The debt to equity ratio

Why is your debt to equity level so high relative to other real estate entities?

Homburg Invest Inc. has debt at two levels. Firstly, we have conventional debt on our individual properties at the partnership level. Homburg Invest is effectively a mutual fund of real estate partnerships, which means that Homburg Invest has no direct ownership of the assets, but rather it owns the units of the various limited partnerships that own the assets. This achieves “asset protection” in that no property can be affected by problems in any other partnership. They are all effectively stand alone.

Over and above this partnership level of conventional debt that is at the approximately 60% level, we have our Bond program. The Bonds are guaranteed at the corporate level, and have no charge over specific assets