The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) and Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited (ASX:BLA) put their own portfolio on the block. Goldman Sachs and Blue Sky have hired Goldman Sachs Australia's real estate bankers and Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (NYSE:JLL) to find a buyer for Atira. Goldman Sachs (the bankers) and JLL have started formally approaching potential buyers in Australia and offshore, to kick off a two-part sale process.

And the advisers have sought to distinguish Atira with a "premium" pitch. Up for grabs is 100% of Atira and the associated freehold operational and development real estate assets of Atira, according to a flyer that has started hitting inboxes of potential buyers and was obtained by Street Talk. Potential buyers were told the portfolio includes sites at La Trobe St and Peel St in Melbourne; Merival St, Glen Rd and Regent St in Brisbane; and Waymouth St in Adelaide.

The average age of those sites is barely more than one year. The portfolio expected to be worth about $700 million.