SECURE Property Development & Investment PLC has announced that it has bought Innovations logistics park in Bucharest, Romania, for €12.6m; funded by €4.4m of cash resources, by issuing 785,000 redeemable shares and with bank debt. The logistics park has 17,000 sqm of gross leasable area and is located in Clinceni in Bucharest, which benefits from being on the Bucharest ring road, […]
JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust has published its interim results for the period ended 31 March 2014. Over the six months the fund marginally underperformed its benchmark index (the MSCI Asia ex Japan) with a net asset return of -1.3% compared to -0.3% for the index. The discount narrowed a little and the return to […]
F&C Capital & Income Investment Trust, managed by Julian Cane (pictured), generated a total return on net assets of 3.9% for the six months ended 31 March 2014 – lagging the 4.8% return on the FTSE All-Share Index. The trust’s rating improved however and this generated a return to shareholders of 5.4%. The quarterly dividends for […]
Local Shopping REIT has released its results for the six months ended 31 March 2014. The net asset value rose from 41p to 43p during the period while the adjusted NAV (excluding liabilities arising from derivative financial instruments) rose to 49p (corrected by LSR on 23 May) from 48p. Property values in the portfolio rose by 0.1% on average. […]
JP Morgan Private Equity has announced that it has sold part of its stake in Terra Firma Deutsche Annington (the largest holding in the portfolio). Deutsche Annington is the largest investor in German real estate with almost 175,000 residential units. JP Morgan Private Equity acquired its stake in two chunks – one in 2006 and a […]
Max Property has published its results for the year ended 31 March 2014. Over the year its EPRA NAV has risen by 21% from 136.5p to 164.5p on the back of a 12.4% uplift in the value of its property portfolio which, with income, translated into a 19.3% ungeared return on property. Within this its […]
Henderson Value Trust has released its interim results for the half year to end March 2014. The net asset value barely changed over the period – rising from 290.2p to 290.8p but the share price fell from 245p to 240p meaning that the discount widened to 17.5%. The 1.1% total return on net assets underperformed […]
Kennedy Wilson Europe is paying Bank of Scotland up to £93.5m to acquire a portfolio of loans all of which are in receivership. The passing rents on the portfolio are £7m. The portfolio is spread across England and comprises “high tech properties”.
HICL Infrastructure has released its results for the year ended 31 March 2014. The net asset value rose from 116.4p to 123.1p over the period and this, coupled with a dividend of 7.1p meant the total return on net assets was 11.9%. In the current year HICL Infrastructure is switching to paying quarterly dividends and […]
Real Estate Investors has bought three properties – City Gate House in Leicester (cost £1.8m, initial yield 8.75% – let to government), a building let to WH Smiths in High Street, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (cost £500,000, initial yield 10.4%) and a 6 acre site earmarked for residential development – the former Sandwell College campus in Smethwick, Sandwell […]
