SYDNEY: Sovereign fund China Investment Corp (CIC) plans to buy Australia’s biggest office block portfolio from Morgan Stanley for US$1.82bil, highlighting Beijing’s appetite for stable assets offshore as the mainland economy sputters.
The US$200bil CIC made its biggest Australian investment just as Sydney’s commercial property market braces for a glut of new office space, despite little apparent appetite from tenants to expand their footprints in the country’s main business hub.
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