Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has acquired a majority equity stake in Dinghao Plaza, a large mixed-use office and retail complex in Beijing, on behalf of its clients. The firm has partnered with a consortium including Ascent Real Estate Investors, Sigma Delta Partners Investment and the Family Office Company in the off-market acquisition, which had a total transaction value of USD 1.34 billion.

Dinghao Plaza is a 176,976 square meter mixed-use building complex situated in the heart of Beijing’s ZGC area, known as the ‘Silicon Valley of China’, with direct underground access to the ZGC metro station. Constructed in 2003, the property currently contains a large retail podium and two office towers. It offers a value creation proposition that is focused on repositioning under-used retail space for office use and undertaking a large-scale refurbishment of the existing office towers to bring them to Grade A standard.

Rahul Ghai, Managing Director, Private Real Estate Asia, Partners Group, states: “Dinghao Plaza is ideally located in ZGC, Beijing’s vibrant tech and media area, where demand for large, contiguous, and premium office space is high and supported by the strong growth of China’s technological sector. The acquisition of Dinghao Plaza is a great fit with our longstanding ‘buy, fix and sell’ strategy, whereby we seek out properties in prime locations that can benefit from repositioning with sufficient time and capital. Together with our consortium partners, we plan to undertake a multi-year value creation program which will transform Dinghao Plaza into a core real estate asset.”