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04 Feb 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 February 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 February 2021: SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust have announced a £100m placing (94.3m shares at 106p). The price is a 3.9% premium to the end September NAV and a 1.4% discount to last night’s closing price. The money would go into commercial and industrial solar projects across the United States in […]

03 Feb 2021

Standard Life Inv. Property Income posts 4.1% jump in NAV

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust has reported a 4.1% increase in net asset value (NAV) in the quarter to the end of December 2020. NAV total return for the period (including the payment of dividends) was 5.0%. The increase in NAV, to 82.0p per share from 78.8p in September 2020, was primarily down to […]

03 Feb 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 February 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 February 2021 – Chenavari Toro Income (TORO) reported annual results to 30 September 2020, with the total return NAV coming in at -11.2%. The share price total return was -15.2%. TORO’s chairman, Frederic Hervouet, noted that “TORO’s base case was assuming a second wave of defaults in H1 2021 with the annualised […]

02 Feb 2021

Lok’nStore’s development pipeline to add 33% to portfolio

AIM-listed self-storage company Lok’nStore has said its development pipeline will add 33.1% to the lettable area of its portfolio. The company gave an update on its new store development pipeline which comprises: The exchange of contracts to purchase a new 56,000 sq ft store in Staines that is due to open in 2022; The purchase […]

02 Feb 2021

LondonMetric acquires service station portfolio for £22m

LondonMetric Property has acquired £21.9m of convenience service stations across three separate transactions reflecting a blended net initial yield of 5.1%. The seven assets have a weight average unexpired lease term (WAULT) of 18 years and all benefit from contractual rental uplifts. The transactions comprise four Co-op convenience service stations in Basingstoke, Dagenham and South […]

02 Feb 2021

Target Healthcare post 1.8% NAV total return for quarter

Care home investor Target Healthcare REIT has posted a net asset value (NAV) total return for the quarter to the end of December 2020 of 1.8%. The group’s EPRA NAV notched up 0.2% in the period to 108.2p per share, reflecting a 0.8% increase in the value of its portfolio to £647.7m. It paid an […]

02 Feb 2021

Civitas Social Housing agrees new debt facility

Civitas Social Housing has agreed a new debt facility that will allow it to grow its portfolio. The group made the announcement with its quarterly net asset value (NAV) update today, but said the terms of the facility would be revealed shortly. It added: “Following completion of certain formalities and on drawdown the company expects […]

02 Feb 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 February 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 February 2021: BlackRock World Mining has revalued its investment in OZ Minerals Brazilian Royalty from $23.6m to $30.1m, adding 2.7p to its NAV. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has appointed Merryn Somerset Webb as a non-executive director with effect from 24 March 2021. Merryn is the editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek, the UK personal finance magazine […]

01 Feb 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 February 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 February 2021 – BlackRock Income and Growth (BRIG) reported annual results to 31 October 2020. During the year the company’s NAV per share returned -16.7%. At the share price level, the company returned -14.8% over the period. As at 28 January 2021, since the year-end BRIG’s NAV and share price have […]

29 Jan 2021

QD view – Timing just right for Big Box

Timing is everything in property, and it looks as though Tritax Big Box REIT has got it spot on again with its foray into development. Having launched in 2013, when the logistics sector was seen as the ugly cousin of the glamourous retail sector, the group foresaw the online shopping revolution way before anybody else. It […]

29 Jan 2021

Impact Healthcare REIT increases dividend target

Impact Healthcare REIT, the care home owner, has increased its dividend target for the year to 31 December 2021 by 1.9% after a strong year. The group said its target dividend for the year is 6.41p per share from 6.29p, in line with the inflation-linked rental uplifts it received in 2020. Net asset value was […]

29 Jan 2021

Schroder REIT collects 85% of quarterly rent

Schroder REIT has collected 85% of rent billed for the first quarter of the year, the company has announced. The sector breakdown of rent collected so far was: offices 94%, industrial 97% and retail/leisure 54%. The group said it expects to recover a “significant portion” of the outstanding amount. Asset management The company completed the […]

29 Jan 2021

BMO Commercial Property Trust’s NAV nudges up

BMO Commercial Property Trust’s net asset value (NAV) has nudged up slightly in the quarter to the end of December 2020. The group posted a 0.5% increase in NAV to 117.5p per share, with its property portfolio up 0.2% in the period to £1,227.9m. The stable valuation was down to the strong performance of its […]

29 Jan 2021

Stenprop captures rental growth in industrial portfolio

Stenprop has reported a 25% average uplift on new industrial lettings in a trading update for the fourth quarter of 2020. The group said the 39 lettings made during the period and the 18 lease renewals were 25% and 24% ahead of previous passing rents and totalled £1.51m of rent per annum. Like-for-like passing rent […]

