Moody ELM AL North Austin DST
Other property in Austin, TX — sponsored by Moody National
Minimum investment
$25k
Offering size
$50.4M
How much has sold
100.0%
Asset type
Other property
Location
Austin, TX
Financing
Not stated. The filings for this offering do not say whether it carries mortgage debt.
Sponsor-reported, from SEC filings and cited sources.
What is this, in one paragraph?
Moody ELM AL North Austin DST is a Delaware statutory trust — a structure that lets 1031 exchange investors hold fractional interests in real estate — sponsored by Houston-based Moody National and organized in 2022.1 It was offered under Rule 506(b), the private-placement rule that bars general advertising, and is closed to new investors. Top1031 reports the underlying Austin hotel sold on December 30, 2025.2
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What exactly is the property?
Top1031 identifies the Trust's underlying asset as the Homewood Suites Austin at 4143 Governors Road in Austin, Texas.2 Hilton lists a 96-room Homewood Suites by Hilton Austin-South/Airport at that address.3 An affiliate, Moody National REIT I, announced in June 2015 that it was under contract to buy the 96-room hotel for $14.25 million — that was the REIT's purchase, not this Trust's.4 No public source states what the Trust itself paid.
- Reported location
- Austin, TX
Who is the tenant, and what's the lease?
No public filing identifies a lease, operator agreement, or franchise terms for this Trust. Hilton lists the property under the Homewood Suites by Hilton brand.3 A hotel is an operating business rather than a net-leased building with one rent-paying tenant, so there is no lease term in the public record to review.
How did it end?
Sold
AltsWire reported on 2026-01-05 that Moody National REIT II sold the Homewood Suites Austin at 4143 Governors Road, Austin, TX (the underlying asset of the Moody ELM AL North Austin DST) to Farmington Hotel Partners I, LLC for $9.4M as part of the REIT II liquidation, with the transaction closing on December 30, 2025.
The direct public source identifies the legal trust and a real-estate DST investigation but does not publicly identify a sponsor marketing/property name, property address, specific asset class, or size; no news-based subscription or closure evidence was found.
$9,400,000Sale price · as reported by the sponsor
Supporting evidence
Who's behind it?
Moody National operates from 9655 Katy Freeway, Suite 600 in Houston, with Brett C. Moody serving as president of the Trust's manager, Moody ELM North Austin AM, LLC.1 Affiliate Moody Securities acted as dealer manager for the offering.5 On September 15, 2025, The White Law Group announced an investor risk investigation involving the Trust. Top1031 reports the underlying hotel was sold by Moody National REIT II to Farmington Hotel Partners I, LLC for $9,400,000, closing December 30, 2025.2
- Sponsor
- Moody National
- Legal Trust name
- Moody ELM AL North Austin DST
- May convert to a REIT
- No
- Offerings from this sponsor
- 2 active / 7 total offerings from Moody National
Reported by the sponsor. Top1031 does not independently audit sponsor-reported figures.
What does the paperwork say?
The Trust's first Form D listed a $50,440,000 offering; an amendment filed weeks later trimmed that figure slightly, and a third and final amendment the following March reported the raise complete. Nothing has been filed since.
- First Form D filedThe public offering record begins.
- Offering amount recordedA Form D amendment recorded offering and sales totals.
- Latest Form D filedThe most recent sponsor-filed checkpoint in this record.
- Filings on record
- 3
- How it may be offered
- Rule 506(b)Not advertised publicly. Offered through existing relationships.
- Source filing
- Read the filings on SEC EDGAR
A Form D is the notice a sponsor files when it starts raising money. A Form D filing does not mean the SEC approved, endorsed, or verified the offering.
DST interests are illiquid private securities. You may lose some or all of your investment. Distributions, tax treatment, and exit timing are not guaranteed. Review the current Private Placement Memorandum before investing.
Common questions
What happened to Moody ELM AL North Austin DST?
Top1031 lists Moody ELM AL North Austin DST as historical. It is no longer raising money.
Where does Top1031 get the data for Moody ELM AL North Austin DST?
Top1031 builds this record from the sponsor’s own SEC filings and cited sponsor disclosures. Filings can lag what is happening now. A Form D filing does not mean the SEC approved, endorsed, or verified the offering.
Can I still invest in this Trust?
No. Moody ELM AL North Austin DST is historical — closed to new investors. Its final Form D amendment, filed March 9, 2023, reported the offering complete, and Top1031 reports the underlying property was sold on December 30, 2025.
What property did this Trust own?
Top1031 identifies the underlying asset as the Homewood Suites Austin at 4143 Governors Road in Austin, Texas. Hilton lists a 96-room Homewood Suites by Hilton Austin-South/Airport at that address. Neither the SEC filings nor any sponsor material retrieved names the property directly, so the identification rests on that secondary reporting.
Did the Trust go full cycle, and what happened?
Top1031 reports that Moody National REIT II sold the underlying Homewood Suites Austin property to Farmington Hotel Partners I, LLC for $9,400,000, closing on December 30, 2025. No public source retrieved discloses how sale proceeds were allocated to investors, so the outcome for individual holders is not in the record.
What is the White Law Group investigation about?
On September 15, 2025, The White Law Group — a securities law firm — announced an investor risk investigation involving this Delaware statutory trust. That is a private law firm's announcement soliciting investor inquiries, not a regulatory action or a finding of wrongdoing by any agency.
How was the offering structured and sold?
It was offered under Rule 506(b), the private-placement exemption that allows sales to accredited investors without general advertising or public solicitation. The Form D filings state a $25,000 minimum investment. Moody Securities served as dealer manager; its filed financial statements say aggregate selling commissions, marketing and due-diligence allowances and placement fees would not exceed 8.0% of the purchase price of interests sold.
Was the Trust leveraged?
Unknown from the public record. No retrieved filing or sponsor document states the Trust's debt, lender, loan terms, or capitalization. Form D does not require that disclosure; a private placement memorandum would have carried it for investors at the time of the offering.
Chapter 8Moody ELM AL North Austin DST: Investor Risk InvestigationThe White Law Group announced an investigation involving the 2022-formed real-estate Delaware statutory trust.