ARTICLES LABELLED WITH TAG refinancing

Futureal, owner of the Etele Plaza shopping centre in Budapest, has signed a €165 million loan agreement with a consortium comprising Erste Bank Hungary, Erste Group Bank and UniCredit Bank Hungary. The refinancing extends the loan maturity to 2035.

GTC has priced €455 million senior secured notes due 2030 with a coupon of 6.50% per annum. The transaction was oversubscribed and attracted international institutional investors and Polish funds, including both existing noteholders and new investors.

HB Reavis has completed a €510 million refinancing of Varso Place, its flagship Warsaw development, with two new banks joining the credit consortium. The financing increased by €35 million from the previous €475 million loan on improved terms.

Real estate owner GTC has secured a refinancing loan of up to €84 million from J&T Banka for Galeria Północna, one of its landmark retail assets in Warsaw. The five-year facility will strengthen the company’s liquidity and support the acquisition of the remaining stake in its German residential portfolio, the company announced on LinkedIn.  

Erste Group Bank AG has provided a €85.5 million refinancing facility for Argeş Mall in Piteşti, developed by Prime Kapital.

A consortium of banks, Santander Bank Polska and Helaba (Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen), has granted AFI a €120 million loan to refinance four PRS projects under the AFI Home brand in Warsaw, Kraków, and Wrocław. This is one of the largest PRS financing transactions in Poland to date. 

Echo Investment has secured refinancing worth €61.4 million for the Libero Katowice shopping center. The loan was granted by a consortium consisting of Bank Pekao S.A. and PKO Bank Polski S.A. The entire retail space at Libero is leased – the center features over 150 stores and service outlets.

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) has underwritten an investment facility, totalling €120 million to refinance a logistics portfolio located across Poland for EQT Real Estate. pbb acted as arranger and sole lender under the facility.

Henderson Park and EPP have successfully secured a €148.6 million loan from Berlin Hyp AG and PKO Bank Polski to refinance a Polish office portfolio. The three assets, which comprise the Malta Office Park in Poznań, the O3 Business Campus in Kraków and the Symetris Business Park in Łódź, are owned in joint venture by Henderson Park and EPP.

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (pbb) has underwritten an investment facility for a retail portfolio in Poland for Pine Bridge Benson Elliot. The portfolio consists of three shopping centres in Łódź, Toruń and Kraków in Poland.