5 March 2018
Sirius Real Estate Limited
("Sirius Real Estate" or the "Company")
Completed €15.1 million Acquisition
of Schenefeld Business Park (Hamburg)
Sirius Real Estate, the leading operator of branded business parks providing conventional space and flexible workspace in Germany, is pleased to announce that on 1 March 2018 its acquisition of a business park in Schenefeld, a town on the edge of Hamburg, was completed for €15.1 million (including acquisition costs).
The Schenefeld business park has been acquired at an EPRA net initial yield of 7.8% and follows on from the €8.4 million Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel acquisition completed in December 2017. Hamburg is one of the key markets in Germany and the two sites combined provide a good platform for Sirius's first investment into the city. The business park offers c.42,000 sqm of multi-purpose office and warehouse/logistics space. With an annualised rental income of €1.5 million and 71% occupancy, it provides a good combination of both initial income and value-add opportunity.
As previously announced, the acquisition was notarised on 29 September 2017.
Andrew Coombs Chief Executive Officer of Sirius Real Estate, said:
"This acquisition together with Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel continues the successful recycling of capital into key German commercial markets and our strategy to acquire assets with significant earnings potential. The full reinvestment of the proceeds from the July equity raise and sales of mature and non-core sites is expected to be completed very soon and we are delighted to be able to enter the Hamburg market, the one prime German commercial centre in which the Company was previously not represented. Hamburg is the second busiest port in Europe and is home to many of Germany's leading corporations.
As a business we have been targeting the Hamburg market for some time now and the two acquisitions in quick succession create a number of operational synergies for us as well as significant opportunity for income and valuation growth."
For further information:
Sirius Real Estate Andrew Coombs, CEO Alistair Marks, CFO |
+49 (0)30 285010110 |
Novella Tim Robertson Toby Andrews |
+44 (0)20 3151 7008 |
About Sirius Real Estate
Sirius is a property company listed on the main market and premium segment of the London Stock Exchange and the main board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. It is a leading operator of branded business parks providing conventional space and flexible workspace in Germany. The Company's core strategy is the acquisition of business parks at attractive yields, the integration of these business parks into its network of sites under the Company's own name as well as offering a range of branded products within those sites, and the reconfiguration and upgrade of existing and vacant space to appeal to the local market, through intensive asset management and investment. The Company's strategy aims to deliver attractive returns for shareholders by increasing rental income and improving cost recoveries and capital values, as well as by enhancing those returns through financing its assets on favourable terms. Once sites are mature and net income and values have been optimised, the Company may take the opportunity to refinance the sites to release capital for investment in new sites or consider the disposal of sites in order to recycle equity into assets which present greater opportunity for the asset management skills of the Company's team.
For more information, please visit: www.sirius-real-estate.com
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