Custodian REIT has announced the acquisition of Lancaster House (pictured), an office building in Birmingham City Centre for £6.65m. The 39,600 square foot, recently refurbished, building is currently let to 15 tenants with a total passing rent of £505,752 per annum, reflecting a net initial yield of 7.19%. The company has said that there is […]
Drum Income Plus REIT has announced three acquisitions, for a total consideration of £19.7m. These are the Company’s first acquisitions since it was listed on the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and admitted to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 29 May 2015, raising gross proceeds of £31.9m. The Company […]
Target Healthcare REIT reports 3.4% growth in its EPRA NAV for the year to the end of June 2015. EPRA earnings per share were 5.7p, 36% higher than the previous year. The dividend for the year is 6.12p – an increase of 2%. This works out at an NAV total return of 10.3% which is […]
Tritax Big Box REIT has announced that it has agreed a £500m secured debt facility, with a syndicate of four lenders, for five years. The facility comprises a £320m term loan which the company says will be drawn in full immediately, a further £80m term loan available to draw up until the first anniversary of […]
Hammerson plc, together with its joint venture partner, Allianz Real Estate, has signed an agreement with Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (“NAMA”) to acquire the Project Jewel portfolio of loans secured against market-leading retail assets in Dublin, Ireland, including Dundrum Town Centre, Ireland’s pre-eminent shopping and leisure destination. The loan acquisition is being made through […]
F&C UK Real Estate reports that its net asset value total return for the year was 22.7% and its shares moved to trade at a 2.6% premium, improving the return to shareholders to 24.9%. four quarterly dividends of 1.25p, totalling 5p are payable for the year and the Board say it is the intention of the Group to continue to pay […]
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust (SLI), managed by Jason Baggaley (pictured), has entered into a heads of terms to acquire a portfolio of 22 UK commercial properties for approximately £165m. Subject to completion of the appropriate due diligence and valuations, the company says it expects that the portfolio will be acquired through the purchase […]
Capital & Regional, which was granted status as a UK REIT on 31 December 2014, has announced that, in addition to its primary listing on the London Stock Exchange, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange has approved a secondary listing on its main board with trading to commence on Wednesday 7 October 2015. The company is focused […]
GCP Student Living has been busy spending the money it raised in its recent C share issue. They have announced the completion of the acquisition of The Pad 2 and exchanged contracts to acquire Scape Shoreditch. The Pad 2 is located adjacent to Royal Holloway, University of London. The Pad 2 is a purpose-built, private student […]
Macau Property Opportunities has published results for the year ended 30 June 2015. The adjusted NAV per share fell by 18.7% over the year as the portfolio value fell by 14% to $463.7m. The discount widened from 11% to 17% over the year and has widened further since – to 39% today. Assuming a full drawdown […]
