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AUSTIN, TX-A Houston partnership has obtained a $5.35-millionloan to knock out five-year, fixed-rate construction debt on the102-room Hampton Inn & Suites Austin Airport. The new financinghas shaved roughly three points from the interest rate.

"The old loan on the Hampton was an unusual construction loan inthat it was a fixed-rate, five-year loan that had matured," B.Jeffrey Knowles, managing director for Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LPin Houston, tells GlobeSt.com. "It was a fixed-rate loan at an 8.5%rate. I think they much prefer the loan we got for them." The newfinancing for the 7712 E. Riverside Dr. property is a 10-year,fixed-rate securitized loan at less than 6.5% interest and 30-yearamortization.

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