Tag: debut

Urban View to Debut on the MAB with a Valuation of €38M

23 January 2019 – Eje Prime

Urban View is finalising its debut on the MAB. The rental home Socimi is going to start trading on the Alternative Investment Market (MAB) on Friday for a price of €7.20 per share, which represents a valuation of €38 million.

The group, created in March 2017, is owned by the Urban Group holding company, which specialises in the acquisition and management of residential real estate assets. The firm will make its debut on the MAB with a portfolio of 454 assets, including homes, garages, commercial premises and a warehouse, through a dozen family Socimis.

The assets owned by Urban View Development are distributed across five autonomous regions: Cataluña and Madrid, which account for 96% of the portfolio; the Balearic Islands, Andalucía and the Community of Valencia. Currently, 31.7% of the company’s homes are leased.

Original story: Eje Prime 

Translation: Carmel Drake

Vía Célere Completes its Merger with Aelca to Create a Giant Firm with Land for 25,000 Homes

16 January 2019 – El Confidencial

Vía Célere has completed the integration of the real estate assets (land and property developments) of Aelca, to become one of the largest property developers in Spain with a gross asset volume (GAV) of €2.2 billion and a land bank for the construction of 25,000 homes. From today, the company has the capacity to deliver an estimated 2,000 homes in 2019 and 5,000 homes in 2021.

To put that into context, Metrovacesa owns land for the construction of 38,000 homes, has a GAV of €2.6 billion, and so it is still the largest property developer in Spain. Meanwhile, Aedas has land for 14,521 homes and a GAV of €1.6 billion, whilst Neinor, with a GAV of €1.7 billion, has land for another 13,500 units.

Following the operation, Värde is now the owner of 75% of the shares in Vía Célere, whilst the other minority shareholders (Marathon, Attestor, BAML, Barclays, DB and JPM) own the remaining 25% stake. The company is also strengthening the diversification of its asset portfolio with 38% in Madrid, 20% in Málaga, 11% in Barcelona, 9% in Sevilla, 5% in Valencia and 17% in other provinces across the rest of Spain.

The purchase of Aelca by Vía Célere was made with one clear objective in mind: to grow the company so as to be able to list it on the stock market, given that the transaction has allowed the company chaired by Juan Antonio Gómez-Pintado (pictured above) to incorporate assets worth €1.3 billion (…).

Future stock market debut?

Since then, the rumours regarding the possible stock market debut of Vía Célere have been constant (…). In fact, it was initially scheduled for the spring of 2018, but it was always known that the property developer needed to be larger to be able to compete in the market with Neinor, Metrovacesa and Aedas (…).

Original story: El Confidencial 

Translation: Carmel Drake

Habitat Debuts in A Coruña with a €19M Investment in a 96-Home Development

16 January 2019 – Eje Prime

Habitat has arrived in Galicia. The property developer is making its debut in the region with a development comprising 96 homes in A Coruña and an investment of €19 million, according to reports made by the company to EjePrime.

The company has acquired a plot of land with a buildable surface area of 10,500 m2, on which it is going to build a seventeen-storey tower. The marketing of the homes, located on Calle Aurelio Aguirre Galarraga, in the San Vicente de Elviña neighbourhood, will start during the first quarter of this year.

“With the start of this new project in A Coruña, Habitat has launched itself in Galicia, an area with a high degree of urban development and which has enormous potential for growth over the coming years”, as highlighted by José Carlos Saz, the CEO of the company.

This latest acquisition forms part of Habitat’s business strategy, which will involve an investment of €500 million by 2021. The company’s plans involve constructing new developments with the objective of delivering more than 2,000 homes per year from 2021.

Original story: Eje Prime 

Translation: Carmel Drake

Approval Granted for Socimi Arrienda Rental’s Debut on the MAB

21 December 2018 – La Vanguardia

The Coordination and Incorporations Committee of the Alternative Investment Market (MAB) has issued a favourable report ahead of the stock market debut of Arrienda Rental Properties Socimi, with a reference value of €2.74 per share, after the company was valued at €56.4 million.

The MAB has reported that the stock trading code for Arrienda Rental will be YARP and that it will be governed by the fixing system, with prices being fixed twice in each session, at 12 noon and 16h.

Arrienda Rental is a real estate company that has adopted the Socimi framework and which is dedicated to the acquisition and development of urban properties for their rental.

The Socimi owns 239 assets, all of which are located in the Community of Madrid: 2 hotels (Clement Barajas and Täch), 3 plots of land, 4 offices, 18 retail premises, 40 homes and 172 garages.

Before its stock market debut, the Socimi had 51 shareholders, including Francisco García Rubio, who owns 21% of the capital.

Arrienda Rental has 4 managing directors who are also owners, namely: José García Sánchez, Luis Miguel Gutiérrez Abella, Víctor García Rodríguez and Juan Francisco García Muñoz.

Arrienda’s valuation has been performed by the appraisal company Gesvalt.

Original story: La Vanguardia

Translation: Carmel Drake

Hispanotels Debuts with a Stable Share Price on the MAB

14 December 2018 – Eje Prime

Hispanotels has made its debut on the stock market with a stable share price. The Socimi, which owns four hotels managed by NH, made its debut today on the Alternative Investment Market (MAB), with a share price of €5.90, which did not vary at all during its first day of trading.

During the first hours of trading, there were 855 purchase orders at €5.85 and 845 sales orders at €5.95 for Hispanotels’ shares. That reference value for its stock market debut valued the company at €65.93 million.

The company, which is the 21st Socimi to make its debut on the stock market in 2018, is dedicated to the acquisition and development of real estate properties of an urban nature for their rental. Founded in 1947, around 53% of Hispanotels’ shares are owned by eight members of the Fontcuberta family and the remaining 47% is controlled by around thirty minority shareholders.

Original story: Eje Prime

Translation: Carmel Drake

Atom Makes its MAB Debut with a Stable Share Price

27 November 2018 – Eje Prime

Atom completed its first day on the MAB without any variation in its share price. The Socimi specialising in the hotel sector and owned by Bankinter made its debut on the Alternative Investment Market (MAB) with no variation in its debut price of €10.70 per share.

That is the amount that the company set for its stock market debut and which values the company at €264.76 million. The Socimi started the day with a slight rise of 0.9%, to reach €10.80 per share, but ended trading flat.

Atom operates on the stock market with the code YAT and its shares are traded through the fixing system, whereby prices are fixed twice a day, a 12 noon and 4pm.

Atom owns 23 hotels with a total accounting value of €439.7 million, including the AC Marriott in Palma, Sevilla and Álava, as well as the Meliá hotels in Sevilla and the Canary Islands. The group is the 20th company to join the MAB in 2018 and the 67th Socimi to debut on the Spanish stock market to date: 62 Socimis operate on the MAB and five operate on the main stock market.

Original story: Eje Prime

Translation: Carmel Drake

Bankinter’s Hotel Socimi Atom will Make its MAB Debut with a Valuation of €265.7M

21 November 2018 – Eje Prime

Atom is lining up to make its debut on the stock market. Bankinter’s hotel Socimi will ring the bell soon on the Alternative Investment Market (MAB) with a portfolio comprising 21 assets located all over Spain. The company will make its debut with a valuation of €265.7 million and a share price of €10.60 after the stock market regulator issued a favourable report for its inclusion on the alternative market, scheduled for before the end of the year.

Atom’s main partner is the Melià Group, which operates six of its establishments. In addition, the Socimi has agreements with AC Hotel by Marriott, Eurostars, Ibersol and B&B, amongst other chains.

Twelve of the company’s hotels are vacation properties, and the remaining nine are urban assets; most are four-star establishments. The properties are worth €483.5 million altogether, according to an independent valuation of the portfolio carried out by EY.

In addition to Bankinter, which owns 5.3% of the shares, other shareholders of the management company include Alcor, which controls 5% of the shares; Mistral Iberia Real Estate, with 5.15%; and Línea Directa Aseguradora, with 2%.

Original story: Eje Prime

Translation: Carmel Drake

Almagro Capital will Debut on the MAB within the Next Few Months

15 November 2018 – Eje Prime

Almagro Capital is getting ever closer to the Alternative Investment Market (MAB). The Socimi, managed by Orfila Management and constituted in June 2017, has set itself the objective of listing between the end of this year and the beginning of 2019, according to sources at the company speaking to Eje Prime.

The company has just made the final move so that its debut on the stock market can materialise as soon as possible: it has converted itself into a limited company under the brand Almagro Capital Socimi, according to the Official Gazette of the Mercantile Registry (Borme).

Once on the MAB, the company is planning to undertake a capital increase and expand its presence in the main Spanish cities and their metropolitan areas, specifically: Valencia, Málaga, Salamanca, Granada, Bilbao and Sevilla. In all of these areas, the firm is going to adopt the same business model: to acquire housing for people aged over 65 years in which the sellers themselves become the tenants until they die.

Currently, the company has nine properties located in the city of Madrid, which range in size between 55 m2 and 585 m2 and which are worth between €300,000 and €3 million. The portfolio of homes includes assets located in the neighbourhoods of Chamberí, Goya, Chamartín, Princesa, Chopera, Lavapiés, Recoletos and Palacio.

Almagro Capital is the first Socimi oriented exclusively at the residential market for the elderly. Led by Felipe de los Ríos, the company carried out two capital increases in September: one amounting to €5.6 million and the other amounting to €13,154, as published in the Borme.

Alongside Felipe de los Ríos at the helm are José Nistal, a former director of Merrill Lynch and Ecofin; Francisco López de Posadas, founder and director of investments at Lift; and the tax expert Luis de Ulibarri – the three partners who launched Orfila Management in June 2017. To date, the manager has financed its investments with capital increases and debt.

For the time being, the company is not planning to diversify its activity or enter any new real estate segments. “We are specialising in a very powerful market niche and we want to continue backing it for a long time”, say sources at the company.

