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A Japanese telecoms firm is buying a giant mixed-use east London campus where a major data centre could be built.\u00a0<\/p>\n
KDDI bought the 1.1M SF Inventory Estate in Docklands from LaSalle Investment Management<\/a> and Trilogy<\/a> Real Estate for about \u00a3250M,\u00a0Green Street News reported<\/a>. The scheme was previously known as Republic.\u00a0<\/p>\n KDDI is the parent company of Telehouse, which owns\u00a0data centre operations neighbouring the scheme.\u00a0<\/p>\n The joint venture put the asset up for sale in autumn, with Knight Frank<\/a> and Kauffmans advising on the disposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n Inventory Estate comprises two office buildings totaling 483K SF primarily let to education tenants and bringing in\u00a0\u00a316M of income.\u00a0<\/p>\n There is also planning consent in place for a 376K SF data centre on the campus, Green Street said. That project accounts for 10% of London\u2019s pipeline of data centre developments with\u00a0both power secured and planning consent.\u00a0<\/p>\n There is a separate planning consent in place for a 36-storey student accommodation tower that\u00a0would comprise 716 flats and another 30-storey tower comprising 150 build-to-rent apartments.\u00a0<\/p>\n If fully developed the campus could have an end value of \u00a31.5B.<\/p>\n The scheme is on the edge of a cluster of data centres in east London, which sits atop a major fibre connection point.<\/p>\n LaSalle and Trilogy bought the campus from Criterion Capital<\/a> in 2015 for \u00a3170M, a 3.9% yield, and repositioned it from offices leased to the local authority to an education-led campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n