Deals
Qatari Fund Buys $2.5 Billion Singapore Tower From BlackRock
- Asia Square sale is biggest office deal in the city state
- Largest single-tower property transaction in Asia-Pacific
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Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund of the Middle Eastern country, agreed to buy BlackRock Inc.’s Asia Square Tower 1 for S$3.4 billion ($2.5 billion) in the biggest office transaction in Singapore.
Qatar will purchase the office tower in the central business district in the largest single-tower sale in the region, according to a joint statement from Qatar Investment Authority and BlackRock Monday. The building has been on the market since last year after bids by a consortium of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund and CapitaLand Ltd., Singapore’s largest developer, and rival bids by ARA Asset Management Ltd. failed to clinch the deal.