Atlanta Journal & Constitution - January 31, 2008
A German real estate investment company purchased two former BellSouth buildings - Midtown I and II.
KanAm Grund paid $242 million for the buildings at 754 and 725 Peachtree St., according to Databank. That equates to about $304 a square foot.
AT&T put the buildings on the market last year after acquiring BellSouth in December 2006. The office space is being leased back to AT&T and is full.
Gregory Moore, president of KanAm Grund America, said AT&T's long-term lease and Midtown's bright future made the property attractive.
"We like the way that Midtown Mile is developing," Moore said. The two buildings are KanAm Grund's first Atlanta acquisitions. CB Richard Ellis brokered the deal.
Last summer, a Chicago company bought the prominent Midtown building Campanile, formerly the headquarters of BellSouth, for nearly $98 million.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Mitchells & Butlers Unwinds Sale Leasebck of 1,300 UK Pub Portfolio
Telegraph - January 29, 2008
Mitchells & Butlers' finance director has resigned and the chief executive has offered to go after an attempt at a complex financial plan went wrong in the face of the credit crunch, costing the owner of the All Bar One chain £274m.
Tim Clarke, M&B's chief executive, also offered to resign, but the offer was rejected. All executive directors, including Mr Naffah, have agreed to forego their 2007 bonuses.
The losses were made when M&B decided to close interest rate and inflation hedges that were put in place to protect plans for a property joint venture that was shelved with the onset of the credit crisis. The property deal would have seen M&B sell about 1,300 pubs into a specially created company and then lease them back.
The idea was to give M&B a cash windfall from the sale of property to return to shareholders. On the advice of bankers from Citigroup and Royal Bank of Scotland, Mr Naffah opted to take out inflation and interest rate hedges to protect M&B against the extra debt it was taking on to do the deal and to hedge against long-term rises in pub rents.
The trouble was that recent turmoil in the financial markets has meant that long-term expectations for interest rates and inflation have shifted. M&B expected long-term inflation to fall and interest rates to rise.
In a sign of how rapidly M&B's position got worse, post-tax losses associated with the hedges stood at £180m in early January, but as economic conditions worsened and the expectation that interest rates will be cut has grown, the loss has escalated to £274m in a matter of days and weeks. Sphere: Related Content
Mitchells & Butlers' finance director has resigned and the chief executive has offered to go after an attempt at a complex financial plan went wrong in the face of the credit crunch, costing the owner of the All Bar One chain £274m.
Tim Clarke, M&B's chief executive, also offered to resign, but the offer was rejected. All executive directors, including Mr Naffah, have agreed to forego their 2007 bonuses.
The losses were made when M&B decided to close interest rate and inflation hedges that were put in place to protect plans for a property joint venture that was shelved with the onset of the credit crisis. The property deal would have seen M&B sell about 1,300 pubs into a specially created company and then lease them back.
The idea was to give M&B a cash windfall from the sale of property to return to shareholders. On the advice of bankers from Citigroup and Royal Bank of Scotland, Mr Naffah opted to take out inflation and interest rate hedges to protect M&B against the extra debt it was taking on to do the deal and to hedge against long-term rises in pub rents.
The trouble was that recent turmoil in the financial markets has meant that long-term expectations for interest rates and inflation have shifted. M&B expected long-term inflation to fall and interest rates to rise.
In a sign of how rapidly M&B's position got worse, post-tax losses associated with the hedges stood at £180m in early January, but as economic conditions worsened and the expectation that interest rates will be cut has grown, the loss has escalated to £274m in a matter of days and weeks. Sphere: Related Content
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Santander Completes EUR 605 Million Sale Leaseback of HQ Near Madrid
Reuters - January 25, 2008
Spanish bank Santander (SAN.MC) will make a capital gain of 605 million euros ($886 million) from a leaseback deal on its headquarters at Boadilla del Monte on the outskirts of Madrid, sources said on Friday.
Santander confirmed the 1.9 billion-euros deal with a consortium led by property investment firm Propinvest which will lease back the complex to Santander for 40 years with the bank having an option to purchase at that time.
The bank has already made disposals which produced 2 billion euros in profit, after selling 1,152 bank branches and other buildings in Spain to a company owned by British insurer Pearl Group in November, a deal leading to a capital gain of 860 million euros.
The same month, Santander sold 10 buildings to an investment vehicle owned by Armancio Ortega, the founder of retail group Inditex (ITX.MC: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), for 458 million euros, making a capital gain of 216 million euros.
The headquarters complex, known as "Santander Financial City", has more than 400,000 square metres of office space plus other facilities such as a hotel and an 18-hole golf course.
The bank said the headquarters deal concluded the sale of its real estate assets through sale and leaseback deals which have totalled nearly 4.4 billion euros and generated a net capital gain of 1.7 billion euros. Sphere: Related Content
Spanish bank Santander (SAN.MC) will make a capital gain of 605 million euros ($886 million) from a leaseback deal on its headquarters at Boadilla del Monte on the outskirts of Madrid, sources said on Friday.
Santander confirmed the 1.9 billion-euros deal with a consortium led by property investment firm Propinvest which will lease back the complex to Santander for 40 years with the bank having an option to purchase at that time.
The bank has already made disposals which produced 2 billion euros in profit, after selling 1,152 bank branches and other buildings in Spain to a company owned by British insurer Pearl Group in November, a deal leading to a capital gain of 860 million euros.
The same month, Santander sold 10 buildings to an investment vehicle owned by Armancio Ortega, the founder of retail group Inditex (ITX.MC: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), for 458 million euros, making a capital gain of 216 million euros.
