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22 Nov 2021

Schroder REIT buys £20m industrial portfolio

Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust has acquired a portfolio of four industrial assets in the north west of England for £19.85m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.9%.  The portfolio acquisition, to be funded by drawing on the revolving credit facility, generates rental income of £1.45m per annum. The acquisition increases the group’s industrial weighting […]

18 Nov 2021

LondonMetric looks to raise £175m in placing

LondonMetric has announced a proposed fund raise of £175m, through a placing and retail offer (through PrimaryBid), to fund a pipeline of logistics acquisitions. The company said that it intends to use the proceeds of the raise, the price of  which has yet to be determined, to acquired committed and under offer deals that total […]

17 Nov 2021

Tritax EuroBox secures green lease in Belgium

Tritax EuroBox has agreed a new lease on a vacant unit at its Nivelles asset in Belgium to Associated Retail SA (trading as Match Supermarkets), the convenience supermarket group located across Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France. The Nivelles property, comprising two separate logistics units, was acquired by the company in January 2021, immediately after completion […]

17 Nov 2021

Workspace in for £45m Islington office

Workspace Group, flexible office space provider, has acquired The Busworks, in Islington, for a total of £45m. The off-market acquisition is being funded from existing facilities. A former Victorian bus factory, the property provides 104,000 sq ft of net lettable space across two conjoined warehouse buildings on 1.6 acres. It is currently operated as a […]

17 Nov 2021

Life Sciences REIT raises £350m at IPO

Life Science REIT successfully raised gross proceeds of £350m from its initial public offering (IPO). The company said it received applications exceeding the £350m maximum size of the issue, so a scaling-back exercise has been undertaken. A total of 350m ordinary shares will be admitted to trading on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the […]

16 Nov 2021

Yew Grove REIT subject of takeover offer

North American real estate investment trust (REIT) Slate Office REIT has agreed a deal to buy London-listed Irish office investor Yew Grove REIT for a consideration of €177.4m. The deal would see Slate acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Yew Grove at a price of €1.017 per share. The cash […]

15 Nov 2021

LondonMetric makes £135m double buy

LondonMetric Property has acquired two logistics warehouses for £135.6m in separate transactions, reflecting a blended net initial yield of 4.2% and a reversionary yield of 4.8%. The properties generate a rent of £6.0m a year with 100% of the income benefiting from RPI linked rent reviews and have a WAULT of 22 years. The first […]

15 Nov 2021

Urban Logistics REIT back for more money

Urban Logistics REIT has announced an Initial Placing, Offer for Subscription and Intermediaries Offer targeting gross proceeds of £200m at a price of 170 pence per share. Having fully deployed or committed £134m of capital following the company’s £108m July fundraising, the manager has identified a further pipeline of high quality, last mile logistics assets, […]

15 Nov 2021

Tritax EuroBox to fund €118m German development

Tritax EuroBox has agreed a deal to fund the development of an €117.9m logistics asset in the Rhine-Ruhr region in Germany. The development, in Bönen, will comprise 66,065 sqm of space and is pre-let to the Rhenus Warehousing Solutions SE & Co KG, one of the leading global logistics service providers, on a 15-year lease. […]