BJ Turner is the founder of Dunleer, a private real estate investment company that owns and operates properties in Southern California. As CEO, BJ Turner is responsible for steering the company’s vision and property investment operations. Since 2016, he has grown its portfolio by over 250 percent.
Dunleer's apartment portfolio has experienced rent growth in submarkets where technology firms are crossing over with major entertainment studios and content providers. For a number of technology firms, content creation is top priority and there is no place in the world with more talent and content infrastructure than Los Angeles. Particular submarkets such as Culver City, Playa Vista, and Hollywood have been net beneficiaries of the technology and entertainment cross polination. In recognizing this trend, Dunleer designed apartment communities to meet the growing demand spurred on by technology firm growth in LA. Dunleer has started to offer shorter-term leasing options and fully furnished rentals for writers, actors, actresses, directors and producers who come to Los Angeles on assignment for specific film shoots.
The areas that Dunleer has chosen to invest in have benefited greatly from a boom in commercial space acquisitions by Big Tech. This includes companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. In January 2019, for example, Facebook announced it was acquiring 260,000 square feet of new space in Culver City, and then Google acquired an additional 584,000 square feet in West Los Angeles, completing a seven-fold increase of its total Los Angeles commercial space in just four months.
