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title: "Unit of Singapore billionaire Kwek family’s CDL grants $14.7M loan facility to Europe-focused real estate investment trust"
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description: "IREIT Global, a Europe-focused real estate investment trust, has secured a €12.5 million (US$14.7 million) loan from City Developments Limited's unit, City Strategic Equity. The loan will help fund construction costs for the Berlin Campus office development. It carries an interest rate linked to EURIBOR plus 3.55% and includes a change-of-control clause. IREIT Global plans to redevelop the site into a mixed-use property. The trust's portfolio includes five office assets in Germany and four in Spain, with an occupancy rate of 89% as of September 30."
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# Unit of Singapore billionaire Kwek family’s CDL grants $14.7M loan facility to Europe-focused real estate investment trust

The Singapore-listed trust disclosed in an exchange filing last Wednesday that the loan, granted by property developer CDL’s unit City Strategic Equity, will help cover a portion of the construction costs for its Berlin Campus, a single-tenant, single-use office development, as reported by _The Edge Singapore_.

The loan facility carries a per annum interest rate pegged to the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR) plus a margin of 3.55%.

It also contains a change-of-control clause requiring IREIT Global to prepay the loan if CDL or its subsidiaries cease to be substantial shareholders of the trust’s manager, IREIT Global Group.

IREIT Global Group is jointly owned by alternative asset manager Tikehau Capital and CDL, both of which also act as the trust’s joint sponsors, according to information on its website.

_The Business Times_ reported earlier this year that the manager intends to redevelop the Berlin Campus into a mixed-use, multi-let property incorporating office, retail and hospitality components. The former main tenant, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, vacated the development late last year.

IREIT Global's Berlin Campus development. Photo courtesy of IREIT Global

The trust has secured two key hospitality tenants for the redevelopment project. It said in a business update for the third quarter released last month that the repositioning is expected to have a "significant impact" on its distributions to unitholders.

IREIT says on its website that its portfolio consists of five freehold office assets in Germany and four in Spain, along with 44 retail properties in France, with total lettable space of about 425,000 square meters.

Excluding the Berlin Campus, its portfolio occupancy stood at 89% as at Sep. 30, lower than the previous quarter’s 89.5%, it said in the update.

CDL is controlled by the Kwek family, which is led by billionaire Kwek Leng Beng and ranked second on _Forbes_’ list of Singapore’s 50 richest this year with an estimated net worth of US$14.3 billion.

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