Sources say Blackstone is buyer of $172m Tricon Lifestyle Communities portfolio. : Blackstone has entered the US manufactured housing sector with a $172m (€142m) portfolio acquisition, according to sources familiar with the deal. Blackstone has bought Tricon Lifestyle Communities – a portfolio of 14 assets located in Arizona and California – from Tricon Capital Group. Last month, Tricon announced that it had completed the sale of the portfolio to an unnamed institutional asset manager.