{"id":1068,"date":"2019-06-13T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T10:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/sareb-launches-arqura-homes-to-develop-over-17000-new-homes\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:29:10","slug":"sareb-launches-arqura-homes-to-develop-over-17000-new-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/sareb-launches-arqura-homes-to-develop-over-17000-new-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sareb launches \u00c1rqura Homes to develop over 17,000 new homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sareb<\/strong> today announced the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arqurahomes.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&Aacute;rqura Homes<\/a>, to manage and develop part of its residential property portfolio, comprising assets with a total value of EUR811 million. By 2027, it plans to invest a total of EUR2,238 million to develop <strong>17,095 new homes<\/strong> across the whole of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>This investment vehicle will operate as a<strong> Bank Asset Fund (FAB)<\/strong>, a type of financial instrument specifically designed for Sareb and operated as a joint venture. Sareb currently has a 100% stake in &Aacute;rqura Homes, although some of the funds managed by <strong>V&auml;rde Partners<\/strong> are set to acquire a 10% share, once they receive approval from the European Commission&#8217;s Directorate-General for Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total asset value transferred, 41% relates to developments under construction, 29% to land in the planning process, 27% to serviced development land and 3% to developments currently on hold. The assets will be managed by Aelca, one of the top developers in the real estate sector, which is owned by funds managed by V&auml;rde Partners, a global alternative investment firm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&Aacute;rqura<\/strong> will develop 17,095 new homes across 15 regions of Spain, with <strong>Andalusia<\/strong>, <strong>Catalonia<\/strong> and the<strong> Region of Madrid<\/strong> set to account for a combined total of 58% of the new properties.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the FAB forms part of Sareb&#8217;s strategy to maximise the value of part of its residential property portfolio. The company&#8217;s CEO, Jaime Echegoyen, highlighted that &Aacute;rqura Homes is a &#8220;will be instrumental in boosting the company&#8217;s property portfolio, helping to meet the property demand that continues to exist not only in the main cities of Spain, but also in their wider metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n<p>After transferring the management of these assets to &Aacute;rqura, Sareb still controls a land portfolio valued at over EUR3,750 million and a series of residential developments &ndash; under construction or completed by the company &ndash; comprising a total of 2,800 homes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forecast investment by province until 2027 (&euro; million)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/file_source\/web\/contentinstances\/articles\/noticias2019\/es_es\/en_us\/forecastinvestmentbyprovince.jpg\" name=\"vgn_ext_templ_rewrite?vgnextoid=c19467ccc1c4b610VgnVCM200000a6ecbf0aRCRD&amp;vgnextwrapperstaticfile=\/file_source\/web\/contentinstances\/articles\/noticias2019\/es_es\/en_us\/forecastinvestmentbyprovince.jpg&amp;vgnextmgmtpath=\/file_source\/vgn_ext_templ_rewrite\" alt=\"forecast investment by province.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"1320\" vgn_ext_params=\"type=image\/jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Forecast homes by province until 2027 (Units)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/file_source\/web\/contentinstances\/media\/images\/forecasthomesbyprovince.jpg\" name=\"vgn_ext_templ_rewrite?vgnextoid=b0a467ccc1c4b610VgnVCM200000a6ecbf0aRCRD&amp;vgnextwrapperstaticfile=\/file_source\/web\/contentinstances\/media\/images\/forecasthomesbyprovince.jpg&amp;vgnextmgmtpath=\/file_source\/vgn_ext_templ_rewrite\" alt=\"forecast homes by province.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"1320\" vgn_ext_params=\"type=image\/jpeg\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sareb today announced the launch of &Aacute;rqura Homes, to manage and develop part of its residential property portfolio, comprising assets with a total value of EUR811 million. By 2027, it plans to invest a total of EUR2,238 million to develop 17,095 new homes across the whole of Spain. This investment vehicle will operate as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1750],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","tag-company"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15687,"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/15687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sareb.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}