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They Are Literally Exploding Right Now’: The Rise Of Blank Check Real Estate Companies

Last updated: 2022/11/03 at 8:28 AM
By Stefan #TheListingBroker - Real Estate
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Special purpose acquisition companies, known as SPACs, have been all the rage in the financial world this year. Now, they are starting to become en vogue in commercial real estate.

“Today, three SPACs went public,” former hedge fund portfolio manager Neil Danics, who tracks SPACs for the website he founded, SPACAnalytics, said Wednesday. “They’re literally exploding right now.”

There were 59 SPAC IPOs in 2019, which raised a combined $13.6B. So far this year, according to Danic’s data, there have been 60.

A SPAC is a shell company that is set up to go public, even though it doesn’t have any operations. Money poured into these “blank check companies” by shareholders is used to acquire another company, thus taking it public in a reverse merger. After the acquisition, the company is usually listed on one of the major stock exchanges.

Just in the last few weeks, a SPAC called PropTech Acquisition Corp., acquired Porch, an online real estate and home improvement marketplace, for $523M after the SPAC raised $172.5M in a November IPO. An offshoot of Miami-based Lionheart Capital filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission specifying that it intends to raise $200M to acquire a proptech company. Benchmark Real Estate Group is likewise looking to raise up to $200M for a SPAC called Property Solutions Acquisition Corp. that would target property technology or real estate service firms.

Proskauer Senior Counsel Lily Desmond said regulations prohibit SPACs from having discussions with specific target companies in advance of an IPO, so a SPAC initially announces only the sector that it is interested in. Proskauer released a 2020 SPAC IPO Study Wednesday.

“When you buy into a SPAC IPO, a lot of the decision is based on the reputation of the management team,” Desmond said. “You don’t know what they are going to acquire. Knowing how many huge players and how many known names, strong names are in real estate, I could see it being a strong sector [for more SPAC interest].”

Mitchell Nussbaum, vice chair of New York law firm Loeb & Loeb, has helped “hundreds and hundreds” of clients set up SPACs over 20 years, he said. He has seen their popularity wax and wane.

“There were a couple in the ’90s,” Nussbaum said. They spiked in the early 2000s but hit a wall as liquidity dried up with the 2008 financial crisis.

Over the next decade, some notable SPACs went public. Burger King was taken private, then run through a SPAC to go public in 2012. Now-Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross launched a SPAC in 2014 that he used to buy a chemical company, Nexeo. But in the past few years, they have ramped up because of growing interest from private equity and institutional investors.  



Danics said that SPACs gained legitimacy and attention when Goldman Sachs waded into the market three or four years ago.

“The appeal of the SPAC from the investor’s point of view is that it’s a win-win,” Danics said. “The investment is always protected. If they don’t like the company being acquired, they can always say ‘No, thank you’ and get their money back.”

SPACs will usually issue units, rather than shares, in their IPO because of their unusual structure. These are usually priced at $10 per unit, which gives investors a common share, plus a fraction of a warrant that entitles the owner to buy additional shares.

Cash raised in a SPAC IPO goes into a trust, where it earns interest until the merger is completed, according to Barron’s. For investors, it is nearly risk-free to buy a SPAC’s shares when they’re trading at a discount to the cash in its trust.

SPACs typically have two years to make an acquisition or else be liquidated. Billionaire hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz in 2010 had to return $900M raised through a SPAC after he couldn’t find worthy acquisitions. But the Proskauer report found that, of SPAC IPOs priced from 2016 through 2019, over half have completed an initial business combination, and only 5% returned funds to investors and wound up operations.

“With a huge supply of SPACs getting ready to go public, there definitely could be a situation with a lot of supply of SPACs looking for a company to bring public,” he said. “Am I worried? No, because of the inherent safety, I don’t think investors will ever get hurt by them. They might just get bored if the SPAC doesn’t find anything. I prefer boring to losing money.”


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Stefan #TheListingBroker - Real Estate August 7, 2020
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By Stefan #TheListingBroker - Real Estate
Stefan is a Real Estate Broker and REALTOR® with over 8 years of professional experience. Prior to starting his real estate career, Stefan spent 11 years as a foreclosure defense and divorce attorney (quite a combo, huh)? Conducting a real estate business with a a diverse legal background has allowed him to gain unique experiences that make him a well-rounded resource for his clients. Stefan is a proud Florida State University alumni, having earthed his bachelor’s degree in Management, prior to attending law school.
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