1 May 2024
REGIONAL REIT
Limited
("Regional REIT" the "Group" or the "Company")
Positive Letting
Update
Delta 1200, Swindon and
Bennett House, Stoke-on-Trent
Fully Occupied, both Ahead of
Estimated Rental Value
Regional REIT Limited (LSE: RGL),
the regional workspace specialist, is pleased to announce two new
lettings at Bennett House, Stoke-on-Trent and Delta 1200, Delta
Business Park, Swindon. The buildings are both modern and sought
after office properties and are now 100% occupied, providing an
aggregate rental income of £0.8 million per annum.
This follows the successful letting
of previously vacant units: Bennett House (46,183 sq. ft.) of 7,511
sq. ft to NHS Property Services Ltd. for 5 years with a break
option in March 2027, at a rent of £95,000 (£12.65/ sq. ft.), 9.8%
ahead of ERV; and at Delta 1200 (20,178 sq. ft.) a letting of 9,776
sq. ft. has been leased to the life sciences sector for 10 years
with the option to break in February 2029, at a rent of £185,744
(£19.15/ sq. ft.), 8.6% ahead of ERV.
Bennett House occupies a prominent
main roadside location with excellent access to the town centre and
surrounding amenities and is arranged over ground floor and two
upper floors, with 161 car park spaces providing an excellent town
centre parking ratio of 1:290 sq ft.. The property was subject to a
comprehensive refurbishment completed in 2019 resulting in the
letting 32,514 sq. ft. to The Secretary of State for Housing,
Communities and Local Government and 6,620 sq. ft. to the Valuation
Office. This latest letting sees the property fully occupied. The
property has an EPC B rating.
Delta 1200 comprises a detached
office building arranged over two floors extending to 20,178 sq.
ft.. The property benefits from 85 car parking spaces, providing a
parking ratio of 1:244 sq. ft.. The fully let status of the
building follows a refurbishment of the ground floor and
installation of a new VRF system that saw existing tenant TM Group
(UK) Ltd. re-gear their lease for a further 10 years with a break
at year five, at a rental income of £187,236 (£18.00/ sq. ft.).
Following completion of refurbishment works, the EPC for the
property also improved from B to A.
Stephen Inglis, CEO of London & Scottish
Property Investment Management, Asset Manager
commented:
"We are pleased to see further letting progress with this
announcement of both Bennett House and Delta 1200 achieving fully
let status at rentals well ahead of ERV. Our ongoing active
programme of improving our assets has helped us secure new
high-quality tenants and in turn bolstered the overall properties
occupancy and rental income. These lettings are testament to an
improving regional office market and demonstrates demand for our
high quality assets."
Forthcoming Events
22 May 2024
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May 2024 Trading Update and Outlook
Announcement
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Q1 2024 Dividend Declaration
Announcement
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10 September 2024
13 November 2024
To be confirmed
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Interim Results
Announcement
Q3 2024 Trading Update
Annual General Meeting
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Enquiries:
Regional REIT Limited
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Press enquiries through
Buchanan
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ARA
Europe Private Markets Limited
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Tel: +44 (0) 203 831 9776
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Investment Adviser to the
Group
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Adam Dickinson, Investor
Relations
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London & Scottish Property Investment
Management
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Tel: +44 (0) 141 248 4155
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Asset Manager to the
Group
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Stephen Inglis
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Buchanan Communications
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 5000
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Financial PR
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Charles Ryland, Henry Wilson, George
Beale
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About Regional REIT
Regional REIT Limited ("Regional
REIT" or the "Company") and its subsidiaries (the "Group") is
a United Kingdom ("UK") based real estate investment
trust that launched in November 2015. It is managed
by London & Scottish Property Investment Management
Limited, the Asset Manager, and ARA Europe Private Markets, the
Investment Adviser.
Regional REIT's commercial property
portfolio is comprised wholly of income
producing UK assets and comprises, predominantly of
offices located in the regional centres outside of the M25
motorway. The portfolio is geographically diversified, with 144
properties, 978 occupiers as at 31 December 2023, with a valuation
of c.£700.7m.
Regional REIT pursues its investment
objective by investing in, actively managing and disposing of
regional core and core plus property assets. It aims to deliver an
attractive total return to its Shareholders, targeting greater than
10% per annum, with a strong focus on income supported by
additional capital growth prospects.
The Company's shares were admitted
to the Official List of the UK's Financial Conduct
Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange on 6 November
2015. For more information, please visit the Group's website
at www.regionalreit.com .
Cautionary Statement
This document has been prepared
solely to provide additional information to Shareholders to assess
the Group's performance in relation to its operations and growth
potential. The document should not be relied upon by any other
party or for any other reason. Any forward looking statements made
in this document are done so by the Directors in good faith based
on the information available to them up to the time of their
approval of this document. However, such statements should be
treated with caution due to the inherent uncertainties, including
both economic and business risk factors, underlying any such
forward-looking information.
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