HICL Infrastructure has announced that it has agreed to acquire a further 40% interest in the N17/N18 Gort to Tuam PPP Scheme for €23m. The purchase is being funded from HICL’s revolving credit facility and the transaction is expected to complete by the end of February 2019. Harry Seekings, Co-Head of Infrastructure at InfraRed (HICL […]
AEW UK REIT(AEW) has announced that it has acquired Lockwood Court, a 187,794 square foot warehouse located on the Parkside Industrial Estate in Leeds, for a gross purchase price of £7.3m, reflecting a initial yield of 7.7%. About Lockwood Court The Lockwood Court warehouse asset is fully let to LWS Yorkshire Ltd, a logistics and […]
Judgement issued on Inclusion Housing CIC – The Regulator of Social Housing has issued a regulatory judgment in respect of Inclusion, one of the 15 housing associations working with Civitas. Inclusion has been issued with a G3 grading in terms of Governance and a V3 grading in terms of Financial Viability. These are the same gradings […]
Aberdeen Standard European Logistics expands in France – completes purchase of logistics warehouse located in Meung-sur-Loire, France, that was announced on 23 November 2018. Cost was EUR23.5 million providing a net initial yield of 4.7%. The warehouse is let to Office Depot France on a fully indexed lease until 2026 resulting in an unexpired lease term […]
Yew Grove REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire Unit 2600, an Office Block located in Cork Airport Business Park. The €7.5 million acquisition represents a net initial yield of 7.85 per cent. after accounting for purchase costs. This is Yew Grove’s first investment in Cork. Unit 2600 Unit 2600 is a […]
BB Healthcare Trust has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 November 2018. During what the trust’s chairman, Professor Justin Stebbing, describes as “another successful year”, the trust provided Nav and share price total returns of 24.0% and 21.6% respectively. These returns are ahead of the MSCI World Healthcare Index, which it says […]
Brunner Investment Trust has announced its final results for the year ended 30 November 2018. During the year, Brunner provided an Nav total return of 2.7%, which the trust says a little behind the composite benchmark index (70% FTSE World Ex-UK and 30% FTSE All-Share Index). BUT says its benchmark rose by 4.1% on a total […]
Airbus will end A380 production – There is a story in the press this morning that Airbus has decided to stop making A380s in 2021. The decision was made after Emirates scaled back its orders for the plane. Those funds that own and lease A380s to Emirates – the three Doric Nimrod funds and Amedeo […]
Pershing Square will pay modest dividend – Pershing Square Holdings has initiated a quarterly dividend of $0.10, representing a current yield of 2.5% (based on the closing price of $15.70 on 12 February 2019). The idea is that instituting a quarterly dividend will expand Pershing Square’s investor base by attracting shareholders who prefer or require dividend-paying […]
LXi gets coffee fix – LXi REIT has exchanged contracts to provide forward funding for the pre-let development of a portfolio of 13 separate Starbucks and Costa drive-thru format coffee shops for a combined consideration of GBP23.4 million, reflecting a 5.7% net initial yield (net of acquisition costs). The acquisitions are being funded with their new […]
Polar Capital Global Financials Trust (PCFT) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 November 2018. In what the chairman’s statement describes as a topsy-turvy year for global equity markets, PCFT provided NAV and share price total returns of -1.5% and -1.7% respectively, which it says compares against a total return for its […]
Ediston Property Investment Company (EPIC) has announced that it has restructured lease terms with New Look at Prestatyn Shopping Park, Prestatyn. This has led to both increased rent and a longer lease term. Background to the restructuring – New Look’s CVA New Look completed a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) in March 2018, under which the […]
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG) has announced its annual results for the year ended 30 November 2018. While THRG’s net assets fell during the year, the trust has provided a return substantially ahead of the benchmark index. Specifically, THRG provided NAV and share price total returns of -2.7% and +1.8% respectively, which it says compares against […]
Ranger Direct Lending (RDL) has provided an update on the company’s management and valuation arrangements. As previously announced, RDL’s investment management agreement with Ranger Alternative Management II, LP terminates with effect from today (12 February 2019). The Company has appointed International Fund Management Limited (IFM) as its replacement Alternative Investment Fund Manager with immediate effect and, […]
The Local Shopping REIT (LSR) has provided an update on its Property Sales Programme. Since its last update, LSR has sold or exchanged contracts for sale on 6 properties for an aggregate price of £0.93 million, representing a 1.1% discount to carrying value before sales costs. It says that, of these, 3 properties were sold […]
Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX) has announced the results of its recent fundraising under which the Company has raised approximately £250 million (before expenses). The net proceeds of the issue are to be used by to fund the acquisition of an 87 per cent. economic interest in db Symmetry as well as further investments. The […]
Primary Health Properties (PHP has announced that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of Chapeloak Investments Limited, whose sole activity is the ownership of the Oakwood Lane Medical Centre, in Leeds, for a total consideration of £5.425m. It has also contracted to forward fund the development of a purpose built medical centre in […]
Witan Pacific (WPC) has provided a corporate update in which it says that its board is concerned that WPC has experienced some underperformance relative to its benchmark in recent years. The Board says that it believes that the Company must justify its actively managed investment approach. Therefore, it has resolved that, if the Company does […]
Yew Grove REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire Office Block A at the IDA Waterford Business and Technology Park, Butlerstown, Waterford. The €4 million transaction represents a net initial yield of 8.56 per cent, after accounting for all purchase costs. The purchase if the company’s first in Waterford. Jonathan Laredo, Yew […]
Ediston Property Investment Company (EPIC) has announced that it has completed two lease transactions for Pallion Retail Park, Sunderland. The two tenants are Go Outdoors and The Wallpaper Warehouse. Go Outdoors takes on Unit 2 at Pallion Retail Park GO Outdoors signed an agreement for lease on unit 2, which comprises 11,345 square feet, in […]
NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Zestec Asset Management Limited (Zestec) for the future acquisition of operating solar plants to be installed on commercial properties. The two companies have signed a framework agreement, under which NESF and Zestec are targeting, for 2019, up to £20m in investment […]
Towards the end of last month, we covered off the exciting results of Athelney’s EGM (All change please!) and the subsequent resignation of new appointee Paul Coffin, who subsequently resigned a few days later, leaving the other new appointee, David Lawman as the sole director of the trust. Well, since this time, David has not […]
Scottish American (SCAM or SAINTS) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2018. In what it describes as a challenging year for markets, the trust provided NAV and share price total returns of -2.4% and -1.6% respectively. The announcement highlights that these returns are ahead the total return from global equities […]
New manager for Schroder Japan – Schroder Japan Growth Fund has announced that Masaki Taketsume will be assuming formal responsibility for its portfolio from 1 July 2019. Masaki has been at Schroders for over a decade, and this appointment represents the execution of the long-term succession plan for Andrew Rose who has decided to retire from […]
Thalassa firms up Local Shopping bid – Thalassa will offer a total of GBP9.0 million in cash and approximately 16,000,000 Thalassa shares in exchange for the 61,484,576 Local Shopping REIT shares it does not already own. The offer will also include a mix and match facility which will allow Local Shopping REIT shareholders to elect to vary […]
Alternative Liquidity makes plans to expand – The board and the manager, Warana Capital have been exploring various growth strategies for Alternative Liquidity Fund. The board is now announcing proposals to introduce a new class of ordinary shares which, when issued, will be used to invest in a diversified portfolio of illiquid funds, funds of funds and other […]
Ediston Property (EPIC) has announced that it has signed a lease on unit B, Barnsley East Retail Park, with B&M Retail Limited (‘B&M’). The new letting has increased B&M’s occupation on the park by 40%. B&M will occupy both units A and B B&M already occupies the adjoining unit A which extends to approximately 25,000 […]
Yew Grove REIT has announced its annual results for the seven month period ended 31 December 2018. Jonathan Laredo, the company’s CEO describes these as a “strong set of inaugural results for the Group”. He also says that the net proceeds from the IPO have now been fully invested and the properties that have been […]
3i Infrastructure to sell Cross-London trains – 3i Infrastructure has agreed to sell its 33.3% stake in Cross London Trains, a company established to procure and lease the rolling stock for use on the Thameslink passenger rail franchise. The acquirer is a consortium of Dalmore and Equitix funds. The sale is conditional on certain third party […]
Infrastructure India edging closer to insolvency? – Infrastructure India has requested, but not yet been granted, a further extension of the date of maturity of the existing US$53.4 million unsecured bridging loan facility and the existing US$21.5 million working capital loan, both of which matured on 4 February 2019. On 31 July 2018, it announced that […]
