NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwire) — 01/18/13 — Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: PSEC) (“Prospect”) announced today that Prospect has expanded its diversified yield investment business into the real estate marketplace with three new investments aggregating nearly $50 million.
With more than $4 billion of assets and committed capital across more than 100 companies, Prospect is one of the largest and most diversified companies in the business development company peer universe. Prospect–s diversified yield businesses include private equity sponsor finance, non-sponsor direct lending, Prospect-sponsored recapitalizations, structured credit investments, and now real estate investments. Prospect examines all industries as part of its investment review.
Prospect closed more than $2.25 billion of originations in calendar year 2012 across more than 50 new portfolio companies, not including transactions with existing portfolio companies.
“While our initial real estate investments have been in industrial and multi-family residential properties, Prospect is interested in all types of direct and indirect real estate investments, including properties owned by private equity-owned companies,” said Grier Eliasek, President and Chief Operating Officer of Prospect. “We have hundreds of millions of dollars of liquidity, are growing, and are actively screening new investment opportunities in real estate and beyond. Our focus is on recurring and stable cash flow streams that we can dividend to our shareholders.”
Prospect has made its real estate investments by investing debt and equity into a newly-established, de-consolidated portfolio company called APH Property Holdings, LLC (“American Property Holdings” or “APH”), which owns a tax-efficient and private real estate investment trust.
APH recently invested $30.4 million for the acquisition of Live Oaks, a multi-family residential property located in Tampa, Florida. Live Oaks was completed in 1991 as a garden-style apartment complex with 770 residential units in 55 buildings situated on a 60-acre parcel.
In December 2012, APH invested $9.6 million to acquire Abbington Pointe, a multi-family residential property located in Marietta, Georgia. Abbington Pointe was built in 1983 as a garden-style apartment complex. The property consists of 408 residential units in 50 buildings on a 37-acre parcel.
In October 2012, APH invested $7.8 million to acquire a 110,000 square foot industrial facility located on a 5.4-acre parcel in Forest Park, Georgia. The Forest Park property is leased to a single tenant in the chicken processing industry. That tenant has occupied the property for thirteen years, with ten years remaining on the lease.
ABOUT PROSPECT CAPITAL CORPORATION
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