17 Aug 2015

Empiric buys student block in Falmouth

Empiric Student Property is buying the freehold of a high quality purpose-built student accommodation scheme on Pendennis Rise, in Falmouth, for £8.1m (excluding costs). The property is located next to the Falmouth Docks, within a few minutes’ walk to the Woodlane campus of Falmouth University and the marine School, and with good public transport links […]

14 Aug 2015

Empiric Student Property acquires new build scheme in Sheffield for £10.7m

Empiric Student Property has acquired the freehold to a 134 bed new-build premium student accommodation scheme, in Sheffield, for £10.7m. Portobello House, as the development is known, is located in the heart of the University of Sheffield campus and within a 10 minute walk to the city centre and Sheffield Hallam University. The scheme comprises a mix of […]

13 Aug 2015

Derwent beats IPD as development programme progresses

Derwent London has published interim results covering the first half of 2015. Over this period, its EPRA net asset value per share increased by 10.9% to 3,226p from 2,908p. EPRA earnings per share were 33.97p, 16.5% up on the equivalent period last year – this was on the back of a 21.9% increase in PBT and […]

12 Aug 2015

Picton buys Sheffield warehouse

Picton Property Income has acquired the freehold of a retail warehouse in Sheffield, for £17.7m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.6%. The property is well located close to Sheffield city centre, in an established retail warehouse location and adjacent to Queens Road Retail Park.  It was built in 2002 on a nine acre site, […]

11 Aug 2015

Real Estate Investors sells 36 Great Charles Street

Real Estate Investors, the Birmingham based property group, announces the sale of the part-vacant office building, 36 Great Charles Street, Birmingham, to Circle Property Unit Trust for the sum of £2.5m.  The property was acquired on 25th March this year for the sum of £1.85m. RLE : Real Estate Investors sells 36 Great Charles Street

07 Aug 2015

AEW UK REIT buys retail park

AEW UK REIT is spending £7.15m to buy Valley Retail Park. Valley Retail Park, Newtownabbey is located on the northern side of Belfast with good accessibility to the M2, M5 and A2. The site extends to circa 7 acres and the scheme provides 100,413 sq ft arranged over 7 modern purpose built retail warehouse units […]

06 Aug 2015

Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate announces 25% increase in quarterly dividend

Kennedy Wilson Real Estate Europe, in releasing its interim results for half year ended 30 June 2015, have announced that the quarterly dividend is increasing by 25%, over the previous quarter, to 10p per share. The company say that this will be 40p per share annualised, which the board advise is a sustainable dividend level […]

31 Jul 2015

Intu Properties sees underlying EPS grow 6% in H1

Intu Properties  has released its interim report for the six months ended 30 June 2015, which show a 1.6% increase in NAV during the period (from 379p to 385p). Underlying earnings per share increased by 6% (from 6.4p to 6.8p per share), whilst a £162 million (1.9 per cent) revaluation surplus and the acquisition of Puerto Venecia […]

30 Jul 2015

intu beats IPD as it writes up St David’s Centre

intu Properties results for H1 2015 show a 4% total return – the adjusted diluted net asset value rising from 379p to 385p and underlying earnings per share rising from 6.4p to 6.8p. The interim dividend has been maintained at 4.6p. They outperformed the IPD – their property revaluation surplus was 1.9% like-for-like, partially attributable to […]