The headquarters complex, known as "Santander Financial City", has more than 400,000 square metres of office space plus other facilities such as a hotel and an 18-hole golf course.
The bank said the headquarters deal concluded the sale of its real estate assets through sale and leaseback deals which have totalled nearly 4.4 billion euros and generated a net capital gain of 1.7 billion euros. Sphere: Related Content
Friday, January 25, 2008
Berry Plastics Enters $87 Million Sale Leaseback for Three US Facilities
CoStar Group - January 23, 2008
Berry Plastics sold its headquarters and three facilities to affiliates of W.P. Carey & Co. LLC in an $87 million sale-leaseback deal. W. P. Carey’s REIT affiliate, CPA(R):16-Global, and fund, CPA(R):17-Global, acquired more than 1.4 million square feet in flex/industrial space in Indiana, Maryland and Kansas.
The portfolio includes:
Berry Plastics’ headquarters and largest production facility at 101 Oakley St., a 96-year-old, 552,000-square-foot, Class B flex building in Evansville, IN;
A manufacturing plant at 1810 Portal St., a 25-year-old, 244,000-square-foot, Class B industrial facility in Baltimore, MD; and,
2330 Packer Road, a 37-year-old Class C industrial property in Lawrenceville, KS.
Berry Plastics, a plastic packaging products manufacturer, leased back all three properties on a long-term basis. The deal allowed the manufacturer to raise needed financing.
"The sale-leaseback of these three facilities allowed us to raise funds for an add-on acquisition," said Ira G. Boots, chairman and CEO of Berry Plastics Corp.
Another W. P. Carey fund, CPA(R):15, completed a $33 million sale-leaseback with Berry Plastics five years ago. Sphere: Related Content
Berry Plastics sold its headquarters and three facilities to affiliates of W.P. Carey & Co. LLC in an $87 million sale-leaseback deal. W. P. Carey’s REIT affiliate, CPA(R):16-Global, and fund, CPA(R):17-Global, acquired more than 1.4 million square feet in flex/industrial space in Indiana, Maryland and Kansas.
The portfolio includes:
Berry Plastics’ headquarters and largest production facility at 101 Oakley St., a 96-year-old, 552,000-square-foot, Class B flex building in Evansville, IN;
A manufacturing plant at 1810 Portal St., a 25-year-old, 244,000-square-foot, Class B industrial facility in Baltimore, MD; and,
2330 Packer Road, a 37-year-old Class C industrial property in Lawrenceville, KS.
Berry Plastics, a plastic packaging products manufacturer, leased back all three properties on a long-term basis. The deal allowed the manufacturer to raise needed financing.
"The sale-leaseback of these three facilities allowed us to raise funds for an add-on acquisition," said Ira G. Boots, chairman and CEO of Berry Plastics Corp.
Another W. P. Carey fund, CPA(R):15, completed a $33 million sale-leaseback with Berry Plastics five years ago. Sphere: Related Content
White Water Auto Care Center Seeking $92.5 Million Sale Leaseback of 15 Car Washes in CA
CSP Daily News - January 23, 2008
A dozen full-service car-wash and convenience-store sites in Southern California hit the sale market at an asking price of $92.5 million, as reported in a CSP Daily News Flash yesterday, as White Water Auto Care Center prepares to access some of the capital tied up in its real estate.
The 12 sites—nine in Bakersfield, two in Ventura and one in San Fernando—include full-service car washes, convenience stores and gas pumps at all the sites, and quick-lube services at seven of the sites and quick-service restaurants at two sites.
The centers range from 4,650 to 16,800 square feet. The gasoline stations sell national brands such as Union 76 and Chevron, with a number of other national brands, such as Circle K and Jiffy Lube Quick Lube, as part of the operations.
"The company is indeed selling its real estate in a sale-leaseback transaction," Greg Landry, managing director of Trefethen & Co., Scottsdale, Ariz., who serves as the investment banker for Whitewater Auto Care Center, told CSP Daily News. "But the operating company will remain in the hands of John Aminpour, who has long been the owner and operator and will continue to be the owner and operator of these locations."
The properties are all on 25-year triple-net leases and in locations that historically have attracted high investor demand and aggressive pricing, Glen Kunofsky, senior associate at New York-based Marcus & Millichap, told GlobeSt.com.
Kunofsky and Lior Regenstreif, senior vice president in Marcus & Millichap’s Encino office, are representing the seller.
Regenstreif said the 25-year triple-net leases are all new, having commenced in September. He said investors are likely to be drawn to the “very strong backing offered by both a corporate and personal guarantee from the tenant with a net worth well over $100 million.”
The seller is offering the properties to be acquired either individually or as a customized portfolio of three or more centers. Prices for individual stores range from $4.2 million for a 4,650-square-foot store on less than half an acre to $13.7 million for an 8,104-square-foot store on 1.26 acres (2007 net operating income: $943,032). Sphere: Related Content
A dozen full-service car-wash and convenience-store sites in Southern California hit the sale market at an asking price of $92.5 million, as reported in a CSP Daily News Flash yesterday, as White Water Auto Care Center prepares to access some of the capital tied up in its real estate.
The 12 sites—nine in Bakersfield, two in Ventura and one in San Fernando—include full-service car washes, convenience stores and gas pumps at all the sites, and quick-lube services at seven of the sites and quick-service restaurants at two sites.
