Summit Housing Group

Summit Housing Group

Summit Housing Group was formed in 2002 as a subsidiary of Summit Management Group, Inc., a Montana corporation. The parent company also owns Highland Property Management and Summit Construction Group, creating a vertically integrated platform that handles the full lifecycle of a development — from site selection and engineering through construction, marketing, and ongoing property management. The firm focuses exclusively on multi-family residential projects, spanning market-rate, workforce, rent-to-own, and low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) developments. The firm concentrates its work in LIHTC, a federal program that awards tax credits to developers of affordable housing, which they then sell to institutional investors to raise construction equity. Summit's projects are concentrated in Montana, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, and its overall book totals 35 properties representing 1,696 units, either built, awarded, or currently under construction (per the firm, 2026). While specific portfolio names are not listed, its recent work earned a 2023 award for Development That Best Preserves Family Housing. The firm's model — pairing in-house construction with in-house property management — allows it to control quality and compliance across the long hold periods typical for LIHTC assets. Staffing data is not publicly available, but the website lists a lean team of named functional leads — a Director of Acquisitions, a Controller & Senior Construction Accountant, and a Vice President of Highland Property Management, supported by an owner-chairman and a CEO-president. The firm is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, with no additional offices disclosed. No adjacent vehicles such as a philanthropic foundation or a club membership are publicly mentioned. In 2023, the firm won an industry award for a project that best preserves family housing, indicating a mature operational track record within its niche. Unlike most LIHTC developers that rely on third-party general contractors and property managers, Summit Housing Group keeps construction and management inside the same corporate umbrella. This structure aligns incentives uniquely: the entity that builds the asset is also the entity that will maintain and manage it for the 15-year LIHTC compliance period and beyond. For allocators evaluating a concentrated bet on affordable housing in the Mountain West, that integration may serve as both a risk mitigant and a source of operational yield that externalized firms cannot easily replicate.