Scottish American had a bad 2014 as its net asset value total return was 2.9% compared to 11.3% for the FTSE All World Index. The discount widened a little and so the return to shareholders was 1.6%. The dividend for the year was 10.5p which is 2.9% higher than for 2013 and was covered almost […]
BlackRock Throgmorton has published results for the year ended 30 November 2014 that show the company’s net asset value return marginally behind that of the Numis Smaller Companies excluding AIM (excluding Investment Companies) Index; the NAV returned -1.1%, the Index -0.6%. The share price return though was -5.7%, reflecting a widening of BlackRock Throgmorton’s discount. […]
Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate is effectively paying €45m to acquire Gardner House, Wilton Street, Dublin. They had exposure to this asset beforehand in the form of two loans secured by a mortgage over the property. They have agreed with the borrower that the fund will take title to the property in exchange for the forgiveness of […]
Standard Life investments Property Income Trust intends to raise £16m from investors to fund the acquisition of a modern freehold retail warehouse property, located in Preston, for £16m (excluding costs). At the acquisition price, the warehouse generates a yield of 7% with 16 years remaining on the lease. It is located adjacent to a major foodstore and […]
Ottoman Fund has announced that BDO LLP has finished a forensic review of the books and records of Ottoman’s Turkish subsidiaries and has determined that the Company’s former Chief Financial Officer in Turkey has removed from the Company’s Turkish subsidiaries the net amount in Turkish Lira equivalent to US$1.35 million as of 10 February 2015 […]
New European Property Investments has published its results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Over the period the net asset value rose from €3.56 to €4.52 and the adjusted net asset value, which adjusts for items such as goodwill and deferred tax, rose from €3.70 to €4.63. The directors have announced a 17.35 cent distribution […]
Sirius Real Estate is spending €21.8m on two business parks in Aachen and Bonn. The Aachen business park is located in the expanding Würselen district, just west of the Company’s Bonn and Cologne parks and well situated next to the Dutch and Belgian borders. It has a total lettable area of 26,759 sqm and is […]
Electra Private Equity has published the results of the review of the company’s structure that was promised after it defeated Sherborne’s proposals. The plan is to cut the management fee from 1.5% to 1%, leave the performance incentives intact and remove all the currency hedging – which will effectively reduce Electra’s cash pile and cut its […]
Derwent London has announced a deal with LaSalle Investment Management where it is swapping 22 Kingsway WC2, Mark Square House EC2, and a 50% interest in a new joint venture at 9 and 16 Prescot Street E1 for a minimum 175-year long leasehold of 20 Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell EC1 and £27.3m in cash. 20 Farringdon Road […]
Secure Property Development & Investment is planning an issue of up to 29,719,890 new ordinary shares at 25p by way of an open offer to shareholders. The open offer shares are available on the basis of 1 new shares for every 1.14 existing shares held but shareholders can apply for more than that if they wish (up […]
