First Mariner Tower Faces Foreclosure
The US real estate sector is in the dumps. With increasing unemployment people are finding it difficult to make their mortgage payments. Hence, foreclosures have become common. Now the First Mariner Tower will be foreclosed upon. A French bank has begun proceedings against the property which is located at Canton Crossing. Foreclosure proceedings could not be averted as developer Edwin F. Hale Senior’s businesses got affected. It started with the banking business and spread rapidly to the real estate.
Paris-based bank Natixis SA said it plans to auction the 17 storied building. The adjacent land will also come under the hammer. The company has already defaulted on the loan of $84 million. Subsequently, a sales notice has been issued against it. Hale said he is trying hard to solve the crisis. The building may even be sold.
Hale will look at other options too. The foreclosure bit is the recent bit of bad news to have struck Hale. Earlier, the First Mariner Bank ran into rough weather. The bank is now operating under a very close scrutiny of the Federal government.
The bank has been asked to improve the capital structure and also deal with problem mortgage strongly. There is a "cease-and-desist" order that determines capital levels of the bank. Hale observes that the foreclosure news will surely not be a good thing.
Now Hale’s plans to develop the area around the tower are uncertain. However, Greenberg Gibbons, who is the Owings Mills based developer and is a partner of Hale, says that the foreclosure does not affect the plans of a shopping centre. That is definitely on the cards.
The foreclosure is happening because the bank refused to renew the $84 million loan that matured two months ago. Hale said that he has not defaulted but regrets that the bank has found him so in some provisions. Hale said that 92 per cent of 1st Mariner Tower is leased out. It also has a good cash flow. There are tenants like Comcast, CareFirst and Prometric.
The tower, which had a value of $150 million to $160 million even a few years ago, now has a worth of $130 million. Hale says that the worst challenge facing him is the lack of viable financing.
Times are indeed very challenging. The director in the real estate group of PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, Susan Smith says that lenders are very cautious, when it comes to refinancing or a new loan.
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