Atlanta · Bespoke Residential Development
The Acquired Group acquires rare land, designs with restraint, and builds residences meant to outlast trends — in Atlanta’s most coveted neighborhoods.
About Us · The Founder
Founder & Creative Director
The Acquired Group is the expression of more than 75 years of family experience in real estate development, construction, farming, and land stewardship. Founder Bahar Nia represents the third generation of that legacy, bringing not only generations of practical knowledge, but something distinctly her own: an exceptional eye for design, proportion, material, and detail.
Together with her husband, Bahar has developed and repositioned more than 500,000 square feet of adaptive-reuse space and has been involved in dozens of residential projects. That experience gives her a deep understanding of what it takes to transform a property — from recognizing its potential to navigating development and construction through the smallest finishing details.
“Homes matter,
and where you live matters.”
Experience alone does not create an exceptional home.
Taste matters. Restraint matters. And the ability to know what belongs — and what does not — is what ultimately separates a beautiful house from an extraordinary one. She brings that aesthetic judgment to every Acquired Group project, carefully considering architecture, scale, materials, light, landscape, and the way each space will actually be lived in.
At the center of her work is a simple belief: homes matter, and where you live matters. A home shapes the rhythms of everyday life — the way a family gathers, entertains, retreats, and grows. Bahar approaches that responsibility with a level of care that is deeply personal, pairing generations of development and construction expertise with a refined aesthetic eye.
The Acquired Group creates residences one at a time, never in volume. Each is considered individually, designed for its setting, and held to a standard that cannot be achieved through repetition.
The result is more than a well-built home. It is a home with character, permanence, and a sense of belonging — one that feels considered in every detail and worthy of the life that will unfold within it.
Services
From sourcing unrepeatable land to structuring private partnerships, every capability exists to serve the residence itself.
No. 01
The residence begins years before the first drawing — with the parcel. We track Atlanta’s teardown and estate-lot market continuously, moving quietly and decisively when an unrepeatable site appears.
No. 02
Ground-up residences of ten to fifteen thousand square feet, delivered through a disciplined twenty-four month choreography of architects, master trades, and our own line-item cost intelligence.
No. 03
Design authority sits at the top of the house, not at the end of the process. Proportion, light, and material are decided once — early — and defended through delivery, so the finished home feels composed rather than assembled.
No. 04
A small circle of partners co-invests alongside us in each residence, on institutional terms: preferred returns, conservative leverage, and reporting through a private investor portal built in-house.
Projects
Now in Development
Thirteen thousand square feet rising on one of the last true estate parcels in Atlanta’s north side — a residence conceived as a permanent address, engineered with the same discipline we bring to our partners’ capital.
Design
One page is enough when the process is honest. This is how a parcel of land becomes a residence of consequence.
We buy the street before the house — walkable blocks, mature canopy, provenance. Land is underwritten against a live model of every comparable sale in the corridor.
Land · UnderwritingMassing, light, and proportion are settled before budgets are — then the full residence is costed line-by-line across forty trades, to the dollar, before ground breaks.
Architecture · Cost IntelligenceA twenty-four month choreography: monthly draws, master trades held to schedule, interest and carry funded from day one — never discovered later.
Construction · DisciplineThe residence is furnished-ready, documented, and warranted. Our partners see the final waterfall in the same portal they watched the build in.
Delivery · StewardshipDesign Direction
Clean contemporary massing tempered with warmth and timeless proportion. We are drawn to houses that read calm and horizontal — quiet symmetry, generous glazing, and a restrained natural palette of stone, wood, and smooth cladding rather than heavy traditional brick.
The roofline is where we are most exacting. A clean profile with no exposed soffits — concealed eaves, fascia read as a crisp thin edge. With no overhang to hide behind, every parapet line is exposed, so proportion, shadow, and material transitions must be precise. It is the detail we select an architect on.
SW 7005Walls & trim — the brighter of the two whitesSW 7008Walls & trim — creamier, for warmer roomsSW 7048Office and accent joinerySW 6258Accent walls and board & battenComposite board & batten in anthracite, set against a limestone field in early gray — 2×8 standard brick or tumbled ledger. Black steel windows and doors throughout. Grout mocked up on site against the actual stone before a single course is set.
Rift-sawn white oak floors and beams. Calacatta quartz counters with a plaster hood over the range. Carrara in the primary bath. Ceilings flat, walls eggshell, trim satin — no exceptions.
Aged brass hardware, unlacquered so it moves with the house. Sconces in blackened steel. Every finish confirmed against a physical sample in the room it will live in, under that room’s light.
Colour shown on screen is direction, not specification — every finish is confirmed against physical samples before release. This schedule is the working document for the residence now in design at 115 Interlochen.
Achieved within a 0.40 FAR envelope by keeping the daylight basement buried at the street.
Three levels solved beneath a hard limit — which is precisely why the roof profile must be low and clean.
The slope is the asset: the lower level stays hidden from the street and opens fully to grade at the rear.
Protected specimen hardwoods and a rear floodplain buffer shape the footprint before the house does.