In a matter of three days last week, Blackstone agreed three transactions around the globe totaling roughly $38bn of activity.
The mega-manager executed the biggest private real estate deal on record with its €21 billion recapitalization of its European logistics company Mileway; reached an agreement to purchase the Australian gaming operator Crown Resorts for $6.3 billion; and inked a deal to privatize the US REIT Preferred Apartment Communities for $5.8 billion.
The flurry of activity represents the firm’s highest volume of real estate transactions in such a short period in more than a decade. The last time it put so much capital to work within a similar timeframe was in 2007, when it acquired Sam Zell’s Equity Office Properties Trust for $39 billion. Because the EOP transaction included the assumption of the REIT’s debt, last week’s transactions represented a greater sum of equity, PERE understands.
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