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The Power of Pent-Up Demand: Industry Experts Predict Comeback for Retail in 2021
By Catherine Sweeney After a difficult year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, industry experts reported retail nationwide is appearing to make a comeback. During...
BioMed Realty Acquires Full Block Development Site in Seattle for $63.4MM
(EDITOR’S NOTE: According to public documents, the deal encompassed two separate transactions. The first transaction, which closed on April 29th, includes a site...
DivcoWest Expands into Single-Family Rental Sector with $250MM Investment
By Jon Peterson San Francisco-based DivcoWest has joined the ever-growing crowd of institutional capital sources that are placing investment dollars in the single-family rental...
Rockpoint Group Looks to Grow Industrial Real Estate Investments
Boston, February 12, 2021 – Rockpoint Group, a global real estate investment management firm, today announced it has formed an exclusive strategic partnership with Benjamin...
Blackstone & LBA Announce $1.6B Mostly Calif. & Seattle Industrial Portfolio Recapitalization
NEW YORK & IRVINE, Ca. – January 22, 2021 – Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (“BREIT”) and LBA Logistics (“LBA”) today announced the recapitalization of...
Blackstone Continues Puget Sound Investment, Buys Five Apartment Communities for Combined $223.5MM
By Meghan Hall It has been a busy season for private equity investment firm Blackstone, who has closed on a number of property...
New Blackstone Life Science Fund Has Nearly 1/4 of Its Properties in San Francisco & Seattle
By Jon Peterson New York City-based Blackstone is now marketing its Blackstone BioMed Life Science Real Estate fund to investors. The portfolio in this...
Blackstone Sells Kent’s Arbor Chase Apartments for $24.5MM
By Meghan Hall Investors continue to show their interest in the Puget Sound market, placing capital into assets and betting on the long-term...
Inland Real Estate Group Buys Lakewood Apartment Community for $119MM
By Meghan Hall Illinois-based Inland Real Estate Group has made a big investment into the Puget Sound region, closing on a deal to...
Blackstone Raises $7.5B for New Life Science Fund, Will Target Seattle
By Jon Peterson New York City-based Blackstone has raised $7.5 billion of equity capital for its new life science office perpetual commingled fund, as...
Blackstone Buys Simply Self Storage for $1.2B, Two Assets in Seattle
EDITOR’S NOTE: The acquisition includes two locations in Seattle, located in Ballard (2811 NW Market Street) and Interbay/Queen Anne (1602 15th Avenue West)....
Blackstone Announces $14.6B Recapitalization of BioMed Realty
NEW YORK–Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced that Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII L.P. and co-investors have agreed to sell BioMed Realty for $14.6 billion...
