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DEEP VALUE REPORT — BLUEROCK HOMES TRUST (NYSE American: BHM)

Hidden Value in plain sight

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FRAGMENTS
Feb 03, 2026
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Bluerock Homes Trust is priced like a tiny, illiquid REIT with “random assets.”

That’s the surface story.

The deeper story is not about housing demand or REIT multiples.
It’s a balance-sheet and per-share asset file, wrapped in UPREIT economics, with a large noncontrolling interest layer and a preferred-equity investment book that produces contractual returns and can be monetized when markets are open.

That structure matters, because it means headline valuation shortcuts don’t work here.

The misprice—if it exists—doesn’t show up in a clean “NAV discount” paragraph or a peer multiple.
It shows up when the market fails to separate what exists from who actually owns it.

It only becomes visible when you force one boring question all the way through the capital stack:

What does BHM actually control (cash + real assets), what claims sit ahead of the public equity, and what is left for the Class A common—per share—under stress, normal conditions, and a favorable tape?


1) CASH FIRST and what the market should not be allowed to ignore

Start with the line most writeups bury.

As of Sept 30, 2025 (10-Q), BHM reported:

  • Cash & cash equivalents: $162.7M

  • Restricted cash: $20.6M

  • Total cash + restricted: $183.3M

And the same filing shows:

  • Class A common shares outstanding: 4,048,078

Cash per share (headline)

$183.3M / 4.048M ≈ $45.28 per Class A share.

If the stock is trading in single digits, that’s why people’s eyes pop.

The catch…and the catch is real

BHM’s structure includes a large Noncontrolling Interest (NCI) layer (UPREIT economics). In the same 10-Q:

  • Total equity: $503.1M

  • Equity attributable to the Company: $131.7M

  • Noncontrolling interests: $371.4M

Meaning: a big portion of the balance sheet economics are not for the public Class A common.

So we do both:

  1. show the headline per-share numbers (because the tape trades headlines), then

  2. force the “what portion is actually attributable to the Company?” correction.


2) WHAT BHM ACTUALLY IS and how most coverage misses the file

BHM is an externally managed REIT built to own / control residential real estate (communities + scattered single-family) and also hold preferred equity investments in residential developments and operating assets.

It does not have clean “divisions” like a normal operating company. The real “divisions” are economic buckets:

  1. Consolidated operating residential (the rent engine)

  2. Scattered single-family homes (granular, operational grind)

  3. Preferred equity investments (contractual return engine)

  4. The structure (NCI + external management + incentive design)

Where “analyst coverage” tends to be incomplete

There isn’t deep sell-side coverage the way you’d see in big REITs. Most public analysis is sporadic, often headline-driven, and frequently treats the structure as hand-wave complexity. A representative example: public commentary framing it as a spinoff/discount-to-NAV situation without fully forcing the NCI and per-share discipline.

The gap we exploit:

  • NCI economics are not a footnote—they’re the core.

  • External management isn’t “good/bad”—it’s “does it leak value per share?”

  • The only real output that matters: per-share residual after the stack.

Everything below is the full Deep Value file

Anchor box (per share), asset map asset-by-asset, replacement-cost bands, THE CLOCK maturity table per share, capital allocation reality, insider + holders table, conference-call Q&A map, 5-year rewind, BEAR / BASE / BULL per-share outcomes, what breaks it, and the clean conclusion.

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