The centers range from 4,650 to 16,800 square feet. The gasoline stations sell national brands such as Union 76 and Chevron, with a number of other national brands, such as Circle K and Jiffy Lube Quick Lube, as part of the operations.
"The company is indeed selling its real estate in a sale-leaseback transaction," Greg Landry, managing director of Trefethen & Co., Scottsdale, Ariz., who serves as the investment banker for Whitewater Auto Care Center, told CSP Daily News. "But the operating company will remain in the hands of John Aminpour, who has long been the owner and operator and will continue to be the owner and operator of these locations."
The properties are all on 25-year triple-net leases and in locations that historically have attracted high investor demand and aggressive pricing, Glen Kunofsky, senior associate at New York-based Marcus & Millichap, told GlobeSt.com.
Kunofsky and Lior Regenstreif, senior vice president in Marcus & Millichap’s Encino office, are representing the seller.
Regenstreif said the 25-year triple-net leases are all new, having commenced in September. He said investors are likely to be drawn to the “very strong backing offered by both a corporate and personal guarantee from the tenant with a net worth well over $100 million.”
The seller is offering the properties to be acquired either individually or as a customized portfolio of three or more centers. Prices for individual stores range from $4.2 million for a 4,650-square-foot store on less than half an acre to $13.7 million for an 8,104-square-foot store on 1.26 acres (2007 net operating income: $943,032). Sphere: Related Content
Monday, January 21, 2008
VeriSign Seeking Sale Leaseback of Silicon Valley HQ
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal - January 21, 2008
VeriSign Inc. has put its Mountain View corporate headquarters up for sale. According to offering documents, VeriSign will entertain several purchase options, including the sale of the entire campus to a single buyer or the sale of its "North Buildings," to one party and the sale of its "South Buildings" to another.
The North Buildings consist of a 32,500 square-foot data center, two matching office buildings with a total of just less than 100,000 square-feet and a four-story parking garage with 454 stalls, all on nearly 11 acres. The South Buildings consist of two office buildings with nearly 160,000 square feet on 10.6 acres.
The company intends to lease back the offices in the second pool for the next 10 years but is guaranteeing that it will occupy the data center only through March 2013 and the two office buildings in the same pool only through March 2010.
Because the site is close to light rail, the site could be expanded with an additional 173,000 square feet of new office development.
VeriSign acquired the property from Cupertino's Sobrato Development Cos. in the second half of 2001 for approximately $885 a square foot, the largest commercial real estate transaction in the preceding year. The sale brought Sobrato more than twice as much per square foot as the next-largest sale in that time frame, according to Business Journal research.
VeriSign is in the security-services business for both data and voice networks. Sphere: Related Content
VeriSign Inc. has put its Mountain View corporate headquarters up for sale. According to offering documents, VeriSign will entertain several purchase options, including the sale of the entire campus to a single buyer or the sale of its "North Buildings," to one party and the sale of its "South Buildings" to another.
The North Buildings consist of a 32,500 square-foot data center, two matching office buildings with a total of just less than 100,000 square-feet and a four-story parking garage with 454 stalls, all on nearly 11 acres. The South Buildings consist of two office buildings with nearly 160,000 square feet on 10.6 acres.
The company intends to lease back the offices in the second pool for the next 10 years but is guaranteeing that it will occupy the data center only through March 2013 and the two office buildings in the same pool only through March 2010.
Because the site is close to light rail, the site could be expanded with an additional 173,000 square feet of new office development.
VeriSign acquired the property from Cupertino's Sobrato Development Cos. in the second half of 2001 for approximately $885 a square foot, the largest commercial real estate transaction in the preceding year. The sale brought Sobrato more than twice as much per square foot as the next-largest sale in that time frame, according to Business Journal research.
VeriSign is in the security-services business for both data and voice networks. Sphere: Related Content
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Best Buy Leases 517,000 SF Distribution Center in NJ
CoStar Group - January 15, 2008
Consumer electronics and appliance retailer Best Buy has pre-leased a 517,000-square-foot distribution center being developed by Morris Cos. in the Amboy Corporate Center.
Best Buy will fully occupy the facility when construction completes in July. The property is located in Perth Amboy, NJ, south of the New Jersey Turnpike and just across the river from Staten Island. It broke ground in mid-2006 and includes 140 industrial trailer parking spaces.
Doug Bansbach of Colliers Houston represented Morris Cos. in the lease, and Mindy Lissner of CB Richard Ellis represented the tenant.
Amboy Corporate Center is slated to total more than 1.1 million square feet on about 64 acres. U.S. Foodservice has signed on to occupy more than 450,000 square feet at the center.
Best Buy operates more than 1,200 retail stores across the United States, Canada and China. Sphere: Related Content
Consumer electronics and appliance retailer Best Buy has pre-leased a 517,000-square-foot distribution center being developed by Morris Cos. in the Amboy Corporate Center.
Best Buy will fully occupy the facility when construction completes in July. The property is located in Perth Amboy, NJ, south of the New Jersey Turnpike and just across the river from Staten Island. It broke ground in mid-2006 and includes 140 industrial trailer parking spaces.
Doug Bansbach of Colliers Houston represented Morris Cos. in the lease, and Mindy Lissner of CB Richard Ellis represented the tenant.
Amboy Corporate Center is slated to total more than 1.1 million square feet on about 64 acres. U.S. Foodservice has signed on to occupy more than 450,000 square feet at the center.
