Sep
13
Refinancing Looms for HNA’s Hong Kong Projects
By-
First loans for project at former airport come up in November
-
Existing lenders are reluctant to extend or provide new loans
When HNA Group Co., the Chinese conglomerate that’s been buying up companies worldwide, spent $3.5 billion in Hong Kong earlier this year on land for its first luxury real estate development, it had no problems getting bank funding.
But now HNA needs more: to refinance the short-term loans it used for its purchases, which start coming due in November, and then to actually build the towers that will lure high-end buyers and start generating money…