Supermarket Income REIT is in discussions to acquire a minority stake in a portfolio of 26 Sainsbury’s supermarkets. The group is in talks with a large institutional investor to form a joint venture partnership to buy British Land’s 26% stake in the portfolio, which is reportedly worth around £105m. The properties, which are all let to […]
Flexible office space provider Workspace Group has poached Whitbread finance director David Benson for the role of chief financial officer. Benson will join the board of the company and become a member of the executive committee, when he joins on 1 April 2020. He is currently corporate finance director of Whitbread and previously held senior finance […]
Palace Capital has set a record office rent in York city with the completion of a pre-let agreement at its Hudson Quarter mixed-use development. The company has signed up solicitors firm Knights to the ground floor space on a 10-year lease that will rise to £25/sq ft after two year – marking a record office rent for […]
Tritax Big Box REIT said it was looking to recycle capital from the sale of specific assets in order to fund its development pipeline. In a trading update, the group said it was targeting an average yield on cost of between 6% and 8% across its developments, well above the group’s current portfolio valuation yield of 4.5%. […]
Tritax EuroBox has acquired two recently developed prime logistics properties and development land in Poland for €66.8m. The purchase of the assets, which are located in Strykow, near Lodz in Central Poland, reflects a net initial yield of 6.1%. Tritax EuroBox also has the option to buy development land adjacent to one of the buildings […]
Impact Healthcare REIT, which owns a portfolio of UK healthcare real estate assets, has reported a slight increase in its net asset value (NAV) in the three month period to the end of December 2019. The group’s NAV at 31 December 2019 was £340.7m or 106.81 pence per share, compared to £303.7m or 106.00 pence per share at 30 […]
West End of London landlord Shaftesbury bucked the trend of retail negativity and reported a strong Christmas trading period. The company, which owns a 15.2-acre portfolio in the heart of the West End including Carnaby Street, said early data indicated retailers and food and beverage operators in its portfolio saw turnover and footfall growth in […]
Phoenix Spree Deutschland, the UK listed investment company specialising in Berlin residential real estate, questions Berlin Senate’s competency regarding proposed rent controls in the city. The company said it had concerns over whether the Berlin Senate, which passed a draft bill for rents to be frozen for five years in November 2019 and is expected to […]
Regional REIT beat its benchmark index in 2019 and increased property portfolio value by 9.7%. In a market update, the group said total shareholder return (with dividends reinvested) during the year was 32.5%, ahead of the FTSE EPRA NAREIT UK Index that was at 30.6%. The group paid dividends of 8.20p in the year, a […]
SEGRO’s chief investment officer has stepped down from the board and will leave the business in April 2020. Phil Redding, who has been at the group for 24 years and on the board since 2013, had been an instrumental part in SEGRO’s portfolio re-positioning exercise which saw the group sell, acquire or develop more than £8bn […]
