23 Sep 2015

Hansteen acquires assets in Ilkeston and Teeside for £41.1m

Hansteen Holdings has announced the acquisition of two assets in Derbyshire for a total price of £41.1m. West Hallam Industrial Estate (Ilkeston, South Derbyshire) is being acquired for £27.3m, which reflects a net initial yield of 6.2%. Completion is due on 24 September. Belasis Business Park (pictured) is located in Billingham, Teesside. It is being acquired […]

22 Sep 2015

Tritax investing in TK Maxx warehouse

Tritax Big Box REIT has announced that it has completed the land purchase and entered into contracts to provide forward funding for the development of a new regional distribution facility, pre-let in its entirety to TJX UK (“TK Maxx”), a major retailer of branded apparel and home fashions in the UK and Ireland. The investment price […]

21 Sep 2015

UK Commercial Property and SEGRO swap assets

UK Commercial Property Trust has announced that it has acquired Ventura Park in Hertfordshire for £67.1m through a swap transaction with SEGRO plc, which also comprises the sale to SEGRO of a 298,850 sq ft Asda Distribution Centre in Northampton for £31m.  UK Commercial Property Trust paid the £36.1m difference from its existing cash resources. Ventura […]

18 Sep 2015

Custodian REIT buys near Lincoln sells in Swansea

Custodian REIT has acquired a 19,493 sq ft trade counter unit on Stephenson Road, North Hykeham, three miles south-west of Lincoln and one mile from the A46. The unit is let to MKM Building Supplies Limited on a lease expiring on 10 June 2022.  Net passing rent is GBP169,711 per annum, reflecting a net initial yield of […]

17 Sep 2015

Globalworth eyes €1bn portfolio

Globalworth Real Estate has released its interims covering the six months ended 30 June 2015 and a trading update that covers the period to the middle of September. On 15 September the portfolio had a gross lettable area of 335,883sqm, a value of €808.4m and the projected value once all developments have been completed was […]

17 Sep 2015

Town Centre Securities beats benchmark for year to June

Town Centre Securities has published results for the year ended 30 June 2015. It is reporting an 11.7% increase in NAV to 344p, a maintained dividend of 10.44p (which was covered 1.16x by underlying earnings per share of 12.1p – down from 14.4p the previous year). The total return to shareholders was 19%. Like-for-like property […]

16 Sep 2015

Real Estate Investors posts 4% increase in NAV during H1

Real Estate Investors has announced its interim results for the six-months ended 30 June 2015. The company converted to a Real Estate Investment Trust with effect from 1 January 2015 and so these are its first results under the new structure. During the period, the company’s ERA NAV rose 4% to 63.6p per share whilst […]

15 Sep 2015

AEW UK REIT invests in Sheffield

AEW UK REIT  has announced the completion of a further acquisition for £5.3m (net of acquisition costs) of 1-15 Fargate & 18-36 Chapel Walk, Sheffield. The two properties provides a total of 40,128sq ft with 8 retail units spread over basement, ground and first floors. Two of the retail units front onto the pedestrianised Fargate Street with six […]

14 Sep 2015

Schroder Real Estate signs pre-let to Premier Inn for Arndale House in Leeds

Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust (SREI) has announced that it has exchanged a conditional agreement for Lease, with Premier Inn Hotels, for a pre-letting of a new 96 bedroom hotel within Arndale House in Leeds (pictured). SREI acquired the Arndale Centre in Leeds, a multi-let retail, leisure and office property totalling 125,834 sq ft that is […]