ACQUISITION OF A TESCO IN WORCESTER FOR £38.3M

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Supermarket Income REIT PLC
24 April 2023
 

24 April 2023

 

SUPERMARKET INCOME REIT PLC

(the "Company") 

LEI: 2138007FOINJKAM7L537 

Acquisition of a tesco in worcester for £38.3 million

Supermarket Income REIT plc (LSE: SUPR), the real estate investment trust providing secure, inflation-linked, long income from grocery property in the UK, announces the acquisition of a Tesco omnichannel supermarket in Worcester, for a total purchase price of £38.3 million (excluding acquisition costs), reflecting a net initial yield of 6.0%. 

Tesco has been operating at the 6.5 acre site for over 30 years. The site comprises a 47,297 sq ft net sales area supermarket, a petrol filling station and 515 car parking spaces. The store is also an online hub for Tesco operating nine home delivery vans and a Click & Collect facility. The store is being acquired from British Steel Pension Fund, with an unexpired lease term of 12 years, with annual upwards only RPI-linked rent reviews (subject to a 4.0% cap and 0.0% floor).

 

The acquisition is being funded from the first tranche of sales proceeds of the Company's stake in the Sainsbury's Reversion Portfolio (the "SRP").

 

Ben Green, Director of Atrato Capital Limited, the Investment Adviser to Supermarket Income REIT plc, said: 

"This acquisition further strengthens SUPR's portfolio of top trading omnichannel supermarkets, evidencing our ability to redeploy the proceeds of the SRP sale at yields which are accretive to the portfolio."

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Atrato Capital Limited    

+44 (0)20 3790 8087 

Steve Noble / Rob Abraham / Chris McMahon    

ir@atratocapital.com

 

Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited    

 

+44 (0)20 7710 7600 

Mark Young / Matt Blawat / Rajpal Padam 

Goldman Sachs International

Jimmy Bastock / Tom Hartley

+44 (0)20 7774 1000

 

 


FTI Consulting    

+44 (0)20 3727 1000 

Dido Laurimore / Eve Kirmatzis / Andrew Davis   

SupermarketIncomeREIT@fticonsulting.com

NOTES TO EDITORS:

Supermarket Income REIT plc (LSE: SUPR) is a real estate investment trust dedicated to investing in grocery properties which are an essential part of the UK's feed the nation infrastructure. The Company focuses on grocery stores which are omnichannel, fulfilling online and in-person sales. All of the Company's supermarkets are let to leading UK supermarket operators, diversified by both tenant and geography. 

 

The Company provides investors with attractive, long-dated, secure, inflation-linked, growing income with the potential for capital appreciation over the longer term and targets a 7% to 10% p.a. total shareholder return over the medium term (1) . The Company has increased its dividend every year since IPO. 

 

The Company is listed on the premium segment of the Official List of the UK Financial Conduct Authority and its Ordinary Shares are traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, having listed initially on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market on 21 July 2017.

 

 

Atrato Capital Limited is the Company's Investment Adviser. 

 

Further information is available on the Company's website www.supermarketincomereit.com  

 

1.  There is no certainty that these illustrative projections will be achieved  

 

Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting exclusively for Supermarket Income REIT plc and no one else in connection with this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited nor for providing advice in connection with the matters referred to in this announcement.

Goldman Sachs International, which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for Supermarket Income REIT plc and no one else in connection with this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Goldman Sachs International nor for providing advice in connection with the matters referred to in this announcement.

 

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