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British Land has announced that it has exchanged contracts for the sale of 39 Victoria Street, SW1 to Singaporean property company Ho Bee Land for a gross purchase price of £144m (net price of c. £139m after deduction of rent free top up). Ho Bee Land is quoted on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange […]
Hammerson’s EPRA NAV rose by 4.7% over the first half of 2015. Adjusted earnings rose by 13.3% as rents rose by a like for like 2.1% and the interim dividend was increased by 8% to 9.5p. The company’s loan to value ratio fell by 1% to 33% as they secured a new £415m five-year unsecured revolving […]
Black Sea Property has just raised £1.52m before expenses to put towards its new investment policy of acquiring property assets in Bulgaria. However, until it has invested the money, it is failing to implement the policy and, as it is now a year since the last of the company’s old portfolio was sold off, it […]
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. […]
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 […]
Treveria has published results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Briefly, the NAV fell to 5.1 cents (€30.7m) from 7.9 cents but the German tax authorities want €45m in Real Estate transfer Tax off them. They are disputing this but one legal challenge has failed and they must now decided if they want to […]
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 […]
Invesco Property Income has sold the last of its property portfolio to Kildare Partners and will now wind up. All the money will go to pay back the company’s lenders and shareholders won’t get anything. The shares will be delisted once this is approved at the company’s AGM (due soon). IPI : Invesco Property Income […]
Empiric Student Property has acquired the freeholds of a portfolio of seven operational, direct-let, premium student accommodation properties in Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent, comprising a total of 502 beds, for over £40m. They are paying cash of £22.8m (excluding acquisition costs) and taking on responsibility for the existing debt on the properties of £18.8m which has been retained […]
Safestore has released its interim results covering the six months ended 30 April 2015. The EPRA earnings per share have risen from 5.3p to 7p and, on the back of that, the interim dividend has been increased from 2.15p to 3p. The EPRA diluted net assets per share rose from 201.5p to 232.2p. Property valuation […]
Workspace has announced its results for the year to 31 March 2015 and they are good. The EPRA net asset value per share was up 42% to 703p (2014: 496p). The EPRA earnings per share rose from 22.7p to 29.2p The total property return was 37%. On a like-for-like basis the capital value per square foot […]
LondonMetric Property has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2015 and separately has announced it is buying a portfolio of M&S convenience stores for £26m. Over the year to the end of March 2015, LondonMetric Property’s EPRA net asset value rose by 16% to 140.6p. The dividend is being maintained at 7p but they […]
Empiric Student Property has been busy in recent days, acquiring a development site in Huddersfield (Oldgate House, pictured) for £11m and a portfolio of five operational, direct-let, premium student accommodation properties in Lancaster and Leicester from CityBlock, comprising a total of 381 beds, bought for £26.5m – this is on top of the deal they […]
McKay Securities’ results for the year ended 31 March 2015 are out. The EPRA NAV was up 18.9% to 270p. Adjusted profit before tax up 69.2% to £5.79m (fall from £38m to £33m on an IFRS basis which takes into account changes in the value of interest rate hedges). The Total Shareholder Return was 24.8% […]
Sirius Real Estate has announced its full year results for the year ended 13 March 2015. The company completed a dual listing on the Alternative Exchange of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in December 2014 and, at the same time, raised €40m to support the expansion of the property portfolio. The company has since announced the acquisition of […]
Empiric Student Property has announced the acquisition of St Margaret’s Flats (pictured) – a freehold, operational, direct-let, student accommodation property in Durham for £5.1m (excluding acquisition costs). Built in 1994, the property has 109 beds, principally comprising 5-bed flats, across five blocks and was refurbished for the 2011/12 academic year. This included the replacement of all kitchens, bathrooms […]