Original story: Eje Prime (by B. Seijo)

Translation: Carmel Drake

MAB’s Director Encourages Socimis to Generate Trust to Attract Investment

30 October 2018 – Finanzas

The Director General of the Alternative Investment Market (MAB), Jesús González Nieto (pictured below), has today encouraged the Socimis to “generate trust” through the transparency of their corporate governance arrangements to attract new investors and “to depend on the market for growth”.

González Nieto closed a conference about Socimis at the headquarters of the CEOE by underlining that generating trust is a task for everyone so that the real estate investment formula, which has been on the Spanish stock market for five years, can become increasingly well known.

In his opinion, the French and British markets have many more small investors in the real estate sector thanks to the structures that they have, which are similar to Socimis, and so he expects growth in the Spanish market if the entities can manage to provide good information about that possibility of stock market investment.

At the moment, 61 Socimis are trading on the MAB, whilst another five trade on the main stock market.

The Director General of Renta 4 Banco, Jesús Sánchez-Quiñones, has inaugurated a process for the concentration of Socimis over the coming years and has said that “they are avoiding stock market crashes”, due to their strong expectations and lower liquidity.

Representatives from eleven Socimis participated in the conference, ten on behalf of Socimis that are trading on the MAB and one that will make its debut soon: Park Rose Iberoamericana, which will start trading on 15 December.

The President of Park Rose, Luis Alberto Akel, explained that his firm has Chilean capital and is diversifying its real estate investments in Chile, the USA and Spain.

The CEO of Témpore, Nicolás Díaz Saldaña, warned that “there is a lot of international interest in the Spanish residential sector”, and, after reminding the audience that his Socimi arose as an “additional mechanism for the divestment of assets by Sareb”, he said that when that operation concludes, they will go “and look for new investors”.

Díaz Saldaña has indicated that he would like for Témpore to be listed on the main stock market and the Director General of GMP Property, José Luis García de la Calle, also noted that his firm has considered that option, but that the growing “demands” of the MAB are already broad enough, without having to implement audit and remuneration committees.

Meanwhile, the CEO of Castellana Properties, Alfonso Brunet said, “We are getting ready to comply with the requirements of the main stock market”.

The CEO of Vitruvio, Joaquín López-Chicheri, highlighted that “the Socimis allow us to diversify risk” and to be present in the four segments (residential, commercial, offices and logistics), whilst other participants in the conference indicated that they prefer to focus on a niche market.

In this way, José Nistal, from the Socimi Almagro, explained its specialisation in the purchase and rental of flats for the elderly, where the tenants have an average age of 84.3 years.

The latest Socimi to join the MAB, Azaria, in September, focuses exclusively on the long-term, stable, rental of offices and its only asset, for the time being, is the headquarters of El Páis, which is leased until 2033, explained its manager, Teodoro Díez.

Sergi Mirapeix, from Tander, explained that his firm only invests in commercial premises in the most central areas of cities (currently, it is present in four: Barcelona, Santander, Bilbao and San Sebastián) and Jorge González, the representative of the Socimi Asturias, has indicated that its sole objective is to focus on large retail parks.

Josep Turró, from Barcino, said that his firm is going to seek to diversify as much as possible, by “adaptating to demand”, and Fabrizio Agrimi, from Vbare Iberian, said that his Socimi is committed to “added value, without property developer risk”.

Original story: Finanzas 

Translation: Carmel Drake

Ores Socimi Acquires 3 Commercial Assets for €19.7M

25 October 2018 – Idealista

Ores Socimi has circumvented some of the operations that it was studying and has leapt into action. The Socimi owned by Bankinter and the Portuguese real estate company Sonae Sierra has acquired three commercial assets, occupied by the supermarkets Mercadona and Día, and the home decor store Conforama, for €19.7 million. The purchases have been carried out in Madrid and Santander.

In Madrid, Ores has purchased an asset occupied by Mercadona, located in the town of Humanes, which has a retail surface area of 2,334 m2. That transaction was carried out for €4.1 million.

Ores has also purchased a supermarket in Getafe, which is leased to and operated by the company Día. That asset has a total surface area of 1,956 m2 and the amount of the operation was €3 million. In Santander, meanwhile, the company has invested €12.6 million in an asset operated by Conforama and with a surface area of 8,000 m2.

These acquisitions form part of a new period of purchases by Ores, which has set itself the objective of investing €30 million, as revealed by Idealista News.

In this way, Ores is continuing to grow its portfolio, which comprises 30 assets and has a combined market value of more than €328 million and a gross annual income of €19.4 million.

Ores is aimed at private banking clients. Although its portfolio of assets is small, for the time being, the Socimi made its debut on the stock market with the objective of investing €400 million in retail premises on high streets, as well as supermarkets, retail parks (up by 20,000 m2), bank branches and singular assets with long-lasting leases and solvent tenants.

Bankinter and Sonae Sierra launched their real estate vehicle in record time. On 15 December last year, the two groups constituted the company and, within just two months, they carried out the process to create the vehicle, raised sufficient capital to get it going and completed its stock market debut.

Original story: Idealista (by Custodio Pareja)

Translation: Carmel Drake