Sale/Lease Back
Sale/leaseback is a financing tool that became popular in the 90´s due to the tightening of the credit. This type of financing was used by small and medium companies that needed cash to grow their business but their only real estate asset was their business facility.
We had two interviews with bankers that explained to us how is the deal made and what are the benefits it brings. Javier Jaramillo is a senior VP of Investments at UBS and has been a banker all his life. Although he doesn´t deal right now with this kind of financing he learned about sale/leaseback when he worked at Wachovia. The other person we interviewed is Roberto Erana an MBA student at Babson that is a former VP from Bank of America which is a bank that offers
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The deal is structured in a way that the company needing the finance sells the fix asset to the financing company for cash and immediately a lease agreement is signed for a long term lease, typically a 15 to 20 years contract with renewal options. What the company is doing is freeing capital they had invested, so that they can use it for other investing activities or purposes. “The terms will include a base rent computed as a percentage of the purchase price. Typically, periodic rent escalators will be included in the lease; these may be pegged to some indicator such as the Consumer Price Index, the tenant's business revenues, or both.” This agreement can also include other terms so that the tenant can control the variable costs of the asset such as maintenance, insurance …show more content…
The asset must not be as a collateral for other credit that the company has, or if it is the proceed of the operation must be used to cancel that credit line and use the remaining money to the main purpose of the operation. Usually companies uses this tool to free capital from their headquarters, warehouses, IT equipment or machinery that they usually use for their day to day operation and that they will still have to use in the future but need cash to finance growth or other activities.
4. Key things to take into account when doing a Sale/leaseback
When you are doing a sale/leaseback operation there are two main issues that will determine if it is a good operation or not.
The first one is the price at which the asset is sold. Usually, if it is a real estate asset the market value of the property should be used and it can be determined by an independent professional appraiser. For Machinery or equipment the company should also make due diligence to determine which is the market value of the asset.
The second key financial factor is the rental rate. This rate will depend in risk involved in the operation that will depend on the risk or financial strength of the tenant and the cost of funds of the buyer. 5. Benefits from a sale/leaseback
Company assets are to be purchased, used and disposed of solely for the benefit of the Company. Confidential information must be protected.
Collateral for the defaulted loan. Distressed real estate involves making a distressed purchase. According to Financial Crisis (2011), “[A] distressed purchase is whereby the property owners are usually in a foreclosure/short sale situation.” Foreclosure applies to a residential real estate loan in which a bank or creditor repossesses a home because of nonpayment. The institution will legally possess the right to resell the property as collateral for the defaulted loan. The selling price can be sold at a price equal to or greater than the original loan. The reason distressed properties can be bought at a lower price is the institution has already received a series of payments toward the original home loan. In many situations the lender can sell the house for a lower cost than the normal market value, leaving the buyer the opportunity to make a purchase at a lower selling price than market value and reselling the property at a profit (Demand Media, 2011).
Leasing may also be a better option if you don’t have very much cash saved for a down payment. Usually a leaser requires a “drive off” o...
The NAL still favors buying over leasing by $1216. The only other consideration would be that lease may raise the earnings on asset ratio above 12%. But since the PV of the lease payments is greater than 90% of the FMV (assuming the purchase prices is FMV), then it would be considered a capital lease and the asset would go on the Balance Sheet. Therefore there are no earning over asset ratio advantages to leasing.
This way an auction doesn't have to pay the individual until the following sale or when the last piece off property was sold. Make sure in the contract that it has a date that all personal property will be sold by.
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value of that property to be much lower. Since the property was a dilapidated building in a bad
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Thirdly, serial borrowing and repurchase throughout several years is considered. This is essentially the financial policy the company has adopted these years. This policy is less risky measured by coverage ratios and is more acceptable to stockholders. However, UST has imminent challenges and value enhancing objectives to meet. If the company has debt capacity untapped upon, large sum repurchases avoid excessive advisory fee, negotiation time and effort, potentially credit rating charge while immediate significant tax shield benefit is made possible.
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