The owners of The Savoy have completed a £300m refinancing of the famous London hotel by selecting a private equity investor to provide £100m of mezzanine debt, Real Estate Capital can reveal. Apollo Global Management won the mandate to make the mezzanine loan, which has been priced at an internal rate of return slightly higher […]
Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers has provided a $95.2m loan to Keystone Property Group for the acquisition and upgrade of six office properties in Westchester, New York and Stamford, Connecticut. A portion of the three-year, floating-rate loan will be used to fund upgrades to the properties, which Keystone acquired through a joint venture with Mack-Cali Realty Corporation […]
TIAA Henderson Real Estate has refinanced an Austrian shopping centre in its €1.5bn European Outlet Mall Fund and plans to refinance three more of the malls by the end of the year. Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, one of the two previous funders, issued a new €54.7m loan to refinance the fund’s centre in Parndorf, Austria. The five-year […]
Citibank has syndicated around £235m of the £300m loan it issued against Ares and Delancey’s Walbrook Building in the City of London in May, Real Estate Capital can reveal. The deal is a sign of the enormous appetite for debt that is being sold down by large banks with the ability to issue big ticket, […]
Walker & Dunlop and its affiliates have provided a $72.2m in loans to Key Real Estate Company for the acquisition of six multifamily properties located in Texas and Louisiana. The firm structured the financing into bridge, conduit and mezzanine portions. Three adjustable rate loans for $35.4m – cross-collateralized, cross-defaulted and secured by three of the multifamily […]
The lenders on Blackstone’s recent $800m acquisition of a 47-hotel portfolio from Clarion Partners will securitize the $570m senior loan on the deal, a source familiar with the deal told Real Estate Capital. JPMorgan Chase Bank and Deutsche Bank will securitize the five-year, floating rate debt into a single-borrower securitization in the coming weeks. The banks – […]
A German pension fund has made another large investment in debt, providing €450m for the refinancing of Mall of Berlin in the German capital. Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK) contributed the senior portion of a larger €600m refinancing of the new shopping centre, which saw Deutsche Hypo take a subordinate tranche of €80m and two credit funds of BNP […]
A $47.4m CMBS loan UBS Real Estate Securities provided to refinance the Netpark office park in Tampa, Florida is the largest post-recession loan in the nation for a property with Tenant in Common (TIC) ownership, according to Bluett & Associates. Bluett arranged the 10-year, non-recourse, fixed-rate mortgage loan and has taken over as the property’s manager, staving […]
Sam Chang’s McSam Hotel Group has acquired a mental health facility at 334 West 36th Street with the help of a $40m loan from Pembrook, Real Estate Capital has learned. The loan carries a 79% loan-to-value ratio based on the corresponding $50.8m acquisition of the property, located in a section of town packed densely with […]
GE Capital Real Estate has provided an $81.1m mortgage loan to Gaia Real Estate for the firm’s $147m acquisition of 144 apartments at The Corinthian building at 330 East 38th Street, Real Estate Capital has learned based on city property records. Texas and New York-based Gaia purchased the units in the 57-story, 817-unit tower from the […]