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Alburn bondholders to vote on debt restructuring

 


Bondholders of a £200m loan to Alburn Real Estate Capital will meet in September to vote on a restructure of the company’s debt facility after the loan breached its LTV covenant in April.


 


Noteholders will vote to force the company to sell at least £50m of properties to help remedy the covenant breach.


 


Other proposals include an amendment to the LTV ratio covenants and interest cover ratio covenants.


 


Alburn’s loan was secured against a portfolio of properties valued at £250m in 2007.


 


However, a revaluation by CBRE on 20 April valued the portfolio at £139m – a 44% decline.


 


The revaluation triggered a loan-to-value covenant breach which was not fixed by Alburn by the deadline of 12 August, causing a loan event of default.


 


nathan.cross@rbi.co.uk

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