Total construction & real estate industry cross border deals worth $12.99bn were announced globally for January 2021, with the $5.9bn private equity deal with Brookfield Property Partners being the sector’s biggest investment, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked an increase of 59.8% over the previous month of $8.13bn and a rise of 74.8% when compared with the last 12-month average of $7.43bn.

In terms of number of cross border deals, the sector saw a drop of 13.64% with 38 deals in January 2021 when compared to the last 12-month average of 44 deals.

In value terms, South and Central America led the activity with cross border deals worth $5.97bn in January 2021.

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Construction & Real Estate industry cross border deals in January 2021: Top deals

The top five cross border deals accounted for 95.3% of the overall value during January 2021.

The combined value of the top five cross border deals stood at $12.37bn, against the overall value of $12.99bn recorded for the month.

The top five construction & real estate industry cross border deals of January 2021 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) Brookfield Asset Management’s $5.9bn private equity deal with Brookfield Property Partners

2) The $3.4bn acquisition of Firestone Building ProductsLLC by LafargeHolcim

3) EQT Partners’ $1.87bn private equity deal with Exeter Property Group

4) The $934.57m acquisition deal of Luyuan Investment Holdings by Jiayuan International Group

5) Aggregate Holdings’ acquisition deal with Immofinanz for $267.42m.