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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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% […]
Sirius Real Estate, the German business park owner, has completed the acquisition of a 8,800 sqm mixed-use business park in Fellbach, near Stuttgart, for €9.2m, reflecting an EPRA net initial yield of 6.0%. The asset is located adjacent to a business park already owned by Sirius, with the acquisition creating an enlarged business park comprising over 36,000 […]
Warehouse REIT, the multi-let industrial specialist, has acquired an asset at Glasgow Airport Business Park for £5.3m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.3%. The asset, which comprises three units totalling 55,600 sq ft, is occupied by two global transport companies and a craft beer distributor. It generates an annual income of £357,000, equating to […]
The listed property sector is ripe for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity with many real estate investment trusts (REITs) still trading at significant discounts to net asset value (NAV). Today we saw RDI REIT the subject of a £467.9m takeover bid by Starwood Capital at a price offering a huge premium to its share price, […]
