With REITs and property companies having been heavily discounted by the market over the past two-and-a-half years, and with share prices moving inversely in eerily close tandem with gilt yields – the sharks are no longer just circling; they are taking huge chunks out of the sector. Seven REITs and property companies were lost to […]
Tritax Big Box REIT pre-let a 1m sq ft development in one of the largest letting deals in the UK in 2024. It made the announcement in a trading update for 2024, in which it also announced that it had sold £181.2m of non-core assets it acquired as part of the UK Commercial Property REIT […]
Ground Rents Income Fund has rejected an improved proposal to buy the company, which values it at around £35.9m. The board said the possible offer, by Victoria Property Holdings (which made a previous proposal in early January that valued it at £32.5m), “remains unattractive and materially undervalues the company”. Ground Rents’ NAV at 30 September […]
abrdn European Logistics Income (ASLI) has sold the first three assets as part of its managed wind-down for €45.4m. Sale of warehouse in Oss, The Netherlands The company has concluded the sale of the freehold of the 12,384 sqm warehouse located in Oss, The Netherlands, for consideration of €15.7m. The asset, constructed in 2019 and […]
Residential Secure Income has appointed agents and is preparing to formally launch the sales process for its portfolio of retirement and shared ownership homes, as the wind-down of the company moves forward. Shareholders voted in favour of the realisation strategy in December after the board decided to call it a day due to its modest […]
Social Housing REIT (SOHO) has proposed a change to its investment policy to increase the maximum exposure to any one approved provider to 35% (from 30%) of the group’s gross asset value, with the maximum aggregate exposure to the top two approved providers not to exceed 55% (previously not restricted). The reason for the change […]
Tritax Big Box REIT has purchased a 74-acre site at Heathrow, London, where it plans to build one of the largest data centres in the UK. The Manor Farm site, which sits within the Slough Availability Zone – a key EMEA data centre location, has the potential to house a data centre scheme with up […]
LondonMetric Property has sold 10 non-core properties for a total of £74.2m and acquired seven properties for £50.1m. The sales reflect a net initial yield (NIY) of 6.9%, while the acquisitions reflect a NIY of 6.5% that is expected to rise to 7.2% over five years Sales The sales comprise: A 138,000 sq ft retail […]
Ground Rents Income Fund has reported a NAV of 59.0p per share in full year results for the year ended 30 September 2024. This means that the possible offer price for the company of 34.0p announced last week is at a 42.4% discount to NAV. The NAV was down 34.5% over the year (from 90.1.p […]
Home REIT has finally published annual results to the end of August 2023, posting another large write-down in NAV. The company reported that NAV fell 37.3% from £345.9m, or 43.76p per share (at 31 August 2022) to £216.9m, or 27.43p. We are still awaiting up-to-date results for the year ended 31 August 2024, which the […]
