Global Debt Sales survey 2012 - Vastgoedjournaal

ReturnrequirementsReturn requirements on deals increased over the past year, with47 percent of buyer respondents saying they have increased theirtarget internal rates of return (IRRs) and 47 percent saying they hadnot changed. Investors interviewed said that increased turmoil in financialmarkets led to them seeing a higher return. One noted that developedmarkets were generating emerging-market-level returns, which meantthat they needed to add an even higher premium for investment, inemerging markets.“The funds we have were raised with a certain IRR hurdle and we arenot changing it. Our underwriting assumptions may get harder to reflectthe current turmoil,” said one buyer.IRRs vary across markets in line with risk. Germany is seen as alower risk market and best positioned to deal with any fallout from theEurozone, as opposed to Spain which is commanding a higher IRR fromdebt buyers in line with higher risk.We may be at an inflection point in terms of returns. The lack of supplyof assets in some markets is increasing competition for the transactionsthat are out there, so buyers will have to take a hit on the return if theyare to win the transaction. While in other markets such as Spain, Portugaland parts of Central and Eastern Europe, buyers are requiring higher andhigher returns to take on the uncertainty. This is best evidenced in theUK where the buyer market for residential NPLs is far greater than theavailable supply. The outcome has therefore been favorable for vendors,as buyer competition and low teen IRRs have driven pricing far higher.“Maturity defaults and foreign banksretrenching will create a German NPLopportunity larger than in the last cycle.Dr. Ruprecht Hellauer, Founder of Albulus Advisors Germany GmbH”22 GLOBAL DEBT SALES SURVEY © 2012 2012 KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity.