Authorized & Common (L&G) has purchased a stake in actual property non-public fairness agency Taurus Funding Holdings and dedicated as much as $200m (£154m) in seed capital to put money into multifamily developments.
Boston-based Taurus has experience within the acquisition, growth, financing, leasing, and promoting of multifamily and industrial actual property belongings throughout the US, and choose world markets together with Germany and the UK, totalling greater than $11bn in worth to this point.
L&G mentioned that the strategic partnership with Taurus accelerates its ambitions within the US, having launched its asset administration enterprise there in 2006 which now has $231.9bn of belongings beneath administration throughout private and non-private markets, together with non-public credit score and actual property.
The insurance coverage and funding group mentioned that multifamily is a “key progress market that continues to be one of many strongest performing actual property sectors within the US”.
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It cited information from the Nationwide Council of Actual Property Funding Fiduciaries which confirmed that multifamily and industrial have grown to account for 63 per cent of institutional actual property portfolios, up from 34 per cent in 2000, and are the 2 strongest performing core sectors within the US during the last 20 years.
L&G mentioned the partnership will assist it meet its ambitions to construct out a full-scale US actual property funding administration functionality.
“As one of many largest actual property markets on the earth, the US represents a major progress alternative for Authorized & Common,” mentioned Alexia Gottschalch, head of US actual property fairness, non-public markets at L&G Asset Administration.
“Our partnership with Taurus accelerates our capability to capitalise on this market and considerably scale our experience and execution capabilities. Alongside Taurus, we will now search to ship giant scale tasks that tackle the rising demand for high quality housing and logistics infrastructure, with a deal with sustainability and revolutionary financing options.
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“Having joined L&G to construct out our actual property funding administration enterprise, this marks an thrilling second within the progress for our non-public markets platform and US actual property ambitions. Benefitting from a extremely skilled actual property staff within the UK and US, alongside entry to affected person catalytic capital, we imagine we’re effectively positioned to ship in opposition to the longer-term structural tendencies within the US.”
L&G has already launched into partnerships to spice up its presence within the US growth house, having beforehand unveiled a three way partnership with US actual property developer Ancora.
The group mentioned earlier this yr that it’s aiming to develop its non-public markets division to £85bn of belongings beneath administration by 2028.
