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Epoch Fort Collins DST's exit on record is the issuer's September 2023 termination notice

The Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) was raised in April 2021 to develop what the published accounts describe as a luxury student housing project near Colorado State University.

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On or about September 1, 2023, the issuer of Epoch Fort Collins DST notified investors that the project it was raised to develop was being terminated and the underlying assets liquidated, citing rising interest rates. Two accounts of that notice are on the record: one published by Wolper Law Firm, P.A., on September 1, 2023, and one published by Erez Law on September 11, 2023. No sponsor announcement of the disposition appears in the public record.

Item

As filed or on record

Trust

Epoch Fort Collins DST

Filing party named in the Form D

Epoch Fort Collins Trustee

Sponsor named in the published accounts

Valeo Groupe Americas

CIK

1856616

First Form D

April 13, 2021

Exemption claimed

506(b)

Maximum offering amount

$23,100,000

Minimum investment

$100,000

Asset class as filed

Other Real Estate

Exit type in Top1031's record

Property sold

Exit date on record

September 1, 2023

Sale price

not stated

Hold period, first filing to exit date

2.4 years

Two characterizations of the same event sit side by side. Top1031's record classifies the exit as a property sold, dated September 1, 2023. The September 2023 accounts describe something narrower: a notice to investors of termination and liquidation. No buyer, deed, closing date, or price is on the record. This report relies on the two contemporaneous accounts for what occurred, because they describe the document investors received, while the exit label is a classification of the event rather than evidence of a completed sale.

No sale price, total return, annualized return, or equity multiple for the Trust appears in the record, and nothing in it states what investors received. Wolper Law Firm's publication described the assets as liquidated at "pennies on the dollar," with investors facing massive losses. That is the characterization carried in the firms' publications, not a figure reported by the sponsor.

The Form D that opened the offering and the notice that closed it are the whole of the public record on the outcome.