GCP Student Living (DIGS) has received a takeover bid valuing the company at £969m. The bid by Scape Living (funded by APG – a current shareholder in DIGS) and iQ (funded by Blackstone) is at a large premium to both its share price and net asset value. The bid price of 213p per share is […]
There has been an awful lot of conjecture surrounding the future of the office and not of lot of data on which to pin anything on. Well, that seems to be changing as some of the big London developers update the market on recent activity and letting brokers’ deal flow data start to reveal trends. […]
Lar España, which owns a portfolio of shopping centres in Spain, has successfully closed an issue of €400m of senior unsecured green bonds. The issue was four times oversubscribed and the bonds have a fixed annual coupon of 1.750% and mature at the end of 2026. Ratings agency Fitch has assigned a BBB investment grade […]
The initial public offering (IPO) of UK Residential REIT failed to raise its target £150m. The investment company announced its intention to float at the beginning of June and was hoping to announce its initial fundraising on 14 July and enter the market on 16 July, according to the prospectus. [QD comment: It’s slightly surprising that this […]
Aberdeen Standard European Logistics Income (ASLI) has acquired an urban logistics warehouse in Barcelona, Spain for €18.8m and a net initial yield of 3.7%. The group has also provided an update on one of its tenants, Office Depot France, which went into administration earlier this year. The company said it was increasingly likely that the […]
Urban Logistics REIT has raised £108.3m in an equity raise. The group said the placing was materially oversubscribed above the £108m target and a scaling back exercise was carried out. A total of 65,870,766 placing shares (£102.1m) in the company have been conditionally placed at an issue price of 155 pence per share. Additionally, a total […]
Yet more news of a potential takeover of a listed property company came to the fore this week, as private equity groups continue to circle the discounted real estate sector. Due to COVID uncertainty, many property companies have been trading at discounts to net asset value (NAV) for many months now. Despite the successful rollout […]
Great Portland Estates signed lettings worth £12.7m of new annual rents in three months to the end of June, with further £14.9m under offer, it said in a trading update. The central London office developer’s chief executive Toby Courtauld said momentum was building. The new lettings, which included £8.0m of retail space, were 9.3% ahead […]
“I wish we had 10 centres in Cornwall,” Mark Dixon, chief executive of IWG – the world’s largest flexible workspace provider, said at a recent webinar when discussing the shift in occupier demand during the pandemic. He believes the trend for working “near to home” is here to stay. “The genie is out of the […]
AEW UK REIT has reported strong annual results with a net asset value (NAV) total return of 15.1%. The group, which has a heavy portfolio weighting to the industrial sector (60.8%), saw its NAV increase 6.5% in the year to 31 March 2021 to 99.15p per share (March 2020: 93.13p). The group paid a dividend […]
