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Kennedy-Wilson (NYSE: KW) advances $379.6M Toll Brothers apartment platform acquisition

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Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. completed the first closing of its previously announced acquisition of Toll Brothers’ apartment development platform, a transaction valued at approximately $379.6 million subject to customary adjustments. In this first phase, the company and its partners invested $202.8 million, including $102.5 million from Kennedy-Wilson, to buy interests in four completed multifamily and student housing properties and a significant portion of Toll’s current and future development pipeline.

Upon completion of all closings, Kennedy-Wilson expects its total investment to be about $126.3 million and to gain exposure to 18 properties with 5,056 existing units and 1,008 units under construction, plus a broad U.S. land and development pipeline. It currently expects to own roughly 8% of the property portfolio and about 95% of the pipeline, with ultimate stakes of about 5–20% as projects are capitalized with partners. Kennedy-Wilson also signed an asset management agreement to manage certain Toll-owned assets, will earn multiple fee streams, and hired Toll’s apartment platform team, funding the first closing with existing liquidity and its corporate revolving credit facility. The remaining closings are expected in December 2025 and January 2026 but are not assured.

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Kennedy-Wilson is buying Toll’s apartment platform, adding scale, fees and a large U.S. rental pipeline.

Kennedy-Wilson is executing a phased acquisition of Toll Brothers’ apartment development platform for approximately $379.6 million. The first closing required a total investment of $202.8 million, including $102.5 million from Kennedy-Wilson, funded with existing liquidity and its corporate revolver. This phase brings in four completed multifamily and student properties plus substantial interests in Toll’s current and future development pipeline.

Once all closings are completed, the platform would encompass 18 properties, with 5,056 units in fifteen completed assets and 1,008 units under construction, as well as a broad land and purchase-agreement pipeline across U.S. markets. Kennedy-Wilson expects to hold about 8% of the property portfolio and roughly 95% of the pipeline initially, with long-term ownership in individual projects generally between 5% and 20% as they are capitalized with equity partners and construction loans.

The deal has a strong fee component: Kennedy-Wilson will earn asset management, development, construction management, disposition, success and financing fees, and fees from its co-investing partners. It is also onboarding Toll’s apartment platform leadership and staff, which supports continuity in managing the property portfolio and “Toll Assets” that it will manage under a new asset management agreement. The company notes there is no assurance the remaining closings, currently expected in December 2025 and January 2026, will be completed, so actual scale will depend on successfully closing all phases.

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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
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CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
December 5, 2025
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KENNEDY-WILSON HOLDINGS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware001-3382426-0508760
 (State or other jurisdiction
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151 S El Camino Drive Beverly Hills, California 90212
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(310) 887-6400
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Item 8.01 Other Events

As previously announced, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company” or “we”), entered into an Interest Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toll Brothers, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Toll”), to acquire Toll’s apartment development platform for approximately $379.6 million, as adjusted per customary prorations and adjustments (the “Transaction”). On December 5, 2025, the Company and its partners completed the first of the phased closings of the Transaction (the “First Closing”) investing a total of $202.8 million and purchasing (i) Toll’s ownership interests and certain contractual arrangements in a total of four completed multifamily and student housing properties; and (ii) a significant portion of Toll’s current and future multifamily and student housing property development pipeline both owned and under contract to acquire that are subject to purchase by the Company and its partners pursuant to the terms of the Agreement.

Upon completion of all of the closings in the Transaction, the Company expects its total investment in the Transaction to be approximately $126.3 million, which includes $102.5 million that the Company invested in the First Closing (inclusive of a $25.0 million deposit that was paid by the Company and held in escrow as of the date of signing the Agreement, of which $22.5 million was applied towards the Company’s investment in the First Closing). The Company currently expects to complete the remaining closings in the Transaction to acquire the remaining assets under the Agreement (as described below) in December 2025 and January 2026. There can be no assurance that the Company and its partners will complete the remaining closings.

Upon closing of the total Transaction (including the assets acquired in the First Closing), the Company and its partners expect to acquire (i) Toll’s ownership interests and certain contractual arrangements in a total of 18 properties, which includes 17 multifamily properties and one student housing property (collectively the “Property Portfolio”); and (ii) Toll’s current and future multifamily and student housing property development pipeline (the “Transaction Pipeline”). The Property Portfolio consists of a total of 5,056 units across fifteen completed assets and, when completed, an additional 1,008 units across three assets that have been capitalized with equity partner and debt financing and are currently under construction. Toll’s aggregate equity ownership interest in the Property Portfolio is approximately 37% and the assets comprising the Property Portfolio are located throughout the United States. Upon acquisition of the Property Portfolio, the Company will earn development and construction management fees and carried interest opportunities under Toll’s existing partnership arrangements for certain of the assets that are held in joint ventures with various partners. The Transaction Pipeline currently consists of ownership interests in four land positions (three of the four positions were acquired by the Company in the First Closing) as well as a future development pipeline including 24 separate purchase agreements to acquire land positions (18 of the 24 purchase agreements were acquired by the Company in the First Closing) throughout strategic markets in the United States. Upon closing the Transaction, the Company currently expects to own (i) approximately 8% of the ownership interest in the Property Portfolio and (ii) approximately 95% of the ownership interest in the Transaction Pipeline and would look to capitalize these Transaction Pipeline opportunities going forward with equity capital from partners and construction loans (with the Company’s ownership interests in these opportunities ultimately expected to be between approximately 5% to 20%).

