"Complicated?" HSBC's global head of corporate real estate Vivienne Grafton frowns when asked if the second sale and leaseback of 8 Canada Square (pictured) in a little more than a year was complicated.Having sold the 1.1m sq ft tower in the heart of London's Docklands in 2007 to Metrovacesa for ￡1.1bn, the bank had been forced to buy it back in December 2008, after the Spanish property company struggled to refinance the loan it had used to purchase the property.
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