Blanton Turner – University Housing Properties
Hello! Thanks for Visiting!
We’re Blanton Turner, a people-focused property management company. We’re relationship builders, communicators and connectors. We like other people! That’s our superpower.
At BT, A Challenge
Is An Opportunity.
What we do is manage student housing, office, multifamily, retail, and mixed-use properties in addition to some unusual and complex assets that can be a head-scratcher for other firms.
What we don’t do is approach properties with a one-size-fits-all template. Buildings are like people after all – each with their own personality, challenges, objectives and opportunities.
Our Strategies Deliver
A Better Bottom Line.
Every building deserves a fresh and creative approach. We craft a custom strategy for each property we manage, tailored to owner objectives and targeted to maximize value. Onsite, we leverage technology to take care of process-driven tasks, so our team can do what they do best: create places where people want to be.
We achieve higher rents, higher retention and ultimately higher property values. Put simply, we deliver a better bottom line.
Sound interesting? Keep reading!
Did you know? BT-managed Commodore Dutchess has the highest retention rate of any of the University of Washington’s student housing communities.
We Wrote The Book On Student Housing.
From townhomes for grad and non-traditional students to community college housing for athletes and international students to suites geared to new college kids and their nervous parents, we’ve managed the rainbow of student housing. We’ve had our higher education, you might say. Quick points behind our 15-year diploma:
- IT’S A LEASE-UP. EVERY YEAR.
We have a retention rate of XX% at our student properties, but people do graduate! Every spring we re-launch, creating fun and pride for students and certainty for our university partners.
- MAKING STUDENTS, PARENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY TEAM HAPPY AT THE SAME TIME IS WHERE WE EXCEL.
We have the secret sauce: excellent people skills.
- PRIVATE / PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS ARE COMPLEX, AND WE KNOW THE FORMULA FOR SUCCESS.
We work collaboratively with our owners and universities. We believe in mutual trust and partnership.
- ALL UNIVERSITIES ARE DIFFERENT. JUST LIKE PEOPLE.
Every student housing property has its own opportunities and needs. And every university needs something a little different from their management company. We’re ready to create a custom strategy for you.
Seattle U students love The Douglas. Since opening, the building has been 90% pre-leased every spring for the following fall semester.
Back to School with Blanton Turner – A Few Examples
The Douglas, Seattle University, Seattle
thedouglasatseattleu.com
Pre-development consulting and management of this 259-bed building since 2011. Students, parents and the university love The Douglas. Annual lease-up highlights the building’s “cool factor” – a challenge to create in student housing with onsite resident advisors. Over 90% pre-leased each spring for the following fall semester.
Client: Seattle investor group, passionate about SU
Vi Hilbert Hall, Seattle University, Seattle
vihilberthall.com
Pre-development consulting and management of this 303-bed development since opening in 2018. Fully integrated with Seattle University core campus services, houses admissions office, bookstore and is the launching point into the campus and the neighborhood. Edgy urban vibe is a differentiator for student housing.
Client: Capstone
The Commodore Dutchess, University of Washington, Seattle
commodoreduchess.com
Charming vintage building with 139 beds. Blanton Turner principals have managed since 1997 when the building first offered student housing. Highest resident retention of all UW student housing properties.
Client: University of Washington
With several hundred energized employees, we’ve chosen to stay small enough to deliver personalized service, but we’re big enough to bring the bench strength if we need to!
Where Do We Make
Magic Happen?
Today and In the Future.
We’ve always been PNW People. Washington and Oregon have been our stomping ground since the founding of Blanton Turner in 2011. But as our clients explore opportunities in other states, we’re finding ourselves trying on new monikers: Californians, Arizonans, Coloradans and other exciting new titles. After all, fun people deserve fun titles, no?
Blanton Turner’s managed
properties today represent
a portfolio of over
$3.2 billion.
Mixed-use, Commercial, Facility Management and Unusual Properties Too.
While a number of our clients know us for our student housing talents, they may not realize that we manage repositioning and capital projects, purpose-built facilities, commercial buildings, mixed-use buildings and multifamily communities too!
COMMERCIAL &
FACILITY MANAGEMENT
With a 1.3 million sq/ft. portfolio of commercial office, retail and unusual properties (a little basketball anyone?), we create can’t-live-without experiences for tenants and owners – from Amazon to the Seattle Storm.
MULTI-FAMILY
ST
Big, small, affordable, market-rate, market leading, office conversion or mixed-use, we dig multi-family management. Have a lease-up? An Opportunity Zone project? A development with MFTE or MHA components? We love it all. Give us a call!
REPOSITIONING +
CAPITAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
From assets we’ve managed for years, to newly purchased buildings needing makeovers, we’re here to help bring your property back to the market with a fresh look and a defined target audience.
Have a commercial building, facility, project in need of love, or are you thinking about diving into the rewards of multifamily madness? Give us a call. We’d love to help.
Let’s Create Value Together.
We’re looking forward to building a partnership with you. Let’s talk!
Barry Blanton
CPM, CRE | Chief Problem Solver
(206) 321-8770
bblanton@blantonturner.com
Heidi Turner
CPM | Chief Of Intangible Assets
(206) 963-2679
hturner@blantonturner.com
