Lord Rothschild to be President of RIT Capital – RIT Capital Partners announced at its AGM, that following several years of succession planning, Lord Rothschild will step down as chairman and a director on 30 September 2019, and will take up the role of president. His replacement as chairman is Sir James Leigh-Pemberton. Sir James […]
CVAs hit F&C Commercial Property Trust – F&C Commercial Property Trust has published results for the year ended 31 December 2018. Highlights are: NAV total return 3.3% and share price total return of -4.3 per cent, both lagging the 6.2% return generated by the MSCI Quarterly Property Universe Portfolio total return of 4.0 per cent Dividend […]
Alex Barr joins Henderson Alternative team – Alex Barr will work as senior manager on Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust, alongside James de Bunsen and Peter Webster. Janus Henderson Investors has appointed Alex Barr to join its UK Multi-Asset and Alternatives team in London and he will be starting in July 2019. Alex will be co-manager on […]
RDI REIT loses bid agrees standstill with Aviva – Yesterday evening the board of RDI REIT released the following announcement: “The Board of RDI notes the announcement by Cromwell that it does not intend to make an offer for RDI and that it is consequently bound by the restrictions under Rule 2.8 of the City […]
Standard Life Investments Property Income industrials bet pays off – Standard Life Investments Property Income has reported results for the year ended 31 December 2018. Highlights were: Fall in EPRA earnings per share to 4.22p from 4.99p Dividend maintained at 4.76p NAV increased to 91.0p from 87.6p NAV total return of 9.6% in the year, […]
QuotedData’s other news – 18 April 2019 TriplePoint Social Housing REIT has bought six supported housing properties and acquired the land and entered into forward funding arrangements to develop another two supported housing schemes, comprising 80 units in total, for an aggregate commitment of GBP14.8 million. These leases are with specialist housing associations, including Falcon Housing Association, […]
Intu cuts debt with Intu Derby sale – intu properties and Cale Street Investments LP (an investment firm backed by the Kuwait Investment Office, London) have announced the establishment of a 50/50 joint venture for the intu Derby shopping centre. Cale Street will acquire for cash half of the centre. The deal values their share of […]
Hg tops up Visma stake – Hg, the manager of HgCapital Trust has agreed to make a further investment in Visma, a leading provider of business-critical software (mostly through a software as a service or Saas model) to private and public enterprises in the Nordic, Baltic and Benelux regions. Cinven, the global private equity firm, will […]
QuotedData’s other news – 15 April 2019 Target Healthcare has completed the acquisition of a property in Formby, Merseyside for approximately GBP6.9 million PRS REIT said that, at 31 March 2019 it had GBP603m in gross development cost, which equates to 3,951 new homes with an estimated rental value (“ERV”) of approximately GBP37.3m per annum […]
Warehouse REIT buys in Northampton and Aberdeen – Warehouse REIT has exchanged contracts to acquire a multi-unit estate in Northampton let to John Lewis and a multi-let industrial estate in Aberdeen. The assets were purchased in two separate transactions for a total consideration of GBP37 million, reflecting a blended net initial yield of 6.6%. In Northampton, […]
