Accor Sells 30 Hotel Properties in the United Kingdom for EUR711 Million and Signs a Development Partnership With Land Securities
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Accor Sells 30 Hotel Properties in the United Kingdom for EUR711 Million and Signs a Development Partnership With Land Securities
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Category: Europe -
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Accor will continue to operate the hotels under 12-year
variable leases, whose rents are based on an average 21% of annual revenues with no guaranteed minimum. The leases are renewable six times, for a total of 84 years (the variable rent for 2006 would have amounted to EUR41
million). Expenses related to the real estate and hotel building - structural maintenance capex and insurance costs - will henceforth be borne by the new owner. Finally, the agreement includes a EUR53 million renovation program financed by the owner.
The transaction enables Accor to partner with a leading UK
property company. Land Securities is a FTSE 100 company with a market value of more than EUR15 billion, which owns property assets in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In addition, the agreement signed today calls for the
creation of a long-term development partnership that will enable Accor to step up its expansion program in the United Kingdom.
Financially, the transaction will enable Accor to reduce its adjusted net debt by EUR584 million, of which EUR172 million will be added to the Group's cash reserves. It will have no impact on EBITDA but will add EUR7 million to 2007 profit before tax.
Accor's financial advisers on the transaction were NM Rothschild & Sons, with legal and tax advice by CMS Cameron Mc Kenna.
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