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07 Dec 2018

Standard Life Investments Property Income lets Swandlingcote logistics unit

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust (SLIPIT) has announced that it has completed the letting of its largest vacancy, a logistics unit Swadlingcote, Derbyshire. The trust has also announced the sale of a unit at Broadway Business Park in Oldham and a letting at Monck Street in London. The Swandlingcote logistics unit The 141,000 square […]

07 Dec 2018
Land Securities Lavington Street

Land Securities buys Lavington Street site, adding to Southwark exposure

Land Securities has announced that it has purchased a 1.6 acre site in Lavington Street, SE1 for £87.1m. The purchase, from a private company, increases Land Securities presence in Southwark. Colette O’Shea, Managing Director of Land Securities London Portfolio, said: “This acquisition gives us great potential in a submarket in which we have deep experience. […]

07 Dec 2018

CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities’ manager under investigation

CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities has announced that its investment manager, Markel CATCo Investment Management Ltd, is subject to enquiries, by the US and Bermuda governments, into loss reserves recorded in late 2017 and early 2018. This includes its subsidiaries Markel CATCo Reinsurance Fund Ltd and Markel CATCo Re Ltd Markel CATCo Reinsurance Fund Ltd is the […]

03 Dec 2018

Another strong year Schroder European Real Estate

Schroder European Real Estate (SERE) has announced its final results for the year ended 30 September 2018. SERE’s Chairman, Sir Julian Berney Bt., has described it as “another strong year that has seen SEREIT delivering growth in both net asset value and income”. He says that this was chiefly underpinned by the profitable disposal of […]

03 Dec 2018

Rollover El Oro

Along with the notice of its AGM, El Oro has published details of a new proposed rollover into JPMorgan Elect that the board is exploring as an alternative to a liquidation of the Company. The board says that their proposal offers a real choice to shareholders of either cashing out or rolling over into a […]

26 Nov 2018

TwentyFour Income Fund raising funds at 2% premium

TwentyFour Income Fund (TFIF) has announced that its intends to raise additional equity capital. The fund raise opens today and new shares are to be issued at a premium of 2% to the unaudited net asset value per share as at 23 November 2018 (to be published on 26 November). TFIF says that the fund […]

15 Jun 2018

The trust formerly known as Chelverton Small Companies Dividend Trust

The trust formerly known as Chelverton Small Companies Dividend Trust has announced that it is changing its name to Chelverton UK Dividend Trust. According to the company, the change of name is expected to become effective on 15 June 2018 and updated by the FCA and LSE on 18 June 2018. The Company say that […]

15 Jun 2018

PRS REIT invests in Manchester and Merseyside

PRS REIT invests in Manchester and Merseyside – PRS REIT has announced that it has acquired three development sites, with a combined gross development cost of about £34.4m, and has purchased an additional completed PRS site for about £9.1m. Development sites to provide 238 family homes The three development sites comprise a site in Greater […]

08 Jun 2018

Better Capital sells Northern Aerospace to SLMR

Better Capital PCC has announced that BECAP12 Fund LP, via its subsidiary, C Bidco Limited, has entered into a conditional agreement with Gardner Aerospace Holdings Limited (Gardner), a wholly owned subsidiary of Shaanxi Ligeance Mineral Resources Co. Limited (SLMR), for the sale of the entire issued share capital of Northern Aerospace Limited (NAL) for cash […]

06 Jun 2018

HgCapital Trust sees 66% uplift on sale of Intelliflo to Invesco

HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust has announced that it has sold Intelliflo, a Software as a Service (‘SaaS’) business for UK financial advisors, to Invesco, the global investment management company. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed but it reportedly values HgCapital Trust’s investment in Intelliflo at approximately £16.8m. This company says […]