Scentre Group is seeking to refinance its debts with a $1.3 billion notes issue in the US debt markets, after having issued notes worth $778 million in the European debt market earlier this month.
The company, which was spun off from mega-mall owner Westfield Group last year by merging the Australian and New Zealand assets of the group with Westfield Retail Trust, today priced a $US1 billion senior notes issue for the US market.
Scentre said the cash raising will be used to repay borrowings under the group's revolving debt.
The debt issue comprises $US500m worth of six-year fixed rate senior guaranteed notes with a coupon of 2.375 per cent, and $US500m worth of 10.5-year fixed rate senior guaranteed notes with a coupon of 3.25 per cent.
At the start of April, Scentre said it was raising £400m ($778m) under its euro medium term note programme, comprised of seven-year fixed-rate guaranteed notes with a coupon of 2.375 per cent.
Scentre raised nearly more than $3 billion from the European debt markets last year to repay its bridge loan facility after its merger.