LONG BEACH, CA-HCP Inc., a healthcare-focused REIT, has priced an offering of $350 million of 4.2% senior unsecured notes due in 2024. The offering has a yield-to-maturity of 4.257%. It is expected to close on February 21, 2014.

The REIT priced the offering in response to growing demand. The price is based on 99.537% of the principal note value. Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities LLC are joint acting book-running managers.

After paying for expenses, HCP expects to earn nearly $345 million from the offering. Earnings will go to repay $240 million remaining on HCP's bank line of credit. The REIT had used the credit line in part to repay $400 million of 2.7% senior notes, which were due February 1, 2014 and a 5.7% mortgage debt also due February 1, 2014 with an aggregate principal of $156 million. Any remaining funds will be used for general corporate purposes. HCP did not respond to a request for comment.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.