Giant Blackstone Group of New York buying area mobile home parks

Even as Carlyle Property Investors garnered headlines this summer for buying the Citrus Park mobile home and RV park in Bonita Springs for $72 million, another major investment house was quietly buying up similar properties around the Gulf Coast.

Blackstone Group affiliates have purchased at least a handful of mobile home parks in Polk, Pasco, Collier and Pinellas counties since April for in excess of $30 million, according to county property and state records.