Saturday, February 6, 2010

Hotel Foreclosure Watch: iStar Reclaims its Peach

IStar Financial Inc. is gambling there’s more peach than pit at Atlanta’s posh, Robert A.M. Stern-designed Mansion on Peachtree hotel, which the lender seized at foreclosure auction this week.

The New York commercial-mortgage real-estate investment trust had provided a $147.5 million mortgage on the 127-room hotel with 45 condominiums, ended up making the only bid at the auction. That bid was for a relatively scant $66.1 million – about 45% of the mortgage’s face amount.

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