Tag: Bogaris

Ten Brinke Acquires a Commercial Plot in Tarragona for €14M

13 March 2019 – Eje Prime

Ten Brinke has purchased a plot of land in the future neighbourhood of Ponent, in Tarragona for €14 million, where it plans to build a retail park.

The Dutch company, which specialises in the promotion of retail parks and residential complexes, fought off competition from the Andalucían firm Bogaris to acquire the site, which has a buildability of 68,000 m2. The vendors were a group of entities including Banco Sabadell and the Town Hall of Tarragona.

Last month Ten Brinke acquired a 50,000 m2 plot in Ciempozuelos (Madrid) for the development of a new retail park. The firm has been present in Spain for ten years.

Original story: Eje Prime

Translation: Carmel Drake

Bogaris Invests €25M in its New Shopping Centre in León

31 October 2018 – Eje Prime

Bogaris is on a roll in Spain following the opening of the Torrecárdenas shopping centre last week. The company, which specialises in the development of large commercial, logistics and industrial spaces, has invested €25 million in the development of its new shopping centre in León, according to comments made by the company’s Director General, Javier Marín, to Eje Prime.

The plot on which the Reino de León shopping centre is going to be located spans a total surface area of 54,000 m2. Of that space, Bogaris’s project will occupy a gross leasable area (GLA) of 26,000 m2, and tenants have already been identified for more than half: Leroy Merlín will occupy 10,000 m2 and Decathlon is going to lease another 4,000 m2.

The Reino de León shopping centre will also have other operators, such as Conforama, McDonald’s and Kiwoko. “We still need to find a tenant for an 800 m2 unit that we want to dedicate to the food sector”, said Marín. Nevertheless, the company is determined to start work on the construction of the complex between the end of this year and the beginning of 2019.

Bogaris also has another project underway that it is planning to start work on at the same time as Reino de León. That is a shopping centre in Lisbon, located on a plot with a buildable surface area of 23,000 m2 and around 45,000 m2 of land. In that case, the company has already confirmed Leroy Merlin, Conforama and the hypermarket chain Continente Modelo as tenants.

Currently, the group is working on other new projects, in the marketing and urban development phases, in Cataluña, Levante, Andalucía and Castilla y León. (…).

For the time being, the company wants to consolidate its presence in the Iberian Peninsula, although it does not rule out expanding overseas at some point (…).

With more than twenty years of experience, the group has its headquarters in Andalucía, the region where it began its activity, firstly by investing in the industrial sector and then in supermarkets (…).

Original story: Eje Prime (by B. Seijo)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Bogaris to Place Torrecárdenas on Market for More than €160 Million Just Before Opening

13 August 2018

The shopping centre in Almeria has more than 60,000 square meters of GLA. Potential candidates for the acquisition must consider the lack of a track record for the new complex and a lawsuit filed by executive Tomás Olivo.

A new operation is targeting the shopping centre sector. Torrecárdenas, a new centre that will open its doors at the end of October in Almería, will go on sale in coming weeks with an estimated valuation of 160 million euros. Bogaris, the owner of the project, has decided to put it on the market before its opening and the resolution of a lawsuit filed by the executive Tomás Olivo, who is challenging the construction license granted for the complex.

Torrecárdenas will have a gross leasable area of more than 60,000 square meters and, just over two months before its inauguration, already has an 85% occupancy, from operators such as Primark, Inditex, Media Markt, Sfera, Mercadona and Yelmo. The centre will have about 20,000 square meters of retail park and about 42,000 meters of shopping gallery.

The complex, with several elements inspired by film production, was designed by the architectural studios of Chapman Taylor and Arapiles Arquitectos. Along with the stores, the centre will have more than 3,000 parking spaces.

Sector sources note that, with a purchase price of 160 million euros, the centre will offer a return of between 6% and 6.5%, considering a net income of around 2.5 million euros per year. Savills-Aguirre Newman will be exclusively in charge of the sale and is confident that it can be concluded before the end of the year.

Specializing in the development of large commercial, logistics and industrial areas, Bogaris has developed more than 700,000 square meters of GLA in 94 projects in Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria and Romania. The Seville-based company, controlled by the Charlo family, has developed other shopping centres such as the Aleste Plaza, in Seville, and the Loures shopping mall, in Portugal.

Possible buyers

Sources close to the sales process cite operators such as Castellana Properties, ECE and the alliance between Sonae Sierra and JT Real Estate as potential buyers of the new centre. However, not too many potential buyers are expected to appear.

While the high occupancy is one of the centre’s advantages, the disadvantages include the lack of track record for the new centre in Almeria, since it is being put on sale before its opening, and the litigation surrounded the construction license granted by the Almería city council.

