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03 May 2024

New REIT targets £500m IPO

A newly established REIT – Special Opportunities REIT – has kicked off a roadshow ahead of an anticipated £500m IPO. As first reported by React News, the company will be led by former LXi REIT chief executive Simon Lee, with a number of former LXi personnel making up the senior management team – including Freddie […]

03 May 2024

Triple Point Social Housing REIT to make portfolio sales and cuts ties with troubled tenant

Triple Point Social Housing REIT is working to transfer the leases of troubled tenant Parasol to another registered social housing provider that should result in greater rent collection. The company also said that it intends to make selective sales from its portfolio and return the proceeds back to shareholders through buy backs. Lease transfer As […]

01 May 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 May 2024 – PCTN, CREI, RGL

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 May 2024: Picton Property (PCTN) has announced a 5.7% increase in its dividend, following recent portfolio activity and the repayment of floating rate debt. The interim dividend payment for the first quarter of 2024 (to be paid this month), will be 0.925p per share (Q4 2023: 0.875p per share). Picton […]

30 Apr 2024

abrdn Property Income Trust publishes results ahead of managed wind-down vote

abrdn Property Income Trust reported annual results for 2023, in which NAV total return was -3.0%. The real estate investment portfolio returned 0.7%, which outperformed the MSCI Quarterly Property Index benchmark return of -1.5% over the same period. The company’s portfolio has outperformed the index over one, three, five and 10 years. The group’s NAV […]

30 Apr 2024

Difficult year for Phoenix Spree Deutschland, focus now on condominium sales

Berlin residential landlord Phoenix Spree Deutschland has reported a 22.4% fall in EPRA net tangible assets to €3.96 per share (24.0% drop in sterling terms) in the year to 31 December 2023. The fall was mainly due to a 11.9% like-for-like drop in the value of its portfolio to €675.6m as buyer sentiment and transaction […]

29 Apr 2024

Supermarket Income REIT enters French market with €75.3m buy

Supermarket Income REIT has acquired a portfolio of Carrefour supermarkets in France – its first foray into markets outside the UK – through a sale and leaseback transaction for €75.3m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.3%. The portfolio comprises 17 omnichannel supermarkets, which are geographically diversified, with a weighting towards northern France, and operated […]

26 Apr 2024

abrdn European Logistics Income’s NAV takes a hit as strategic review continues

abrdn European Logistics Income (ASLI) reported a big hit to its NAV in full year results for the year to 31 December 2023, as the impact of higher interest rates weighed on portfolio values. IFRS NAV decreased by 21.4% to 93.4 cents (31 December 2022: 118.9 cents), while the EPRA net tangible assets metric was […]

25 Apr 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 April 2024 – DLN, NRR, WHR

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 April 2024: Derwent London (DLN) has exchanged contracts to sell its 70,300 sq ft Publicis Group-let office in Clerkenwell for £77.35m to UK investment manager Titan Investors. The redevelopment of the building completed in 2015 and is let at a passing rent of £4.0m, on a lease expiring in 2035, […]