Rexford Industrial Realty Inc. (NYSE: REXR), a real estate investment trust focused on industrial properties in Southern California, has acquired approximately 3 million square feet of industrial properties from Blackstone (NYSE: BX) for $1 billion.
The combined portfolio comprises 48 properties with 99% of the property square footage located within infill submarkets in Los Angeles and Orange counties; 98% of the combined portfolio is leased.
“These strategic investments in exceptionally well-located, high-quality assets within infill Southern California, the nation’s highest-barrier and lowest supply industrial market, represent a significant opportunity to drive accretive cash flow growth, increased operating margins and long-term value creation,” said Howard Schwimmer and Michael Frankel, co-CEO of Rexford Industrial in a joint statement. “With these transactions, we are pleased to further our Blackstone relationship, and look forward to identifying opportunities for future collaboration. Looking forward, our total pipeline comprises approximately $300 million of investments under contract or accepted offer, bringing the aggregate year-to-date $1.4 billion of investments completed or in the pipeline, to a weighted average 5.0% anticipated initial unlevered cash yield and anticipated 5.7% stabilized unlevered cash yield.”
David Levine, co-head of Americas acquisitions for Blackstone Real Estate, added, “These transactions represent an excellent outcome for our investors and demonstrate the strong institutional demand for high-quality assets in attractive markets like Southern California, where we own over 50 million square feet of warehouses. Logistics continues to experience near record low vacancy and remains a high conviction theme for Blackstone Real Estate globally; we are proud owners of $175 billion of warehouses around the world. Along with our portfolio company Link Logistics, we are pleased to work with Rexford on these transactions, who will be an excellent steward of these properties going forward.”
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