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It looks as though the $5 billion non-traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that Blackstone Real Estate filed for last August is coming along nicely.
The new Blackstone REIT is steadily adding to its pile of gold with buy-ins from “mom-and-pop investors,” to use a phrase from a May 23 Wall Street Journal report. Last month, the REIT—dubbed Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust Inc. and externally managed by an affiliate of private equity giant Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX)—reported it had amassed a staggering $755.4 million, which is roughly 41% of all the funds the entire non-traded REIT sector raised this year.
It looks like Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust has not yet acquired any senior living assets, though. As of March 31, 2017, the Blackstone REIT owned four properties and had four positions in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), according to a recent SEC filing. It also only operated in five reportable segments: multifamily, industrial, hotel, and retail properties, alongside investments in real estate-related securities.
