Real estate investment firm acquires £19.1m Q-Park car park in Sheffield city centre

LXi REIT plc, the real estate investment trust, has exchanged contracts to acquire the Q-Park car park at Rockingham Street, Sheffield.

The purchase price is £19.1m, reflecting a blended net initial yield of 5.20% on the asset acquisition.

The car park is currently let to Q-Park Limited with a lease guarantee from its parent, Q-Park N.V., which forms part of the Q-Park group.

Purpose-built for the tenant in 2010, the property is a six-storey, 531-space car park that is situated in the city centre and adjacent to a retail and leisure area of Sheffield.

Part of the property is also let to a leisure operator to use as a bar/restaurant with an unexpired lease term of over 19 years with no break (expiring in August 2036), which is subject to five yearly upward only open market rent reviews. The next rent review is due in August 2021.

The acquisition is being funded from equity resources, with senior debt finance expected to be introduced in the near term. Completion of the purchase is expected to occur on 12 April 2017.

John White, Partner of LXi REIT Advisors Limited, commented: “With an unexpired lease term certain of over 28 years, an RPI rent review and a strong covenant in Q-Park, this investment generates a secure, very long term and index-linked income.

“The next rent review in 2020 will provide a reversionary yield of 5.82% p.a. on the basis of just the minimum 2.5% p.a. uplift, with 25 years still unexpired on the Q-Park lease at that point in time.

“We are also at an advanced stage on a number of attractive forward funded pre-let and standing assets, leased to institutional grade tenants, which meet the Company’s investment criteria.”

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