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GPT Launches Nearly $2B Office Fund

SYDNEY-General Property Trust launches its first, and Australia's biggest, unlisted property fund. The A$2.15-billion (US$1.62-billion) fund will target offices in nine locations in the country.

By Anita Howarth | Updated on July 24, 2006

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SYDNEY-General Property Trust has established its first unlisted property fund worth A$2.15 billion (US$1.62 billion) as part of its strategy to build a funds management business. It is believed to be the largest wholesale fundraising in the Australian market.The fund, GPT Wholesale Office Fund, will initially own office assets at nine locations in the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra central business districts.

GPT chief executive Nic Lyons says the development of a funds management platform would broaden the group’s base of capital partners. “The successful launch of GWOF represents a major strategic initiative in terms of GPT’s creation of a funds management platform in partnership with leading domestic and international wholesale investors,” he says. “We anticipate developing further products for our funds management strategy, consistent with our aim to continue to diversify the group’s income streams.”

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