Rendering of the Greater Dayton School

Greater Dayton School enrollment, construction underway

June 8, 2022 – Enrollment is underway for the Greater Dayton School, Ohio’s first private non-religious elementary school exclusively dedicated to under-resourced students. The innovative educational model will cater to the whole child and, according to its founders, set the bar for a national model that provides students access to all the resources they need […]

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Connor Group closes record-setting $162 million Nashville sale

June 1, 2022 – The Connor Group closed a $162 million sale in Nashville today with the sale of Elliston 23. The transaction is the third-largest property sale in the company’s 30-year history. The Dayton-based real estate investment firm purchased the 331-unit property in 2014. Today’s disposition highlights the unprecedented investor demand in the Nashville […]

Sonterra Blue Apartments Pool

Connor Group closes third San Antonio deal

April 28, 2022 – The Connor Group acquired Sonterra Blue last week, its third acquisition in the San Antonio market within the last 12-months. The 342-unit property is located in the Stone Oak submarket. Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed. “Whenever we enter a market, we are always thinking long-term,” founder and […]

Larry Connor returns from Ax-1 mission.

Surprise homecoming for Ax-1 pilot

DAYTON, OH – Ax-1 pilot Larry Connor returned home to Ohio Wednesday after successfully completing the first fully-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The founder and managing partner of The Connor Group was welcomed home by about 100 associates, friends and family outside of the Dayton-based real estate investment firm. Connor successfully splashed […]

L2 Uptown in Dallas

Exceptional return on Uptown sale

April 26, 2022 –  The Connor Group sold L2 Uptown Apartments this month, its seventh transaction of the year. The Dayton-based real-estate investment firm acquired the property in May 2020 and, after 23-months, provided investor returns nearly five times larger than original projections. Financial details of the transactions are not being disclosed. These exceptional returns […]

Dayton entrepreneur first to reach space, ocean depths in a year

Dayton, Ohio – Real estate and technology entrepreneur Larry Connor successfully piloted the historic Ax-1 mission to outer space Friday, the first fully private mission to the International Space Station. The launch makes him the first person in history to reach space and the deepest parts of the ocean within one year. “I’ve always encouraged […]

Expanding in Austin

March 10, 2022 – The Connor Group closed its first acquisition of the year with the purchase of Edison Riverside in Austin last Thursday. This marks the fourth transaction the Dayton-based real estate investment firm closed in the Austin market over the last six months. Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed. “We’ve […]

Connor Group reaches multiple milestones in 2021

JAN. 27, 2022 – Dayton-based real estate investment firm The Connor Group announced Thursday that in 2021 it had shattered its previous single-year record for transactional volume. The company, which owns and operates apartment communities around the country, completed nearly $3 billion in acquisitions, dispositions and refinances – more than doubling its previous record. It […]

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‘What if everyone was 5-10-percent better at making decisions?’

“Decision education” is a foreign phrase and concept for most of us. We teach students how to read and write and complete math problems. But, by and large, we don’t teach them how to make decisions, which is unfortunate, because decisions impact every aspect of our lives. Decision education is being applied in various ways […]