SEGRO has announced results for the six months ended 30 June 2016. Its EPRA NAV per share is up 2.6 per cent to 475 pence, driven by a 1.9 per cent increase in the value of the portfolio, due primarily to development gains and active asset management. Adjusted EPS is up 6.5 per cent to […]
MedicX Fund, the specialist primary care infrastructure investor in modern, purpose-built, primary healthcare properties in the United Kingdom and Ireland, is pleased to announce that it has contracted to acquire, by way of forward funding, a new primary healthcare medical centre in Rialto, a suburb of Dublin. The property is due to be completed in […]
Hammerson reports that, for the first six months of 2016, its EPRA net asset value rose by 2.4% to 727p. Adjusted EPS grew by 0.7p or 5.1% to 14.3p. The interim dividend was increased by 6.3% to 10.1p. Their properties produced a return of 2.9%, 0.5% ahead of the industry benchmark. Within this, their French […]
Empiric Student Property has announced that it has agreed a new £32.8m loan facility with AIB Group (UK). The Facility, which is secured against a portfolio of five forward funded assets, is a development loan which will be drawn down in agreed stages. The practical completion of all five forward funded assets expected by July […]
Drum Income Plus REIT (DRIP REIT) has announced that it has acquired 3 Lochside Way, Edinburgh Park, for £4.5m. It says that the property is a 24,000 square foot Grade A office building, prominently situated, on Central Scotland’s premier business park with Lockheed Martin, Exception and GL Industrial Services as key tenants. The company says […]
Hammerson has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the sale of Manor Walks Shopping Centre, Cramlington, Northumberland to Arch Commercial Enterprise Ltd for £78m. Manor Walks adjoins Westmorland Retail Park and the two schemes form the core retail offer for Cramlington town centre situated nine miles north of Newcastle. Hammerson says that, further to […]
Empiric Student Property has announced that it has acquired the freehold of a 31 bed student accommodation property, 2 Oolite Road, in Bath for £2.6m (excluding costs). The property is the fifth student accommodation property in Bath and it has been acquired from IESIS Limited, an established local developer and operator of purpose-built student accommodation […]
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust has announced that it has completed the sale of three properties in separate transactions. The sale of a small industrial asset in Witham, completed on 24 June 2016 for £3.3m. Causeway Side House in Teddington was bought as part of the ‘Pearl Portfolio’ in December last year and was […]
Hansteen refinances Netherlands Light Industrial Property with €145m 5-year facilityHansteen has announced that it has refinanced two loans secured against its Netherlands light industrial property portfolio with a single loan totalling €145.0m. The company says that this has resulted in a reduction in the cost of borrowing on the portfolio from 3.57% to 2.49%, excluding […]
Redefine International has provided an update on the progress it is making on asset management initiatives on its recently acquired Aegon UK (AUK) portfolio. The company says that it is making good progress that is ahead of initial expectations. In summary, since the EU referendum result, the company has completed two leases totalling £0.6m, which […]