Land Securities has announced the sale of ‘The Centre’ and the ‘Almondvale West Retail Park’ in Livingston to HSBC Alternative Investments for £224.1m. The sale reflects Land Securities strategy of refocusing its shopping centre portfolio on ‘dominant regional and Greater London assets’. ‘ The Centre’ is Scotland’s second-largest covered shopping and is home to over 160 retailers. ‘Almondvale West […]
Lyxor Focus, the LSE listed fund of hedge funds, has announced details of an EGM, scheduled for 30 December 2014, in which shareholders will consider a resolution to wind up the company. Assuming the resolution passes, it is intended that Lyxor’s listing on the LSE will also be cancelled with effect of the close of the market […]
Terra Catalyst Fund‘s sole remaining material holding is its 72.4% holding in Spazio Investments NV, an Italian registered Fund which invests in Italian property. This follows on from the sale of TCF’s holdings in the Tamar European Industrial Fund and Rugby estates earlier this year. Spazio is being held on TCF’s balance sheet at €6.43, unchanged […]
Summit Germany, the German commercial real estate company, has provided a trading update with a number of key developments. The first is that it has agreed terms to refinance €268m of its €309m debt facilities. This includes a new €240m, 7 year, 3.4% debt facility (the current loan is at 3.9%) which is expected to be in place by […]
Tritax Big Box REIT has announced the acquisition of two more distribution centres – one at Dove Valley Park, Derby and the other at Trafford Park in Manchester for a combined price of £55.1m, equivalent to a blended net initial yield of 6.53%, assuming 5.8% purchase costs. Completion of both purchases is expected to take place by 12 […]
Standard Life European Private Equity Trust has published its results for the year that ended 30 September 2014. the total return on its net asset value for the year was 7.7%. They are paying a dividend of 5p per share and the Board have said they intend to try to at least maintain that level […]
Over the year to the end of October 2014 Scottish Investment Trust generated a return of 1% on net assets – in-line with the return on the FTSE All-Share Index over that period but well behind the 8.8% return posted by the FTSE All World Index (a large proportion of SCIN’s assets are invested overseas). […]
Foresight Solar is to buy Landmead, the UK’s largest solar farm. Located in East Hanney, Oxfordshire and currently under construction, this 46MWp farm is expected to be grid-connected later this month and so should qualify for a subsidy at a rate of 1.4 ROCs. With this deal, Foresight will now own farms capable of generating 213MWp […]
Globalworth Real Estate has announced that it is buying Nusco Tower for €46m and a parcel of land for €4m. The Tower deal won’t complete until Q2 2015. GWI : Globalworth buys Nusco Tower, a 20 storey office block on Gara Herastrau, the same street as Globalworth’s recent acquisition, Green Court Building A. Nusco Tower has circa […]
Blackstar Group is planning to buy 100% of Times Media Group and 22.9% of Kagiso Tiso Holdings in exchange for cash and shares in Blackstar. Following the completion of the transaction, Blackstar will change its name to “Tiso Blackstar group SE” Blackstar already owns 32.5% of Times Media Group. To buy the remainder Blackstar will […]
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