EQT to acquire real estate platform PropertyGuru in $1.1bn deal

Aug 16, 2024 | News | 0 comments

Swedish investment firm EQT AB (EQTAB.ST), opens new tab will acquire PropertyGuru (PGRU.N), opens new tab in an all-cash deal, valuing the Singapore-based online real estate platform at $1.1 billion, the companies said on Friday.
As part of the deal, PropertyGuru’s shareholders will receive $6.70 apiece, a 7% premium to the firm’s last close on Thursday.

PropertyGuru – which went public in 2022 – will be acquired by EQT Private Capital Asia, the Swedish private equity firm’s Asia-focused buyout fund.

The offer from EQT is a 52% premium to PropertyGuru’s last close on May 21, a day before Bloomberg News first reported, opens new tab a potential buyout by private equity firms TPG (TPG.O), opens new tab and KKR (KKR.N), opens new tab.
KKR and TPG each hold a 29.58% and 26.52% stake in the Singaporean firm and are its top two shareholders.
TPG did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment on the deal, while KKR declined to comment.
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Australian real estate firm REA Group (REA.AX), opens new tab owns a more than 17% stake in PropertyGuru and said it expects around A$286 million ($189.6 million) in proceeds from the sale.
PropertyGuru was established in 2007 and provides online real estate search services in countries including Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore.
Separately, EQT raised $1.6 billion in May as it seeks to expand in Asia’s mid-market private equity market.

The Swedish company earlier in the day agreed to acquire KJ Environment from Seoul-based investment firm Genesis Private Equity.
($1 = 1.5085 Australian dollars)

Source: Reuters

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