KKR, a leading global investment firm, today announced the purchase of seven industrial distribution buildings totaling nearly 1.8 million square feet (SF) serving the Dallas Forth Worth and Atlanta markets. The assets were acquired in three separate transactions with different sellers for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $272 million.
All three purchases were made through KKR’s Americas opportunistic equity real estate fund, KKR Real Estate Partners Americas III. Across its funds in the U.S., KKR has committed or acquired approximately $7 billion of logistics assets in the industrial sector since 2018 and currently owns over 45 million SF of industrial real estate in major U.S. MSAs.
Since launching a dedicated real estate platform in 2011, KKR has grown real estate assets under management to approximately $41 billion across the U.S., Europe and Asia as of December 31, 2021. The global real estate team consists of over 135 dedicated investment professionals, spanning both the equity and credit businesses.
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