Student accommodation investor Unite Students has acquired a build-to-rent property in Stratford, east London, for £71m as it looks to branch out into the residential sector. It has purchased 180 Stratford, a 178-unit purpose-built build-to-rent property, which it says will enable it to” test its operational capability to extend its accommodation offer to young professionals […]
abrdn European Logistics Income (ASLI) has acquired two logistics warehouses – in Dijon, France, and Horst, the Netherlands – for a total of €21.4m. Constructed in 2004 and refurbished in 2021, the 5,069 sqm Dijon property was acquired for €9.3m, reflecting a net initial yield of 4.2%. The building is leased to Dachser Intelligent Logistics, […]
Great Portland Estates (GPE) has exchanged contracts to sell 50 Finsbury Square, EC2, for £190m – in a fillip for the real estate market. The price represents a net initial yield of 3.85% – which reflects the continued strength of investor demand for prime office buildings despite economic woes. The 121,800 sq ft office, which […]
Supermarket real estate has proved its worth during times of distress before – most recently during the pandemic – but can it do it again this time around as we enter a potential recession? Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), the largest supermarket landlord in the UK, and LXI REIT are both nailing their colours firmly to […]
The Investment Company reported a fall in net asset value (NAV) of 1.4% in the year to 30 June 2022 to 336.3p, with the weak pound offsetting declines in share prices among its overseas equities portfolio. The NAV was also boosted by the price of gold, which rose 16.3% against sterling and this increase added […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 September 2022: M&G Credit (MGCI) has reported a NAV total return for the half year to 30 June 2022 was -3.4% which compared favourably to the performance of fixed income indices such as the ICE BofA Sterling and Collateralised Index (-14.17%) and the ICE BofA European Currency Non-Financial High Yield […]
Land Securities has exchanged contracts to sell its Moorgate station office development 21 Moorfields, EC2, to Lendlease for £809m. After outstanding development-related items, net cash receipt to Landsec will be £733m. 21 Moorfields is a 568,500 sq ft London office development fully pre-let to Deutsche Bank AG on a 25 year lease, with an annualised […]
LXI REIT is considering an equity raise to part-fund the £500m acquisition of a portfolio of 18 Sainsbury’s supermarkets. The group said that it was currently in discussions to acquire from Sainsbury’s, on a sale and leaseback basis, the 18-strong portfolio of prime grocery store assets, which are predominantly located in Southern England locations, but […]
Tritax EuroBox has announced that Nick Preston has stepped down as fund manager of the company and has been replaced by Phil Redding, a partner at Tritax EuroBox’s manager Tritax Management. Phil joined Tritax in November 2020 as director of investment strategy, providing strategic investment advice across four flagship Tritax funds. Prior to joining Tritax, […]
Supermarket Income REIT says it will continue to grow its portfolio through acquisitions after reporting a 6% increase in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) in the year to 30 June 2022 to 115p per share. With dividends, this equates to a 12% NAV total return for the year and 7% share price total return – […]