Best Buy operates more than 1,200 retail stores across the United States, Canada and China. Sphere: Related Content
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Swedish Gov't Signs Build to Suit for $102 Million Detention Facility Near Stockholm
Skanska Web Site - January 9, 2008
Skanska will be responsible for a total solution, including planning, construction, operation and maintenance of the new detention facility in Sollentuna, north of Stockholm. The construction project is valued at an estimated SEK 650 M and is being included in order bookings for the first quarter.
A 25-year lease has been signed with Kriminalvården (Swedish Prison and Probation Service) for the new detention facility. The 23,600-square-meter facility will house 10 floors with 240 detention cells and an administration section.
Construction will be carried out by Skanska Sweden and begins in January 2008, with completion scheduled for spring 2010. The new detention facility will be located adjacent to the existing police station and the new Attunda courthouse, which is currently under construction by Skanska in a similar type of project.
In similar projects, Skanska has developed, built and been responsible for leasing of premises in Sweden to the police, the public prosecutor office and correctional authorities in Uppsala, Växjö, Flemingsberg and Malmö. Sphere: Related Content
Skanska will be responsible for a total solution, including planning, construction, operation and maintenance of the new detention facility in Sollentuna, north of Stockholm. The construction project is valued at an estimated SEK 650 M and is being included in order bookings for the first quarter.
A 25-year lease has been signed with Kriminalvården (Swedish Prison and Probation Service) for the new detention facility. The 23,600-square-meter facility will house 10 floors with 240 detention cells and an administration section.
Construction will be carried out by Skanska Sweden and begins in January 2008, with completion scheduled for spring 2010. The new detention facility will be located adjacent to the existing police station and the new Attunda courthouse, which is currently under construction by Skanska in a similar type of project.
In similar projects, Skanska has developed, built and been responsible for leasing of premises in Sweden to the police, the public prosecutor office and correctional authorities in Uppsala, Växjö, Flemingsberg and Malmö. Sphere: Related Content
Ponto Frio Completes $62 Million Sale Leaseback of Four Distribution Centers in Brazil
Gazeta Mercantil - January 9, 2008
Bracor real estate investment company bought four distribution centers (CDs) of Globex Utilidades - which controls the retail chain Ponto Frio - for R$109 million.
The operation was carried out through the sale-leaseback system, in which the owner sells the real estate and rents it by means of long-term contracts. In this case, the rent contract closed between Bracor and Globex has an initial term of 180 months or 15 years, renewable for the same period. The CDs purchased by Bracor are located in Guarulhos (São Paulo), Irajá (Rio de Janeiro), Brasília (Federal District) and Goiânia (Goiás).
'It is a trend that has been growing every year in Brazil,' observed Ricardo Betancourt, director of Colliers International no Brasil, a Canadian consulting company specialized in administering real estate properties. He noted the maturing among companies of the concept of focusing investments on primary activities and not immobilizing capital. 'In the United States and Europe, only 20% of companies own their own buildings. Here approximately 80% of them do,' he said.
Another indicator of the expanding practice is the length of the contract, 180 months, renewable for equal and successive periods. 'That's equivalent to 15 years. Until recently, contracts were not closed for periods of more than ten years,' said Betancourt. The stability of the economy has contributed positively to this trend. Sphere: Related Content
Bracor real estate investment company bought four distribution centers (CDs) of Globex Utilidades - which controls the retail chain Ponto Frio - for R$109 million.
The operation was carried out through the sale-leaseback system, in which the owner sells the real estate and rents it by means of long-term contracts. In this case, the rent contract closed between Bracor and Globex has an initial term of 180 months or 15 years, renewable for the same period. The CDs purchased by Bracor are located in Guarulhos (São Paulo), Irajá (Rio de Janeiro), Brasília (Federal District) and Goiânia (Goiás).
'It is a trend that has been growing every year in Brazil,' observed Ricardo Betancourt, director of Colliers International no Brasil, a Canadian consulting company specialized in administering real estate properties. He noted the maturing among companies of the concept of focusing investments on primary activities and not immobilizing capital. 'In the United States and Europe, only 20% of companies own their own buildings. Here approximately 80% of them do,' he said.
Another indicator of the expanding practice is the length of the contract, 180 months, renewable for equal and successive periods. 'That's equivalent to 15 years. Until recently, contracts were not closed for periods of more than ten years,' said Betancourt. The stability of the economy has contributed positively to this trend. Sphere: Related Content
BVIC Group Signs EUR 80 Million Sale Leaseback of New Building in Athens
BVIC Group Web Site - January 9, 2008
BVIC Group is pleased to announce that a sale and leaseback agreement for €80 million was signed with Emporiki Leasing and ATE Leasing. The 20 year sale and leaseback agreement covers all of the lettable area, and common area, as well as the parking spaces of the development under construction at 340 Syggrou Avenue. Specifically, it covers 4,587sqm of office space, 9,185sqm of retail space and 2,133 sqm of storage space, as well as 400 parking spaces.
The Group has already signed a lease agreement with Media Markt for 81% of the retail space and 86% of the storage space. The total annual rental revenue for the space that has already been leased is € 2,340,000 for the first year leased. The remaining retail space is under negotiation and is expected to be let before the development is completed in July 2008. The completion of 340 Syggrou Avenue is expected to contribute circa €1.6 per share to our NAV, to be booked in Q3 2008.
This sale and leaseback agreement reaffirms BVIC’s strong ability to raise financing, as well as the confidence placed by major financial institutions in the quality of the Group’s projects, and the secure leasing agreements it obtains with blue chip tenants. Sphere: Related Content
BVIC Group is pleased to announce that a sale and leaseback agreement for €80 million was signed with Emporiki Leasing and ATE Leasing. The 20 year sale and leaseback agreement covers all of the lettable area, and common area, as well as the parking spaces of the development under construction at 340 Syggrou Avenue. Specifically, it covers 4,587sqm of office space, 9,185sqm of retail space and 2,133 sqm of storage space, as well as 400 parking spaces.
