Acquisition of a new primary healthcare centre

RNS Number : 6935R
The MedicX Fund Limited
10 March 2016
 

 

 

For immediate release

10 March 2016

 

MedicX Fund Limited

("MedicX Fund", "the Fund" or "the Company")

 

Acquisition of a new primary healthcare centre

 

MedicX Fund Limited, (LSE: MXF), the specialist primary care infrastructure investor in modern, purpose-built, primary healthcare properties in the United Kingdom and Ireland, is pleased to announce that it has contracted to acquire a modern primary healthcare medical centre in Carlisle, Cumbria.

 

The property is let to a GP practice, a local charity and a pharmacy. The total acquisition cost of the property is £4.1 million.

  

The MedicX Fund's total property portfolio now comprises 151 properties throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland of which 144 are operational and let, with seven under construction. The annualised rent roll for all properties is now £36.6 million.

 

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For further information please contact:

 

MedicX Fund                                                                  +44 (0) 1481 723 450

David Staples, Chairman

 

Octopus Healthcare                                                        +44 (0) 1483 869 500

Mike Adams, Chief Executive Officer

 

Buchanan                                                                      +44 (0) 20 7466 5000

Charles Ryland/Vicky Watkins

 

Information on MedicX Fund Limited

 

MedicX Fund Limited ("MXF", "MedicX Fund", "the Fund" or "the Company", or together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") is the specialist primary care infrastructure investor in modern, purpose-built primary healthcare properties in the United Kingdom, listed on the London Stock Exchange, with a portfolio comprising 151 properties.

 

The Investment Adviser to the Company is Octopus Healthcare Adviser Ltd, which is part of the Octopus Healthcare group. Octopus Healthcare invests in and develops properties as well as creating partnerships to deliver innovative healthcare buildings to improve the health, wealth and wellbeing of the UK. It currently manages over £1 billion of healthcare investments across a number of platforms, with a focus on four core areas: GP surgeries, care homes, retirement housing and private hospitals. Octopus Healthcare is part of the Octopus group, a fast-growing UK fund management business with leading positions in several specialist sectors including healthcare property, energy, property finance and smaller company investing. Octopus manages £5.5 billion of funds for more than 50,000 retail and institutional investors.

Octopus Healthcare Adviser Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. 

The Company's website address is www.medicxfund.com. Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website), nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks within this announcement, are incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.


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