Interim Management Statement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13 May 2014 LONDON & ASSOCIATED PROPERTIES PLC: INTERIM MANAGEMENT STATEMENT London & Associated Properties PLC ("LAP" or "the Company"), the specialist retail focused property investor, today releases its Interim Management Statement for the period from 19 November 2013 to 12 May 2014. LAP also released its Annual Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013 to shareholders on 24 April 2014. On 2 May, LAP agreed a new credit facility for £40.1 million with Royal Bank of Scotland. LAP used £4.1 million from its cash reserves to pay down the loan from £44.2 million as drawn on the previous credit facility. In the run up to agreeing this new facility, the Company also terminated the last of its long dated interest rate swaps secured against this facility in a series of separate transactions. The combined costs of breaking these swaps was £10.7 million. This transaction will reduce the ongoing interest costs significantly. This has enabled LAP to approach alternative lenders to refinance with a much stronger balance sheet. Advised by Alvarez and Marsal, we have received an encouraging number of offers from lenders. We have now chosen a senior debt lender and a mezzanine lender with whom to progress, and are now working on the documentation. I will update shareholders on progress in due course. At Orchard Square, we have received a number of offers from retailers on the vacant former USC unit which fronts on to Fargate. We intend to split the unit to maximise returns and most of the ground floor is now under offer to a national retailer. There are verbal offers on the remainder of the space and our agents are working up detailed term sheets on our behalf. Again, we will update shareholders in due course. The property sector continues to improve and the funding market has become more liquid over the last six months. This should benefit our business, which is still concentrated in quality assets in strong locations. We therefore look to the future with considerable confidence. Ends. Contact: London& Associated Properties PLC Tel: 020 7415 5000 John Heller, Chief Executive Robert Corry, Finance Director Baron Phillips Associates Tel: 020 7920 3161 Baron Phillips
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