EXCLUSIVE: Property Companies Of Former Bangladeshi Politician Go Into Administration

June 6, 2025 / no comments

Three London residential property companies controlled by a former Bangladeshi politician accused of laundering money in UK real estate have gone into administration, Bisnow can reveal. 
Partners from Grant Thornton were appointed administrators to Sadakat Properties Limited, Zaria Properties Limited and Zeba Properties Limited on 22 May. All three are ultimately controlled by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Companies House records show. 
Chowdhury was land minister in the Bangladesh Awami League party, one of the country’s two largest political parties. It was overthrown following student-led protests in 2024. 
The interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist who pioneered the concept of microfinance,…

Blackstone Secures $1B Loan To Refinance Industrial Portfolio

June 6, 2025 / no comments

Blackstone’s nontraded REIT has refinanced a 59-property industrial portfolio across 13 states. 
It secured a $1B CMBS loan originated late last month by Goldman Sachs, German American Capital Corp., Barclays Capital Real Estate Inc. and JPMorgan Chase, according to a KBRA presale report.  
The 11.6M SF portfolio includes warehouse, cold storage, light industrial, manufacturing and parking assets. Just over $981M of the mortgage is to repay Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust’s prior loan on the portfolio, and the rest is for closing costs. 
The interest-only, floating-rate loan has an initial two-year term with three one-year extension options. 
The portfolio consists of 58 industrial properties and one surface parking lot. It includes…