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About the firm

Get to know DPJ

Ten communities. Four cities. Over $425 million developed since 2014, by a team that keeps its overhead low and its standards high.

Leadership

Meet D. Porter Jones

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D. Porter Jones with Ruger and Skye

D. Porter Jones serves as Owner of DPJ Residential, LLC. He brings over twenty years of experience in finance, investment and multifamily real estate. His career began in investment banking, providing expertise in finance, accounting and M&A work.

Jones previously worked with prominent multifamily brokerage teams at Cushman & Wakefield and Jones Lang LaSalle in the Southeast. He also served as Regional VP at Pollack Shores Real Estate Group, where he sourced and closed institutional-sized acquisition and development projects across North and South Carolina.

Since establishing DPJ Residential in 2014, Jones has developed ten apartment communities representing over $425 million in deal volume across Charlotte, Wilmington, Winston-Salem and Savannah.

He holds a BA from Duke University, where he received a four-year tennis athletic scholarship, and an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. He resides in Telluride, Colorado with his red labrador retrievers, Ruger and Skye.

The track record

How we got here

2000

BA from Duke University on a four-year tennis athletic scholarship. Career begins in investment banking.

2009

MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, alongside brokerage work at Cushman & Wakefield and JLL.

2014

DPJ Residential is founded in Charlotte after sourcing institutional development projects across the Carolinas.

Today

Ten communities and 2,088 units delivered across Charlotte, Wilmington, Winston-Salem and Savannah.

Testimonials

Porter Jones is an exceptional multifamily developer with strong attention to detail. He is incredibly analytical, and possess strong market and operational knowledge. He’s extremely creative with his overall design and unit finishes and is always ahead of the current market trends.

He’s not afraid to try something new and to be a trendsetter in the multifamily space. His constant collaboration with ownership/investors, designers and his 3rd party management teams makes him a very well rounded developer which has contributed to the overall continued success of his projects. At Chaucer Creek we are truly blessed to have had the opportunity to partner with DPJ over the past seven years on numerous successful ground up deals and excited for that partnership to continue for many years to come.

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Director of Asset Management, Chaucer Creek
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Ten communities across the Southeast, and the next one already in the ground.

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