(Adds interest in Walbrook Square, Goldman contracting, shares)
By Ben Harding and Clara Vilar
MADRID, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Spain´s second biggest property developer, Metrovacesa , said on Monday it had received offers of interest for stakes in HSBC´s London head office and the Walbrook Square development nearby.
"There are various offers of interest (in the HSBC Tower). There is also interest in the Walbrook development," a spokeswoman for Metrovacesa said. "People are interested in various Metrovacesa projects."
Metrovacesa was forced to revise its two-year business plan last week, just six months after launching it, opening the possibility of selling stakes in projects, though not the complete sale of strategic assets like the HSBC tower.
Management were studying which properties of which it might sell part, the spokeswoman said.
"One of these could be the HSBC office but this is being analysed. It´s all preliminary," she said, referring to the company´s highest value asset.
Metrovacesa has to repay 1.05 billion pounds ($2.07 billion) of debt this autumn -- 810 million pounds of which is money it borrowed from its tenant, Britain´s biggest bank, to buy the 45-storey tower in London´s Canary Wharf for 1.09 billion pounds in May 2007.
Metrovacesa shares had risen 1.3 percent to 49.64 euros by 1339 GMT against a 1 percent fall in Spain´s blue-chip Ibex index, having fallen 40 perecent since the start of the year.
The developer said later on Monday it had hired Goldman Sachs to advise it on the refinancing of the loan, which it has been trying to renegotiate since May, so far without success.
The debt is due on Nov. 27.
Metrovacesa also owes a further 240 million pounds used to buy the Walbrook Square office complex in London´s City financial district, which is due on Oct 31.
It bought the site at the peak of the property boom in the City and had planned to spend 1.4 billion euros ($2.18 billion) redeveloping it into four buildings. Since that peak UK commercial property values have fallen more than 19 percent.
Although less affected by Spain´s residential property meltdown, firms like Metrovacesa have seen commercial property valuations fall as the Spanish economy slows. That has dragged on corporate tenant demand for space and rents while supply has increased as properties have been sold to raise cash no longer available through debt funding.
Metrovacesa last month sold two shopping centres to France´s Unibail-Rodamco for 434 million euros ($676.2 million).
By Ben Harding and Clara Vilar
MADRID, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Spain´s second biggest property developer, Metrovacesa , said on Monday it had received offers of interest for stakes in HSBC´s London head office and the Walbrook Square development nearby.
"There are various offers of interest (in the HSBC Tower). There is also interest in the Walbrook development," a spokeswoman for Metrovacesa said. "People are interested in various Metrovacesa projects."
Metrovacesa was forced to revise its two-year business plan last week, just six months after launching it, opening the possibility of selling stakes in projects, though not the complete sale of strategic assets like the HSBC tower.
Management were studying which properties of which it might sell part, the spokeswoman said.
"One of these could be the HSBC office but this is being analysed. It´s all preliminary," she said, referring to the company´s highest value asset.
Metrovacesa has to repay 1.05 billion pounds ($2.07 billion) of debt this autumn -- 810 million pounds of which is money it borrowed from its tenant, Britain´s biggest bank, to buy the 45-storey tower in London´s Canary Wharf for 1.09 billion pounds in May 2007.
Metrovacesa shares had risen 1.3 percent to 49.64 euros by 1339 GMT against a 1 percent fall in Spain´s blue-chip Ibex index, having fallen 40 perecent since the start of the year.
The developer said later on Monday it had hired Goldman Sachs to advise it on the refinancing of the loan, which it has been trying to renegotiate since May, so far without success.
The debt is due on Nov. 27.
Metrovacesa also owes a further 240 million pounds used to buy the Walbrook Square office complex in London´s City financial district, which is due on Oct 31.
It bought the site at the peak of the property boom in the City and had planned to spend 1.4 billion euros ($2.18 billion) redeveloping it into four buildings. Since that peak UK commercial property values have fallen more than 19 percent.
Although less affected by Spain´s residential property meltdown, firms like Metrovacesa have seen commercial property valuations fall as the Spanish economy slows. That has dragged on corporate tenant demand for space and rents while supply has increased as properties have been sold to raise cash no longer available through debt funding.
Metrovacesa last month sold two shopping centres to France´s Unibail-Rodamco for 434 million euros ($676.2 million).