News

24 Dec 2015

Empiric acquires Ayton House in St Andrews

Empiric Student Property has announced that it has acquired the freehold of Ayton House, a 241 bed, student accommodation property in St Andrews for £26.0m (excluding costs). Ayton House is Empiric’s first acquisition in St Andrews and was newly completed for the 2015/16 academic year. The property, which is located in a prominent position in […]

24 Dec 2015

NewRiver makes £108m of new acquisitions

NewRiver Retail has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire the Neptune Portfolio, which comprises the Ridings Shopping Centre (pictured and located in Wakefield, West Yorkshire), the Cornmill Shopping Centre (Darlington in the North East of England) and the Capitol Shopping Centre (Cardiff in South Wales) for £92.3m. In addition to this, the company […]

24 Dec 2015

Target Healthcare REIT acquiring Tapton Court, Sheffield

Target Healthcare REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire Tapton Court, a 69 bed care home in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Tapton Court (pictured) was built in the 1990s and closed in 2014. It will now be substantially redesigned and refurbished during which the bedrooms will be enlarged and reduced in number to […]

24 Dec 2015

Schroder UK Growth mildly outperforms benchmark

Schroder UK Growth Fund has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 31 October 2015. During the period, the Company’s NAV produced a total return of -5.3%, marginally outperforming its benchmark, the FTSE All-Share Index, which provided a total return of -5.7%. The share price produced a total return of -5.7%. The company has […]

23 Dec 2015

Bluefield Solar Income acquires three new solar plants

Bluefield Solar Income fund has announced that it has made three sub-5 MegaWatts peak (MWp) solar plants. The three assets include a 4.7 MWp plant in Lincolnshire and two 4.99 MWp plants in Norfolk. The three are being acquired for a total consideration of £16.5m including transaction costs and working capital. Each plant is expected […]

23 Dec 2015

Honeycomb Investment Trust – a sweet £100m launch

Honeycomb Investment Trust has listed on the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange raising £100m. The trust’s investment manager is Pollen Street Capital, the former private equity business of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which is headed by Lindsey McMurray. Pollen Street describes itself as a private equity fund manager focussed on investing […]

23 Dec 2015

Graphite Enterprise management moving to Intermediate Capital Group

Graphite Enterprise Trust has announced that Intermediate Capital Group plc (ICG) has been appointed as the trust’s investment manager. This follows ICG’s acquisition of the private equity fund investment business of Graphite Capital Management LLP. The change of manager is expected to take effect on 1 February 2016 and Graphite Enterprise will be renamed ICG […]

23 Dec 2015

MedicX acquires new primary health centre in Crumlin, Dublin

MedicX Fund has announced that it has contracted to acquire, by way of forward funding, a new primary healthcare medical centre in Crumlin, a suburb of Dublin. The property is due to be completed in January 2017 and will be let to the Health Service Executive, a number of GPs and associated medical service providers. […]

23 Dec 2015

Globalworth completes acquisition of Green Court Building B

Globalworth Real Estate Investments has announced that it has closed the acquisition, of Green Court Building B, Bucharest, from Skanska Romania. The transaction was effected through the acquisition of 100% of the shares of SPC Gamma Property Development Company s.r.l., the company owning the asset, for a consideration of circa €45m.  Of this, €20m was […]

23 Dec 2015

John Laing Infrastructure acquiring 40% of Barcelona metro project

John Laing Infrastructure Fund has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras (Iridium), a subsidiary of Grupo ACS, to acquire an effective 40% stake in the Barcelona Line 9 Section II metro project. Line 9 (pictured) runs directly through the heart of the city centre, connecting the airport and […]