{"id":6811,"date":"2019-12-23T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T11:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chakibpropertyworld.com\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2019-12-23T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T11:11:33","slug":"amancio-ortega-will-be-facebook-home-after-buying-two-office-buildings-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chakibpropertyworld.com\/en\/amancio-ortega-will-be-facebook-home-after-buying-two-office-buildings-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Amancio Ortega will be Facebook home after buying two office buildings in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The real estate acquisition has amounted to about $415 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Inditex founder already owns part of Amazon&#8217;s headquarters<\/span>\n<p>Inditex founder Amancio Ortega will become Facebook&#8217;s homeman after buying two office buildings in Seattle in a $415 million operation (about 375 million euros), according to U.S. special press.<br \/>\nIn particular, the Galician entrepreneur, through his investment firm Pontegadea Inmobiliaria, continues to purchase assets in the USA by acquiring both properties, which are part of the Arbor Blocks complex, from the developer Vulcan Real Estate.<br \/>\nIn this way, Ortega becomes a home of another American multinational after last March closed the purchase of part of Amazon&#8217;s headquarters in Seattle, in a transaction finally valued at $740 million (669 million euros).<br \/>\nIn fact, this operation remains its largest purchase in the US and the second largest in its history, after the one made in the summer of 2018 in London.<br \/>\nThe purchase of the two seattle office buildings, whose tenant is Facebook, is known in the same week that inditex&#8217;s founder and first shareholder has paid 813.1 million euros in dividends from the textile company, the last remuneration of the year the Galician firm will pay its shareholders.<br \/>\nIn particular, Ortega has received almost 1.630 million euros in a dividend this year through the companies Pontegadea Inversiones and Partler, with which it controls 59.294% of the shareholding of Inditex, compared to the 1.386 million it received for the same concept in 2018.<br \/>\nThe founder of Inditex invests some of the dividends he receives from the textile company in the real estate sector through his investment firm Pontegadea Inmobiliaria. Ortega owns Spain&#8217;s largest real estate company, focused on the sale and rental of large buildings, with a portfolio of real estate assets composed mainly of office, non-residential buildings, located in the center of large cities in Spain, United Kingdom, USA and Asia.<br \/>\nIn fact, Ortega closed 2018 with an real estate portfolio valued at 9,767 million euros, an increase of 11.5% compared to the previous year, grouped in its company Pontegadea Inversiones, which has a net worth of 23,493 million euros , more than 21,006 million euros a year earlier.<br \/>\nAt the end of the 2018 financial year, Pontegadea Inversiones accounted for assets of various kinds worth 31.762 million euros, an increase of 9.4% compared to the 29,028 million euros scored in 2017.<br \/>\nThe Ortega estate company, which remains Spain&#8217;s first fortune, with a capital of more than 63 billion euros, recorded an attributable profit of 1.817 million euros in 2018, 23% more than the previous year, which closed with a profit of EUR 1.475 million.<\/li>\n<li>\nEuropa Press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real estate acquisition has amounted to about $415 million Inditex founder already owns part of Amazon&#8217;s headquarters Inditex founder Amancio Ortega will become Facebook&#8217;s homeman after buying two office buildings in Seattle in a $415 million operation (about 375 million euros), according to U.S. special press. 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