portfolio of prime property around London’s Covent Garden district, according to a statement on Thursday. The transaction, set to conclude in April, will hand £570 million in cash to Shaftesbury.

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund—Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)—is buying a 25% stake in London’s buzzy Covent Garden worth £570 million ($739 million).

Covent Garden’s biggest landlord Shaftesbury Capital ... NBIM It is responsible for managing the Government Pension Fund of Norway one of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds.

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