DUPD’s interest in Henryland Group, a “big box” retail company, has been sold at a substantial discount to DUPD’s valuation at end of June 2013 – the whole asset fetched $23.7m vs. a 30 June valuation of $30.9m – DUPD owned 38%. The statement gives no reason for the substantial change in the valuation.
JRIC has bought a 61 unit apartment complex in East Village Sannomiya for Y796m. The estimated prospective net operating yield is 5.9%.
Globalworth Real Estate has bought Bucharest One – a 20 storey, 48,732 sqm office development that will be the second highest tower in Bucharest once complete. The tower is expected to be complete by Q3 2015.
MedicX has bought a primary healthcare centre in Ynyshir, Porth for £1.6m
BSIF is acquiring three additional solar plants in Hampshire, Norfolk and Glamorgan and plans to extend a plant in Oxfordshire – total cost £38.5m. Following this BSIF will have invested over 75% of the money it raised and will have investments in plants capable of generating 81MW.
Hansteen Holdings has bought a loan secured against a portfolio of 370,000 sqm of mainly multi-let light industrial property in the Netherlands for €41.675m. The underlying borrower, Lancelot Land BV, is in breach of the loan and hence Hansteen was able to buy it at a 51% discount to par. About 20% of the portfolio […]
SDU’s interims for the six months ended 31 October 2013 show an almost 10% outperformance of its NAV over its benchmark and a narrowing of its discount leading to further outperformance ion share price terms. Over the period the NAV returned 17.0%, the benchmark 7.7% and the share price 23.9%. These were the first results since […]
BLND has formed a jv with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. Each party owns 50% of Broadgate and they have plans to refresh and expand the estate to benefit, inter alia, from the development of Crossrail.
IERE has announce that Bank of Scotland has agreed to extend the maturity of its loan to IERE until 30 April 2014. Bank of Scotland has sold the loan to Promontoria Holdings and IERE hopes to use this additional time to explore solutions to refinancing the loan with the new owner of the debt.
JLIF has bought additional stakes in three assets – Street Lighting projects in Lambeth and Redcar and Peterborough Schools (a new build academy and the refurbishment of two secondary schools).
Caledonian’s lengthy and detailed results for the year ended 30 June 2013 show the NAV per share barely changed on the year before – 145.8p vs. 145.6p. Increased emphasis is being placed on redeveloping properties. They are considering a range of development options for their largest asset – St Margaret’s House a 92,000 sqft 1970s […]
UCP’s results for the half year ended 30 September 2013 show a fall in the NAV per share from 58p to 52p, despite an increase in the value of UCP’s property portfolio. The fall is largely attributable to the decline in the value of the Indian Rupee over the period. UCP reports increased lettings and rents […]
The payment will be made on 17 January and the ex-distribution date will be 8 January
Ottoman has announced its results for the year ended 31 August 2013 (so somewhat out of date now). OTM’s NAV rose from 63.5p to 65.9p over the period. The main driver of the uplift was a reassessment of the valuation of OTM’s Riva asset – a large parcel of development land. OTM sold part of […]
New City’s annual results for the year ended 30 September 2013 show a fall in the NAV of 19.2% and in the share price of 6.5%. The performance is attributed to falling commodity prices (on fears of slowing Chinese growth) and the strength of Sterling over the period. the Board has negotiated a reduction in the […]
JLIF has completed its acquisition of a 75% stake in the North Staffordshire Hospital project
Over the year ended 30 September 2013 the NAV fell by 13.7%, slightly more than the fall in the value of the benchmark, the , which fell by 12.7%. JII’s discount widened resulting in a share price return of -17.6%. The managers point to overweights, relative to the benchmark, in Infrastructure Finance Development Corporation and cement […]
Candover has extended the maturity on its US$ debt with an issue of new notes with a coupon of 7.02% and a maturity of 31 December 2015. The Board felt it wanted to wanted to protect the fund from any potential shortfall if the current investment disposal programme failed to free up sufficient cash to […]
BRIG’s results for the year ended 31 October 2013 show an NAV return of 16.2% and a share price return of 24.3% as compared to a return from the FTSE All-Share Index of 22.8%. BRIG’s total dividend for the year has been increased to 5.5p (from 5.25p) and is now fully covered by revenue. It […]
The six months to 31st October 2013 was not a good one for JP Morgan Brazil as the NAV and share price fell by more than the fund’s benchmark index. Over the period the NAV return was -16.6%, the share price return -15% and the MSCI 10/40 Brazil index fell by 9.3% in Sterling terms (3.5% […]
LXB’s sale of its Sainsbury’s and M&S investments at Greenwich has completed as planned, releasing £58m of sales proceeds. LXB’s Board plans to return “a substantial proportion” of this money to shareholders by buying in shares. At last night’s close LXB’s market capitalisation was just over £250m; what proportion of the company’s share capital will […]
Over the six months to the end of September 2013 SPK’s NAV fell to 11.4p, in part following a 2p per share distribution to shareholders but also due to operating losses and write downs in the values of some assets. Since the period end Spark has sold notonthehighstreet for £11m. The Board hopes to make […]
Hammerson, as part of a 50:50 jv with Aviva, are selling Queensgate Shopping Centre in Peterborough for £202m, equivalent to a yield of 6.4%. Hammerson says it is planning to put the money towards its development and refurbishment programme for 2014 and says it is also considering selective acquisitions.
PHP is funding (for £3.1m) the construction of a medical centre in Nottingham to be completed in 2015
LMP has announced it is buying Royal Mail’s distribution centre in Daventry for £36m (on a yield of 6.7%) and selling a retail park in Congleton for £16.4m (the sale price equates to a yield of 5.8%, the park was acquired in Jun 2011 for £14.9m). After these transactions, LMP’s portfolio has 23%invested in distribution assets. […]
TCF, a fund of property funds that is gradually liquidating its portfolio, has announced interim results for the period ending 30 September 2013. At that date TCF’s NAV was 86.4p and, following a compulsory redemption of shares in October, the NAV had risen to 96.2p by the end of October. There are now only two assets in […]
Artemis Alpha, the UK equity growth investment trust, has released interim results for the six months ended 31 October 2013 that show its portfolio comfortably outperformed its benchmark, the FTSE All-Share index. ATS’s NAV return was 13.1% over the period while the index returned 7.7%. Three stocks in ATS’s unquoted portfolio were written up – Metapack (a business […]
LMP is buying (as part of a jv) a 30.5% stake in 22 retail warehouses, four industrial units and a headquarters building – all rented to DFS – for £175m. LMP is managing the properties and will get 4% of rents as a fee.
BBGI has acquired an additional 50% stake in Golden Ears Bridge (pictured, a concession to manage and operate a bridge near Vancouver, Canada which has been open since 2009) and Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Canada (the project is expected to be completed and operating by March 2016).
