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Millrose Properties launched a private offering of up to $1 billion in senior notes and plans to combine the proceeds with a $500 million term-loan draw. The capital may be used to acquire homesites tied to Dream Finders Homes’ pending acquisition of Beazer Homes and to repay revolver borrowings. A $500 million portion of the 2031 notes carries a special mandatory redemption if the Dream Finders-Beazer transaction is not completed by May 13, 2027.
Millrose Properties is going back to the debt market for as much as $1 billion, with part of the financing explicitly linked to the pending combination of Dream Finders Homes and Beazer Homes.
The Miami-based homesite finance company said Tuesday it plans to offer two $500 million tranches of senior notes, one due in 2029 and the other in 2031. The private offering is subject to market conditions and will be limited to qualified institutional buyers and certain non-U.S. investors.
Millrose said it expects to combine the net proceeds with a $500 million draw under its delayed-draw term loan facility. The money is earmarked for general corporate purposes, which may include acquiring homesites from the combined Dream Finders-Beazer business, as well as repaying borrowings under Millrose’s revolving credit facility.
The company reported $850 million of principal outstanding on that revolver as of Sept. 21.
The financing adds another layer to Dream Finders’ pending acquisition of Beazer, a transaction WRE News previously reported would create one of the country’s largest homebuilders. Millrose announced in August that its manager had committed up to $1.25 billion of acquisition financing to support the transaction, with Millrose expected to acquire homesites from the combined builder and make them available through option agreements.
Tuesday’s debt offering is not the same thing as a completed financing. Pricing has not been announced, and the offering remains subject to market conditions.
The structure also contains a contingency tied directly to the homebuilder deal. According to Millrose’s announcement, if the Dream Finders transaction is not completed on or before May 13, 2027, Millrose would use a portion of the offering proceeds, along with cash on hand and/or revolver borrowings, to make a special mandatory redemption of $500 million of the 2031 notes.
That provision makes the capital raise more than a routine refinancing. It ties a substantial piece of Millrose’s new long-term debt directly to the execution of a major homebuilder consolidation.
Millrose was spun out of Lennar in 2025 and operates a land-banking platform that acquires and develops residential land for homebuilders, which then purchase finished homesites over time under option arrangements. The model is designed to let builders control land without carrying the full cost of that inventory on their own balance sheets.
The company has increasingly used that model to support acquisitions. In announcing its Dream Finders commitment in August, Millrose called the transaction the third use of its financing structure in connection with a homebuilder acquisition.
The latest offering would also add to an already sizable debt stack. Millrose issued $2 billion of senior notes during 2025, according to its annual report, including $1.25 billion of notes due 2030 and $750 million due 2032.
The new notes have not been registered under the Securities Act and will not be offered to the general public. Millrose has not yet disclosed the interest rates at which the two tranches will be priced.
