HFF Announces $110M Financing of 6-Property Multi-State Grocery-Anchored Portfolio

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) announces the $110 million financing of a portfolio comprising six grocery-anchored retail properties totaling 876,153 square feet in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee.

The HFF team worked on behalf of Branch Retail Partners, L.P. and its affiliate Branch Properties, LLC to place the $110 million, seven-year, fixed-rate loan with one of HFF's life insurance company correspondent lenders.

The portfolio consists of six grocery-anchored properties located throughout the southeastern United States and anchored by Publix, Kroger and Whole Foods. The portfolio boasts excellent locations in high-growth markets in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee and received considerable interest from the lending community due to its strong financial performance.

The HFF debt placement team representing the borrower included senior director Chip Sykes and analyst James Clingman.

"We are thrilled to have arranged this financing with one of our strongest insurance company correspondent lenders on behalf of our valued client, Branch Properties," Sykes said. "Branch had not previously worked with this particular lender and we hope this deal will mark the beginning of a long and productive relationship between them."

About Branch Properties, LLC

Founded in 1973 and based in Atlanta, Branch Properties, LLC, is a private real estate investment firm whose primary focus is high-quality, grocery-anchored shopping centers located in the southeastern United States. As a vertically integrated real estate operating company, Branch has the in-house expertise to source, negotiate, acquire, develop, re-develop, finance, lease and manage its investments. Over the past four-plus decades, Branch has acquired, developed and managed over $2.5 billion of commercial real estate, accounting for more than 12 million square feet of leasable space. Learn more at http://www.branchprop.com.

About HFF

HFF and its affiliates operate out of 24 offices and are a leading provider of commercial real estate and capital markets services to the global commercial real estate industry. HFF, together with its affiliates, offers clients a fully integrated capital markets platform including debt placement, investment sales, equity placement, funds marketing, M&A and corporate advisory, loan sales and loan servicing. Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P., HFF Real Estate Limited (collectively, "HFF"), HFF Securities L.P. and HFF Securities Limited (collectively, "HFFS") are owned by HFF, Inc. HF. For more information, please visit hfflp.com or follow HFF on Twitter @HFF.

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