In addition, as part of the First Closing, the Company and Toll entered into an asset management agreement whereby the Company will manage certain multifamily and student housing properties that will continue to be owned, in whole or in part, by Toll (the “Toll Assets”). The Toll Assets that will be managed by the Company will also include the assets that are part of the Transaction that the Company has not yet acquired as part of the First Closing until such assets are acquired by the Company and its partners as described above. The Company will earn customary asset management fees, development and construction management fees, disposition fees and potential success fees and financing fees under the terms of the asset management agreement. The Company will also earn customary fees from its partners that invest alongside the Company in the Transaction.

Additionally, as part of the First Closing, certain Toll employees that were a part of Toll’s apartment development platform joined the Company as employees, including the platform’s executive leadership team. This apartment development platform team will continue to manage the Property Portfolio and the Toll Assets as well as further grow and scale the Company’s rental housing development platform.

The Company utilized existing liquidity and funds from its corporate revolving credit facility to fund its equity investment in the First Closing.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). These forward-looking statements are necessarily estimates reflecting the judgment of our senior management based on our current estimates, expectations, forecasts and projections and include comments that express our current opinions about trends and factors that may impact future operating results. Disclosures that use words such as



“believe,” “may,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “could,” “plan,” “expect,” “project” or the negative of these, as well as similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve significant known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company’s actual results in future periods to differ materially from those projected or contemplated in the forward-looking statements. The inclusion of such statements should not be regarded as a representation that such plans, estimates or expectations will be achieved. There is no assurance that the proposed Transaction will be consummated, and there are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made herein.

Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, rely on a number of assumptions concerning future events, many of which are outside of our control, and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results, performance or achievement, or industry results to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties may include the risks and uncertainties described elsewhere in this report and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including the Item 1A. “Risk Factors” section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. Any such forward-looking statements, whether made in this report or elsewhere, should be considered in the context of the various disclosures made by us about our businesses including, without limitation, the risk factors discussed in our filings with the SEC. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the SEC, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, or otherwise.







SIGNATURES
    
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
                    
    
KENNEDY-WILSON HOLDINGS, INC.
By:/s/ JUSTIN ENBODY
Justin Enbody
Chief Financial Officer


Date: December 8, 2025


FAQ

What transaction did Kennedy-Wilson Holdings (KW) announce with Toll Brothers?

Kennedy-Wilson agreed for approximately $379.6 million, subject to customary adjustments, to acquire Toll Brothers’ apartment development platform, including interests in existing rental properties and a large multifamily and student housing development pipeline across the United States.

How much did Kennedy-Wilson invest in the first closing of the Toll Brothers platform deal?

In the first closing, Kennedy-Wilson invested $102.5 million, which included a $25.0 million deposit (with $22.5 million applied at closing), as part of a total $202.8 million investment by the company and its partners.

What portfolio and pipeline will Kennedy-Wilson gain from the Toll Brothers transaction?

Upon full completion, Kennedy-Wilson and its partners expect to acquire a property portfolio of 18 assets (17 multifamily and one student housing) with 5,056 completed units and 1,008 units under construction, plus a transaction pipeline that includes four land positions and 24 purchase agreements for land in strategic U.S. markets.

What ownership stakes does Kennedy-Wilson expect in the acquired properties and pipeline?

After all closings, Kennedy-Wilson currently expects to own approximately 8% of the property portfolio and about 95% of the transaction pipeline, with its ultimate ownership interests in individual pipeline opportunities generally between roughly 5% and 20% once projects are capitalized with partners and construction loans.

How will Kennedy-Wilson earn fees from the Toll Brothers apartment platform acquisition?

Kennedy-Wilson will earn development and construction management fees and carried interest opportunities from existing partnerships, plus customary asset management, development, construction management, disposition, success and financing fees under a new asset management agreement and from partners investing alongside the company.

How is Kennedy-Wilson funding the Toll Brothers platform acquisition?

Kennedy-Wilson funded its equity investment in the first closing using existing liquidity and borrowings under its corporate revolving credit facility.

When are the remaining closings of the Kennedy-Wilson and Toll Brothers transaction expected?

Kennedy-Wilson currently expects the remaining closings to acquire the rest of the assets under the agreement to occur in December 2025 and January 2026, while noting there can be no assurance these closings will be completed.
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