Supermarket Income REIT has acquired a further 25.5% stake in a portfolio of Sainsbury’s supermarkets for £196m, resulting in its ownership of the joint venture increasing to 51%. The company bought the stake in the joint venture portfolio of 26 stores from British Airways Pension Trustees Limited. The remaining 49% interest in the portfolio is […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 January 2023: PRS REIT (PRSR) provided a trading update for the quarter to 31 December 2022 in which it completed 57 new rental homes brining the company’s portfolio to 4,913 as at 31 December 2022. The delivery programme is around 85% complete, with 613 additional homes contracted and at various […]
Unite Students, the owner, manager and developer of student accommodation, has said that earnings for 2022 will be at the top end of its guidance of 40-41p per share, with a total accounting return of 8%. Higher than expected rental income in term one of the 2022/23 academic year more than offset the impact of […]
Impact Healthcare REIT has acquired a portfolio of six care homes for £56m, which will partly be paid in cash and partly with an issue of new shares to the vendor Morris Care Limited. The portfolio has 438 beds, of which 400 have en suite bathrooms, with five homes in Shropshire and one in Cheshire. […]
One of the worst performing sectors in 2022 was property as the cheap borrowing taps were turned off and an abrupt end of a decade of quantitative easing saw interest rates and market expectations jump above prime property yields. It sent the share prices of most real estate investment trusts (REITs) on a downward spiral […]
LondonMetric Property has acquired a retail park asset from an open ended property fund for £38.0m through one of its joint ventures (LondonMetric share: £19.0m). The acquisition price reflects a net initial yield of 5.4%, rising to 5.7% upon completion of short term asset management initiatives. The 68,000 sq ft property is located on a […]
LXI REIT has renegotiated the leases of the 122 Travelodge hotels, extending the weighted average lease length by a further nine years. The portfolio of hotels was acquired by LXI as part of the Secure Income REIT merger. In return for the nine year extensions (which extends the weighted average unexpired lease term to first […]
Ediston Property Investment Company, which invests in retails parks in the UK, has reported a 5.9% increase in NAV in annual results to 30 September 2022. Its EPRA NAV per share is now 94.9p (2021: 89.6p), the uplift driven by a 10.3% portfolio valuation gain in the year to £231.4m. The increase was due falling […]
abrdn Property Income Trust has refinanced its debt again, taking a £3.56m hit to lower the interest rate cap. The company announced on 12 October 2022 (at the height of bond market volatility following the min-budget) that the trust had completed an extension of its debt facilities that were due to expire in April 2023 […]
Home REIT says that it will strengthen its management team and bring in independent pre-purchase valuers as part of several changes to “maintain and enhance shareholder confidence” following a number of allegations in recent weeks. The company will also beef up its board with the appointment of a new non-executive director and hire the services […]