Last November, the city council paid 2.6 million euros to Bogaris complying with a ruling that determined that a new reparcelling project had to be carried out on the centre’s land. The lawsuit, filed by Mr Olivo, is now with the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia.

Original Story: EjePrime – P. Riaño

Translation: Richard Turner

 

 

Patron Capital Acquires Los Alcores Shopping Centre

30 April 2017 – ABC

A constant and silent trickle of investments has seen a significant number of the shopping centres in Andalucía change hands. The latest operation was closed in March, when the investment fund Patron Capital – which is headquartered in London and which has a portfolio worth more than €5,000 million – acquired Los Alcores, the most well-known establishment in Alcalá de Guadaíra (with a leasable area of 124,000 m2). Its tenants include H&M, Lefties, Bershka, Stradivarius and Cinesur.

The shopping centre, located at the foot of the A-92 motorway, has belonged to Incus Capital since 2013, just like El Mirador (in Cuenca) and Alzamora (in Alcoy). Now, these three properties have been acquired by Patron Capital, which has joined forces with the firm Eurofund to invest more than €13 million modernising the properties.

According to the experts, the operation makes sense, “Los Alcores is located in an area that will be served by the metro in the near future and which has large residential projects underway nearby, such as Hacienda Rosario being constructed by Aedas Homes; it is highly visible from the motorway and its tenants include many household names”, said Rosa Madrid, Director of CBRE in Andalucía, the firm that advised the operation.

A report by this consultancy highlights that the shopping centre business has “been recovering for several years and recorded a successful year in 2016”. Behind this rise is “the increase in consumption and, therefore, the good indicators in terms of visitor numbers and sales, which improved by 3.1% and 1.6%, respectively (taking the portfolio of shopping centres managed by CBRE in Spain as a sample)”.

From there, the significant interest from the major commercial brands in growing again, “which has allowed shopping centre occupancy rates to increase at a good pace”. In the CBRE portfolio, “the average occupancy rate rose from 89.6% to 93.9% between 2014 and 2016, figures that illustrate the improvement in the sector”.

If we look at what has happened over the last twelve months, it is clear that this sector “is on a roll”. At the end of 2016, the Via Outlet group – in which the London-based giant Hammerson owns a stake – purchased The Style Outlet in the town of San José de la Rinconada (better known as “The Airport Factory”). Until now, that establishment has belonged to a fund promoted by the Spanish real estate company Neinver (controlled by the Losantos family). Its major rival, the Outlet de Dos Hermanas, had already been acquired by Green Oak, just a few months earlier.

Major sales

These operations joined a long list, which also includes Grupo Lar, which sold the Airesur de Castilleja de la Cuesta shopping centre to CBRE Global Investors. And an Andalucían company has also made money in this wave, specifically, the case of Bogaris, which sold six retail parks in Andalucía and Extremadura to Redevco Iberian Ventures in the middle of last year for €95 million (including Kinepolis Pulianas, las Marismas del Polvorín and the Motril retail park).

And the activity does not end there: Axiare Patrimonio purchased the Viaparck shopping centre in Almería for €20 million; Alpha Pyrenees Trust bought the Connecta shopping centre in Córdoba….and just a few weeks ago, New Winds Group (the owner of the Windsor building in Madrid) purchased Málaga Plaza shopping centre. Just another sign of the good health of a business that is taking off again.

Original story: ABC (by Luis Montoto)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Redevco Iberian Ventures Buys 6 Retail Parks From Bogaris For €95M

27 April 2016 – Expansión

The shopping centres are located in Extremadura and Andalucía and have a combined surface area of 84,250 m2.

Redevco Iberian Ventures, the joint venture created between Redecvo and the funds managed by Ares Management, has acquired six retail parks located in Extremadura and Andalucía from the property developer Bogaris for approximately €95 million.

The parks, which have a combined surface area of 84,250 m2, are leased almost in their entirety to tenants such as the supermarket chains Mercadona, Aldi and Día, the fashion brands C&A, Kiabi and Merkal Calzados, and operators Burger King, Media Markt, Sprinter and Aki Bricolaje.

Specifically, the parks are: Mejostilla, in Cáceres; Kinepolis Pulianas, in Granada; Marismas del Polvorín, in Huelva; La Heredad, in Mérida; Retail Park, in Motril; and La Serena, in Villanueva de la Serena.

Ares and Redevco announced the creation of Redevco Iberian Ventures in September 2015 and following this operation, the total capital invested by the joint venture now exceeds €200 million. JLL and Deloitte acted as advisors to Redevco Iberian Ventures in the operation.

Original story: Expansión

Translation: Carmel Drake