Big Yellow has announced results for the year ended 31 March 2015. Over the period, the adjusted net asset value rose by 14%, adjusted profit before tax rose by 35%, the EPRA earnings per share rose by 32% to 27.1p and the total dividend for the year was increased from 16.4p to 21.7p (+32%). Big Yellow […]
Green REIT has entered into a conditional contract for the acquisition of One Albert Quay, a grade A office building under construction in Cork city centre, with pre-lets agreed for over half of the building. One Albert Quay is being developed by JCD Group, led by CEO John Cleary, a local developer with a strong […]
Highcroft Investments has acquired the entire issued share capital of B L (Wisbech) Ltd together with its wholly owned subsidiary Belgrave Land (Wisbech) Ltd from its six private shareholders. B L (Wisbech) Ltd and Belgrave Land (Wisbech) Ltd own a single asset, the Belgrave Retail Park in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, which comprises a freehold retail warehouse park totalling 56,082 […]
British Land’s results for the year ended 31 March 2015 have been published. The EPRA NAV rose by 20.5% to 829p. They have declared a quarterly dividend of 6.92p; bringing the full year to 27.68p (2014: 27.0p) and the first quarter dividend for the new financial year will be 7.09p, an increase of 2.5%. The NAV increase […]
Hansteen has sold its Hansteen UK Industrial Property Unit Trust II for £192.1m to a fund advised by Brockton Capital LLP in a partnership with Dunedin Property. The deal adds about £5m to Hansteen’s end December asset value. They launched the unit trust in May 2013 with £107m investment from them and clients of Aviva Investors. They […]
Empiric Student Property has announced the acquisition of Claremont Place in Newcastle, a terrace of Grade II listed buildings being converted to a luxury, direct-let, student accommodation property by specialist developer, Ziggurat Student Living. The building is expected to be operational by September 2015, in time for the 2015/16 academic year. The property is immediately adjacent to […]
Whitehall Road offices receive planning permission: Town Centre Securities has secured planning consent for an eight story, 70,000 square foot office with 38 parking spaces on a brownfield plot on Whitehall Road, Leeds. The development forms part of the TCS Whitehall Riverside scheme which includes 300,000 square foot of premium office space, a 500 space multi-storey […]
Empiric Student Property is buying a 61 bed direct-let, premium student accommodation scheme in Exeter for £6.1m and is paying £1m for the freehold of a site for a 93 bed residential development in Manchester. In Exter, they will acquire the freehold to the site which was previously home to the Exeter library and is a […]
Redefine International has reported earnings per share up 5.2%, net asset value up 8.3% and a dividend up to 1.6p from 1.5p for the six month period ended 28 February 2015. Following the capital raising they have just completed the LTV ratio is 45.1% and they reckon they have cash of £72.5m available to invest. […]
Great Portland has announced the sale of 95 Wigmore Street to UBS Global Asset Management for £222.4m. Great Portland owned the building in conjunction with Aberdeen Asset Management through a 50:50 joint venture. The sale price works out at a net equivalent yield of just 3.4% or £2,209 per square foot. The 98,800 sq. ft. […]
Schroder Global Real Estate has reported a 21.8% total return on net assets and a 14.5% return on share price for the year ended 31 December 2014. As these numbers suggest, the discount widened from 3.6% to 9.5% over the period – this despite the fund shrinking the number of shares in issue by 12.8% […]
Hammerson is selling the Drakehouse Retail Park in Sheffield to 90 North Real Estate for £61.7m. The sale price is equivalent to a net initial yield of 6.4% and is ahead of the valuation they had in their books as at 31 December 2014 (though they don’t say by how much). At 21,000 m(2) Drakehouse […]
McKay Securities is spending £10.7m acquiring a freehold distribution unit – the 96,850 sq ft distribution facility is located at Junction 12 of the M4 motorway, adjacent to the Arlington Business Park at Theale in Berkshire, on the edge of Reading and 45 miles west of Central London. The unit is let to Kuehne & Nagel, […]
LondonMetric Property has announced that it is selling its Travis Perkins distribution facility in Brackmills, Northamptonshire for £14.4m. The buyer is CBRE Global Investors. LondonMetric paid £9m for the property in November 2013 when there was just four months remaining on the lease. They agreed a new ten year term with Travis Perkins for a […]
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