Organization and Business Purpose

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization and Business Purpose

Organization and Business Purpose

Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (“BREIT” or the “Company”) invests primarily in stabilized income-generating commercial real estate in the United States. To a lesser extent, the Company may invest outside the U.S. and in real estate debt. The Company is the sole general partner and majority limited partner of BREIT Operating Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“BREIT OP”). BREIT Special Limited Partner L.P. (the “Special Limited Partner”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blackstone Inc. (together with its affiliates, “Blackstone”), owns a special limited partner interest in BREIT OP. Substantially all of the Company’s business is conducted through BREIT OP. The Company and BREIT OP are externally managed by BX REIT Advisors L.L.C. (the “Adviser”). The Adviser is part of the real estate group of Blackstone, a leading global investment manager. The Company was formed on November 16, 2015 as a Maryland corporation and qualifies as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

The Company had previously registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) two offerings for up to an aggregate of $17.0 billion in shares of common stock (the “Previous Offerings”), and accepted gross offering proceeds of $16.3 billion during the period from January 1, 2017 to February 1, 2021. The Company subsequently registered a follow-on offering with the SEC of up to $24.0 billion in shares of common stock, consisting of up to $20.0 billion in shares in its primary offering and up to $4.0 billion in shares pursuant to its distribution reinvestment plan, which the Company began using to offer shares of its common stock in February 2021 (the “Current Offering” and with the Previous Offerings, the “Offering”). As of December 31, 2021, the Company had received aggregate net proceeds of $45.5 billion from selling shares of the Company’s common stock through both the Offering and in unregistered sales. The Company intends to sell any combination of four classes of shares of its common stock, with a dollar value up to the maximum aggregate amount of the Current Offering. The share classes have different upfront selling commissions, dealer manager fees and ongoing stockholder servicing fees. The Company intends to continue selling shares on a monthly basis.

As of December 31, 2021, the Company owned 3,077 properties and 22,575 single family rental homes. The Company currently operates in nine reportable segments: Residential, Industrial, Net Lease, Data Centers, Hospitality, Self Storage, Retail, and Office properties, and Investments in Real Estate Debt. Residential includes multifamily and other types of rental housing such as manufactured, student, affordable and single family rental housing, as well as senior living. Net Lease includes the real estate assets of The Bellagio Las Vegas (the “Bellagio”) and the unconsolidated interest in the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay joint venture. Any additional unconsolidated interests are included in the respective property segment as further described in Note 4 – Investments in Unconsolidated Entities. Financial results by segment are reported in Note 15 — Segment Reporting.