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AgFe readies Bundesbank’s €238m Portfolio Green sale

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Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, is bringing to market the €238.78m Portfolio Green CMBS, a legacy Lehman Brothers securitisation, in a private debt auction arranged by AgFe, CoStar News understands. AgFe, the European structured finance advisory firm, is understood to … Continue reading

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Allied Irish Bank assembles £400m Project Pivot UK loan portfolio

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Allied Irish Bank has assembled a granular UK commercial property loan portfolio with a nominal value of £397m, codenamed Project Pivot, in the second loan portfolio the bank  has brought to market in the last month, CoStar News can reveal. … Continue reading

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Evans Randall eyes massive Drapers Gardens sale premium

Evans Randall, the UK private equity real estate company, is in talks to sell Drapers Gardens to Boston Properties, the US real estate investment trust, for around £285m, which would mark a £42.5m premium to the price paid less than … Continue reading

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Part III: Excalibur’s CMBS bonds and B-notes

In the final part of CoStar News’ analysis of Excalibur, we look at the deal’s CMBS bond portfolios and the Windermere XIV B-notes. Excalibur’s CMBS bonds Diversity Funding – outstanding €107.67m CMBS bond balance (Jan IPD) Lehman Brothers bought Northern … Continue reading

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Part II: Excalibur unmasked

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In the second part of a CoStar News insight into Europe’s most beguiling structured real estate finance structure, the underlying borrowers that lay behind the remaining positions are unmasked, which is a reminder of how convoluted Lehman’s real estate strategies … Continue reading

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Part I: The Birth of Excalibur

Lehman Brothers’ legacy throughout European real estate lives on almost three-and-a-half years after its stunning collapse. Nothing better encapsulates the tangled web of its own making on this side of the Atlantic than the hastily-assembled collateralised debt obligation (CDO), Excalibur, … Continue reading

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Lone Star closes Excalibur Carlyle loan at 35% discount

Lone Star has bought the €430.4m Carlyle loan, secured by a portfolio of bonds in a Lehman Brothers European CMBS, from Deutsche Bundesbank for €279.28m, reflecting a blended 35.11% discount. The sale, which CoStar News has learned was traded and … Continue reading

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Lone Star buys Lehman’s €1.8bn Excalibur portfolio

Lone Star, the global private equity firm, has bought 50% of the €1.8bn Excalibur portfolio, Lehman Brothers’ legacy securitised real estate debt, from the Bundesbank and is in exclusive talks to buy the remainder by the end of February, CoStar … Continue reading

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