Rising interest rates threaten Blackstone's first-of-a-kind IPO in India

Investors may demand yields as high as 15 per cent to subscribe to the Blackstone offer

About two years after Blackstone Group LP registered India’s first real estate investment trust, the private equity giant is close to taking it public. Rising interest rates threaten to get in the way.
 

Blackstone and local partner Embassy Group plan to file a prospectus for an initial public offering of the REIT as early as next month, a deal that may raise as much as $1 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. Even so, the listing could be delayed should investors demand a higher-than-expected yield, according to the people, who asked not to be identified as the information