The funding agency which controls the Pinewood movie studios empire has joined the record of bidders circling Center Parcs, the upmarket chain of vacation villages.

Sky News has learnt that Aermont is predicted to desk an indicative provide for Center Parcs, which might value a purchaser greater than £4bn, this week.

A deadline has been set on Tuesday for preliminary bids.

Aermont's curiosity provides it to a listing together with Singapore's Government Investment Corporation (GIC), which has teamed up with KSL Capital Partners, a personal fairness investor; and CVC Capital Partners, the buyout big.

Blackstone, Center Parcs UK's former proprietor, and Antin, an infrastructure fund, are additionally contemplating bidding.

Center Parcs trades from six websites within the UK and Ireland, and has loved buoyant buying and selling because the lockdowns triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The firm has been owned by Brookfield Property Partners, the Canadian property big, since 2015.

Brookfield has employed Bank of America, Barclays and Eastdil Secured to handle the sale.

The resorts chain boasts one of many British leisure trade's best-known manufacturers, drawing thousands and thousands of holiday makers yearly to its 5 UK websites and the most recent addition to its portfolio, at Longford Forest in Ireland.

Center Parcs' UK and Ireland operations are owned individually to the European enterprise that additionally trades underneath the model.

The model dates again to 1968, when the primary village opened within the Netherlands.

Aermont declined to remark.