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...“The rents are below the usual office rents in the 1st district,” it said in a statement....
...Blackstone launched Breit in 2017 to offer real estate investments to wealthy individuals....
...said the head of one Sequoia LP, a sovereign wealth fund....
...This distinction did not matter the first time that AT1 bonds were written down in Europe — in the case of Banco Popular in 2017 — because regulators zeroed the Spanish bank’s Tier 2 bonds in tandem....
...High borrowing costs are taking their toll, the economy is stagnating and borrowers coming out of mortgage deals will feel the pain....
...Breit has invested in logistics and multifamily US real estate where supply remains short and rents are up....
...This previously gave lenders and borrowers headroom for rises in interest rates. But some lenders have begun toughening up this “rent-to-interest” calculation....
...Only launched in 2017, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (or BREIT) has grown rapidly....
...Smith, on the other hand, is joining forces with General Atlantic to build scale and capitalise on leaner times — where terms increasingly favour lenders, not borrowers....
...Home Partners then buys the property and rents it out on a five-year deal with fixed annual rent bumps and an option to purchase....
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...This tax varies by Spanish region, at 0.2 to 3.75 per cent of assets for non-residents....
...Fowler’s efforts “result[ed] in billions of dollars of profits” for SunAmerica and AIG, according to court papers filed by his lawyers in 2017....
...All told, Blackstone is buying 83,000 rent-controlled apartments from AIG, and says it intends to maintain affordability at all of them....
...Either way, Lloyds will in effect be competing with its own buy-to-let borrowers for Generation Renters....
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...Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles-based buyout group, paid £2.4bn including debt in 2017 to buy CPA Global from Cinven, a UK-based private equity firm....
...SoftBank invested $250m in Kabbage in mid-2017, at a valuation of $1.2bn. Amex shares fell 2 per cent against a generally flat market on Monday morning....
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...Everything seems to have happened there, from the launch of the LP record in 1948 to IBM’s personal computer in 1981....
...Blackstone remains the largest shareholder in Invitation Homes, the rental property group it set up after the financial crisis and that went public in 2017....
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