Polar Capital raises £59.4m for Healthcare Trust. Results of the Open Offer, Offer for Subscription and Initial Placing of New Ordinary Shares New ordinary shares will be issued under the initial placing at 213.8p, (this price is calculated as the prevailing Net Asset Value as at the close of business on 15 June 2017 plus the Placing […]
Hansteen Holdings has announced that it has completed the disposal of its German and Dutch portfolios for €1.28 billion. The sale, originally announced on 20 March 2017, is entities owned by funds advised by affiliates of The Blackstone Group L.P. and M7 Real Estate. Hansteen says that the transaction has resulted in net cash […]
HgCapital invests in business messaging service, Esendex – HgCapital, the Manager of HgCapital Trust, has today announced an investment in Esendex, a leading provider of mission-critical business messaging services across Europe. On completion of the transaction, Esendex will be merged with existing Mercury portfolio company Mobyt, which provides similar business messaging services in Italy and France. […]
Utilico Emerging lags rising global emerging index as shareholders trail MSCI return by 12.2%. Utilico Emerging has announced an NAV total return (adjusted for the exercise of subscription shares) of 26.2% for the full year to 31 March 2017. However, someone who just held the ordinary shares and no subscription shares would have made a […]
Custodian REIT (CREI) has announced that it has acquired the 23,007 square foot Wells Green Retail Park in Sheldon, five miles from Birmingham city centre on the busy A45 Coventry Road. The agreed purchase price of £5.1 million was funded from the Company’s existing cash resources, resulting in net gearing2 increasing to 19.6% loan to […]
John Laing Environmental extends credit facility for a further year – John Laing Environmental Assets, the listed environmental infrastructure fund, has signed a new three-year (with an uncommitted option to extend for a further year) facilities agreement which provides for a committed revolving credit facility of GBP130 million and an uncommitted accordion facility of up to […]
Workspace Group (Workspace) has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the disposal of the third and final phase of the mixed-use redevelopment of Bow Enterprise Park, E3. It says that the final phase of the redevelopment, comprising 130 residential units, has been sold for £6.3m in cash and the return of a new 40,000 […]
Eastern European Property Fund (EEP) reported a net loss for the year ended 31 December 2016 of £1.2 million (2015: loss of £1.0 million), which it says represents a loss per Ordinary Share of 7.80p (2015: loss of 6.30p). it says that a loss of £0.8 million on revaluation of investment properties, and a realised […]
LXi REIT has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the freehold interest in a portfolio of regulated long-let supported living properties located in Yorkshire. The purchase price for the Portfolio is £3.8 million, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.0% (net of acquisition costs to the Company). The company says that the properties […]
Alpha Real Trust (ARTL) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2017. During the period, the trust’s NAV per share grew by 15.2% to 158.9p. It also paid a quarterly dividend of 0.6p (2.4p in total for the year). Its chairman, David Jeffreys, describes the period as a, “very active year […]
