Supermarket Income REIT has acquired a Sainsbury’s store in Hessle, East Riding of Yorkshire, for £34m, reflecting a net initial yield of 5.5%. The 50,000 sq ft store is let to Sainsbury’s on an unexpired lease term of 14 years with annual inflation-linked uplifts. As well as the 1980s-built supermarket, the site 13-acre site also […]
Warehouse REIT is weighing up an equity raise having identified a pipeline of acquisitions worth £352m. The AIM-listed company, which invests in and manages urban and ‘last-mile’ industrial warehouse assets, and its investment adviser Tilstone Partners is in exclusive negotiations to buy £72m worth of assets and is in detailed negotiations on a further £280m. […]
Urban Logistics REIT has raised £130m through an over-subscribed placing. The result of the placing was significantly in excess of the target size of £100m. A total of 94.5 million shares in the company have been conditionally placed with new and existing investors at 137.5 pence per share. Urban Logistics REIT executive directors Nigel Rich […]
The UK’s largest listed property company SEGRO reported an 8.9% uplift in its net asset value (NAV) for 2019, alongside a 10.1% jump in its dividend. In full-year results to the end of December 2019, the industrial property specialist revealed a NAV per share of 708p, up from 650p a year earlier. Meanwhile the full […]
Grainger, the UK private rented housing specialist, has raised £186.7m from a placing. A total of 61.2m new shares in Grainger were placed at a price of 305.0 pence per share, representing a discount of 2.31% to the closing price on 12 February 2020. Including additional debt of around £120m based on company’s LTV target range, the […]
Grainger, the UK’s largest listed provider of private rental housing, has announced it is seeking to raise around £185m from a placing. The group is placing up to 61.2m shares, which represents 9.99% of its shares, and including additional debt of around £120m based on company’s LTV target range, it will generate aggregate funding capacity […]
Grit Real Estate Income Group, the pan-African property investor, has entered into an agreement to acquire a stake in a Moroccan real estate investment trust (REIT). The REIT (or Organisme de Placement Collectif Immobilier (OPCI) as it is known in Morocco) will be made up of one asset – the mixed-use property Massira Corner, located […]
Local Shopping REIT said it will shortly announce a new investment policy with a view to growing the business after years of gradually selling off its portfolio. The company’s former investment policy was to dispose of its assets in order to repay debt and return any surplus value to shareholders. The company last year fended […]
Ediston Property Investment Company’s (EPIC) fund manager Danny O’Neill has bought £435,000 worth of shares in the company. O’Neill, who is chief executive of the company’s investment manager, purchased 500,000 shares at 87p – more than doubling his stake to 858,488 shares worth £746,884. EPIC has been trading at an average 14% discount to its […]
Embattled shopping centre owner Intu Properties has been dealt a body-blow in its efforts to raise £1bn of emergency cash, with Hong Kong’s Link REIT pulling out of discussions to participate in the fundraise. It was reported over the weekend, and confirmed by Intu yesterday, that it was nearing a deal with Link REIT to […]
