Al Barbarino
New York-based luxury developer Blackhouse is shopping for a $300m construction loan on the Shanghai Club Tower, a planned 60-storey hotel and luxury condominium in the burgeoning Hudson Yards district on Manhattan’s west side. Sean Ludwick, managing partner of the firm, said the loan would allow Blackhouse to refinance a $60.8m loan from UBS Real […]
Deutsche Bank has sold off a $940m financing package it provided for a national portfolio of nursing homes operated under the SavaSeniorCare name and controlled by real estate mogul Rubin Schron. The single floating-rate mortgage loan – with an initial two-year term and three one-year extension options – is secured by a portfolio of 167 […]
Anticipation of interest rate rise takes edge off delegates’ enthusiasm, writes Al Barbarino
Fierce competition may be encouraging risky rating agency behaviour, writes Al Barbarino
A division of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has provided a $390m mortgage loan to JDS Development Group for a massive two-tower luxury residential development set to rise on Manhattan’s East River waterfront. Progress at the 626 First Avenue site, nestled between 35th and 36th Streets, follows nearly a decade of planning and a year-long search for […]
Forest City Enterprises has closed on a three-year, $350m bridge loan through Morgan Stanley Bank to refinance the Ridge Hill retail center in Yonkers, New York, roughly two miles north of Manhattan. The loan refinances an original 2007 construction loan on the 1.3-million-square-foot mixed-use complex, and the firm hopes it will help give new steam to what it has deemed to […]
Vision Properties has closed a circa $76m, 10-year loan with GE Capital Real Estate to finance its $108.7m acquisition of the Metropolitan Center at One Meadowlands Plaza in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The firm purchased the 15-storey LEED Gold office tower, with an unnamed capital partner, from a real state investment trust run by KBS […]
The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System has committed $150m for the launch of Värde Partners’ first fund dedicated to small, sub-performing US property loans. The Värde fund will invest in so-called “scratch and dent” loans – where borrowers have averted default by resuming payments – targeting discounted secondary market purchases of existing loans backed by office, industrial and retail properties typically […]
Developer Larry Silverstein is on the lookout for roughly $1.2bn in financing to complete 3 World Trade Center now that an agreement brings new life to the stalled tower. After months of negotiations, Silverstein and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reached an agreement this week that immediately frees up $159m in […]
The federal government’s cutoff of funding to Corinthian College could force the sale and closure of more than 100 US schools, putting about $219m worth of CMBS loans at risk. The embattled Santa Ana, California-based for-profit college operator, which operates 107 campuses, signaled that it might shut down after the US Department of Education imposed a 21-day […]