The Group has already signed a lease agreement with Media Markt for 81% of the retail space and 86% of the storage space. The total annual rental revenue for the space that has already been leased is € 2,340,000 for the first year leased. The remaining retail space is under negotiation and is expected to be let before the development is completed in July 2008. The completion of 340 Syggrou Avenue is expected to contribute circa €1.6 per share to our NAV, to be booked in Q3 2008.
This sale and leaseback agreement reaffirms BVIC’s strong ability to raise financing, as well as the confidence placed by major financial institutions in the quality of the Group’s projects, and the secure leasing agreements it obtains with blue chip tenants. Sphere: Related Content
Home Depot Enters $41 Million Sale Leaseback of Distribution Center in Virginia
The Winchester Star - January 12, 2008
The Home Depot Distribution Center at Eastgate Commerce Center has been sold to a private equity firm as part of 10-year lease-back agreement that will keep the massive warehouse operating in Frederick County for at least another decade.
Equity Industrial Winchester LLC and Equity Industrial Winchester LP, both based in Needham, Mass., bought the 842,000-square-foot warehousing facility for $41 million, according to Frederick County’s electronic property records.
Home Depot USA bought the 60-acre property at Eastgate Commerce Center, on U.S. 522 South and Tasker Road, in 2003 because of its proximity to the Virginia Inland Port in Warren County.
The port provides a central location to transfer goods to and from the Virginia Port Authority’s marine terminals in the Hampton Roads region to warehouses in Winchester, Front Royal, and beyond.
Anne Manning, senior manager of field communications for The Home Depot’s southern division, confirmed that the company entered into the lease-back agreement.
The building has 40-foot ceilings and about 350 truck bays. When it opened in January 2004, it featured a fitness room, training classrooms, showers, lockers, and a recreation with table games such as ping-ping and air hockey. Sphere: Related Content
The Home Depot Distribution Center at Eastgate Commerce Center has been sold to a private equity firm as part of 10-year lease-back agreement that will keep the massive warehouse operating in Frederick County for at least another decade.
Equity Industrial Winchester LLC and Equity Industrial Winchester LP, both based in Needham, Mass., bought the 842,000-square-foot warehousing facility for $41 million, according to Frederick County’s electronic property records.
Home Depot USA bought the 60-acre property at Eastgate Commerce Center, on U.S. 522 South and Tasker Road, in 2003 because of its proximity to the Virginia Inland Port in Warren County.
The port provides a central location to transfer goods to and from the Virginia Port Authority’s marine terminals in the Hampton Roads region to warehouses in Winchester, Front Royal, and beyond.
Anne Manning, senior manager of field communications for The Home Depot’s southern division, confirmed that the company entered into the lease-back agreement.
The building has 40-foot ceilings and about 350 truck bays. When it opened in January 2004, it featured a fitness room, training classrooms, showers, lockers, and a recreation with table games such as ping-ping and air hockey. Sphere: Related Content
Gambro AB Agrees to $62 Million Sale Leaseback of Properties in Germany
Trading Markets / Nordic Business Report - January 9, 2008
Swedish property company AB Sagax said on Wednesday (9 January) that it has signed a SEK395m property sales and lease-back agreement with the Swedish medical technology group Gambro AB.
The agreement, based on an option agreement initially announced in December 2007, covers Gambro's properties in Hechingen, Germany.
Sagax, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, acquires, develops and manages mainly warehouse and industrial properties. The company's property portfolio comprises 98 properties of a total of 742,000 square metres. Sagax is listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm. Sphere: Related Content
Swedish property company AB Sagax said on Wednesday (9 January) that it has signed a SEK395m property sales and lease-back agreement with the Swedish medical technology group Gambro AB.
The agreement, based on an option agreement initially announced in December 2007, covers Gambro's properties in Hechingen, Germany.
Sagax, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, acquires, develops and manages mainly warehouse and industrial properties. The company's property portfolio comprises 98 properties of a total of 742,000 square metres. Sagax is listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm. Sphere: Related Content
Friday, January 11, 2008
California Pacific Medical Center Signs 10 Year Lease For San Francisco Office Building
The Swig Company Web Site - January 9, 2008
A 171,000-sf office building here being vacated by Wells Fargo at the end of the month has been scooped up by the city’s largest hospital, California Pacific Medical Center, which signed a 10- year lease for the entire building. Built in the mid-1960s at 633 Folsom St. and renovated twice in the 1990s, the seven-story structure is owned by Swig Co., a locally based real estate company.
CPMC says it will begin moving some of its administrative operations into the building early this year. While the negotiated lease rate was not disclosed local industry sources tell GlobeSt.com that CPMC likely received a break from the asking lease rate of $45 per sf per year because it will occupy the space largely as is, saving the building owner the cost of tenant improvements, which are typically built into the asking rate. At $40 per sf, the value of the lease would be approximately $68 million.
The lease is related to CPMC’s effort to comply with state seismic requirements by 2013. A CPMC source tells GlobeSt.com that the lease will allow the hospital to consolidate a good portion of its administrative operations in a single building while also freeing up other locations for redevelopment. Sphere: Related Content
A 171,000-sf office building here being vacated by Wells Fargo at the end of the month has been scooped up by the city’s largest hospital, California Pacific Medical Center, which signed a 10- year lease for the entire building. Built in the mid-1960s at 633 Folsom St. and renovated twice in the 1990s, the seven-story structure is owned by Swig Co., a locally based real estate company.
CPMC says it will begin moving some of its administrative operations into the building early this year. While the negotiated lease rate was not disclosed local industry sources tell GlobeSt.com that CPMC likely received a break from the asking lease rate of $45 per sf per year because it will occupy the space largely as is, saving the building owner the cost of tenant improvements, which are typically built into the asking rate. At $40 per sf, the value of the lease would be approximately $68 million.
The lease is related to CPMC’s effort to comply with state seismic requirements by 2013. A CPMC source tells GlobeSt.com that the lease will allow the hospital to consolidate a good portion of its administrative operations in a single building while also freeing up other locations for redevelopment. Sphere: Related Content
Ogilvy New York Signs Long Term Lease for 554,800 SF HQ Building in Manhattan
Ogilvy Web Site - January 9, 2008
Ogilvy New York will move its entire New York agency and New York-based operating units to 636 Eleventh Avenue in 2009. Ogilvy will occupy all of the 11-story, 554,800 sq. ft building that encompasses the entire eastern block on 11th Avenue between West 46th and West 47th Streets in a long term lease signed with owner, The Hakimian Organization and its partners Peykar Brothers Realty & Gorjian Properties.
The building will carry the "Ogilvy" name and offers unobstructed 360 degree window views of the Hudson River and Midtown Manhattan. Ogilvy has hired award winning architect, Gensler, to reconfigure and design the space according to the agency's specifications. The building will house all of Ogilvy's New York based companies and employees in one building, including Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, OgilvyOne, OgilvyInteractive, Neo@Ogilvy, OgilvyPR, OgilvyAction, the Brand Integration Group, RedWorks and Ogilvy Healthworld.
Ogilvy expects to move to the new space in the spring of 2009. The location is close to a long-proposed extension of the number seven New York Subway Line and several new developments including a luxury hotel by Kimpton.
The building at 636 Eleventh Avenue was built in 1913 and originally housed the Auerbach Chocolate factory. Ogilvy is calling its new space the "Candy Factory." It has high ceilings on the first floor, a courtyard and a roof-top terrace that Ogilvy plans to design as a garden space.
The agency will work with Gensler and other partners to bring the best energy efficient attributes to the space. "Sustainability is a key priority for Ogilvy," said Gunther Schumacher, Ogilvy's Chief Business Operations Officer. "We are working very closely with The Hakimian Organization to make the 'Candy Factory' a green building and get it LEED certified." Sphere: Related Content
Ogilvy New York will move its entire New York agency and New York-based operating units to 636 Eleventh Avenue in 2009. Ogilvy will occupy all of the 11-story, 554,800 sq. ft building that encompasses the entire eastern block on 11th Avenue between West 46th and West 47th Streets in a long term lease signed with owner, The Hakimian Organization and its partners Peykar Brothers Realty & Gorjian Properties.
The building will carry the "Ogilvy" name and offers unobstructed 360 degree window views of the Hudson River and Midtown Manhattan. Ogilvy has hired award winning architect, Gensler, to reconfigure and design the space according to the agency's specifications. The building will house all of Ogilvy's New York based companies and employees in one building, including Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, OgilvyOne, OgilvyInteractive, Neo@Ogilvy, OgilvyPR, OgilvyAction, the Brand Integration Group, RedWorks and Ogilvy Healthworld.
Ogilvy expects to move to the new space in the spring of 2009. The location is close to a long-proposed extension of the number seven New York Subway Line and several new developments including a luxury hotel by Kimpton.
The building at 636 Eleventh Avenue was built in 1913 and originally housed the Auerbach Chocolate factory. Ogilvy is calling its new space the "Candy Factory." It has high ceilings on the first floor, a courtyard and a roof-top terrace that Ogilvy plans to design as a garden space.
The agency will work with Gensler and other partners to bring the best energy efficient attributes to the space. "Sustainability is a key priority for Ogilvy," said Gunther Schumacher, Ogilvy's Chief Business Operations Officer. "We are working very closely with The Hakimian Organization to make the 'Candy Factory' a green building and get it LEED certified." Sphere: Related Content
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Future Electronics Signs 10 Year Lease For New UK HQ
Property Week - January 8, 2007
Future Electronics, a global electronic company, has agreed terms to move its European headquarters to one of Staines’ most prominent office buildings. The company has taken the entire 68,000 sq ft Aura building, owned by GE in partnership with Steve Morgan and Trevor Silver’s Landid.
Future Electronics will pay £29/sq ft on a 10-year lease for the refurbished building following a two year search. The deal completed just before Christmas.
It is vacating its Colnbrook HQ. CB Richard Ellis acted for the landlord and Colliers CRE acted for Future Electronics. Sphere: Related Content
Future Electronics, a global electronic company, has agreed terms to move its European headquarters to one of Staines’ most prominent office buildings. The company has taken the entire 68,000 sq ft Aura building, owned by GE in partnership with Steve Morgan and Trevor Silver’s Landid.
Future Electronics will pay £29/sq ft on a 10-year lease for the refurbished building following a two year search. The deal completed just before Christmas.
It is vacating its Colnbrook HQ. CB Richard Ellis acted for the landlord and Colliers CRE acted for Future Electronics. Sphere: Related Content
Monday, January 07, 2008
GE Energy Signs Long Term Lease for New HQ in Stamford
The Advocate - January 5, 2008
GE Energy Financial Services plans to move into the 275,000-square-foot former Xerox Corp. headquarters at 800 Long Ridge Road in Stamford about a year from now, the building's owner said yesterday.
Norwalk-based Building & Land Technology said GE Energy Financial Services will begin its 15-year lease in January 2009, when renovations are scheduled to be completed.
GE Energy Financial Services, the growing energy investment arm of Fairfield-based General Electric Co., will remain at 120 Long Ridge Road in Stamford for another year, Building & Land said.
The landlord and developer also owns the 300,000-square-foot office complex on 60 acres at 120 Long Ridge Road that formerly housed GE Commercial Finance, the parent unit of Energy Financial Services.
In October, Xerox relocated its headquarters and 330 employees from Stamford to a Building & Land-owned office structure at 45 Glover Ave. in Norwalk. Xerox, the world's largest copier company, had been in Stamford for 38 years. The company moved to Norwalk because it no longer needed a building of the size it had in Stamford, where it used to employ about 600 people.
An affiliate company of Building & Land Technology bought the Xerox property a year ago for $54.8 million. Sphere: Related Content
GE Energy Financial Services plans to move into the 275,000-square-foot former Xerox Corp. headquarters at 800 Long Ridge Road in Stamford about a year from now, the building's owner said yesterday.
Norwalk-based Building & Land Technology said GE Energy Financial Services will begin its 15-year lease in January 2009, when renovations are scheduled to be completed.
GE Energy Financial Services, the growing energy investment arm of Fairfield-based General Electric Co., will remain at 120 Long Ridge Road in Stamford for another year, Building & Land said.
The landlord and developer also owns the 300,000-square-foot office complex on 60 acres at 120 Long Ridge Road that formerly housed GE Commercial Finance, the parent unit of Energy Financial Services.
In October, Xerox relocated its headquarters and 330 employees from Stamford to a Building & Land-owned office structure at 45 Glover Ave. in Norwalk. Xerox, the world's largest copier company, had been in Stamford for 38 years. The company moved to Norwalk because it no longer needed a building of the size it had in Stamford, where it used to employ about 600 people.
An affiliate company of Building & Land Technology bought the Xerox property a year ago for $54.8 million. Sphere: Related Content
Nokia Siemens Networks Closes Sale Leaseback of Office Complex in Finland
Aberdeen Property Investors - January 4, 2008
Aberdeen Real Estate Fund Finland L.P. has acquired the Hatanpään valtatie 30 property in Tampere, Finland. The property was built in three phases between 1998 and 2000 with a total area of approximately 50,000 square metres. The transaction is structured as a sale and lease-back transaction involving the Fund, Nokia Siemens Networks and Nordea Finance Finland Ltd. Nokia Siemens Networks will continue to use the space as tenant. Sphere: Related Content
Aberdeen Real Estate Fund Finland L.P. has acquired the Hatanpään valtatie 30 property in Tampere, Finland. The property was built in three phases between 1998 and 2000 with a total area of approximately 50,000 square metres. The transaction is structured as a sale and lease-back transaction involving the Fund, Nokia Siemens Networks and Nordea Finance Finland Ltd. Nokia Siemens Networks will continue to use the space as tenant. Sphere: Related Content
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Ebrex France Enters EUR 30 Million Sale Leaseback of 13 Refrigerated Warehouses Across France
PropertyEU - January 4, 2008
French property company Fonciere LFPI has acquired a portfolio of 13 refrigeration warehouses across France from logistics provider Ebrex France for EUR 30 mln. The portfolio represents all of Ebrex's warehouses in France, and covers more than 42,000 m2 of logistics space built on an area of 248,000 m2. The transaction reflects a net initial yield of over 7%. Ebrex France is leasing back the assets on a 12-year lease contract.
The assets are located in the cities of Lyons, Le Mans, Orleans, Reims, Toulouse, Niort, St Lo, Clermont-Ferrand, St Pierre des Corps, Lorient, Bourges, Nantes, and Narbonne.
Atis Real Bruxelles and Immoeuropean acted as advisors in this transaction. Credit Foncier de France is providing the financing.
Ebrex France was created in May last year from the merger of DKTrans, a pan-European logistics provider, and the French food logistics provider Nexia Froid. Sphere: Related Content
French property company Fonciere LFPI has acquired a portfolio of 13 refrigeration warehouses across France from logistics provider Ebrex France for EUR 30 mln. The portfolio represents all of Ebrex's warehouses in France, and covers more than 42,000 m2 of logistics space built on an area of 248,000 m2. The transaction reflects a net initial yield of over 7%. Ebrex France is leasing back the assets on a 12-year lease contract.
The assets are located in the cities of Lyons, Le Mans, Orleans, Reims, Toulouse, Niort, St Lo, Clermont-Ferrand, St Pierre des Corps, Lorient, Bourges, Nantes, and Narbonne.
Atis Real Bruxelles and Immoeuropean acted as advisors in this transaction. Credit Foncier de France is providing the financing.
Ebrex France was created in May last year from the merger of DKTrans, a pan-European logistics provider, and the French food logistics provider Nexia Froid. Sphere: Related Content
Friday, January 04, 2008
AT&T Completes $275 Million Sale Leaseback of Chicago Office Tower
Crains Chicago Business News - January 2, 2007
A New Jersey real estate firm has purchased the 31-story West Loop office of AT&T Inc. for $275 million in a sale-leaseback deal.
