> Blackstone has switched attention to much less mature niches such as logistics, student housing and life-sciences sites. It says a collapse in construction work in these areas will restrict future supply, pushing up values of the assets it has been buying.<p>A collapse in construction work? Is there an issue with finding construction workers or is it something else?<p>USC has a lot of student housing with more being built. I've worked with a couple of the developers in the area and finding crew is the least of their problems. But this is L.A. and it's a bit different, so I genuinely wonder what they mean by construction collapse.
Spending money to avoid a fire sale of written down assets. Well.. it's possible a DC play in the north of England can come good but I think at this point, $339b of Blackstone property is worth 1/3 to 1/2 of that nameplate value.