Blackstone, the World’s biggest alternative asset manager and the biggest proprietor of business land in India, has recorded a draft red herring prospectus with market controller SEBI for a Big Bang Initial Public Offering (IPO) by its portfolio organization Aadhar Housing Finance to raise Rs 7,300 crores, individuals acquainted with the issue told Moneycontrol.

On November 3, 2020, Moneycontrol was the first to report the posting plans of the affordable housing finance company, the country’s biggest in terms of assets under management as of March 31st, 2020.

“The IPO will be a mix of new and auxiliary issue of offers,” said one of the people referred to above.

“Public markers are in an excellent stage at the present time. Reasonable lodging account assortments are holding up very well in the recorded space and in this section, the spread is more extensive,” a subsequent individual told Moneycontrol.

The IPO is relied upon to be the biggest for a monetary administration firm after SBI Cards.



The documenting follows blockbuster IPOs by Burger King India and Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities in December that capitalized on a financial exchange rally fuelled by improving viewpoint for an economy hit by the pandemic.

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The recording additionally comes when non-banking monetary organizations are under more tight examination from the Reserve Bank of India after the breakdown of certain heavyweights in the NBFC space.

The firm targets clients across geologies, in metropolitan, semi-metropolitan and rustic zones and because of its geological spread, the main five states regarding commitment to AUM, on the whole, represented 62% of its AUM as of March 31, 2020. As of September 30, 2020, the firm had an aggregate of 2,088 workforce and it’s 100% claimed auxiliary had a sum of 1,326 staff under employment.

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In view of a report on Aadhar Housing Finance dated June 30th, 2020 by rating office Crisil, of the complete portfolio, credits to salaried fragment comprised around 66 percent, of which the proper area utilized represented 84 percent (43 percent in government occupations and staying in private positions) and 16 percent were from the unorganized fragment.

As per our research team, Housing finance companies (HFCs) are relied upon to create 12 to 17 percent return on value in the following two years as credit costs standardize.

In the course of recent years, the main two HFCs have outflanked because of solid parentage and admittance to obligation capital. These players have had the option to catch the restoration in land space with distributions outperforming pre-Covid levels.



The posting of Aadhar Housing Finance would be the main IPO of an Indian portfolio organization supported by the United States private value monster in the previous five years. ICICI Securities, Nomura, Citi, and SBI Capital Markets are the speculation investors prompting Blackstone on the contribution. Law offices Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Khaitan and Co are the lawful counselors.

“The net continues of the IPO will be used for expanding the company’s capital base, which will be used towards the organization’s business and development including towards onwards loaning, installment of working consumption, acquisition of resources and reimbursement of remarkable credits and interest consequently as a feature of its business exercises, ” said to a third individual acquainted with the offer reports recorded with Sebi.

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Every one of the three people addressed Moneycontrol on the state of obscurity. Moneycontrol couldn’t quickly interface with Blackstone, ICICI Securities, Nomura, Citi, SBI Capital Markets, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, and Khaitan and Co for a remark.

In October 2015, aroma producer SH Kelkar upheld by Blackstone dispatched a Rs 500-crore IPO. The United States-based private equity major is likewise considering a 2021 IPO by its auto part firm Sona Comstar.

Companion Home First Finance, upheld by private value players True North, Warburg Pincus, and Bessemer Venture Partners, dispatched its IPO a week ago to raise around Rs 1,150 crores. Before Home First Finance, the last IPO in the homegrown affordable housing fragment happened over two years back when Jaipur-based Aavas Financiers dispatched a Rs 1,640-crore issue on October 25, 2018.



Aadhar Housing (once in the past, DHFL Vysya Housing Finance (DHFL Vysya)) was set up in 1990, by the recent Vysya Bank (as Vysya Housing Finance), with value uphold from different banks and foundations, to give rural housing loan finance. It is an altogether retail-engaged reasonable lodging account organization, serving monetarily more fragile and low-to-center pay clients, who require little ticket contract advances. As of September 30, 2020, 64.83% and 35.17% of its Gross AUM involved advances to salaried clients and to independently employed clients, separately. The firm offers a scope of home loan related credit items, including advances for private property, buy and development; home improvement and augmentation advances; and advances for business property development and obtaining.

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In June 2019, Blackstone bought a lion’s share stake in Aadhar Housing Finance from Diwan Housing Finance and the Wadhawan bunch for around Rs 2,200 crore. It holds around 98.7 percent stake in the firm. Aadhar Housing is one of the biggest affordable housing finance organizations in the country zeroing in on the lower and center pay fragment. It oversaw assets of Rs 11,432 crore as of March 31, 2020.

In monetary 2020, its net profit was Rs 189 crore on absolute pay (net of interest costs) of Rs 595 crore, against Rs 162 crore and Rs 509 crore, separately, in the past financial year. Aaadhar Housing Finance has a wide organization of 292 branches and as of September 30, 2020, spread across 20 states and association domains, working in roughly 12,000 rural and urban localities across India, as of September 30, 2020.



Net AUM expanded from ₹ 7965.92 crores in 2017-18 to ₹10,015.75 crores in 2018-19 and ₹ 11,431.66 crores in 2019-20.

As of September 30, 2020, net AUM included 64.83 percent credits to salaried clients and 35.17 percent advances to independently employed clients.

ICICI Securities, Citigroup Global Markets India, Nomura Financial Advisory and Securities (India), and SBI Capital Markets are the Book Running Lead Managers to the issue, it further said.

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In the course of recent years, housing deals in India’s best seven urban communities have surpassed dispatches, bringing about a significant decrease in the stock shade. While deals plunged 65 percent year-on-year after the lifting of COVID-19 lockdown limitations, there are early indications of recovery now.

Deals in Mumbai have gotten since September 2020 and even filled in November, said Motilal Oswal.



With Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Bhartiya Janta Party core attention on ‘Housing for All’ by 2022, affordable housing has seen solid development throughout the most recent six years.

More modest players like Can Fin Homes, Aavas Financiers, Aadhar Housing Finance, and Repco Home Finance have made a huge impact and domination in this space, and are exploiting this multi-year opportunity.

The equity shares of the IPO are proposed to be listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange.