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30 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 November 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 November 2021: Octopus Renewables Infrastructure says that following the completion of construction of the 48MW Ljungbyholm Wind Farm in Sweden and the site becoming fully operational in June 2021, the Company has entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) over the electricity to be generated at Ljungbyholm. The counterparty to […]

26 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s weekly news show 26th November 2021

QuotedData’s weekly news show 26th November 2021 Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, Jayna Rana and Richard Williams covered the week’s top stories: Interim results – Montanaro UK Smaller Companies – Cordiant Digital Infrastructure – JLEN Environmental Assets […]

25 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 November 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing on 25 November 2021: Seraphim Space (SSIT) has made a new $12.5m investment into Astroscale Holdings, the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits. Astroscale closed a $109m series F round which was led by THE FUND Limited Partnership in Japan and backed by a group […]

23 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 November 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 November 2021: Will Wyatt will step down as chief executive of Caledonia Investments (CLDN) in July next year. Will’s successor is Mathew Masters, currently head of Caledonia quoted equity. Mat will join the board as chief executive designate on 1 April 2022. Before joining Caledonia in 2005, Mat worked at […]

22 Nov 2021

Schroder REIT buys £20m industrial portfolio

Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust has acquired a portfolio of four industrial assets in the north west of England for £19.85m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.9%.  The portfolio acquisition, to be funded by drawing on the revolving credit facility, generates rental income of £1.45m per annum. The acquisition increases the group’s industrial weighting […]

22 Nov 2021

Grit Real Estate looks to raise $215.6m

Grit Real Estate Income Group, the pan-African property investor, has announced a proposed open offer and placing to raise $215.6m. It is looking to place up to 414,647,283 new ordinary shares at US$0.52 per share, the open offer being on the basis of 1.3011 new ordinary shares for every one existing share. The group intends […]

18 Nov 2021

LondonMetric looks to raise £175m in placing

LondonMetric has announced a proposed fund raise of £175m, through a placing and retail offer (through PrimaryBid), to fund a pipeline of logistics acquisitions. The company said that it intends to use the proceeds of the raise, the price of  which has yet to be determined, to acquired committed and under offer deals that total […]

18 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 November 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 November 2021: Octopus Renewables (ORIT) says that construction has started at its Cumberhead wind farm. The Cumberhead project, which is expected to be fully operational by Q4 2022, is a 50MW onshore wind farm located in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, and will consist of 12 Nordex N133 turbines and have an […]

17 Nov 2021

Tritax EuroBox secures green lease in Belgium

Tritax EuroBox has agreed a new lease on a vacant unit at its Nivelles asset in Belgium to Associated Retail SA (trading as Match Supermarkets), the convenience supermarket group located across Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France. The Nivelles property, comprising two separate logistics units, was acquired by the company in January 2021, immediately after completion […]

17 Nov 2021

Workspace in for £45m Islington office

Workspace Group, flexible office space provider, has acquired The Busworks, in Islington, for a total of £45m. The off-market acquisition is being funded from existing facilities. A former Victorian bus factory, the property provides 104,000 sq ft of net lettable space across two conjoined warehouse buildings on 1.6 acres. It is currently operated as a […]

17 Nov 2021

Life Sciences REIT raises £350m at IPO

Life Science REIT successfully raised gross proceeds of £350m from its initial public offering (IPO). The company said it received applications exceeding the £350m maximum size of the issue, so a scaling-back exercise has been undertaken. A total of 350m ordinary shares will be admitted to trading on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the […]

16 Nov 2021

Yew Grove REIT subject of takeover offer

North American real estate investment trust (REIT) Slate Office REIT has agreed a deal to buy London-listed Irish office investor Yew Grove REIT for a consideration of €177.4m. The deal would see Slate acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Yew Grove at a price of €1.017 per share. The cash […]

16 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 November 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 16 November 2021: International Public Partnerships (INPP) says that the consortium that it is a member of (alongside Amber Infrastructure Group and Transmission Investment) now owns the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm transmission link. The offshore wind farm is located approximately 13km off the Sussex coast and consists of 116 x […]

15 Nov 2021

LondonMetric makes £135m double buy

LondonMetric Property has acquired two logistics warehouses for £135.6m in separate transactions, reflecting a blended net initial yield of 4.2% and a reversionary yield of 4.8%. The properties generate a rent of £6.0m a year with 100% of the income benefiting from RPI linked rent reviews and have a WAULT of 22 years. The first […]

15 Nov 2021

Urban Logistics REIT back for more money

Urban Logistics REIT has announced an Initial Placing, Offer for Subscription and Intermediaries Offer targeting gross proceeds of £200m at a price of 170 pence per share. Having fully deployed or committed £134m of capital following the company’s £108m July fundraising, the manager has identified a further pipeline of high quality, last mile logistics assets, […]

15 Nov 2021

Tritax EuroBox to fund €118m German development

Tritax EuroBox has agreed a deal to fund the development of an €117.9m logistics asset in the Rhine-Ruhr region in Germany. The development, in Bönen, will comprise 66,065 sqm of space and is pre-let to the Rhenus Warehousing Solutions SE & Co KG, one of the leading global logistics service providers, on a 15-year lease. […]

11 Nov 2021

Boom in last mile boosts Urban Logistics REIT

Urban Logistics REIT has posted a 7.9% increase in EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) in interim results, boosted by strong demand for last mile logistics facilities. In the six months to September 2021, the group’s EPRA NTA leapt from 152.33p to 164.30p per share. This was mainly due to portfolio like-for-like valuation growth of 11.3% […]

11 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 November 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 November 2021: Third Point Investors (TPOU) looks sets to benefit from the IPO of Rivian Automotive. It invested $10m in the electric vehicle maker in January 2021, followed by a subsequent $167m investment in the company’s convertible note financing in July 2021. Third Point added to its position in the […]

09 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 November 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 November 2021: AVI Global (AGT)’s asset manager says that “it and three other shareholders collectively owning over 18 per cent. of the ordinary shares requisitioned the [Third Point Investors (TPIL)] board on 2 November 2021 to convene an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of TPIL at which shareholders will be asked […]

08 Nov 2021

Civitas’ NAV nudges up

Civitas Social Housing’s net asset value (NAV) has nudged up slightly in the quarter to 30 September 2021. The group reported an IFRS NAV of 108.49p (up from 108.42p on 30 June 2021). New investments have been limited to just one in the quarter, mainly due to an attack on the company by an activist […]

08 Nov 2021

Sirius Real Estate proposes £135m capital raise to fund acquisition of UK business park owner

Sirius Real Estate, the German business park owner, has announced a proposed capital raise of £135m to part fund the acquisition of UK flexible workspace provider BizSpace for £245m. Sirius said it believes the acquisition of BizSpace “represents a highly attractive and strategically important opportunity that allows Sirius to enter, at scale, an under-served wider […]

05 Nov 2021

QD view – grabbing the bull by the horns

Here at QuotedData we like a company that takes the bull by the horns and gets on with things. So it was good to see two significant announcements this week from Land Securities (Landsec) that certainly shows courage in their convictions. As we reported this week, Landsec announced it had agreed to takeover listed regeneration […]

05 Nov 2021

Industrials REIT bags trio of assets

Industrials REIT has acquired three multi-let industrial (MLI) estates, as it nears its target of being a fully focused MLI REIT by 31 March 2022. The three estates, in Birkenhead, Coatbridge, and Stockton on Tees, have been purchased in separate transactions for a total consideration of £18m, reflecting a blended net initial yield of 7.1% and […]

05 Nov 2021

Urban Logistics REIT’s spending spree continues

Urban Logistics REIT has acquired three assets for a total of £29.0m at a blended net initial yield (NIY) of 6.7%, as it continues deployment of its recent equity raise. The assets include two income producing assets providing immediate additional revenue and the forward funding of a development project. As a result Urban Logistics has […]

04 Nov 2021

Derwent London bags Southwark office for £55m

Derwent London has exchanged contracts to acquire Conoco House and Quadrant House at 230 Blackfriars Road, SE1 in Southwark, for £55.0m. It has bought the 100-year leasehold interest in the property, where the ground rent is fixed at £5,000 per annum. Conoco House, a 1970s office building comprising 60,300 sq ft, is multi-let at a […]

04 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 November 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 November 2021: Tufton Oceanic (SHIP) plans to issue up to 28,057,140 shares at $1.39 via a placing. The money raised will be used to fund the purchase of additional ships. The number of shares is 10% of the existing issued share capital. The issue price is 1.4% discount to the […]

03 Nov 2021

Land Securities pays £425.6m for majority stake in MediaCity

Land Securities (LAND) has acquired a 75% stake in MediaCity, the 37 acre media, digital and tech hub home to the BBC in Salford, Greater Manchester, for £425.6m. The site was previously owned by a 50:50 joint venture between Legal & General and Peel L&P. Landsec will partner with Peel L&P who will retain a […]

02 Nov 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 November 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 November 2021: VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (GSEO) says it has invested £30m of the £78m it committed to fund innovative net zero flexible power generation projects in the UK. The initial tranche will fund the construction of one project in Nottinghamshire, UK, consisting of a 10MW high efficiency combined […]

01 Nov 2021

Land Securities agrees to buy U and I Group for £190m

Land Securities (LAND) has agreed terms of a recommended all cash offer for U and I Group (UAI), valuing the company at £190m. Under the terms of the acquisition, UAI shareholders will be entitled to receive 149p per share, which is a mammoth 73% premium to the closing price of 86.0p on 29 October 2021. […]

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