Kushner Cos. closed on the purchase Friday of 225 W. Randolph St. from the San Antonio-based telecom giant, according to a source familiar with the matter. AT&T signed a 15-year lease for all the office space in the building, which is roughly 900,000 square feet.
The purchase marks the first in Chicago for Florham Park, N.J.-based Kushner, which was primarily a residential developer in the Northeast but is now buying office properties in major metropolitan markets nationwide after selling its residential business last year. The company financed the deal with $40 million in equity and a short-term temporary loan that it plans to replace with permanent financing possibly as soon as this week.
A Kushner executive declines to comment, and a spokesman for AT&T didn’t respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
AT&T hired the Chicago office of CB Richard Ellis Inc. to market the building in the summer. AT&T or a predecessor had owned the building since it was built in 1966. Sphere: Related Content
A New Jersey real estate firm has purchased the 31-story West Loop office of AT&T Inc. for $275 million in a sale-leaseback deal.
Kushner Cos. closed on the purchase Friday of 225 W. Randolph St. from the San Antonio-based telecom giant, according to a source familiar with the matter. AT&T signed a 15-year lease for all the office space in the building, which is roughly 900,000 square feet.
The purchase marks the first in Chicago for Florham Park, N.J.-based Kushner, which was primarily a residential developer in the Northeast but is now buying office properties in major metropolitan markets nationwide after selling its residential business last year. The company financed the deal with $40 million in equity and a short-term temporary loan that it plans to replace with permanent financing possibly as soon as this week.
A Kushner executive declines to comment, and a spokesman for AT&T didn’t respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
AT&T hired the Chicago office of CB Richard Ellis Inc. to market the building in the summer. AT&T or a predecessor had owned the building since it was built in 1966. Sphere: Related Content
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Banco Popular Completes $26 Million Sale leaseback of Five Bank Branches in New York City
CoStar Group - December 28, 2007
MLM Partners LLC has acquired a portfolio of five New York properties owned and occupied by financial services firm Banco Popular for a total of $26.25 million, or about $690 per square foot.
The properties are at 2927 3rd Ave. and 1046-50 Southern Blvd. in the Bronx, 162-66 E. 116th St. in Harlem, and 918 Seneca Ave. in Flushing. The deal also included a parking lot adjacent to the Flushing building, at 1734 Hancock St.
Banco Popular has leased back the facilities for a 20-year term. The Puerto Rico-based bank operates in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America, and has approximately 46 branches in New York and New Jersey. Sphere: Related Content
MLM Partners LLC has acquired a portfolio of five New York properties owned and occupied by financial services firm Banco Popular for a total of $26.25 million, or about $690 per square foot.
The properties are at 2927 3rd Ave. and 1046-50 Southern Blvd. in the Bronx, 162-66 E. 116th St. in Harlem, and 918 Seneca Ave. in Flushing. The deal also included a parking lot adjacent to the Flushing building, at 1734 Hancock St.
Banco Popular has leased back the facilities for a 20-year term. The Puerto Rico-based bank operates in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America, and has approximately 46 branches in New York and New Jersey. Sphere: Related Content
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Goodyear Agrees to 20 Year Lease on New Build-to-Suit HQ in Akron, OH
Site Selection Online - December 31, 2007
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said Wednesday it plans to sell its headquarters to a firm that would redevelop the site and lease a new office to the nation's biggest tire maker. The tentative deal would keep Goodyear's corporate offices in the city where it was founded in 1898.
Goodyear's new 450,000-sq.-ft. (40,500-sq.-m.) world headquarters will be built by California developer Industrial Realty Group (IRG.) IRG, which has a history of remaking old industrial sites across the country, will buy the Goodyear property, build the new headquarters and lease it back.A
n estimated $700 million of private capital will go into the project, which is linked to an array of public incentives. The redevelopment plan will also include other office buildings, an industrial park, hotels, stores and restaurants, said Stuart Lichter, president and senior managing partner of IRG, based in Downey, Calif., near Los Angeles. State and local governments will provide an additional $200 million.
Goodyear seems set to stay in Akron for decades. The company will sign a 20-year lease with IRG on its new headquarters, followed by 11 five-year renewal options. (The financial terms of the lease haven't been made public.) In addition, the assistance that the Ohio Tax Credit Authority approved, which is valued at about $30 million, includes a clawback provision that Goodyear must stay at the new location for 30 years. Sphere: Related Content
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said Wednesday it plans to sell its headquarters to a firm that would redevelop the site and lease a new office to the nation's biggest tire maker. The tentative deal would keep Goodyear's corporate offices in the city where it was founded in 1898.
Goodyear's new 450,000-sq.-ft. (40,500-sq.-m.) world headquarters will be built by California developer Industrial Realty Group (IRG.) IRG, which has a history of remaking old industrial sites across the country, will buy the Goodyear property, build the new headquarters and lease it back.A
n estimated $700 million of private capital will go into the project, which is linked to an array of public incentives. The redevelopment plan will also include other office buildings, an industrial park, hotels, stores and restaurants, said Stuart Lichter, president and senior managing partner of IRG, based in Downey, Calif., near Los Angeles. State and local governments will provide an additional $200 million.
Goodyear seems set to stay in Akron for decades. The company will sign a 20-year lease with IRG on its new headquarters, followed by 11 five-year renewal options. (The financial terms of the lease haven't been made public.) In addition, the assistance that the Ohio Tax Credit Authority approved, which is valued at about $30 million, includes a clawback provision that Goodyear must stay at the new location for 30 years. Sphere: Related Content
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