Chinese insurer to buy Strategic Hotels
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CHINA’S Anbang Insurance Group has agreed to acquire Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc for around US$6.5 billion, as the owner of New York’s iconic Waldorf Astoria expands its US hotel portfolio, a person briefed on the matter said Saturday.
The deal, which illustrates corporate China’s unquenched thirst for US real estate, comes just three months after Strategic Hotels’ current owner, private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, took the company private for around US$6 billion.
The source asked not to be identified because the deal is not yet public. Anbang and Strategic Hotels did not respond to requests for comment, while Blackstone declined to comment. Bloomberg News first reported on the transaction earlier on Saturday.
Strategic Hotels’ properties include the Four Seasons Washington, D.C. on Pennsylvania Avenue, the Westin St Francis on Union Square in San Francisco and the beach-front Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel located in Orange County, California.
Anbang purchased New York’s Waldorf Astoria from Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc in 2014 for US$1.95 billion, one of the highest prices per room ever paid for a US hotel. The deal closed in February 2015 following a review by US national security watchdog , the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
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