Bilt, the hospitality platform for housing, has announced a partnership with Collective Residential and the acquisition of Livly’s technology platform. The acquisition brings together Bilt’s existing housing platform that creates a unified experience from prospect through renewal with Livly’s smart-building capabilities, creating a connected platform for multifamily owners, operators, property teams, and residents.
Bilt is partnering with Collective Residential to operate their communities’ resident experience through the Bilt platform, further expanding Bilt’s network.
Livly is a property operations platform originally developed by FLATS, the multifamily operator now part of Collective Residential, to solve recurring operational challenges inside real communities. Its access control, package management, and smart home technology have since become core capabilities of the platform. Embedding Livly into Bilt adds this critical building infrastructure to Bilt’s unified resident experience, giving operators a connected way to manage their communities.
Ankur Jain, Founder and CEO of Bilt, said, “We’re giving operators a merchant network that drives real demand from the neighborhood economy around the property, and AI agents that work across the systems they already have. That’s revenue for the operator and a reason for residents to stay engaged 365 days a year, well beyond their four walls. Livly is a foundational piece of this.”
Alex Samoylovich, Brian Duggan, and Adam McCombs, Livly’s co-founders, said, “Joining Bilt helps us realize that vision. What began as an operating system for the building can now extend into the neighborhood, connecting where people live with the financial, digital, and experiential infrastructure that surrounds them. We believe this convergence represents the next architecture of residential real estate, and Bilt brings the scale, ecosystem, and distribution to define the next generation of residential real estate.”
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