Bonaventure

About Bonaventure

Bonaventure is a real estate operator headquartered in Alexandria, VA. Bonaventure operates in Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (Research Triangle Park - RTP) and Virginia Beach - Norfolk - Hampton Roads, Virginia. Its investment focus is on Affordable Housing, Multifamily - Ground-up and Opportunity Zones.

Bonaventure is a private, vertically integrated real estate investment, development, and asset management firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. Led by founder, CEO, and CIO Dwight Dunton III, the company has completed 27 years of continuous operations. Operating as a large-scale multifamily platform, the firm employs approximately 500 professionals across nine distinct regions. The corporation utilizes an internal workforce to control every phase of the property lifecycle, including in-house architectural design, capital markets structuring, ground-up construction, direct leasing, and asset management. Bonaventure focuses on the multifamily residential sector, managing market-rate apartment communities, senior living developments through its Acclaim brand, and self-storage facilities. The firm leverages fixed-rate HUD financing and programmatic joint ventures while sponsoring financial investment vehicles such as the Bonaventure Multifamily Income Trust and a dedicated Delaware Statutory Trust platform. The organization targets supply-constrained, high-growth secondary and tertiary submarkets across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States, including Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. Bonaventure oversees an institutional portfolio comprising 47 properties and 9,290 residential units representing over $2.9 billion in assets under management. Notable properties in its portfolio include master-planned communities such as Attain at Chic's Beach, Messenger Place, and Promenade Pointe in Virginia, alongside Attain at Bradford Creek in Alabama.

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