Specialist regeneration developer and investor U and I Group has suspended its dividend and is not proposing any dividend for full year 2020. The company said it would preserve £4.4m of cash by not declaring a final dividend. The group’s development timelines have been massively impacted by closures during the covid-19 pandemic. It now expects […]
German business park owner Sirius Real Estate has provided a covid-19 update in which it said it had collected 75% of rent for the month of April. The figure, as at 9 April 2020, represented around 90% of the normal working pattern, the company said. A small number of its tenants are facing covid-19 related […]
As another week of lockdown comes to an end, property companies continue to update the market on the impact on their businesses. The latest slew of rent collection updates reveal that it isn’t just the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors that have been hit. Almost all companies have seen an impact on income (apart from […]
Town Centre Securities (TCS) has provided an update on the impact of covid-19, stating it has collected 71% of its rent for the quarter. For the rent quarters commencing 25 March and 1 April, TCS billed £4.9m of rent and service charge. As at 8 April 2020 it collected £3.5m or 71%, with a further […]
Warehouse REIT has committed to paying its 2020 dividend target. The group paid its third quarter dividend of 1.6p per share on 31 March 2020 and added that it remained committed to meeting its dividend target for the financial year to 31 March 2020 of 6.2p per share. As at 7 April 2020, it collected […]
Custodian REIT said it would reduce its quarterly dividend to a level broadly linked to net rental receipts. It said it intended to make the fourth quarterly interim dividend payment relating to the quarter ending 31 March 2020 of 1.6625p per share on 29 May 2020, reflecting the full collection of rent for that period. But due to a disruption to cash collection in the current quarter, as a […]
Regional REIT has reported a net asset value (NAV) fall of 2.5% in 2019 results and provided a covid-19 update, stating it had received 82% of rent due for the quarter. The group posted an EPRA NAV per share of 112.7p for the year to the end of December 2019, compared to 115.5p in 2018. Adjusted […]
Urban Logistics REIT has acquired nine assets and a development site for a total of £56.1m. The deals follow its £136.1 million equity capital raise which completed in March. The acquisitions were made at an average net initial yield of 6.3% and comprise: a portfolio of seven single-let regional distribution warehouses for £31.9m; an NHS distribution centre in […]
London office developer Derwent London has confirmed its final dividend. The group will make a final dividend payment of 51.45p on 5 June 2020. Derwent said it had so far received 73% of rents due on the quarter day, with another 6% now being received on a monthly basis in May and June. Therefore, at […]
Tritax Big Box REIT has withdrawn its dividend target for 2020 in light of the covid-19 pandemic. The company has collected the majority of its advanced quarterly rent that was due on 1 April 2020 (86%, with a further 10% expected to be paid by the end of May 2020). Around 50% of Tritax Big […]