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16 Jun 2023
QuotedData’s weekly news show 23rd June 2023 with Jonathan Hick from Triple Point Energy Transition

QuotedData’s weekly news show 16th June 2023

Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Personal Assets (0:33) • Hansa Investment Company (8:26) • Custodian Property Income REIT (12:49) This week’s interview was with Matthias Siller from Barings Emerging […]

15 Jun 2023
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Custodian REIT highlights consolidation opportunity in sector

Custodian Property Income REIT has published results for the year ended 31 March 2023. Its NAV (or net tangible assets, NTA in this sector) fell to 99.3p from 119.7p, contributing to an NAV total return of -12.5%. The NAV fall reflects a £91.6m writedown in the value of the portfolio, reversing gains of £94m recognised […]

15 Jun 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 June 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 June 2023: Aquila European Renewables (AERI) passed its continuation vote at the AGM yesterday. The vote was roughly 75:25 in favour of continuation. [We would expect that next year’s continuation vote (brought forward from 2027) will actually prove less contentious. As we explain in the note published yesterday, with all […]

09 Jun 2023

QuotedData’s weekly news show 9th June 2023

Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • ThomasLloyd Energy Impact (0:20) • The Investment Company (6:28) • Civitas Social Housing (8:20) This week’s interview was with James Thom from abrdn New […]

08 Jun 2023

Schroder REIT ups dividend after strong portfolio performance

Schroder REIT increased its dividend by 14% last year on the back of strong operational performance. Estimated rental growth (ERV) on the diversified portfolio (which is skewed towards industrial assets) was up 9.2% in its financial year to 31 March 2023, while EPRA earnings was up to 3.3p per share. This fully covered the dividend […]

08 Jun 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 June 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 June 2023: Pershing Square (PSH) plans to buy back an additional $100m worth of its shares. Since March 2017, when its buybacks started, it has repurchased over 60m shares at a cost of $1.14bn. BioPharma Credit (BPCR) has agreed amended terms with its borrower LumiraDx. We discussed the problems that […]

07 Jun 2023

LXI REIT seeing benefits of merger, bullish on outlook

LXI REIT has reported its first results since its merger with Secure Income REIT, showing “material cost savings” feeding through to earnings growth. EPRA earnings per share (EPS) was up 36.1% to 8.3p (31 March 2022: 6.1p), while adjusted cash EPS was up 17.5% to 6.7p for the year (31 March 2022: 5.7p). This fully […]

06 Jun 2023

NewRiver REIT’s resilient retail focus paying off

NewRiver REIT’s new strategy focused on ‘resilient retail’, mainly retail park assets with essential goods and services retail tenants, is starting to pay off with the company reporting strong operational performance in annual results to 31 March 2023. The group posted a 26% increase in underlying funds from operations (UFFO) to £25.8m, with UFFO per […]

06 Jun 2023

Warehouse REIT results reflect impact of market yield expansion

Warehouse REIT has reported a 29.5% drop in EPRA NTA to 122.6p per share in annual results to the end of March 2023, reflecting the outward movement in yields in line with the rise in interest rates. The group’s portfolio valuation fell 18.5% to £828.8m (2022: £1,012.0m) on a like-for-like basis following a 131 basis […]

05 Jun 2023

Phoenix Spree Deutschland proposes amendment to manager fees

Berlin residential landlord Phoenix Spree Deutschland (PSDL) has proposed a change to the fee structure for its property advisor, capping its annual fee at €5m. The company’s core rental business remains strong, but it had to suspend its dividend earlier this year as this was paid out of proceeds from condominium sales (which have been […]

05 Jun 2023

Impact Healthcare REIT transfers leases of struggling tenant to new company set up by partner in investment manager

Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR) has transferred the leases of care homes let to Silverline Group, which has not paid its rent due for the first two quarters of this year, to an affiliate of an existing tenant of the company. IHR has transferred the leases of Silverline, which let seven homes and accounted for 3.4% […]

01 Jun 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 June 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 June 2023: ICG Enterprise (ICGT) has agreed a new €240m multicurrency revolving credit facility with SMC International and Lloyds Bank that matures on 30 May 2027 and costs 120 basis points (bps, equal to 1.2%) upfront, 115bps on undrawn amounts and 300bps over euro or sterling interest rate benchmarks (EURIBOR […]

30 May 2023

Controversy continues at Home REIT

Home REIT has announced an update on its internal investigation into allegations of wrongdoing including matters raised in the Viceroy Research report. As announced on 16 February 2023, the company instructed Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations (A&M), as independent forensic accountants to conduct an investigation. A&M delivered to Home REIT a detailed report prepared […]

26 May 2023

QuotedData’s weekly news show 26th May 2023

Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Momentum Multi-Asset Value (0:21) • RM Infrastructure (4:09) ​• Home REIT (10:49) ​• LondonMetric/CT Property (16:14) This week’s interview was with Andy Ho & […]

26 May 2023

QD view – REIT mergers could combat vicious discount circle

Another week in property, another M&A announcement. This time it is LondonMetric pouncing on smaller peer CT Property Trust (CTPT) with an all share offer that values the company at around £200m. In recent weeks we have seen Industrials REIT taken private by Blackstone, Civitas Social Housing also recommending a bid for the company and […]

