Thursday, January 16, 2014

HFF closes sale of and arranges acquisition financing for 12-property office portfolio in Southern California


Kilroy 12-property office portfolio in Sorrento Mesa and Rancho Bernardo submarkets
of San Diego, CA


Nick Psyllos
SAN DIEGO, CA – HFF announced it has closed the sale of a 12-property office portfolio totaling nearly 1.1 million square feet throughout the Sorrento Mesa and Rancho Bernardo submarkets of San Diego, California.

HFF marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Kilroy Realty Corporation.

 An affiliate of Starwood Capital Group Global, a leading private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, purchased the asset free and clear of existing debt. 

Ryan Gallagher
HFF also arranged a variable-rate acquisition loan on behalf of the buyer through Wells Fargo Bank and CIBC as the senior lenders and Goldman Sachs as the mezzanine lender.

The institutional quality portfolio is 91 percent leased overall and includes one-, two-, and three-story office buildings located in the suburban markets of Sorrento Mesa and Rancho Bernardo.  The average completion date for the 12-building portfolio is 2002.

Michael Leggett
The HFF investment sales team representing the seller was led by senior managing directors Nick Psyllos and Ryan Gallagher, and senior managing director and co-head of HFF’s national office investment sales platform Michael Leggett.

HFF’s debt placement team was led by senior managing directors Tim Wright and Don Curtis and managing director Aldon Cole.

With more than 65 years of experience owning, developing, acquiring and managing commercial properties in West Coast real estate markets, publicly traded real estate investment trust Kilroy Realty Corporation (KRC), a member of the S&P MidCap 400 Index, is one of the region’s premier landlords. 

Tim Wright
The company provides physical work environments that can advance creativity and productivity to serve a roster of dynamic, innovation-driven tenants that includes technology, entertainment, digital media and health care companies. 

At September 30, 2013, the company’s stabilized portfolio totaled 12.5 million square feet of office properties, all located in the coastal regions of greater Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego.

 In addition, KRC has approximately 1.9 million square feet of new office development under construction with a total estimated investment of approximately $1.1 billion. 

Don Curtis
More information is available at www.kilroyrealty.com.

Starwood Capital Group is a private, U.S.-based investment firm with a core focus on global real estate.  

Since the group’s inception in 1991, the firm has raised more than $23 billion of equity capital and acquired over $45 billion in assets. 

  Starwood Capital Group currently has $32 billion of assets under management.  Starwood Capital Group maintains offices in Greenwich, Atlanta, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Chicago, and affiliated offices in London, Luxembourg, Paris, Mumbai and Sao Paulo. 

  Starwood Capital Group has invested in nearly every class of real estate on a global basis, including office, retail, residential, senior housing, golf, hotels, resorts and industrial assets.

Aldon Cole
  Starwood Capital Group and its affiliates have successfully executed an investment strategy that includes building enterprises around core real estate portfolios in both the private and public markets.

 Additional information about Starwood Capital can be found at www.starwoodcapital.com.

For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Kristen M. Murphy
Associate Director
HFF | One Post Office Square, Suite 3500 | Boston, MA 02109
Main: 617-338-0990 | Direct: 617-848-1572 | Cell: 617-543-4873 | www.hfflp.com


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