North America’s construction & real estate industry saw a drop of 13.19% in deal activity during April 2022, when compared with the last 12-month average, led by Blackstone Property Partners, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust and The Blackstone Group’s $12.8bn private equity deal with American Campus Communities, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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A total of 79 construction & real estate industry deals worth $22.2bn were announced for the region in April 2022, against the 12-month average of 91 deals.
Of all the deal types, M&A saw most activity in April 2022 with 54 transactions, representing a 68.4% share for the region.
In second place was venture financing with 16 deals, followed by private equity deals with nine transactions, respectively capturing a 20.3% and 11.4% share of the overall deal activity for the month.

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By GlobalDataIn terms of value of deals, private equity was the leading category in North America’s construction & real estate industry with $20.4bn, while M&A and venture financing deals totalled $974.02m and $778.86m, respectively.
North America construction & real estate industry deals in April 2022: Top deals
The top five construction & real estate deals accounted for 99.5% of the overall value during April 2022.
The combined value of the top five construction & real estate deals stood at $22.03bn, against the overall value of $22.2bn recorded for the month.
The top five construction & real estate industry deals of April 2022 tracked by GlobalData were:
1) Blackstone Property Partners,Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust and The Blackstone Group $12.8bn private equity deal with American Campus Communities
2) The $7.6bn private equity of PS Business Parks by Blackstone Real Estate Advisors
3) Allegion $900m acquisition deal with Stanley Access Technologies
4) The $675m venture financing of The Boring by Brookfield Property Partners,Craft Ventures,Dacra Development,DFJ Growth Fund,Eight Partners,Founders Fund,Lennar,Sequoia Capital Operations,Tishman Speyer Properties,Valor Equity Partners and VY Capital
5) Modiv $56.1m acquisition deal with Lindsay Precast