Custodian REIT has announced the purchase of a 30,404 square foot retail warehouse on Snipe Retail Park, Ashton-under-Lyne, adjacent to junction 23 of the M60. The unit is occupied by B&M Bargains Limited, with nearby retailers including B&Q, Halfords, Home Bargains, Dunelm, Argos and Harveys. The unit’s lease expires on 8 January 2032 with a current […]
Tritax Big Box REIT has announced that it has exchanged conditional contracts to purchase a development site at Littlebrook, Dartford. The freehold of the former Littlebrook Power Station site has been acquired, for a total consideration of £65million (excluding purchaser’s costs), which is being funded by the Company from equity. Good access to rail and […]
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has announced a change in the management fees payable to its manager, BlackRock Fund Managers Limited. Under the new fee structure, the base management fee will be reduced from 0.70 per cent. to 0.35 per cent. of gross assets per annum with effect from 1 August 2017. The performance fee is also […]
NewRiver REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the pre-sale of the entire residential element of its major mixed-use regeneration of Burgess Hill town centre. Delph Property Group, which NewRiver REIT describes as a well-established family run residential investment company, has agreed to purchase all 142 residential units for £34 million. It also […]
Redefine International has announced that it has submitted a proposal to International Hotel Properties Limited to increase its shareholding in IHL from 17.24% to 50%. International Hotel Properties is listed on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and on the AltX of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Redefine International say that it […]
HICL buys HS1 channel tunnel link – HICL Infrastructure Company Limited has signed an agreement to acquire a 35 per cent equity interest in the entities that comprise the High Speed 1 Project (“HS1”). HICL is a member of a consortium, alongside funds managed by Equitix Investment Management Limited and third party funds managed by […]
Vietnam Enterprise adjusts fee structure – The Board of Vietnam Enterprise Investments Limited has announced a change to the company’s management fee structure. With effect from 1 August 2017, the annual management fee payable to the company’s investment manager, Enterprise Investment Management Limited, will be amended from the current 2.00% of net assets per annum […]
Amedeo Air Four buys A350-900 aircraft – Amedeo Air Four Plus say that, as anticipated in their prospectus dated 13 June, 2017, the company, via its wholly-owned subsidiary, AA4P Lambda Limited, purchased one A350-900 aircraft bearing manufacturer’s serial number 123 on 13 July, 2017. The aircraft has been placed on lease to Thai Airways International Public Company […]
Civitas Social Housing buys New Walk portfolio – The Board of Civitas Social Housing has announced the purchase of a portfolio of regulated social housing for a total consideration of GBP18.5 million, comprising the freehold interest in 41 properties, with 194 tenancies, in North East England. The portfolio is immediately income generating with an initial net yield […]
A year ago, how many of you would have thought about investing in European smaller companies? At the time, we were trying to work out the impact of Brexit on the UK and the EU. Commentators were also looking ahead to votes in the Netherlands, France and Germany and worrying whether we were on the […]
Target Healthcare REIT buys in Leicestershire and Merseyside – it has completed the acquisition of two properties for a total value of GBP16.6 million (including acquisition and forward funding costs): The Amwell in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, is an 88 bed home which opened its doors to residents in March 2017. Situated in a prominent location […]
DW Catalyst calls liquidation EGM. Further to the announcement on 1 June 2017 regarding the proposed winding up of DW Catalyst, they are publishing a circular to shareholders containing a notice of extraordinary general meeting to be held on 2 August 2017 at which resolutions will be proposed to shareholders regarding the liquidation of the company. In […]
LXi has invested 90% of issue proceeds – The Board of LXi REIT has announced that the company has completed the acquisition of the freehold interest in a portfolio of regulated long-let supported living properties located in Surrey, Somerset and Leicestershire. The purchase price is GBP5.0 million, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.0% (net of acquisition […]
AEW UK Long Lease REIT invests £24m – AEW UK Long Lease REIT has four properties under offer across a range of property sectors. The combined value of the assets is GBP24m and represents over 30% of the net proceeds raised at the Company’s successful IPO on 6 June 2017. The properties are in line […]
Riverstone Energy investment Sierra Oil & Gas makes major discovery. Sierra Oil & Gas has announced that the Zama 1 well has discovered significant quantities of oil in its primary target formation. Preliminary analysis indicates the presence of a contiguous oil bearing interval of over 1,100 feet (335 meters) gross, with net pay of over 650 […]
