Land Securities (LAND) has acquired a 75% stake in MediaCity, the 37 acre media, digital and tech hub home to the BBC in Salford, Greater Manchester, for £425.6m. The site was previously owned by a 50:50 joint venture between Legal & General and Peel L&P. Landsec will partner with Peel L&P who will retain a […]
Land Securities (LAND) has agreed terms of a recommended all cash offer for U and I Group (UAI), valuing the company at £190m. Under the terms of the acquisition, UAI shareholders will be entitled to receive 149p per share, which is a mammoth 73% premium to the closing price of 86.0p on 29 October 2021. […]
If ever there was a sector that was in need of a shot in the arm from the Autumn budget this week it was retail. Unfortunately, the chancellor passed up on the opportunity with wishy-washy business rates reform. Rishi Sunak’s announcement that business rates in the retail, hospitality and food & beverage sectors would be […]
African real estate investor Grit Real Estate announced full year results to the end of June 2021, with a 12.6% drop in net asset value (NAV). EPRA net reinstatement value (NRV – the group’s EPRA equivalent for NAV) per share contracted to $1.024 (2020: $1.171). The reduction was principally as a result of a decrease […]
Urban Logistics REIT has announced plans to move to the premium segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange. The directors said they believed that the market capitalisation of the company (£550m) now justifies the move and that it would provide the most appropriate market listing for the continuing growth of the company. […]
The remarkable response to the COVID-19 pandemic by the UK life sciences sector, with the development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in record quick time, brought the sector into the consciousness of the masses. In truth, UK life sciences has been a budding sector for years, with four of the top 10 universities in the world […]
Tritax EuroBox has acquired a logistics asset in the Rhine-Ruhr region of Germany for €32m, as it sets about deploying the proceeds of its recent equity raise. The asset, located in Gelsenkirchen, has a total gross internal area of 16,632 sqm and comprises three purpose-built logistics facilities located in the heart of the prime logistics […]
Urban Logistics REIT has acquired two assets for £15.1m at a 6.0% net initial yield (NIY). The assets include one income producing asset providing immediate additional revenue, and a forward funding development project. Around £50m of further investments are in advanced stages of contractual progress and are expected to be completed in the near term […]
Target Healthcare REIT, the care homes investor, delivered a net asset value (NAV) total return for the year ended 30 June 2021 of 8.8%. EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) was up 2.1% to 110.4p per share, while the group paid out dividends of 6.72p. The dividend (which was up 0.6% on 2020) was not fully […]
A new real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on the life science laboratories is looking to raise £300m in an initial public offering (IPO). Life Science REIT has announced its intention to launch on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange through a placing, offer for subscription and intermediaries offer targeting the […]
