One of the senior figures in real estate workout in Lloyds Banking Group’s business support unit has left the bank to set up his own business, Real Estate Capital can reveal. Andrew Wilson, head of the real estate solutions team, has departed from the UK bank and is understood to be establishing a new business […]
The £750m proposed agency CMBS to refinance Westfield’s Stratford City shopping centre in London has been pulled amidst uncertainty over ‘skin-in-the-game’ regulations. Westfield, advised by its banking partners Deutsche Bank and Crédit Agricole, had decided not to retain 5% of the notes, the so-called ‘skin-in-the-game’ designed to regulate arranging banks and align their interests with […]
NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.’s $4bn acquisition of all outstanding shares of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II will include a reported $3bn of CMBS backing. Citigroup Global Markets, Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase Bank and Column Financial (the real estate financing arm of Credit Suisse AG) will provide the CMBS financing. NorthStar announced that it would acquire the Griffin-American […]
RFR Realty has secured $85m in loans for the $89.7m acquisition – and subsequent improvements to – the Holiday Inn SoHo in Lower Manhattan. AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company and AB Commercial Real Estate Debt (under the care of Alliance Bernstein) provided the loans, city property records show. A $70m senior loan is accompanied by a $9m […]
Guggenheim Partners is to provide a loan of just under £130m to finance the redevelopment of one of the most important landmarks of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Starwood Property Trust has provided a $480m construction loan to real estate developer Jay Paul Company for the construction of the tallest mixed-use tower on the West Coast of the United States. Plans for the property at 181 Fremont Street in San Francisco, California call for a 684,000-square-foot, 55-story class A office and luxury condominium […]
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has provided a $55m loan to Prime Residential for its Paz Mar Reserve waterfront multi-housing community in Oxnard, California. The 10-year fixed-rate loan will be used to retire an existing floating-rate loan and finance a property renovation. Paz Mar Reserve, at 3100 Peninsula Road in Channel Islands Harbor, […]
The refinancing prospects of the UK’s €58bn of outstanding CMBS loans “remain challenging” according to ratings agency Standard & Poor’s. S&P warned in its latest CMBS bulletin covering the second quarter of the year that the disparity between prime and secondary property yields could result in “repercussions for refinancing European CMBS loans, many of which […]
Westfield’s £750m CMBS has been priced at 87-90 basis points by investment banks Deutsche Bank and Crédit Agricole. As revealed by Real Estate Capital (28.7.2014) it is to be the lowest priced CMBS issued since the downturn. Westfield Stratford City Finance, a single-tranche deal, has been AAA rated by both DBRS and Fitch Ratings. The new […]
Urban Exposure has pulled its £500m London Stock Exchange float citing “the prevailing IPO backdrop”. The vehicle that was to be known as Urban Exposure Real Estate had planned to use the equity to issue loans for residential development in the capital and announced its intention to float at the start of July. It said […]