Real Estate News

This sector includes mortgage companies, property management companies and REITs

05 Jun 2024

Workspace NAV dragged down by office values

Workspace Group, the London flexible office provider, reported a sharp fall in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) in annual result to 31 March 2024, as valuations in the office sector continue to tumble. The group’s EPRA NTA was down 13.7% to £8.00 over the year, mainly due to a like-for-like portfolio valuation decline of 8.1% […]

04 Jun 2024

Brookfield mulls bid for Tritax EuroBox

Canadian private equity giant Brookfield Asset Management is mulling an offer for Tritax EuroBox. The company said that it was in the early stages of making an offer for the FTSE 250 company. Tritax EuroBox has a market cap of around £484m, but its shares currently trade at a discount of around 33% to net […]

04 Jun 2024

Mergers boost LondonMetric’s performance

LondonMetric Property has published its first annual results since the acquisition of LXi REIT, resulting in a 20.3% boost in earnings. Net contracted rent increased over the year from £145m to £340m as a result of the merger, with EPRA earnings growing to £121.6m – up 5.4% on a per share basis. EPRA cost ratio […]

04 Jun 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 June 2024 – ROOF, CRS, HOME, LMP, SMIF, GABI

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 June 2024: Atrato Onsite Energy  (ROOF) has bought a solar portfolio for £9.3m, using money from its revolving credit facility. The portfolio includes three solar assets with a total capacity of 13MW and comprises: 7.7MW of solar PV systems situated on residential rooftops owned by three different UK housing associations […]

03 Jun 2024

Sirius Real Estate has another strong year

Sirius Real Estate (SRE) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2024, which its chairman, Daniel Kitchen describes as one of “another year of strong financial and operational performance despite a backdrop of continuing macroeconomic and geopolitical volatility”. The year saw SRE raise €165.3m in November 2023 to take advantage of […]

30 May 2024

Special Opportunities REIT IPO prospectus published

Special Opportunities REIT is a new internally-managed REIT seeking to capitalise on the recent dislocation in UK real estate capital markets to deliver highly attractive total returns. It has published a prospectus. If successful, the shares would be admitted to the Official List (standard listing) of the FCA and to trading on the standard segment […]

30 May 2024

LondonMetric swaps unwanted LXi retail assets for urban warehouses

LondonMetric Property has sold seven properties in separate transactions for £31.3m, reflecting a blended NIY of 7.0% and a 3% profit over prevailing book values. They include £18.3m of non-core LXi REIT assets, which have been sold at 5% ahead of prevailing book values. The sales comprise: A 106,000 sq ft Asda foodstore in Scotland […]

30 May 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 May 2024 – JZCP, MINI, PCGH

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 May 2024: JZ Capital (JZCP) is calling a meeting of shareholders to ask them to make the company’s ordinary shares redeemable. That will help expedite returns of capital as the company continues its managed wind down. Separately, it announced results that showed its NAV was not much changed over the […]

29 May 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 May 2024 – CTUK, HEFT, JLEN, ASLI, API, CAL

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 May 2024: CT UK Capital and Income Investment Trust (CTUK) announced its interim results for the six months to March 31 2024. The company’s NAV total return was 12.9%, outperforming its benchmark index which returned 6.9% over the same period. The share price total return was 9.5%. The dividend for […]

24 May 2024

QuotedData’s weekly news show 24th May 2024

Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew and Richard Williams covered the week’s top stories: • Marble Point Loan Financing (0:21)• Odyssean (4:37)• abrdn European Logistics Income (6:24)• NewRiver REIT / Capital & Regional (9:43)• Great Portland Estates (13:47) […]

24 May 2024

QD view – Signals turn green for real estate

Real estate is a cyclical market where timing is everything, and signals are starting to flash that the sector is primed to stage a recovery. Market data, company activity and macroeconomic events appear to be aligning to suggest that now is the time to invest in real estate. After months in the doldrums as values […]

23 May 2024

Helical’s blueprint for growth after painful year

A compelling outlook for real estate has resulted in Helical’s board concluding its strategic review into the company with a three-year blueprint for growth. Led by chairman Richard Cotton, a comprehensive business review found that the company’s “exciting pipeline of committed developments, which due to the quality of the schemes and anticipated supply shortages, are well […]

23 May 2024

Great Portland Estates launches £350m rights issues

London office developer Great Portland Estates (GPE) has launched a fully underwritten 3 for 5 Rights Issue to raise £350m (£336m net of expenses) through the issue of 152 million new shares at a price of 230 pence. The issue price represents a 44.5% discount to the closing price of 414.6 pence on 22 May […]

23 May 2024

NewRiver REIT weighing up bid for Capital & Regional

NewRiver REIT is weighing up a bid for shopping centre landlord Capital & Regional. In a stock market release this morning, Capital & Regional revealed that it was aware that its majority shareholder Growthpoint Properties (which holds 68.13% of the company’s issued share capital) had received a preliminary expression of interest from NewRiver REIT in […]

