{"id":23837,"date":"2016-08-24T18:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/?p=23837"},"modified":"2016-08-24T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T09:33:32","slug":"qatar-investment-authority-buys-9-9-per-cent-stake-in-empire-state-building-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/qatar-investment-authority-buys-9-9-per-cent-stake-in-empire-state-building-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Investment Authority buys 9.9 per cent stake in Empire State Building owner"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nQatar Investment Authority (QIA), the Middle Eastern country’s sovereign wealth fund, bought a near 10 per cent interest in Empire State Realty Trust, owner of New York’s Empire State Building, as it boosts investments in North America and the Asia Pacific region.The fund acquired 29.6 million newly issued Class A common shares at $21 each and will have a 9.9 per cent economic and voting interest in the real estate investment trust. The acquisition translates into a new $622 million investment in Empire State Realty, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.The QIA “is re-balancing its geographical exposure towards the US and Asia because they were over exposed to Europe at one point,” Fadi Moussalli, Mena head of International Capital Group at JLL, said. “When Qataris invest in the US they reduce their currency exposure because their riyal is pegged to the US dollar, which isn’t the case with European investments.”The fund has been adding to its real estate assets this year. In June it agreed to buy Singapore’s Asia Square Tower 1 from BlackRock in\u00a0Asia Pacific’s largest single-tower sale, according to JLL. QIA has invested about $40 billion in property around the world, with about $22bn in office transactions and $7.5bn for hotels, including the 2014 purchase of the St Regis Rome, according to Real Capital Analytics.For Empire State Realty, the investment will help it “plan for the future, now with more capital and one of the most sophisticated and reliable real estate investors in the world as our partner,” John Kessler, the company’s president, said in the statement.Empire State Realty didn’t say how it will deploy the money raised. Chief financial officer David Karp said that the company recently expanded its revolving credit line to $1.1bn. Those funds, combined with Qatar’s infusion, will enhance the company’s “ability to drive long-term value” for shareholders, he said.Empire State Realty Trust has been a publicly traded REIT since October 2013, following two years during which Empire State Building supervisors Peter Malkin and his son Anthony battled with some of the tower’s longtime investors over whether going public was in their interests. The shares closed yesterday at $20.52, up 14 per cent this year. The company owns 10.1 million square feet\u00a0(938,000 square meters) of office and retail properties, mostly in Manhattan, with the rest in New York’s northern suburbs.Last October, Qatar Investment Authority and\u00a0Brookfield Property Partners formed a joint venture on Manhattan West, an $8.6bn mixed-use project on New York’s far west side. QIA, which was established in 2005, is the world’s ninth-largest sovereign wealth fund with assets valued at $335bn, according to rankings by the Sovereign Wealth Institute.More investments in US real estate are sure to follow, JLL’s Moussalli says. “The US real estate market is offering fantastic opportunities for equity-rich investors right now.”business@thenational.aeFollow The National’s Business section on Twitter
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