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10 Jul 2015

Hammerson sells Angers shopping centre

Hammerson says it has exchanged contracts to sell its interest in Grand Maine shopping centre situated to the south west of Angers, to a leading French institutional investor for a net €63.2m (£45.3m). Grand Maine comprises 8,600 sqm of retail space with 57 units over two levels, and is adjacent to a large Carrefour supermarket. […]

10 Jul 2015

North Atlantic Smaller sells Celsis

North Atlantic Smaller Companies announced that on 8 July it signed a conditional contract to sell its investment in Celsis. On completion, the transaction will increase the net asset of the Company by just over £1 per share and increase the cash balance by approximately £50m. NAS : North Atlantic Smaller sells Celsis

10 Jul 2015

Spark Ventures close to full liquidation of portfolio

Spark Ventures’ results for the year to the end of March 2015 show that the NAV fell by 12% over the year (adjusting for cash returns) but they point out that it has recovered most of this fall since the end of the period. 4.5p or £19m has been returned to shareholders. They struck a […]

09 Jul 2015

AEW UK REIT expands with two new purchases

AEW UK REIT has made two further acquisitions for £14.65m. Sandford House, located in Solihull town centre, provides 34,418sq ft of offices with parking for 130 vehicles. It was acquired for £5.4m. The property is fully let to the UK Borders Agency with a tenant break option in just under 2 years. The purchase price reflects a […]

09 Jul 2015

SVM UK lags benchmark

Over the year to the end of March 2015, SVM UK Emerging underperformed its benchmark index, the IMA UK All Companies Sector Average Index, as it returned 2.0% on net assets against the benchmark’s 5.6%. The return to shareholders was 2.2% as the discount narrowed slightly from 21.9% to 21.7%. The manager did not charge […]

09 Jul 2015

Budget changes to Climate Change Levy hit Renewables

Changes in yesterday’s budget in relation to the Climate Change Levy (removal of Climate Change Levy exemption) for renewable electricity have had a knock-on effect on the net asset values of companies operating in the renewable energy sector as it changes the assumptions used to calculate them. Greencoat UK Wind says it was already factoring […]

08 Jul 2015

Japan Residential adds new property

On 7 July 2015, Japan Residential Investment Company acquired Minamisuna 7 Chome Building, a seven story apartment complex located in Koto Ward, Tokyo. The purchase price was Yen488m (£2.5m), excluding tax and other acquisition costs, and has an estimated prospective net operating yield of 4.7%. The property was purchased at a 2.4% discount to a […]

07 Jul 2015

3i Infrastructure in deal to buy North Sea rescue and response business

3i Infrastructure and AMP Capital will jointly acquire 100% of Danish company ESVAGT from Maersk Group.  3i Infrastructure will be investing approximately £109m for a 50% interest in ESVAGT and will have an equal shareholding with AMP Capital. Headquartered in Esbjerg, Denmark, ESVAGT is a leading provider of emergency rescue and response vessels and related […]

07 Jul 2015

Better tomatoes thanks to SQN

SQN Asset Finance is providing £16m of funding for two Combined Heat and Power Plants that will be used to provide heat, carbon dioxide and electricity to the largest glasshouse tomato growing facility in the UK (located on the Isle of Wight).  The project is being managed by Triple Point. The CHP plants will be gas […]

07 Jul 2015

BACIT increasing exposure to hedged strategies

In a perfect illustration of the dangers of buying a fund on a large premium, BACIT results show that its share price fell by a penny or 0.8% from 122p to 121p over the year to the end of March 2015 – this despite the net asset value rising by 9.6% from 114p to 125p. […]

07 Jul 2015

HICL takes stake in Southmead hospital PFI

HICL Infrastructure is buying a 50% stake in the Southmead Hospital PFI project from Carillion for £87.8m. £48.7m of this number relates to a future loan note subscription obligation, which will be paid by the Group in September 2015. The Project is a £430m, 35 year concession to design, build, finance, operate and maintain an 800-bed acute […]

06 Jul 2015

Summit Germany buys loans on six properties

Summit Germany has acquired a loan facility secured on six commercial properties in Germany. The deal price is €40m and they are buying loans with a face value of €78m. The Company has previously owned the Portfolio (The Telecom Portfolio) and as a result of acquiring the loan facility, will regain full control.  The Portfolio consists […]

06 Jul 2015

Commodity markets not kind to St Peter Port Capital

St. Peter Port Capital has just published results for the year ended 31 March 2015 that show the NAV falling by 37.5% on the year as they wrote down the values of some investments. Sales from the portfolio generated cash proceeds of £3.36m and they had £4m in cash at the end of June 2015. […]

06 Jul 2015

F&C Commercial property sells 124/125 Princes Street

F&C Commercial Property has announced that, on 30 June 2015, it sold its Absolute Ownership (Scottish equivalent to English Freehold) in 124-125 Princes Street, Edinburgh for £18.05m. The property comprises a seven storey building providing a prominent retail unit and office accommodation on the upper floors. The retail unit is currently let to Urban Outfitters and […]

03 Jul 2015

K&C REIT makes first acquisition

K&C REIT has made its first acquisition – buying 25 Colherne Road, a 3,976 sq. ft. residential building in Chelsea, London, comprising ten studio apartments for £3.63m. 25 Coleherne Road was valued at £4m on 22 June 2015. The Group also owns a further three smaller properties. The property is held through an SPV, Silcott […]

