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黑石集团老板计划在欧洲大量收购各类商业地产

黑石集团老板计划在欧洲大量收购各类商业地产

PAOLO CONFINO 2023-12-02
苏世民表示,该公司最近几个月募资约2,000亿美元,他号称这是全球规模最大的一笔未动用的资金。

黑石集团创始人兼CEO苏世民。图片来源:彭博社

黑石集团(Blackstone)是全球最大的商业地产业主之一,其创始人苏世民也因为这类资产而成名。他将加大对这类资产的投资。

私募股权公司黑石集团管理的资产规模约为1万亿美元。周一,在伦敦召开的全球投资峰会结束后,苏世民对彭博社表示,黑石集团计划在欧洲各地投资房地产。苏世民表示,该公司最近几个月募资约2,000亿美元,他号称这是全球规模最大的一笔未动用的资金。黑石集团发布的第三季度业绩报告显示,从10月开始,约有660亿美元资金将投入到房地产行业,而且苏世民表示,公司将特别关注欧洲的房地产市场。

他说道:“我们发现许多非常好的收购对象。因为与多数人不同,我们拥有海量资本,无论是数据中心、仓库还是学生宿舍,我们可以收购喜欢的房地产类型。”

黑石集团拒绝进一步评价苏世民的言论。

苏世民在黑石集团担任董事长兼CEO,他们长期从事商业地产投资。虽然办公楼市场低迷,但他依旧坚持自己的投资理念,在交易市场重新活跃起来的时候,充实黑石集团的资产组合,在欧洲大陆收购各种类型的商业地产。

苏世民说道:“商业地产交易并未完全停滞。现在交易又重新活跃起来。尽管市场在一定程度上经历了低迷的一年,但我认为市场周期发生了转变。”

苏世民认为,欧洲房地产市场的状况变得更有利于投资,因为一些欧洲国家的利率从极低甚至负利率开始上涨。现在利率维持在6%左右,因此一些业主计划出售自己的资产,这让他们成为苏世民等经验丰富的房地产投资者的收割对象。

苏世民对彭博社表示:“以前拥有房产的借款成本几乎为零,但现在利率接近6%。如果你以前不需要为你的资产组合支付借款成本,现在却需要支付6%的成本,那么你就不得不出售资产。为了继续持有其他资产,你必须这样做。”

10月,欧洲中央银行(European Central Bank)连续第十次加息,使利率达到4%,达到22年来的最高水平。欧洲央行的数据显示,意大利和英国等则将利率上调到超过5%。英国央行英格兰银行(Bank of England)比欧洲央行更激进,到今年9月已经连续进行了14轮加息。

黑石集团在英国非常活跃,因为英国陷入了商业低迷。英国最近的政策似乎成功扭转了本国经济的局面,但英国在短期内不会降息,这可能令苏世民和他的黑石集团受益。本月初,黑石集团从建筑商Vistry手中,以10.3亿美元的价格收购了约2,900套尚未建成的住宅单元。随着房地产市场因低库存持续紧缩,Vistry等投资建筑商选择了在竣工之前进行出售,这让建筑商掌握了主动权。

本月早些时候,黑石集团在英国大学生最多的伦敦和爱丁堡,以4.67亿美元完成了一笔收购学生公寓的交易。学生宿舍虽然在学生在校期间供学生居住,但却被归为商业地产,而且由于大学校园附近房屋短缺,因此学生公寓成为非常有利可图的投资对象。

除了房地产以外,黑石集团还在欧洲开展多笔其他交易。上周,黑石集团以150亿美元的天价,竞购挪威分类广告网站Adevinta。一天后,黑石集团宣布完成对英国软件公司Civica的收购,估值约为25亿美元。

2023年11月28日更新:本文之前的版本中称黑石集团并未回应置评请求。(财富中文网)

翻译:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

黑石集团(Blackstone)是全球最大的商业地产业主之一,其创始人苏世民也因为这类资产而成名。他将加大对这类资产的投资。

私募股权公司黑石集团管理的资产规模约为1万亿美元。周一,在伦敦召开的全球投资峰会结束后,苏世民对彭博社表示,黑石集团计划在欧洲各地投资房地产。苏世民表示,该公司最近几个月募资约2,000亿美元,他号称这是全球规模最大的一笔未动用的资金。黑石集团发布的第三季度业绩报告显示,从10月开始,约有660亿美元资金将投入到房地产行业,而且苏世民表示,公司将特别关注欧洲的房地产市场。

他说道:“我们发现许多非常好的收购对象。因为与多数人不同,我们拥有海量资本,无论是数据中心、仓库还是学生宿舍,我们可以收购喜欢的房地产类型。”

黑石集团拒绝进一步评价苏世民的言论。

苏世民在黑石集团担任董事长兼CEO,他们长期从事商业地产投资。虽然办公楼市场低迷,但他依旧坚持自己的投资理念,在交易市场重新活跃起来的时候,充实黑石集团的资产组合,在欧洲大陆收购各种类型的商业地产。

苏世民说道:“商业地产交易并未完全停滞。现在交易又重新活跃起来。尽管市场在一定程度上经历了低迷的一年,但我认为市场周期发生了转变。”

