UPDATE: Google Expands In Ireland With EUR99.9 Million Building Buy
17 Fevereiro 2011 - 11:07AM
Dow Jones News
Google Inc. (GOOG) is expanding its operations in Dublin by
agreeing Thursday to pay EUR99.9 million for the city's tallest
office building, in one of Ireland's largest property deals since
the financial crisis.
The 67-meter Montevetro building in Dublin's Grand Canal Dock
district, has 15 stories, 210,000 square feet of office space and
can house about 2,000 staff.
Its developer, Treasury Holdings, started building it in March
2008, just as property prices were starting to slip into what would
become a dramatic plunge. After running out of cash to complete the
project, Treasury Holdings got working capital from Ireland's
National Asset Management Agency, the government-body that has
bought up large slugs of banks' impaired real estate development
loans, including those that backed Montevetro.
The seller of the building is Anglo-Irish property investment
fund Real Estate Opportunities PLC (REO.LN), a vehicle of Treasury
Holdings whose largest holding is London's Battersea Power
Station.
REO Chairman Ray Horney said the sale is one of the largest in
Irish commercial property for several years, "and the company
believes it has achieved a very good price in the current market
environment."
NAMA Chairman Frank Daly said it got more than its money back on
the bank loans it received, as well as on the additional funding it
extended for the building's completion.
"The successful completion of the Montevetro development and its
sale again reflect the positive potential of NAMA to support the
commercial property market in Ireland without compromising its
objective of recovering monies owed to the taxpayer," he said.
Ireland set up the agency as part of its effort to restore its
banks to health but has since needed a EUR67.5 billion bailout from
the European Union and International Monetary Fund. The country's
biggest banks were hit hard by huge losses on loans to property
developers, as a decade-long real-estate boom turned to bust.
No one at Google was immediately able to comment on its Dublin
plans. The technology company has about 1,700 people currently
working in the Irish city, its European headquarters, and said last
month is aims to add about 1,000 people in Europe in London and
other parts of the region.
-By Margot Patrick, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)20 7842 9451;
margot.patrick@dowjones.com
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