Yet more news of a potential takeover of a listed property company came to the fore this week, as private equity groups continue to circle the discounted real estate sector. Due to COVID uncertainty, many property companies have been trading at discounts to net asset value (NAV) for many months now. Despite the successful rollout […]
Great Portland Estates signed lettings worth £12.7m of new annual rents in three months to the end of June, with further £14.9m under offer, it said in a trading update. The central London office developer’s chief executive Toby Courtauld said momentum was building. The new lettings, which included £8.0m of retail space, were 9.3% ahead […]
“I wish we had 10 centres in Cornwall,” Mark Dixon, chief executive of IWG – the world’s largest flexible workspace provider, said at a recent webinar when discussing the shift in occupier demand during the pandemic. He believes the trend for working “near to home” is here to stay. “The genie is out of the […]
AEW UK REIT has reported strong annual results with a net asset value (NAV) total return of 15.1%. The group, which has a heavy portfolio weighting to the industrial sector (60.8%), saw its NAV increase 6.5% in the year to 31 March 2021 to 99.15p per share (March 2020: 93.13p). The group paid a dividend […]
LXI REIT has announced its intention to raise £75m through the issue of new shares. The issue price of 133p per share reflects a 2.3% premium to the company’s estimated IFRS net asset value (NAV) of 130p at 1 June 2021 and a discount of 7.9% to its closing share price of 144.4p. The proceeds […]
Real estate has historically been a good hedge against inflation and, with the consumer prices index (CPI) rising to 2.1% in May heightening fears that stagflation could be round the corner, investors may be keen to double down on their real estate investment trust (REIT) exposure. However, traditional real estate market drivers are not at […]
Tritax EuroBox has acquired a logistics asset in the Port of Gothenburg, Sweden – its first in the Nordics – for SEK474 million (€47m). The 28,900 sqm property comprises two purpose built logistics facilities (one of 16,200 sqm and the other 12,700 sqm), located in the heart of the prime logistics location in the Port of […]
The industrial and logistics sector has been the standout property performing for some time now and particularly during the pandemic, where accelerated online retailing trends and new supply-chain resilience requirements has significantly boosted demand. However, contrasting views on the future growth prospects of one of the sub-sectors, multi-let industrial, was borne out this week in […]
Stenprop, the multi-let industrial (MLI) property company, has posted a NAV total return for the year to 31 March 2021 of 11.4%. This was made up of a 6.5% increase in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) to 147p per share and dividends paid of 6.75p in the year. The group’s portfolio, which is now 74.3% […]
The board of Sigma Capital Group, the private rented sector (PRS) specialist, has reached agreement on the terms and conditions of a recommended cash offer for the business, valuing it at £188.7m. Private equity company PineBridge Benson Elliott has offered 202.1p per share for the company, which is a 35.6% premium to last night’s closing price […]
