retail

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 […]

Wells Fargo Bank has provided a $311.8m loan to finance part of the The Howard Hughes Corporation’s Downtown Summerlin project in Las Vegas, Nevada. The three-year loan has an initial maturity date of 15 July, 2017, with two one-year extensions and an initial interest rate of one-month LIBOR plus 2.25%. The loan will be used […]

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 […]

Carlyle has mandated CBRE to help it source whole loan financing of around €100m for the recapitalisation of three European retail assets including one in Portugal. The private equity group’s Freeport Outlet Alcochete retail centre near Lisbon was inherited through Carlyle’s acquisition of outlet mall developer Freeport in 2007. It was extended to 42,934 sq m […]

Hines has acquired two mixed use assets in German city centres,  financed with separate debt from LBBW and ING, on behalf of an investor client. Kö-Quartier in Düsseldorf and Kronprinzbau in Stuttgart were the first purchases for a new Luxembourg fund set up  by Hines for its investor. The assets will be managed by its […]