KKR's fund KKR Real Estate Select Trust has acquired HQ @ First, a 603,000-square-foot office campus in Silicon Valley, from Japanese developer MORI TRUST CO. The property is currently fully leased to an investment-grade tenant. The sales price of the campus was not disclosed.

Located in North San Jose, the property is a trophy asset, featuring 60,000 square-feet in lab space and it has a LEED certification. According to KKR, the property is part of the fund, KREST's single-tenant investment strategy, which targets high-quality properties leased to a single tenant on a long-term basis. With this purchase, KREST has a portfolio totaling more than $1 billion.

In addition to focusing on single-tenant properties, the fund is also targeting assets on the West Coast. In the last 24 months, KKR has acquired $4 billion in properties through its real estate funds, including major purchased in the Bay Area market. In April, KKR purchased The Exchange on 16th, a 750,000-square-foot office complex in San Francisco's Mission Bay submarket, from Kilroy Realty Corp. for slightly more than $1 billion. Longfellow Real Estate Partners, a life science focused real estate developer and manager, will work with KKR to operate the property. KKR made the investment through its core-plus real estate strategy.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.