26 May 2023

UK Commercial Property REIT sells Wembley logistics scheme at 3.5% yield

UK Commercial Property REIT has sold its 186,455 sq ft Wembley180 logistics asset in London for £74m, which reflects a net initial yield of 3.49% and is broadly in line with the 31 March 2023 valuation. The buyer was Covent Garden IP Limited, a registered charitable company that supports The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]

25 May 2023

QuotedData’s Property Investment Conference 2023

Welcome to the videos from the Property Investment Conference 2023. The conference was for property analysts and REIT investors from all the major asset management groups, banks, stockbrokers, wealth managers and IFA Groups. Private investors were also welcomed this year via live streaming who were able to follow the panel discussions and expert speakers. We […]

25 May 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 May 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 May 2023: Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID) raised £50m from its placing and retail offer. Less than its £80m target but not a bad result in the current environment. 32,154,341 shares will be issued at a price of 155.5p. 30,584,387 of these shares will be issued via the placing and […]

24 May 2023

LondonMetric to buy CT Property Trust

LondonMetric and CT Property Trust (CTPT) have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all-share offer that will see LondonMetric acquire the entire share capital of CTPT. Under the terms of the acquisition, CTPT shareholders will receive 0.455 new LondonMetric shares per share. On the basis of the closing price of LondonMetric of 188.0 […]

23 May 2023

Home REIT appoints AEW as new manager

Home REIT has appointed AEW as its new manager as the company looks to turn around its fortunes after a series of damaging revelations involving malpractice and allegations of fraudulent activity. The board has entered into an agreement with AEW UK Investment Management LLP under which, effective immediately, AEW will act as the company’s property […]

23 May 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 May 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 May 2023: Harmony Energy Impact’s (HEIT) NAV was 6.7% lower at end April (117.1p, down from 125.5p at end January) after it cut the power price forecasts used in its NAV calculation. Aberforth Smaller Companies (ASL) has renewed its £130m revolving credit facility with The Royal Bank of Scotland International […]

18 May 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 May 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 May 2023: JLEN Environmental Assets (JLEN) NAV at end March 2023 slipped very marginally (0.4p) from the level at end December. Falling near-term power prices, which have affected other renewable energy funds, are less impactful on JLEN, which has a high degree of protection from short term price hedges as […]

16 May 2023

Workspace sells £82m industrial portfolio

Workspace Group has sold five non-core properties in the South East of England for a total of £82m. These disposals were from the portfolio of assets acquired as part of the McKay acquisition completed in May 2022. The properties sold comprise light industrial and logistics properties in Bracknell, Crawley, Poyle, Theale and Weybridge. The site […]

15 May 2023

Tritax Big Box REIT ventures into urban logistics

Tritax Big Box REIT has acquired a urban logistics park in Birmingham for £58.5m, at a 4.5% net initial yield and a reversionary yield of 6.7%. The group has bought Junction 6 Industrial Park, one of the UK’s leading urban logistics estates of scale totalling 384,000 sq ft across 12 assets. It is located less than […]

12 May 2023

QuotedData’s weekly news show 12th May 2023

Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, Matthew Reed and Richard Williams covered the week’s top stories: Update on Renewables Octopus Renewables Infrastructure (1:30) Bluefield Solar (6:13) NextEnergy Solar (7:18) HydrogenOne (9:36) US Solar no longer up for sale […]

12 May 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 May 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 May 2023: Tritax EuroBox (EBOX) has agreed a new 10-year green lease to a leading logistics company at its recently completed property in Dormagen, a prime logistics location in the Düsseldorf region of Germany. The 36,000 sqm letting was 17.8% ahead of the rental guarantee that EBOX was receiving from […]

11 May 2023

Home REIT board ‘ghosts’ potential bidder

Bluestar Group, which has bid for Home REIT, has launched a scathing attack on the board of the embattled homeless accommodation provider accusing it of effectively ignoring it or ‘ghosting’ it. The group complained that the board had not been in contact in weeks, despite offering 40p per share to buy the company on 14 […]

10 May 2023

QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 May 2023

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 May 2023: UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM) posted a 1.1% uplift in NAV to 80.6p for the quarter to 31 March 2023. With dividends of 0.85p, the group’s NAV total return for the quarter was 2.2%. Valuations within its portfolio grew slightly by 0.9% to £1.32bn, further evidence of value […]

09 May 2023

Civitas Social Housing receives £485m bid for company

Civitas Social Housing (CSH) has agreed the terms of a sale of the company to Wellness Unity Limited for £485m. Although the bid price, of 80p per share, is a 44.4% premium to the closing price of 55.4 pence on Friday (5 May 2023), we believe this is too low. The company’s unaudited NAV at […]

05 May 2023

abrdn European Logistics Income sells Spanish warehouse

abrdn European Logistics Income (ASLI) has completed the sale of a 32,645 sqm warehouse, in Leon, Northern Spain, to SCPI Iroko Zen, for €18.5m. The disposal price reflects a 3% premium to the 31 December 2022 valuation. ASLI acquired the asset in 2018 for €15.3m with the sale reflecting a crystalised 20% gross profit. Located […]

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