In house, on purpose. Here’s what that means.

Two names, one company

Lokre builds it. bantr brings it to life.

Lokre (opens in a new tab) Companies is the real estate side: capital, acquisitions, development, construction and commercial leasing. bantr is the hospitality side: the apartments, hotels, restaurants and gym people actually live in, stay at and eat in, plus the marketing and management teams that run them.

The point of having both under one roof is simple. The people who decide what to build are the same people who have to lease it, clean it, fix it and answer for it every month. That changes what gets built.

• OursFound, funded, built and run by us. Some carry the bantr name. Plenty don’t.
• Ours with partnersOwned alongside the investors we raise capital with and report to.
• Someone else’sOwned by a client who hired us to run it like it’s ours. Same teams, same standard, same monthly numbers. The capability doesn’t change with the deed.

• Capital + investorsWe raise and structure the funding for our projects, our own capital alongside our investment partners’, and we manage those relationships and the reporting ourselves. When we tell a client we think like an owner, it’s because in most of our buildings we are one.
• Acquisition + developmentSourcing, underwriting, entitlements and design, through Lokre (opens in a new tab). We only buy what we’d want to run, which is a different filter from what looks good in a pitch deck.
• ConstructionOur own construction and project teams, from ground-up buildings to turning a former nursing home in Weston into furnished apartments that went from 76% to 95% occupied.
• Interior designInterior designers on staff, so our lobbies, units, restaurants and gyms are designed by people who also have to run them, which is why the furniture survives and the lighting works at 11pm.

• Property managementOur own managers and on-site teams across nine markets. One standard, one playbook, one phone number that gets answered.
• MaintenanceOur own technicians on a preventive schedule, with outside contractors rebid and managed where they’re the better buy. At Lake Park (opens in a new tab) in Plover that cut maintenance and repair spend 39% year over year.
• Cleaning + groundsOur own cleaning crews, year-round, in the apartments, the hotels and the restaurants, with grounds vendors bid out and managed where that’s the better buy. The lobby looks the same on a Tuesday in February as it does on a tour.
• HospitalityTwo hotels, two restaurants and a gym, operated by us, with the standards set in the same building as the apartments. A hotel team knows what a clean room is; our apartment teams learned from them.
• EventsPop-ups with local businesses and resident events, programmed by our own people. Buildings with a calendar keep their residents.