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10 Mar 2021
Amazon let warehouse at Littlebrook. Credit: Tritax

Tritax Big Box reports impressive results

Tritax Big Box REIT reported a whopping 15.7% jump in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) in full year to the end of December 2020, as the strong fundamentals of the logistics sector continued apace. The group’s portfolio grew in value over the year by 11.9% to £4.41bn, driven by development gains, asset management and the strength […]

09 Mar 2021

Stenprop acquires trio of industrial estates

Stenprop has acquired three multi-let industrial (MLI) estates for £18.4m as it remains on target to be a fully focused MLI REIT by the end of the next financial year. The three in Newcastle, Bromborough and Bradford, have been purchased in separate transactions at a net initial yield of 6.7% and a capital value of […]

08 Mar 2021

Tritax EuroBox raises €230m in oversubscribed placing

Tritax EuroBox raised £198.4m (€230m) in a significantly oversubscribed fund raise. The group had announced it was looking to raise £173m (€200m) but demand for the issue saw it smash that target. A total of 192,633,688 new shares will be issued at a price of 103 pence, of which 57,232,790 will be issued pursuant to the open […]

08 Mar 2021

Home REIT fully invests IPO proceeds with £48.1m portfolio buy

Home REIT, the homeless accommodation investor, has fully invested the proceeds of its £240m initial public offering after the acquisition of 11 portfolios for £48.1m. The group, which launched in October 2020, now has a portfolio of 572 homeless accommodation properties that represent an average net initial acquisition yield of 5.83%. Significant remaining resources are […]

05 Mar 2021

QD view – student digs top of the class for COVID rebound?

University students have been having a hell of a time of it during COVID. After the debacle of last September when they were encouraged to attend classes and take up accommodation only to then be effectively locked up while the virus ravaged through campuses, they have not just missed out on university life but have been expected […]

05 Mar 2021

Helical lets office to TikTok

Helical has let an 88,500 sq ft office in Farringdon to TikTok. The social media giant has leased the whole of the Kaleidoscope building, which sits above the Farringdon East Crossrail Station, for a 15 year term with a tenant option to break at year 10. Comprising ground and five upper floors, Kaleidoscope was the first […]

05 Mar 2021

Drum Income Plus REIT considers its future

The board of Drum Income Plus REIT has undertaken a strategic review into the company that it said could result in it selling off all its assets. The group, which was launched in 2015, has persistently traded at a significant discount to net asset value (NAV) having not reached a scale that makes its shares […]

03 Mar 2021

Civitas Social Housing achieves investment grade credit rating

Civitas Social Housing has secured Investment Grade credit rating with Fitch Ratings. It has been rated High Credit Quality rating of “A” (senior secured) and a Long-Term IDR (Issuer Default Rating) of “A-” with a stable outlook. The rating will allow Civitas to grow its debt funding strategy and gives it access the broader bond […]

03 Mar 2021

Urban Logistics REIT to forward fund speculative development

Urban Logistics REIT has forward funded on a speculative basis the development of five assets in the East Midlands for £23m. The group has exchanged contracts with developer Wilson Bowden Developments, conditional on receipt of planning permission, to finance the construction of two sites in Nottingham and Leicester. The development yield on cost of 6.12% […]

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