renewals, move-ins and move-outs and payment posting for its communities, taking that work off on-site staff. Since 2020 it has used PetScreening to screen pets and animal-accommodation requests. In 2017 it adopted OutMatch assessments for hiring.

Residents are offered Flex for split rent payments, Spruce for housekeeping and pet care, and deposit alternatives at some properties. No public information was found on which revenue management software sets its rents, its business intelligence tools or an open API. We found no report or court filing naming it in the RealPage rent-pricing cases.

10Growth

Momentum, year by year.

Growing firms win new contracts but can stretch staff; shrinking ones may be losing clients.

Signal: growing[16][40][42][33]

Units the firm reported, by year[65][47][66][46]
20172018201920202021202220232024202520262027+43%+11%+73%9k2019: 8,749 units reported by the firm13k2020: 12,500 units reported by the firm14k2021: 13,897 units reported by the firm24k2025: 24,000 units reported by the firmEVENTS2021-08 · new service: CAF Funds, a sister company, launched a workforce-housing partnership with Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Urban Investment Group, starting with The Residence at North Dallas and offering on-site tutoring and childcare through KIDS-U.2021-09 · acquisition: CAF Capital Partners, Archway Equities and Citymark Capital acquired The Morgan, an apartment community in north Austin.2022-12 · acquisition: CAF Companies and Goldman Sachs Asset Management acquired a portfolio of eight DFW apartment communities.2025-03 · acquisition: CAF Capital Partners bought Cross Creek at Grapevine Ranch in Grapevine from Granite Investment Group.2024 · expansion: CAF Management joined the Tulsa Apartment Association and lists a Tulsa office.2026 · new assignment: CAF Management took on the lease-up of Merritt Crossing, a new two-phase apartment community in Prosper/Celina, Texas, developed by Gault Company.2026 · new assignment: CAF Management lists The Orion in Austin among its communities.2020-02 · new service: CAF Management rolled out PetScreening's pet and animal-accommodation screening platform across its Texas communities.2025-06 · new service: CAF Management launched Central Operations & Technology, a centralized team that handles applications, lease paperwork, renewals, move-ins and move-outs and payment posting for its communities, using EliseAI.2017-05 · hiring: CAF Management said its on-site workforce had nearly doubled and its managed portfolio had nearly tripled in just over two years, across Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Austin, and adopted OutMatch hiring assessments to manage the pace of hiring.2020-11 · new assignment: A joint venture of affiliates of Cantor Fitzgerald Investors and CAF Management bought The Station at MacArthur in Irving, with CAF as property manager.2021-02 · new assignment: Cantor Fitzgerald Income Trust bought a multifamily property on Keller Springs Road in Carrollton through a joint venture in which a CAF affiliate kept a 3% stake; an affiliate of CAF Management took over management under a property management agreement.2022-04 · new assignment: Cantor Fitzgerald Income Trust bought Landings of Conroe in Conroe, Texas, through a joint venture with a CAF affiliate holding about 3%; the property is managed by a CAF affiliate.2023 · new assignment: CAF Capital Partners' company page says CAF Management took over nine third-party managed properties in 2023, adding more than 2,300 units to its portfolio (the group's own claim).

Hover a point or an orange event dot for details. Unit counts are what the firm reported nationally.

Recent events

  • 2026 · new assignmentCAF Management took on the lease-up of Merritt Crossing, a new two-phase apartment community in Prosper/Celina, Texas, developed by Gault Company.[40][41][42]
  • 2026 · new assignmentCAF Management lists The Orion in Austin among its communities.[45]
  • 2025-06 · new serviceCAF Management launched Central Operations & Technology, a centralized team that handles applications, lease paperwork, renewals, move-ins and move-outs and payment posting for its communities, using EliseAI.[46]
  • 2025-03 · acquisitionCAF Capital Partners bought Cross Creek at Grapevine Ranch in Grapevine from Granite Investment Group.[33]
  • 2024 · expansionCAF Management joined the Tulsa Apartment Association and lists a Tulsa office.[27]
  • 2023 · new assignmentCAF Capital Partners' company page says CAF Management took over nine third-party managed properties in 2023, adding more than 2,300 units to its portfolio (the group's own claim).[84]
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  • 2022-12 · acquisitionCAF Companies and Goldman Sachs Asset Management acquired a portfolio of eight DFW apartment communities.[30][31][24]
  • 2022-04 · new assignmentCantor Fitzgerald Income Trust bought Landings of Conroe in Conroe, Texas, through a joint venture with a CAF affiliate holding about 3%; the property is managed by a CAF affiliate.[75][76]
  • 2021-09 · acquisitionCAF Capital Partners, Archway Equities and Citymark Capital acquired The Morgan, an apartment community in north Austin.[32]
  • 2021-08 · new serviceCAF Funds, a sister company, launched a workforce-housing partnership with Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Urban Investment Group, starting with The Residence at North Dallas and offering on-site tutoring and childcare through KIDS-U.[23]
  • 2021-02 · new assignmentCantor Fitzgerald Income Trust bought a multifamily property on Keller Springs Road in Carrollton through a joint venture in which a CAF affiliate kept a 3% stake; an affiliate of CAF Management took over management under a property management agreement.[73][74]
  • 2020-11 · new assignmentA joint venture of affiliates of Cantor Fitzgerald Investors and CAF Management bought The Station at MacArthur in Irving, with CAF as property manager.[77][78]
  • 2020-02 · new serviceCAF Management rolled out PetScreening's pet and animal-accommodation screening platform across its Texas communities.[47]
  • 2017-05 · hiringCAF Management said its on-site workforce had nearly doubled and its managed portfolio had nearly tripled in just over two years, across Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Austin, and adopted OutMatch hiring assessments to manage the pace of hiring.[67]

The group grew through acquisitions by its sister firms. Examples include the 2021 Goldman Sachs workforce-housing partnership, the 2021 purchase of The Morgan in Austin, an eight-property DFW portfolio in 2022, and Cross Creek at Grapevine Ranch in 2025. It has also taken on management through joint ventures with outside capital. Cantor Fitzgerald affiliates partnered with CAF on The Station at MacArthur in Irving in 2020, and Cantor Fitzgerald Income Trust bought properties in Carrollton in 2021 and Conroe in 2022 in which a CAF affiliate kept a small stake and CAF runs the property. The group says CAF Management also took over nine third-party managed properties in 2023. CAF Management joined the Tulsa Apartment Association in 2024 and lists a Tulsa office. It also manages in Oklahoma City and Phoenix.

Growth started early. By 2017 the firm said it had nearly tripled its portfolio and nearly doubled its on-site staff in just over two years. By 2026 the National Apartment Association placed it among management companies with more than 500 employees. The unit counts the firm itself has published roughly doubled between 2020 and 2025. In 2025 it centralized much of its administrative work in a new central operations team. In 2026 it took on the lease-up of Merritt Crossing, a new community north of Dallas built by an outside developer, and lists The Orion in Austin among its communities. On this evidence we read the firm as growing.

11Ownership

Who owns the firm, and why it matters.

A manager that also owns buildings, or answers to a fund, can have different priorities from yours.

OwnershipSubsidiary[15]
Parent companyCAF Companies[15]
Sister companiesCAF Capital Partners, CAF Funds, CTB Multifamily[15]
Business modelManages for outside owners and its own portfolio[16][40][42]
Affordable housingIn November 2024 Dallas approved a Dallas Housing Finance Corporation deal proposed by affiliate CAF Capital Partners to take ownership of 2929 Wycliff in Oak Lawn and grant a 15-year tax exemption in exchange for reserving part of the units for households at 60% and 80% of area median income, with the rest at market rents[53][54]
Employee growthIts on-site workforce nearly doubled to 135 in the two years to May 2017, as its managed portfolio nearly tripled. By March 2026 the National Apartment Association placed it in its Top Employer class for management companies with more than 500 employees.[67][38]

CAF Management is a subsidiary of CAF Companies. Chris Faulkner is CEO of CAF Companies. He founded CAF Capital Partners in 2010. The group's other companies are CAF Capital Partners (acquisitions and asset management), CAF Funds (impact investment funds) and CTB Multifamily (construction and maintenance). No public record of an outside investor, sale or recapitalization of the group was found.

CAF Capital describes the group as vertically integrated, with leasing, maintenance, marketing and accounting handled in-house by CAF Management. Most of the properties it runs are owned by its affiliates. It also takes outside work. The group says CAF Management took over nine third-party managed properties in 2023. It is also leasing up Merritt Crossing, a new community in Prosper/Celina, Texas, built by developer Gault Company. The unit count the group publishes is a CAF Capital figure for units under asset management, so it is the group's claim, not an independent count. The group does not publish assets under management; the dollar figure CAF Capital cites is total closed deal volume.

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