BYG : Big Yellow reduces the cost of its debt financing Big Yellow Group has announced that it has completed the refinancing of its existing bank facilities. This will lead to both a lower average cost of debt (from 4.6% to 3.7%) and an increased average unexpired term of its debt facilities to 7.8 years. Key features […]
SREI : Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust to acquire Stacey Bushes industrial estate for £9.2m Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust has exchanged contracts to acquire Stacey Bushes Industrial Estate, Milton Keynes, for £9.2m. The freehold property is a 213,536 square foot multi-let industrial estate, constructed in the 1980’s and recently refurbished, let to 12 tenants with an […]
AAIF : Aberdeen Asian Income Fund – performing in line with benchmark Aberdeen Asian Income Fund’s interim results show AAIF’s NAV returned 3.8% in sterling terms, in line with the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan Index, which returned 3.9%. The return on the share price was 5.4% reflecting an expansion of the trusts premium to NAV […]
MAX : Max Property Portfolio sale completed, delisting tomorrow (19 August 2014) Max Property has announced that the sale of its entire issued share capital to Marina Topco (Jersey) Limited , approved by shareholders at the EGM on 11 August 2014 , has completed today (18 August 2014). The cancellation of the admission to trading on AIM and […]
KWE : Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate Acquiring Fairmount Hotel, St. Andrews, for £32.4m Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate has announced that it is to acquire the Fairmount Hotel, St. Andrew’s, Scotland (pictured) for £32.4m. The iconic property is managed and operated by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts under an agreement that lasts until 2031. The transaction […]
JRIC : Japan Residential Investment Company Sells Branche Kanamecho IV for £3.2m Japan Residential Investment Company has sold its Branche Kanamecho IV property (a 20 unit apartment building in Toshima Ward, Tokyo) for Yen 550m (£3.2m) excluding taxes and sale costs. This represents a 34.1% premium to the 31 May 2014 valuation, of Yen 240m, and is a […]
GCP Infrastructure Investments is lending £12.2m against a vehicle, GCP Biomass 3, which is financing two operational plants selling gas generated from the anaerobic digestion of biowaste. The projects are subsidised by the Government’s Renewable Heat Incentive scheme (“RHI”) and the gas is sold to the national grid. The lending takes the form of notes with a c15 […]
F&C Commercial Property Trust, managed by Richard Kirby (Pictured) has acquired a brand new 151,500 square foot production and distribution warehouse (Unit 1, The Hive, Liverpool International Business Park) for £11.9m. The property is let to Johnson Controls Automotive on a 15-year lease, at a passing rent of £812k, which represents an initial yield of 6.45%. F&C […]
Infrastructure India’s 100% owned “Vikram Logistic and Maritime Services ” saw its Nagpur terminal facility commenced domestic operations on 18 July. Initial operations are for domestic containerised cargo only but movements of export-import cargo are currently scheduled for the second half of 2014. The terminal expects to commission an automobile logistics park, liquid tank farm and […]
Custodian REIT has acquired a freehold public house property, on Frogmore Lane, High Wycombe, for £1.625m. The property is currently let to the “Stonegate Pub Company” (the UK’s largest independent pub company whose brands include Yates’s, The Slug and Lettuce, The Living Room and Scream). The Frogmore lane property, currently trading as a Yates’s Wine Lodge, is let on […]