03 Jul 2015

Starwood European lends against Danish property

Starwood European Real Estate Finance has committed to provide two facilities for a total of  DKK350.3m (about £33.5m) for a portfolio of light industrial assets throughout Denmark.  The first facility is a mezzanine facility to refinance a portfolio already owned by the sponsor.  The second facility is a whole loan to support the acquisition of […]

03 Jul 2015

Polar Capital Technology fee cut, outperforms

Polar Capital Technology managed to beat the Dow Jones Word Technology Index over the year to the end of April 2015 as its net asset value per share returned 30.7% as compared to 29.5% return on the index. shareholders did even better as the discount narrowed from 3.6% to 1.2%, giving them a 33.9% return on the share price. […]

02 Jul 2015

Alpha Real Trust buys Birmingham development

Alpha Real Trust has announced the purchase of a 162 unit central Birmingham development site with planning consent (original plan pictured) for 90,000 net developable square feet of residential apartments with ground floor commercial.  The site has no outstanding Section 106/Community Infrastructure Levy requirements and has an affordable unit designation for 9 flats. Current planning […]

02 Jul 2015

Schroder UK Growth fails to make up ground in second half

Schroder UK Growth has published results for the year ended 30 April 2015. The fund lagged the FTSE All-Share index by some margin over this period, returning 1.9% on net assets and negative 3.1% on share price (the discount widened to 8.4%) as compared to positive 7.5% for the benchmark. the dividend for the year […]

02 Jul 2015

Custodian REIT buys DHL warehouse

Custodian REIT has acquired a 16,143 sq ft industrial unit at Glasgow International Airport let to DHL Global Forwarding (UK) Limited on a lease expiring on 31 March 2020.  Net passing rent is £92,385 per annum, reflecting a net initial yield of 7.08%.  Other logistics occupiers at the airport include UPS and Expeditors. The agreed […]

01 Jul 2015

Kennedy Wilson Europe issues £300m bond

Kennedy Wilson Europe has issued £300m of bonds. These have been rated BBB. The bonds, which are unsecured, have an annual fixed coupon to the Company of 3.95%, which was effectively reduced to 3.35% as a result of KWE entering into swap arrangements to convert 50% of the proceeds into Euros. Interest on the Unsecured Bonds is […]

01 Jul 2015

Primary Health buys two medical centres

Primary Health Properties is buying two modern, purpose built health care facilities for a total consideration of £8.7m by acquiring: 1)  the entire share capital of a company whose sole asset and activity is the ownership of a medical centre located in Thornaby, North Yorkshire (pictured).  The property is occupied by two GP practices, a pharmacy, […]

01 Jul 2015

Alcentra sticking to stronger EU countries

Alcentra European Floating Rate Income has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2015. the net asset value fell slightly in Sterling terms (from 106.56p to 105.31p) but rose in Euro terms from 129.06 cents to 145.7 cents. The dividend fell to 5.04p from 5.21p. As at 31 March 2015, the portfolio was invested in […]

01 Jul 2015

Aberdeen Private Equity reforms performance fee

Aberdeen Private Equity has published results for the year ended 31 March 2015 that show it generating a return on net assets of 18.2% and a share price return of 15.5%. A dividend (roughly 10% of distributions received by the fund) is payable, this worked out at 2.2p for the period – 10% up on […]

01 Jul 2015

Simon Pilling now head of portfolio at Better Capital

Better Capital has published figures for its 2009 and 2012 cells for the year ended 31 March 2015. For the 2009 cell the net asset value grew by 11% driven by solid performance from two of the investee companies in Fund I, Gardner and Santia. For the 2012 cell, the combination of write-downs in City […]

30 Jun 2015

NextEnergy Solar beats budget

NextEnergy Solar results for the year ended 31 March 2015 have been published. The NAV rose from 100p to 103.3p over the period. Energy generation was 23.2GW, 4.8% above budget. Lower  energy prices than forecast meant that this translated into revenues 1.9% above budget or earnings of 9.13p per share, from which they are paying dividends […]

30 Jun 2015

ARC Capital suspends trading

ARC Capital has requested that its shares be suspended from trading pending the finalisation of its report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2014. ARCH :  ARC Capital suspends trading

30 Jun 2015

Dolphin statement on Greek capital controls

Dolphin has put out a statement following the imposition of capital controls within Greece. It says the cash balances of the Group’s subsidiaries deposited with banks operating in Greece as at 26 June 2015 amounts in aggregate to €1.5m and the largest part of the Greek deposits relates to working capital used in the operations of […]

30 Jun 2015

Globalworth reports on profitable 2014

Globalworth Real Estate has just published its results for the year ended 31 December 2014. In brief, the EPRA NAV rose from €6.03 to €8.09. Underlying EPS was 16.1% higher at €2.02. The loan to value rose from 29.5% to 34.4%. the weighted average cost of debt is 3.99%, down from 5.95% with a weighted […]

30 Jun 2015

LMP buys Next warehouse

LondonMetric Property has acquired a Next Distribution warehouse for £29m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.3%. The off market acquisition is from a private property company and will be funded from the Company’s existing resources. The warehouse is located two miles north west of Junction 38 of the A1(M) in South Elmsall,   Doncaster near […]

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