News

07 Sep 2015

SEGRO selling Slough office portfolio

SEGRO  has announced that it has appointed CBRE to explore a potential sale of its portfolio of offices on the Bath Road in Slough. The portfolio contains 972,300 sq ft of office properties leased to companies spanning blue-chip, national and international businesses, and one building currently being developed on a speculative basis. The portfolio generates […]

07 Sep 2015

Redefine International in half a billion pound deal

Redefine International has announced that it has reached a conditional agreement with the Aegon UK Property Fund to acquire the AUK Portfolio through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Redefine AUK, for an aggregate consideration of £437.2m (£455.7m after costs). This acquisition is conditional upon shareholder approval, for which an EGM will be convened on 25 September 2015.  The Company […]

07 Sep 2015

GCP Student Living adds to management team

GCP Student Living is expanding its management team with the appointment of Nick Barker, former Head of Alternatives, Property at Schroder Property Investment Management.  Previous to this he was Assistant fund manager for Schroder UK Property Fund (SPF), based in London.  He joined Schroders in September 2007 following 3 years with Cushman & Wakefield Investors, […]

07 Sep 2015

Condor to review merits of progressing La India

Condor Gold has initiated a formal strategic review of its business in the light of the relatively low gold price and the lack of appetite for equity financing in the junior exploration sector. The company is a gold explorer which has developed the high grade La India project, in Nicaragua, through to the Pre-Feasibility Study […]

07 Sep 2015

Ludgate Environmental NAV hit by EcoPlastics write off

Ludgate Environmental has published results for the year ended 30 June 2015. Its net asset value fell from 66.5p to 60.6p over the period. At an EGM on 1st September 2014 shareholders voted to extend the life of LEF to 30th June 2018 with the expectation that the portfolio would be mostly sold by mid […]

07 Sep 2015

Duke Royalty announces royalty deal with Oliver Wyman

Duke Royalty and Oliver Wyman have announced an exclusive pharmaceutical and healthcare royalty financing collaboration. Oliver Wyman is a management consultancy wholly owned by Marsh & McLennan Companies. Duke Royalty will be responsible for capital raising, the structuring of definitive agreements and the acquisition of each royalty interest originating from the collaboration. Duke Royalty believes […]

04 Sep 2015

Ediston buys three leisure properties

Ediston Property Investment Company has acquired three leisure properties for £10m (net of acquisition costs), reflecting a net initial yield of 8.60%.  The acquisition was funded from existing cash resources. The properties comprise two units in Liverpool and Hartlepool, which are let to Mecca Bingo, and a third unit in Telford, part of the Southwater […]

04 Sep 2015

Weiss Korea reports outperformance in H1

Weiss Korea reports an increase in its NAV from 120.4p to 125.27p over the first half of 2015. Including dividends, the Company’s NAV increased by 5.4%, outperforming the reference MSCI Korea 25/50 Capped Index, which returned -0.03%. They paid a dividend of 1.858p during the period. There is no performance attribution information in the announcement. […]

04 Sep 2015

JZ Capital in dilutive share issue

JZ Capital has announced  an open offer and placing to raise $150m and a rollover offer of new 2022 ZDPs to replace their existing 2016 ZDPs. The new share capital is being issued on a 9 new shares for every 25 held basis at 419.19p, a 39.7% discount. If shareholders don’t take up shares under the […]