Pebblebrook Hotel Trust will use $400 million in new senior notes to pay down its existing debt.
The hotel real estate investment trust has priced the private placement of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 6.375% senior notes due in 2029 through its operating partnership, Pebblebrook Hotel LP, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the operating partnership, PEB Finance Corp., according to a news release.
The issuers — the operating partnership and its subsidiary — expect the private placement of the notes to close on Oct. 3 subject to customary closing conditions.
Pebblebrook plans to use the net proceeds from the offering for paying down existing debt. It will use at least $253 million to pay down in full or in part or more of the operating partnership's unsecured term loans. It will use the balance — potentially up to $137.4 million — to pay down part of or more of the operating partnership's other unsecured term loans and/or repurchase a portion of the convertible senior notes of the REIT.
In Pebblebrook's second-quarter earnings report, the REIT reported it had $111.2 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash along with $636.3 million of undrawn availability in its $650 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility.
It had $2.2 billion of consolidated debt and convertible notes with an average effective weighted-average interest rate of 4.4%. Seventy-five percent of the combined debt and convertible notes were fixed at an estimated effective weighted-average interest rate of 3.4%. The remaining 25% was floating at an average estimated weighted-average interest rate of 7.3%.
Approximately 91% of Pebblebrook's outstanding debt at the time was unsecured, and the weighted-average maturity of its debt was approximately 2.7 years. It had no meaningful debt maturities until the fourth quarter of 2025.
After being an active buyer and seller during the pandemic to balance its hotel portfolio between group and corporate business with leisure demand, in 2023 Pebblebrook was a net seller of hotels given the private market value of the properties compared to REIT's stock value. This year, the company has been quiet in the transactions market, focusing its capital on completing its ongoing renovation and redevelopment projects.