COLONIAL: CONFERENCE CALL ON ASSET SALES (ANÁLISIS BANCO SABADELL)
The company has given further details on the asset sales worth € 413 M (around 3% of GAV) announced this morning:
In total, 5 assets have been sold, 2 in Paris and3 in Spain. In all the cases the deals have been carried out above the appraisal value.
The rationale behind the divestitures is to reduce leverage and remove from the portfolio those assets with worse fit, less prime.
France. The assets have been sold at a +16% premium v. the pre Covid-19 appraisal (Dic’19).
Spain. The assets have been sold at a +11% premium v. the pre Covid-19 appraisal (Dic’19), bearing in mind the office portfolio alone (also including one retail asset from Axaire) the premium would be +13%.
LTV. Most of the funds will be earmarked to reduce debt, and thus the leverage falls by -150bps in LTV to