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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Tarragon Close to Selling $97M of Rental Assets

NEW YORK CITY-The locally based urban homebuilding raises its 2005 guidance on homebuilding sales and earnings. Sales in its rental portfolio are forthcoming.

By Barbara Jarvie | Updated on May 11, 2005

NEW YORK CITY-Locally based Tarragon Corp. is close to selling 14 properties for approximately $96.6 million. “We have either contracts, letters of intent or offers in hand,” said Tarragon chairman and CEO William Friedman during a conference call on the urban homebuilder’s first quarter results. The sales could result in pre-tax gains on sale of approximately $44 million.

Tarragon’s capital redeployment strategy for its rental assets started in March. “It’s still very early in the sales process and the offers we’ve been receiving fully meet our expectations and exceed the current value of the properties,” Friedman added. The company is developing a disposition strategy for 39 rental properties with a market value of $275 million; 27 are being actively marketed for sale. “We anticipate one closing or more each month.”

Tarragon has also identified a portfolio of 27 properties in Connecticut and the southeast that it hopes to refinance and contribute to a joint venture with a financial partner to free up approximately $150 million in capital and reduce consolidated debt by more than $190 million. The company expects to manage the proposed joint venture and retain a minority interest in it. The JV will acquire existing apartment communities within core markets and buy new rental properties to be developed by Tarragon. Eight rental properties comprising 2,500 apartments with a book value of $178 million will be retained for condo conversion with an estimated sellout exceeding $400 million.

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