Beds, meds and sheds - how the pandemic is shifting the property deck

Battered retail and office space is making way for student housing, life sciences campuses and warehousing in Europe

A photo taken in August 2020 shows builders working on the largest warehouse in Europe, owned and developed by Tritax Big Box Reit and leased by Amazon.com, in Dartford, Britain. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

(FINANCIAL TIMES) The world's biggest commercial property landlord is shuffling its US$378 billion (S$511 billion) real estate deck.

Two moves by Blackstone - the sale of BNY Mellon's London office in St Paul's to Italian insurer Generali for £465 million (S$874 million), and an approach to buy student housing operator GCP Student Living - are a sign of how landlords are repositioning their portfolios as the pandemic accelerates structural trends.

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