China’s second-biggest property developer is in talks to buy upmarket house builder Cala.
Guangzhou-based Evergrande Group is reported to have been in discussions with Cala for several months, although the Edinburgh headquartered house builder declined to comment about the approach.
Legal & General and Patron Capital, a specialist real estate investor, took control of Cala in 2013 in a deal valuing the house builder at £210m.
Since then profits have grown strongly and city analysts have speculated that the group could be worth as much as £600m.
Cala is in a major expansion push to reach £1bn turnover in just five years. In the year to July 2016, its posted record pre-tax profit up 18% to £60m from revenue of £587m after completing 1,150 homes.
At the time it estimated its contracted landbank to have a gross development value of £4.7bn.
Evergrande has been aggressively investing in companies as it looks to lift some of the pressure of having run up $57bn in debt, almost six times its market value, on land acquisitions and corporate mergers.
from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2016/11/01/chinese-developer-in-talks-to-buy-house-builder-cala/
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