Sberbank sells real estate in Europe

Sberbank of the Russian Federation decided to sell real estate to his European "daughters", Vedomosti told the adviser to the general director of the Russian auction house Valdemar Weiss - a company with which the State Bank signed an agreement on the implementation of the facilities.

So far, as a pilot project, the company will sell Sberbank Europe real estate in Hungary and Croatia, he pointed out. According to him, we are talking about the property that went to the bank to pay off debts on loans. Many of the objects went to Sberbank even from Volksbank International AG, which he bought in 2012, Weiss said.

About 20 real estate objects can be transferred to the implementation, says Waldemar Weiss. These are developer projects and commercial objects, as well as residential real estate, he lists, everything that was received as bailiffs on loans. So, among objects for sale is the building of the Auto -Di -Digerian Center with an area of ​​6490 square meters. m, located in Zagreb. There, the State Bank sells a commercial room with an area of ​​841.3 square meters. m and office at 718.9 square meters. m.

Based on the fact that investors are actively buying commercial real estate in Europe, Sberbank chose a successful moment for the sale of assets, notes Vedomosti. The volume of investments in European trading real estate in the first half of 2015 grew compared to the same period last year by 28% to 26 billion euros, at the end of July, Analysts by JLL. The volume of transactions with offices in Europe in the II quarter of 2015 increased by 37% to 135 billion euros. This is the highest indicator since 2007, previously wrote The Wall Street Journal with a reference to the analytical portal Real Capital Analytics.

Sberbank is interesting to sell not only real estate. Since February, the bank has been negotiating the sale of banks in Slovakia and Hungary. When asked about what markets Sberbank intended to leave, the deputy chairman of the State Bank, Sergei Gorkov, previously said that the bank is considering various options, but priority will be given to the countries where the State Bank occupies a solid market share. Among the countries that are "really important" for Sberbank, he then noted the Czech Republic.