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Kushner Bulks Up Apartment Portfolio with $1.1B Lone Star Deal

Kushner Cos. has acquired more than 6,000 apartments in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Maryland and Virginia from Lone Star Funds for $1.1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

It’s the family-owned company’s biggest acquisition since acquiring 666 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan for a then-record $1.8 billion in 2007, and comes just months after Kushner sold its 666 Fifth stake to Brookfield Asset Management.

The deal represents a return to Kushner Cos.’ roots. By the early 2000s, the company had built up a portfolio of more than 30,000 apartments, selling more than half of them in 2007.

More recently, the company has been rebuilding its suburban apartment portfolio. The Lone Star deal will increase it to about 22,000 units, and the WSJ reported that Kushner has another 6,000 in the acquisition pipeline.

“Multifamily is the DNA of our company,” Kushner president Laurent Morali told the WSJ.

Pictured: Kushner Cos. headquarters at 666 Fifth Ave.

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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