Blackstone’s $3.8 billion acquisition of Tricon rouses a slumbering institutional investing sector
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Housing math wasn’t mathing for many in 2023. Mortgage rates, home prices, and low inventory levels made it both unattractive and increasingly difficult to buy a home in the U.S. It was a far cry from the Pandemic Housing Boom and an institutional homebuying frenzy just three years before. The era of historically low interest rates, easy access to capital—as well as rising rents and home prices, all led to a frozen housing market for both consumers and institutional investors. But a major multibillion-dollar acquisition announced Friday could be a signal that the institutional homebuying market is awakening from its slumber.
Private equity giant Blackstone announced Friday it was buying Tricon Residential, a Toronto-based landlord that owns 38,000 homes across the U.S. for $3.5 billion. It’s comparable to Blackstone’s prior deal from 2021 for Home Partners of America, which owned more than 26,000 properties, for $6 billion. The deal announced Friday launches Blackstone into one of the top institutional homebuyer spots in the country, just behind Progress Residential and Invitation Homes, according to data from Parcl Labs, a real estate data and analytics company.
The vast majority of Tricon’s rental homes are in Atlanta, Jason Lewis, co-founder of Parcl Labs told ResiClub co-founder and former Fortune real estate editor Lance Lambert in a podcast on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Friday. Tricon owns 7 million units in Atlanta and other major markets include Charlotte, North Carolina; Tampa, Florida; Dallas, Phoenix, and Houston.
History is also somewhat repeating itself with the Blackstone deal. The firm led a charge across Wall Street in buying homes after the U.S. foreclosure crisis in 2008. It was one of the first big investment firms to buy homes in bulk in the aftermath of the subprime mortgage crisis. After Blackstone agreed to pay $11.25 a share in cash for Tricon, Tricon shares jumped more than 28% to $11.07 at the close of Friday…
Sydney Lake
2024-01-19 17:08:28
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