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22 Feb 2016

Hibernia REIT to acquire Central Quay, in Dublin’s South Docks, for €51.3m

Hibernia REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire Central Quay, a modern office building located between Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Hanover Quay in the South Docks area of Dublin, for €51.3m. Central Quay (pictured), was completed in 2007 and is a 57,700 square foot office building, arranged over six floors, with 26 […]

19 Feb 2016

A strong year for SEGRO sees NAV growth of 21%

SEGRO has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2015. The company describes the year as one of strong operating and portfolio performance and they say the results reflect the active management of their assets, positive market dynamics and the strategic repositioning of the company’s portfolio, which is now almost exclusively focused […]

18 Feb 2016

SEGRO announces 10 year Big Box partnership with Roxhill

SEGRO has announced that it has entered into an exclusive partnership with Roxhill to potentially develop more than 10 million square feet of big box logistics warehousing, over 10 years, in the South East and Midlands. This will allow SEGRO to add significant scale to its UK big box logistics portfolio. SEGRO says that Roxhill is […]

17 Feb 2016

Redefine International raises £115m through a placing

Redefine International has announced the completion of the Placing, which has raised gross proceeds of approximately £115m (net proceeds approximately £109m). A total of 270,588,236 new Ordinary Shares are being issued under the placing. These shares, in aggregate, represent approximately 15.32% of the company’s issued ordinary share capital immediately following admission of the shares. The […]

17 Feb 2016

Herald benefits heavily from takeovers, more focus on the US going forward

Herald Investment Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV grew by 8.4% to 881.8p per share, whilst its share price grew by 13.1% to 745.3p reflecting a narrowing of the discount from 19.0% to 15.5%. Both the share price and the NAV beat […]

17 Feb 2016

Miton UK MicroCap’s C share issue raises £28m

Miton UK MicroCap, managed by Gervais Williams (pictured), has announced that pursuant to the placing, offer for subscription and intermediaries offer of C shares (as described in its prospectus published on 4 February 2016) it has raised gross proceeds of £28m with net proceeds expected to be approximately £27.4m. The company says that applications received under the […]

15 Feb 2016

Hansteen increases its holding to 82.8% of the Ashtenne Industrial Fund

Hansteen Holdings has announced that it has acquired a further 5.5 million units in the Ashtenne Industrial Fund from clients of CBRE Investors for £2.5m cash, which reflects a price of 46.06p per unit. The company says that the acquisition represents 0.9% of the units in issue and increases Hansteen’s holding in the Ashtenne Industrial […]

15 Feb 2016

HgCapital purchases majority stake in Citation

HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust has announced that it has made a majority investment in Citation, which they describe as one of the UK’s leading providers of Health & Safety, HR, Employment Law and ISO services to SMEs. HgCapital will assume majority ownership from ECI Partners, investing alongside the existing management team. The terms […]

15 Feb 2016

Katherine Garrett-Cox to leave Alliance Trust Investments in March 2016

Alliance Trust has announced that Katherine Garrett-Cox (pictured) will stand down as chief executive of its management company, Alliance Trust Investments Limited (also a subsidiary of Alliance Trust ), and will be leaving the company on 11 March 2016. The company says that this follows discussions between the Board and Katherine about the future requirement […]

11 Feb 2016

Target Healthcare REIT to acquire care home in Bricket Wood, St Albans

Target Healthcare REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire a 12-bed specialist care home in Bricket Wood, St Albans for approximately £2.3m (including acquisition costs). The transaction is expected to complete after the expiration of a “planning judicial review period” in March. Following this, Target is to acquire the care home, which […]