Bank of America – SF’s ‘Trump Tower’ Taken Off The Market, Denying Trump Huge Payday

The 555 California Street constructing, which the Trump household co-owns, is not on the market, and Trump can’t be comfortable that he gained’t get his $1.5 billion payout.

It’s no secret that President Trump is a co-owner of the 555 California Street workplace constructing, or quite, the Trump household owns a 30% share of the constructing. The bulk, controlling proprietor is a company actual property agency known as Vornado Realty Belief, although the property is listed on Trump.com too. The property has additionally been listed on the market for the reason that summer time, leaving the Trump household in line for an estimated $1.5 billion payout (if the $5 billion asking price had been met) at a time after they’ve received at the least $421 million in debt coming due.

However maintain on to your Ivanka purses, children, as a result of that $1.5 billion is not within the pipeline. The Wall Street Journal broke the information that 555 California has been taken off the market, and the Trumps’ billion-dollar windfall gained’t be coming anytime quickly. The Journal’s report is behind a subscription paywall, however the information can also be reported within the San Francisco Enterprise Occasions, if you wish to begin plotting your Hitler “Downfall” parody video of “Trump finds out he’s not getting his $1.5 billion.”

The Chronicle received a full assertion out of the Cushfield & Wakeman govt dealing with the sale of the 52-story former Bank of America headquarters, and it’s a tour de drive of evasion and actual property trade bullshit. “Now with the election uncertainty behind us and with much more clarity and positive news surrounding the vaccine’s efficacy and speed to market, we are now focusing more on refinancing both assets and are leaning toward re-offering and/or recapitalizing the package in 2021, when the durability of the cash flows is even more valued,” he stated.

The Wall Street Journal has the extra pointed evaluation that Vornado Realty Belief “decided to shelve the sales process when it couldn’t attract a buyer at the prices it wanted.”

There are literally two properties that had been on sale right here, the opposite being in Manhattan. The Journal describes the Trump household as 30% “passive owner and has no control over the sales decision-making” as regards to each properties.

What isn’t talked about in any of those experiences is that the sale could be affected by the passage of Prop. I within the November election, and the true property switch tax on the sale would have doubled. The measure’s creator, Supervisor Dean Preston, wrote in an Examiner op-ed that if this constructing offered, “we will really hand Trump a $15-18 million tax invoice on his approach out of workplace, after which use that cash to deal with extra San Franciscans.”

However the constructing won’t promote, not within the close to time period at the least. The Cushfield & Wakeman rep tells the Journal that they’ll now attempt to refinance each buildings, however the Journal provides that “The Trumps are unlikely to obtain a lot if any cash from refinancing.”

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