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NEW YORK–Blackstone Group has scooped up another industrial portfolio — 100 properties totaling 14 million square feet, located mostly in urban areas in southeastern states, according to a report in Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter. The seller was reported to be Harvard University’s endowment and the sales price, $950 million.

The transaction follows a number of purchases by the private equity giant in this asset class. To name one: in May Blackstone Property Partners and Ivanhoé Cambridge acquired Canadian REIT Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust for $2 billion. In March https://www.globest.com/2018/03/13/blackstone-reit-buys-industrial-portfolio-for-1-8b/ Blackstone REIT acquired the 22-million square foot Canyon Industrial Portfolio for approximately $1.8 billion. Most significant of all, Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII acquired Gramercy Property Trust for $7.6 billion.

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Erika Morphy

Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing.

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