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    Blackstone pays £969m for student digs firm: Private equity giant snaps up another UK bargain

    July 17, 20212 Mins Read
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    Blackstone has made its second swoop in a matter of weeks on a FTSE 250 property company.

    Blackstone has teamed up with Dutch pension fund manager APG Asset Management to buy student halls operator GCP Student Living for £969million.

    GCP has accepted the deal and has urged shareholders to get behind it too.

    FTSE 250 St Modwen Properties, which builds houses and owns lucrative warehouses, agreed a £1.3billion takeover from New York-based Blackstone in late June.

    GCP confirmed earlier this month that it was in talks about a deal with funds backed by Blackstone and APG, which is GCP’s largest shareholder.

    If the takeover goes through, APG’s division Scape Living will get five sites – including buildings in Shoreditch and Bloomsbury in London, and Guildford in Surrey.

    IQ, which is controlled by Blackstone, will get six in places including Greenwich and Mile End in London, and Brighton.

    A spokesman for GCP’s board said the deal had come at a good moment because, while the Covid vaccine rollout would likely boost university attendance in the next academic year, there were still challenges ahead.

    Blackstone has previously focused much of its attention in the UK on leisure companies.

    Earlier this year it bought Bourne Leisure, the owner of Butlin’s and Haven, thought to be worth £3billion.

    Read more/Source: This is Money 

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