23 May 2024

Picton Property reports earnings growth and dividend uplift

Picton Property has reported solid earnings growth in full year results that support a 5.7% uplift in its annual dividend. The company posted a 2% increase in EPRA earnings to 4p per share in the year to 31 March 2024, which covered its annual dividend of 3.5p – which has now been increased to 3.7p. […]

23 May 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 May 2024 – BGLF, CRS, INOV, IPU

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 May 2024: Blackstone Loan Financing (BGLF) will hand back €23m to its shareholders by way of a compulsory partial redemption of up to 24,779,142 shares on 10 June 2024. On this basis, a holder of 10,000 shares will have 559 shares redeemed, and receive €518.86 in cash. Crystal Amber (CRS) […]

22 May 2024

British Land posts robust results, with values stabilising

British Land has posted a robust set of annual results during one of the most turbulent periods, with EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) falling 4.4% to 562p in the year to 31 March 2024. The value of its portfolio was down 2.6% to £8,684m, and down just 0.2% in the second half of the year, […]

22 May 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 May 2024 – IHR, USF

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 May 2024: Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR) posted a 1.7% increase in NAV per share to 117.31p in the quarter to 31 March 2024. The value of its portfolio of care homes was up 1.5% to £660.8m, with contracted annual passing rent up 4% to £50.1m. Rent cover among its tenants […]

21 May 2024

Assura enters £250m JV to invest in NHS infrastructure

Assura Group, the healthcare property investor, has entered a £250m joint venture with Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to invest in NHS infrastructure. The JV (which is split 80:20 in favour of USS – the principal pension scheme for universities and higher education institutions in the UK) will be seeded with an initial portfolio of seven […]

20 May 2024

abrdn European Logistics Income to wind down

abrdn European Logistics Income (ASLI) has announced that it will undergo a managed wind down. Ahead of a continuation vote this year, the board launched the strategic review into the future of the company in November 2023, with the fund suffering from a wide discount to NAV and a materially uncovered dividend. The company received […]

20 May 2024

British Land sells Meadowhall stake for £360m

British Land has exchanged contracts to sell its 50% stake in the Meadowhall Shopping Centre to its joint venture partner Norges Bank Investment Management for £360m. The sale was in line with the company’s strategy to focus on retail parks and reduce exposure to shopping centres. The sales price, which values the whole site (including […]

20 May 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 May 2024 – HVPE, HLCL

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 May 2024: HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE) reported its monthly NAV for April 2024. HPVE has an estimated NAV per share of $50.47 (£40.40), a decrease of 0.4% in US dollar terms over the previous month. HPVE invested $55m into HarbourVest funds over April, as part of its $2.3bn investment […]

17 May 2024

Values stabilising for Land Securities after difficult year

Land Securities reported an 8.2% reduction in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) per share to 859p in annual results to 31 March 2024, as the impact of higher interest rates weighed on property valuations. The group’s portfolio fell 6.0% in the year, which was weighted to the first half of the year. The company said […]

16 May 2024

Tritax EuroBox continues strategic revival in challenging market

Tritax EuroBox reported a fall in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) in half year results, as the impact of sector-wide outward yield shift continues. The company’s portfolio valuation fell 2.9% on a like-for-like basis to €1,464.8m, contributing to a 5.9% drop in EPRA NTA to €0.96. Adjusted earnings per share was down 3.0% to 2.62 […]

16 May 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 May 2024 – PCGH

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 May 2024: Polar Capital Global Healthcare (PCGH) says that at end March 2024, its six-month NAV returns were seven percentage points better than its benchmark’s (16.55% versus 9.56% for MSCI ACWI/Healthcare Index). The manager says that this was driven by strong stock selection across the entire market capitalisation range and […]

15 May 2024

Tritax EuroBox announces letting success in Belgium

Tritax EuroBox has agreed a lease re-gear, a new lease and associated solar PV Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at Logistics Park Bornem, Belgium. The re-gear and new lease are both eight-year, inflation-linked leases and have been signed, together with the PPA, with an existing customer, which is a leading global pharmaceutical and medtech company. The […]

15 May 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 May – RTW, GIF, NESF, IHR

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 May 2024: RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW) portfolio company, Lycia Therapeutics, announced the completion of a $106.6m Series C financing round. The company, alongside other investment vehicles managed by RTW Investments LP, participated in the financing round with other life science investment firms. Gulf Investment Fund (GIF) announced that it has […]

14 May 2024

Tritax EuroBox sells Gothenburg warehouse bringing disposal programme to €173m

Tritax EuroBox has exchanged contracts to sell its warehouse asset in Gothenburg, Sweden for a price of SEK 385m (€34m) to a pan-European real estate investment manager. The sale price is broadly in line with book value (at 30 September 2023) and is part of the company’s disposal programme aimed at reducing leverage. The 28,900 sqm […]

14 May 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 May 2024 – AEI, BSIF, AEET, AEWU

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 May 2024: abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI) announced its interim results for the six months to 31 March 2024. During the period, the company delivered a NAV total return of 1.6% compared to the total return of the FTSE All-Share Index of 6.9%. The share price total return was -8.2%. […]

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