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29 Jan 2021

Stenprop captures rental growth in industrial portfolio

Stenprop has reported a 25% average uplift on new industrial lettings in a trading update for the fourth quarter of 2020. The group said the 39 lettings made during the period and the 18 lease renewals were 25% and 24% ahead of previous passing rents and totalled £1.51m of rent per annum. Like-for-like passing rent […]

29 Jan 2021

CLS acquires trio of German offices for €89.7m

CLS Holdings has acquired three offices in Germany for a combined €89.7m. The company has exchanged contracts to buy Hansaallee 299, in Düsseldorf, Storkower Strasse 132, in Berlin, and Wendenstrasse 408 in Hamburg. It has paid a net initial yield of 4.8% for the three properties. Combined, the three offices are 93% occupied by 31 tenants and have […]

28 Jan 2021

Residential Secure Income lives up to name with 99% rent collection

Residential Secure Income has collected 99% of rent for the quarter, a rate that has been unchanged throughout the pandemic. The group said this demonstrated the secure nature of its cashflows from its affordable shared ownership, retirement and local authority housing portfolio, with rents underpinned by pensions, housing welfare, below market rents and shared owner stakes. […]

28 Jan 2021

Tritax Big Box collected 99% of rent in 2020

Tritax Big Box REIT has collected 99% of rent for 2020, it has announced in a quarterly business update. The group said the remaining 1% was subject to deferral arrangements and due to be collected by mid-2021. For the current quarter, the group has so far collected 93%, which it expects to increase to 100% […]

28 Jan 2021

Office enquiry levels down 33% at Workspace Group

Workspace Group, the flexible office space provider, has reported tenant enquiry levels were 33% down on last year, in a quarterly business update. It said average monthly enquiries in the final quarter of 2020 (the third quarter of its financial year) was 672, versus 1,001 in the same period in 2019. Lettings, however, were at […]

28 Jan 2021

Picton Property posts 3% increase in NAV

Picton Property has reported a 3% rise in net asset value (NAV) in the quarter to the end of December 2020. The group, which owns a diverse property portfolio weighted towards industrial, said EPRA NAV per share was 95.5p at 31 December 2020, up from 92.7p at 30 September. NAV total return (including dividends paid) […]

27 Jan 2021

BMO Real Estate Investments posts 3.5% rise in NAV

BMO Real Estate Investments (BREI) has posted a 3.5% rise in its net asset value (NAV) for the quarter to 31 December 2020. The unaudited NAV was 98.1p per share (30 September 2020 : 94.8p), the increase driven by a 2.4% increase in the value of its property portfolio to £317.8m. With the 0.85p quarterly […]

27 Jan 2021

Real Estate Investors receives 95% of rent for 2020

Real Estate Investors, which owns a portfolio of property in the Midlands, collected 95% of rent in 2020, including agreed deferred payments. For the first quarter of this year it has collected close to 90%, including deferred payments. Portfolio update The group said occupancy on its 53-asset strong portfolio was 91.6% at 31 December 2020 […]