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28 Jan 2021
Residential Secure Income

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

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 […]

27 Jan 2021

Warehouse REIT collects 96% of rent for year

Warehouse REIT has collected 96% of rent for its financial year to the end of March 2021, it announced as part of a trading update. For the current quarter, it has received 95% of rent (including 3% that has been deferred). This, it said, was higher than the equivalent date for the previous three quarters. […]

26 Jan 2021

LXI REIT reports rise in portfolio value

LXI REIT has reported a 1.7% rise in the value of its long-income property portfolio in the quarter to the end of December 2020. The group said its portfolio had been independently valued at £907.25m. It said the increase was mainly down to its large exposure to the industrial and foodstore sectors, which are benefitting […]

26 Jan 2021

Regional REIT collects 92.4% of rent for 2020

Regional REIT collected 92.4% of rent for 2020, the company said in a market update. This increases to 95.5% when agreed monthly payments and collection plans are accounted for. This, it said, was in line with the 96.9% of rent collected at the same point for 2019. A breakdown of the quarterly rent collection rates […]

25 Jan 2021

Home REIT expands portfolio with £69.5m acquisitions

Home REIT, the recently launched fund that focuses on providing accommodation to the homeless, has acquired a further 171 properties for £69.5m. The acquisitions, in 11 separate portfolios, mean the company has now deployed £184m (or 78%) of the money raised in an IPO in October 2020. The properties, which add a further 798 beds […]