29 Jan 2021

CLS acquires trio of German offices for €89.7m

CLS Holdings has acquired three offices in Germany for a combined €89.7m. The company has exchanged contracts to buy Hansaallee 299, in Düsseldorf, Storkower Strasse 132, in Berlin, and Wendenstrasse 408 in Hamburg. It has paid a net initial yield of 4.8% for the three properties. Combined, the three offices are 93% occupied by 31 tenants and have […]

28 Jan 2021

Residential Secure Income lives up to name with 99% rent collection

Residential Secure Income has collected 99% of rent for the quarter, a rate that has been unchanged throughout the pandemic. The group said this demonstrated the secure nature of its cashflows from its affordable shared ownership, retirement and local authority housing portfolio, with rents underpinned by pensions, housing welfare, below market rents and shared owner stakes. […]

28 Jan 2021

Tritax Big Box collected 99% of rent in 2020

Tritax Big Box REIT has collected 99% of rent for 2020, it has announced in a quarterly business update. The group said the remaining 1% was subject to deferral arrangements and due to be collected by mid-2021. For the current quarter, the group has so far collected 93%, which it expects to increase to 100% […]

28 Jan 2021

Office enquiry levels down 33% at Workspace Group

Workspace Group, the flexible office space provider, has reported tenant enquiry levels were 33% down on last year, in a quarterly business update. It said average monthly enquiries in the final quarter of 2020 (the third quarter of its financial year) was 672, versus 1,001 in the same period in 2019. Lettings, however, were at […]

28 Jan 2021

Picton Property posts 3% increase in NAV

Picton Property has reported a 3% rise in net asset value (NAV) in the quarter to the end of December 2020. The group, which owns a diverse property portfolio weighted towards industrial, said EPRA NAV per share was 95.5p at 31 December 2020, up from 92.7p at 30 September. NAV total return (including dividends paid) […]

28 Jan 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 January 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 January 2021: VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities raised £242.6m from its IPO. Dealings in the ordinary shares will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 2 February 2021. CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities says its unaudited NAVs for the ordinary shares and C shares were $0.2828 and $0.5071 respectively, as at the close of business on […]

27 Jan 2021

BMO Real Estate Investments posts 3.5% rise in NAV

BMO Real Estate Investments (BREI) has posted a 3.5% rise in its net asset value (NAV) for the quarter to 31 December 2020. The unaudited NAV was 98.1p per share (30 September 2020 : 94.8p), the increase driven by a 2.4% increase in the value of its property portfolio to £317.8m. With the 0.85p quarterly […]

27 Jan 2021

Real Estate Investors receives 95% of rent for 2020

Real Estate Investors, which owns a portfolio of property in the Midlands, collected 95% of rent in 2020, including agreed deferred payments. For the first quarter of this year it has collected close to 90%, including deferred payments. Portfolio update The group said occupancy on its 53-asset strong portfolio was 91.6% at 31 December 2020 […]

27 Jan 2021

Warehouse REIT collects 96% of rent for year

Warehouse REIT has collected 96% of rent for its financial year to the end of March 2021, it announced as part of a trading update. For the current quarter, it has received 95% of rent (including 3% that has been deferred). This, it said, was higher than the equivalent date for the previous three quarters. […]

27 Jan 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 January 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 January 2021 – Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL) delivered total NAV and share price returns of 20.6% and 27.7% over its six-months interim results period to 30 November 2020. HSL said that its NAV performance was 6.3% ahead of the average of our peers in the AIC UK smaller companies sector. 3i […]

26 Jan 2021

LXI REIT reports rise in portfolio value

LXI REIT has reported a 1.7% rise in the value of its long-income property portfolio in the quarter to the end of December 2020. The group said its portfolio had been independently valued at £907.25m. It said the increase was mainly down to its large exposure to the industrial and foodstore sectors, which are benefitting […]

26 Jan 2021

Regional REIT collects 92.4% of rent for 2020

Regional REIT collected 92.4% of rent for 2020, the company said in a market update. This increases to 95.5% when agreed monthly payments and collection plans are accounted for. This, it said, was in line with the 96.9% of rent collected at the same point for 2019. A breakdown of the quarterly rent collection rates […]

26 Jan 2021

QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 January 2021

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 January 2021: Apax Global Alpha is investing €20m (indirectly, through its investment in Apax X Fund) in PIB Group, a leading independent specialist insurance intermediary launched in 2015. PIB is a highly diversified insurance distribution consolidator focusing on specialist commercial lines and non-standard personal lines products with deep expertise across both direct […]

25 Jan 2021

Home REIT expands portfolio with £69.5m acquisitions

Home REIT, the recently launched fund that focuses on providing accommodation to the homeless, has acquired a further 171 properties for £69.5m. The acquisitions, in 11 separate portfolios, mean the company has now deployed £184m (or 78%) of the money raised in an IPO in October 2020. The properties, which add a further 798 beds […]

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