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Martinsa Fadesa Puts Batch Of Assets Up For Sale For €67M

5 October 2016 – Expansión

Martinsa Fadesa’s bankruptcy administrators have put a new batch of assets up for sale, under auction. The portfolio include estates, plots of land and even, several golf courses, with a combined value of, at least, €67 million. The deadline for the submission of offers will close on 3 November.

Specifically, the real estate company, which has filed for liquidation, has put the company Casasola Explotaciones Agropecuarias up for sale – it is an associate of the Martinsa Fadesa Group and the holding company owns a 48% stake in it – for a minimum price of €32.5 million. This company is the owner of several estates in the province of Valladolid, according to the website that has been created to provide information about the company’s liquidation.

In addition, the real estate company, which was controlled and chaired by Fernando Martín, has put Urbanizadora Club de Campo de Logroño up for sale, whose assets include plots of land and homes in Sojuela (La Rioja) as well as the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, for minimum prices of €8.6 million and €162,000, respectively.

Meanwhile, the company has launched an auction for Guadalmina Golf, a company in which the holding company holds a 31.82% stake and whose main activity is the operation of three golf courses (two 18-hole courses and one 9-hole course), in the municipality of Marbella (Málaga). The minimum price to participate in the bid is €7.95 million. Martinsa Fadesa also wants to sell Inversiones Inmobiliarias Rústicas y Urbanas 2000, owner of an estate in El Molar (Madrid), for a minimum price of €17.9 million.

Martinsa Fadesa was declared insolvent in July 2008, with debt amounting to €7,000 million. The liquidation process began before the summer of 2015 after a court agreed months earlier to open this phase of the process for the real estate company and another five debtor entities.

Original story: Expansión (by R. Arroyo)

Translation: Carmel Drake

ECI Puts 200 Properties Up For Sale For €1,000M

1 March 2016 – Expansión

Launch of Operation Batman / At the end of March, the retail giant will start to sell off dozens of logistics assets, supermarkets, offices and plots of land, in an effort to reduce its level of debt.

El Corte Inglés is making progress with its plan to divest its non-strategic real estate assets, in an effort to reduce its debt, with the launch of a huge real estate asset sales process. The retail giant is planning to put the For Sale sign up over a batch of 200 properties with an approximate value of €1,000 million.

This batch of assets includes up to 102 supermarkets – some of which are operational, whilst others are closed – , 32 logistics assets, which cover a surface area of 500,000 m2 and several plots of land. It also includes 50 high street retail outlets, with a combined surface area of 180,000 m2, and 20 office properties located in Madrid and Barcelona.

The process, dubbed internally as Operation Batman, is being coordinated by Morgan Stanley, which has collaborated with the El Corte Inglés in other operations. Meanwhile, Clifford Chance is responsible for providing legal advice.

According to sources close to the operation, the company intends to put this portfolio of assets up for sale at the end of this month. For the time being, the company has commissioned the valuation of the properties, with a view to receiving the first non-binding offers on 16 May and the definitive offers by the middle of July. The objective of Dimas Gimeno, the President of the El Corte Inglés, is to complete the asset sales before August.

The upcoming operation is attracting growing interest in the market. Most of the large funds, insurance companies and even some of the larger Socimis have expressed their interest in participating in the auction.

The company will accept offers for all of the properties, as well as for separate lots, if the potential purchaser is interested in buying, for example, only those assets linked to the logistics operations, the supermarkets or the offices. El Corte Inglés is not including the joy of its logistics crown in the lot: its megacentre in the south of Madrid. Nor is it willing to divest Torre Titania, or its historical headquarters in Hermosilla. (…).

Original story: Expansión (by R. Ruiz/A. Antón)

Translation: Carmel Drake