Essential real estate, disciplined capital.
Arka Partners acquires and operates cash-flowing apartment communities and neighborhood retail centers across the American Midwest, built for patient capital and generational returns.
Arka means a ray of light.
In Sanskrit, arka is a ray of the sun. Steady, useful, and there every morning whether or not anyone is watching.
That is the kind of asset we want to own. Apartments and neighborhood retail in Midwest cities where people already live, work, and shop. None of it is flashy. It keeps producing year after year, and we operate it so that it does.
$77M
Assets under management
36
Active holdings
6
States
40+
Years of combined partner experience
0
Realized investor losses
From a first acquisition to $77M.
Combined value of real estate and operating businesses acquired by the partners, by year since 2005.
“We started Arka Partners to invest the way we'd want our own capital deployed: in durable real assets, operated patiently, and reported on with complete candor.”
The partners
Ten states. One way of operating.
We concentrate on Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, and we underwrite selectively in six neighboring states.
Blue collar employment base
Manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, agriculture, and energy anchor these cities. Jobs are steady and wages support market rents.
Workforce housing demand
New supply is limited and most of what exists is older. Well run Class B apartments stay full.
Rational pricing
Purchase prices sit below replacement cost, which is where day one cash yield comes from.
Less institutional competition
Larger funds rarely look at 30 to 120 unit deals in these markets. We do, and we close.
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