Phaunos Timber manager resigns – following the loss of the continuation vote, the Manager of Phaunos Timber Fund Limited, Stafford Capital Partners Limited, has informed the Board of Phaunos that it will resign with effect from the Company’s General Meeting to be held in August 2017. From that date a six month notice period will […]
AEW UK REIT has published its Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 April 2017. Highlights: Net Asset Value of £118.67m or 95.98p per share as at 30 April 2017 (2016: £116.38m and 99.03p). Operating profit before fair value changes and disposals of £9.81m for the year ended 30 April 2017 (2016: £6.31m). […]
Alternative Liquidity’s Tim Gardner moves to Warana Capital. Warana Capital, LLC has been formally appointed as Alternative Liquidity’s investment manager on the terms set out below. Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC, which had been the investment manager of the Company since its inception, has chosen to resign to focus on its activities in the US. The […]
PRS REIT has started making investments – the closed-ended real estate investment trust, which was established to invest in new build homes in the private rented sector and was admitted to the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market on 31 May 2017, says: Immediately following its launch and as planned, it acquired 50 […]
John Laing Environmental Assets (JLEN) has announced that its placing has raised £40 million through the issue of 38,834,951 new ordinary shares at a price of 103 pence per new ordinary share. JLEN says that the Placing was significantly oversubscribed and applications have been scaled back in accordance with the terms of the placing. The […]
Schroder UK Growth Fund (SDU) has released it annual results for the year ended 30 April 2017. During the period, the company provided an NAV total return of 17.5% and a share price total return of 13.9%, both underperforming its benchmark, the All-Share Index, which the company says provided a total return of 20.1%. The manager […]
Syncona has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2017. It was a year that the company describes as ‘transformative’ with strong performance across the business. It lists the following highlights: Net assets at year end of £895.2m, 136.0p per share, a total return of 12.5%; Successful completion of the acquisition of […]
TwentyFour Income Fund (TFIF) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2017. During the period, the company’s NAV grew by 10.2% whist its share price grew by 12.8% reflecting a widening of its premium to NAV from 1.94% to 4.29%. The company also paid dividends of 6.99p (2015: 7.14p). Including dividends, […]
Central Asia Metals (CAML) reports H1 2017 copper production from its Kounrad dump leach copper recovery plant in Kazakhstan up 2% year-on-year to 7,027 t. Sales were 6,870 t, an 8% increase on H1 2016. In April 2017, the company began irrigating the Western Dumps and, during Q2 2017, approximately 1,300 t of copper cathode […]
BlackRock Income and Growth Investment Trust (BRIG) has announced that Mark Wharrier, co-portfolio manager of the Company, has resigned to pursue another role. It says that Adam Avigdori, who has been co-portfolio manager of the Company since November 2011, continues as co- portfolio manager, while David Goldman, a senior director within the BlackRock UK Equity […]
European Real Estate Investment Trust (European REIT) has announced that it will return £6.0 million (equivalent to 77.6 pence per share) on 21 July 2017 by way of a compulsory partial redemption of shares (this the ‘Eighth Redemption’). The Eighth Redemption European REIT says that the Eighth Redemption will be conducted at the estimated unaudited […]
Caledonia Mining has declared a quarterly dividend of US6.875c per share, a fivefold increase from the US1.375c per share declared in previous quarters. The increase reflects the recent 5-for-1 share consolidation, meaning that the overall aggregate dividend amount is maintained. The company expects to maintain the dividend at this quarterly rate, which represents an indicative […]
Sirius buys properties in Berlin and Grasbrunn – Sirius Real Estate, a leading operator of branded business parks providing conventional space and flexible workspace in Germany, is pleased to announce the completion of the acquisition of two properties for a combined total acquisition cost of EUR24.5 million. On 1 July 2017, the Group completed the […]
LXi REIT gets loan facility – the Board of LXi REIT plc says the company has signed a 12-year, fixed rate, interest only loan facility of GBP55 million with Scottish Widows, acting in partnership with Lloyds Bank Commercial Real Estate. The Facility is repayable on 3 July 2029 and has a fixed all-in rate payable […]
INPP makes digital infrastructure commitment – International Public Partnerships (INPP) has committed jointly with HM Government to make an investment in digital infrastructure and particularly fibre optic broadband connections. It sees long term parallels between the essential nature of broadband connectivity to the home and workplace, and the established businesses of gas and electricity distribution and […]
