Supermarket Income REIT has acquired a Tesco Extra and an adjoining Aldi supermarket in Leicester from British Land. It has bought the two supermarkets for a total of £63.4m, reflecting a 6.4% yield. The acquisitions mean Aldi, which is one of the fastest growing grocers in the UK, has become a new tenant in Supermarket Income […]
Hoorah, some good news. A vaccine breakthrough courtesy of Pfizer and BioNTech brought much needed positivity. For the property sector, it was the shot in the arm it needed just a week after lockdown 2.0 was announced. Will life go back to normal with a successful vaccine available or are trends developed during the pandemic, […]
Tritax Big Box REIT has bought a logistics facility let to Tesco for £44.2m, funded through cash and the issue of new shares to the vendor. The group has acquired the temperature controlled distribution unit in Southampton from a “UK real estate fund” at a net initial yield of 5.24%. The £44.2m acquisition will be […]
Regional REIT has announced it will sell all non-office assets after a strategic review by the board. The group’s portfolio consists of 150 properties worth £739.9m, 80.3% weighted to offices located outside of London. It will look to dispose of its industrial assets (13.9% of the portfolio), retail (4.3%) and other sectors (1.5%), valued at […]
London office owner and developer Great Portland Estates said it expects rental values to fall by between 5% and 10%. Chief executive Toby Courtauld said rising unemployment due to the impact of COVID-19 will mean “rents and capital values in London will fall further”. The group gave the guidance as part of half-year results to […]
Urban Logistics REIT has acquired a logistics site for £34.3m as it continues to deploy the proceeds of its recent equity raise. The company has bought the site in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, at a net initial yield of 5.4%. The 12-acre site comprises five units, three of which are let to Müller UK & Ireland Group, a […]
AEW UK REIT has acquired a multi-let industrial estate, which increases its exposure to the sector to 54.3%. The company has bought Westlands Distribution Park in Weston Super Mare for £5.4m, using the proceeds from the sale of its largest asset earlier this year. The purchase price reflects a net initial yield of 6.4%, which […]
Land Securities has reported an £835m loss for the six months to the end of September 2020 as the value of its property portfolio tumbles £945m (7.7%) to £11.8bn. The company’s EPRA net tangible assets (the new metric that replaces EPRA NAV) was down 9.5% to 1,079p. Adjusted diluted earnings was down 49% to 15.5p […]
Schroder REIT has provided a trading update in which it has stated it has collected 84% of rent for the quarter so far. The company, which owns a diverse portfolio of property assets in the UK, said the collection rate was ahead of the equivalent date in the previous quarter. The breakdown between sectors is 93% […]
Urban Logistics REIT has bought five logistics assets for £33.1m just weeks after raising more than £90m in a fundraising. The deals were all conducted off-market at a blended net initial yield of 6.4%. The assets Ripon The group has acquired a 43,881 sq ft distribution unit in Ripon for £2.9m in a sale-and-leaseback deal […]
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