苏世民认为,欧洲房地产市场的状况变得更有利于投资,因为一些欧洲国家的利率从极低甚至负利率开始上涨。现在利率维持在6%左右,因此一些业主计划出售自己的资产,这让他们成为苏世民等经验丰富的房地产投资者的收割对象。

苏世民对彭博社表示:“以前拥有房产的借款成本几乎为零,但现在利率接近6%。如果你以前不需要为你的资产组合支付借款成本,现在却需要支付6%的成本,那么你就不得不出售资产。为了继续持有其他资产,你必须这样做。”

10月,欧洲中央银行(European Central Bank)连续第十次加息,使利率达到4%,达到22年来的最高水平。欧洲央行的数据显示,意大利和英国等则将利率上调到超过5%。英国央行英格兰银行(Bank of England)比欧洲央行更激进,到今年9月已经连续进行了14轮加息。

黑石集团在英国非常活跃,因为英国陷入了商业低迷。英国最近的政策似乎成功扭转了本国经济的局面,但英国在短期内不会降息,这可能令苏世民和他的黑石集团受益。本月初,黑石集团从建筑商Vistry手中,以10.3亿美元的价格收购了约2,900套尚未建成的住宅单元。随着房地产市场因低库存持续紧缩,Vistry等投资建筑商选择了在竣工之前进行出售,这让建筑商掌握了主动权。

本月早些时候,黑石集团在英国大学生最多的伦敦和爱丁堡,以4.67亿美元完成了一笔收购学生公寓的交易。学生宿舍虽然在学生在校期间供学生居住,但却被归为商业地产,而且由于大学校园附近房屋短缺,因此学生公寓成为非常有利可图的投资对象。

除了房地产以外,黑石集团还在欧洲开展多笔其他交易。上周,黑石集团以150亿美元的天价,竞购挪威分类广告网站Adevinta。一天后,黑石集团宣布完成对英国软件公司Civica的收购,估值约为25亿美元。

2023年11月28日更新:本文之前的版本中称黑石集团并未回应置评请求。(财富中文网)

翻译:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

Steve Schwarzman, the founder of Blackstone—one of the world’s largest owners of commercial real estate—is doubling down on the asset class in which he made his name.

The private-equity firm with roughly $1 trillion in assets under management plans to invest in real estate across Europe, Schwarzman told Bloomberg on Monday after the Global Investment Summit in London. Blackstone has raised about $200 billion in recent months, according to Schwarzman, who called that war chest one of the biggest piles of unspent cash in the world. As of October, about $66 billion of those funds will be targeted for the real estate sector, according to Blackstone’s third quarter earnings release, and Blackstone will be particularly focused on the European real estate market, Schwarzman said.

“We’re seeing some very, very good buys in that kind of environment because, unlike most people, we have enormous capital and can buy the types of real estate that we like, whether they’re data centers, warehouses, student housing,” he said.

Blackstone declined to comment further on Schwartzman’s remarks.

Scwharzman and Blackstone, where he also serves as chairman and CEO, have a long history of investing in commercial real estate. Despite the downturn in the office market, he’s stayed true to his roots and built up Blackstone’s portfolio in a coterie of other types of commercial properties across the continent now that the deal market is picking back up.

“The deal business is not totally in mothballs,” Schwarzman said. “These things start again. I think we’re more on that side of the cycle. Although it has been somewhat dreary for a year.”

Conditions for investing in European real estate have become favorable because interest rates in some countries have gone up after being very low, even negative, according to Schwarzman. Now that rates are hovering around 6%, some property owners are looking to shed their assets, making them ripe for the picking for seasoned real estate investors like Schwarzman.

“The borrowing cost to own real estate was next to nothing and now it’s closer to 6%,” Schwarzman told Bloomberg. “So if you have to carry a whole portfolio that used to cost you next to nothing at 6% they need to sell things. It’s necessary to just hold the other properties.”

In October, the European Central Bank raised interest rates for the tenth consecutive time, leaving them at a 22-year-high of 4%. Countries like Italy and the U.K. have pushed rates north of 5%, according to data from the European Central Bank. The Bank of England was even more aggressive than the ECB, with a run of 14 consecutive interest rate hikes before ending the streak in September.

Blackstone has been quite active across the U.K. as the nation has faced a business slowdown. Recent policies seem to have succeeded in turning around the country’s economy, although interest rate cuts aren’t imminent, which could benefit Schwarzman and Blackstone. At the beginning of the month, Blackstone bought some 2,900 not-yet-built housing units from homebuilder Vistry for $1.03 billion. As the housing market tightens because of low inventory, investors builders like Vistry have taken to selling units before they are even built, putting builders in the driver’s seat.

Earlier this month, Blackstone closed a $467 million deal for student housing in London and Edinburgh, two of the U.K.’s top destinations for college students. Dorms, despite serving as students’ residences for the time they are at school, are classified as commercial real estate, and student housing has become a rather lucrative investment because there’s a shortage of units close to university campuses.

Across Europe, Blackstone is working on several other deals outside of the real estate sector. Last week, it bid a mammoth $15 billion for Norwegian classified ads website Adevinta. A day later, Blackstone announced it had closed the acquisition of English software company Civica, which has an estimated $2.5 billion valuation.

Update, Nov. 28 2023: A previous version of this article stated Blackstone did not respond to a request for comment.

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