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Grainger remains resilient

The UK’s biggest residential property owner yesterday said it expects completed sales from its UK assets to be worth £89m for the six months to 31 March, up £1m compared to last year.

Newcastle-based Grainger’s trading update showed that the value of its portfolios of UK residential and development operations will increase by around two per cent at the half-year.

Meanwhile, there were £1m worth of sales from its German portfolio.

The results came despite tough market conditions. Grainger also said its pre-tax profit would benefit from a partial reversal of mark-to-market movements on its long-term financial derivatives and the purchase of HI Tricomm Holdings in the first-half.

The company, which will announce its interim results on 19 May, will continue to comfortably meet its banking covenants and reshape its debt with £290m from new lenders, it said in the statement.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .