Kimco Realty Completes the Sale of a Nine-Property Mexican Shopping Center Portfolio
Kimco Realty Corp. (NYSE: KIM) today announced it has closed on the sale
of a nine-property Mexican shopping center portfolio to a local real
estate operator for a gross sales price of 3.35 billion Mexican pesos
(US$274 million), including 573 million Mexican pesos (US$47 million) of
mortgage debt. Kimco held a 47.6 percent interest in this portfolio
which comprised 2.6 million square feet and was 91 percent occupied. The
company’s share of proceeds from this transaction were approximately
US$93 million with Kimco recognizing a gain on sale of operating
properties of approximately US$26 million.
With the sale of these nine properties, Kimco’s remaining Mexican
shopping center portfolio comprises 47 properties totaling 9.4 million
square feet.
ABOUT KIMCO
Kimco Realty Corp. (NYSE: KIM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT)
headquartered in New Hyde Park, N.Y., that owns and operates North
America’s largest portfolio of neighborhood and community shopping
centers. As of March 31, 2013, the company owned interests in 895
shopping centers comprising 131 million square feet of leasable space
across 44 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and South America.
Publicly traded on the NYSE since 1991, and included in the S&P 500
Index, the company has specialized in shopping center acquisition,
development and management for more than 50 years. For further
information, please visit www.kimcorealty.com,
the company’s blog at blog.kimcorealty.com,
or follow Kimco on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kimcorealty.
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