22 February
2024
REGIONAL
REIT Limited
("Regional REIT", the "Group" or the "Company")
Dividend
Declaration
Positive Update on Active
Office Occupancy
Regional REIT Limited (LSE: RGL),
today declares its Q4 2023 dividend, provides an update on office
occupancy and asset disposals to date.
Q4
2023 Dividend Declaration
The Company confirms that it will
pay a dividend of 1.20 pence per share ("pps") for the period 1
October 2023 to 31 December 2023. The entire dividend will be paid
as a REIT property income distribution ("PID").
The Company has introduced the
option for shareholders to invest their dividend in a Dividend
Reinvestment Plan ("DRIP"). More details can be found on the
Company's website
https://www.regionalreit.com/investors/investors-dividend/dividend-reinvestment-plan.
The key dates relating to this
dividend are given below:
Ex-dividend date
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29 February 2024
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Record date
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01 March 2024
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Last day for DRIP
election
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13 March 2024
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Payment date
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05 April 2024
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The level of future payments of
dividends will be determined by the Board having regard to, among
other factors, the financial position and performance of the Group
at the relevant time, UK REIT requirements and the interest of
shareholders and the long term future of the Company.
Positive Update on Office Active Occupancy
The Company is pleased to provide an
update on active office occupancy based on a survey of the Group's
tenants across 122 buildings in the Company's portfolio. The
survey's results are based on the Company's office tenants across a
wide geographic spectrum of the main regional centres of the UK and
in aggregate account for over 29,000 employees. The survey showed
that employees have returned to the office for an average of 4.1
days per week.
The survey also showed 71.4% active office
occupation across the portfolio, which compares
favourably to the 65.4% announced in June 2023. Pre-pandemic active
occupation is estimated at 70.0%[1].The
Asset Manager's study of the office portfolio shows that current
active occupation is 102% of the pre-pandemic occupancy levels and
is expected to grow further.
Retail Bond Update
The Company continues to explore
actively a range of refinancing options for the £50m retail bonds
and it looks forward to providing an update in due
course.
Sales
Total disposals in 2024 to date
amounted to £5.0m (before costs), reflecting a net initial yield of
10.7% in-line with 31 December 2023 valuation. In addition, £22.2m
of disposals are in solicitors' hands.
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Enquiries:
Regional REIT Limited
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Press enquiries through
Buchanan
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ARA
Europe Private Markets Limited
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Tel: +44 (0) 203 831 9776
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Investment Adviser to the
Group
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Adam Dickinson, Investor
Relations
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London & Scottish Property Investment
Management
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Tel: +44 (0) 141 248 4155
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Asset Manager to the
Group
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Stephen Inglis
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Buchanan Communications
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 5000
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Financial PR
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Charles Ryland, Henry Wilson, George
Beale
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About Regional REIT
Regional REIT Limited ("Regional
REIT" or the "Company") and its subsidiaries (the "Group") is
a United Kingdom ("UK") based real estate investment
trust that launched in November 2015. It is managed
by London & Scottish Property Investment Management
Limited, the Asset Manager, and ARA Europe Private Markets Limited,
the Investment Adviser,
Regional REIT's commercial property
portfolio is comprised wholly of income
producing UK assets and comprises, predominantly of
offices located in the regional centres outside of the M25
motorway. The portfolio is geographically diversified, with 144
properties, 978 occupiers as at 31 December 2023, with a valuation
of c.£700.7m.
Regional REIT pursues its investment
objective by investing in, actively managing and disposing of
regional core and core plus property assets. It aims to deliver an
attractive total return to its Shareholders, targeting greater than
10% per annum, with a strong focus on income supported by
additional capital growth prospects.
The Company's shares were admitted
to the Official List of the UK's Financial Conduct
Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange on 6 November
2015. For more information, please visit the Group's website
at www.regionalreit.com .
Cautionary Statement
This document has been prepared
solely to provide additional information to Shareholders to assess
the Group's performance in relation to its operations and growth
potential. The document should not be relied upon by any other
party or for any other reason. Any forward-looking statements made
in this document are done so by the Directors in good faith based
on the information available to them up to the time of their
approval of this document. However, such statements should be
treated with caution due to the inherent uncertainties, including
both economic and business risk factors, underlying any such
forward-looking information.
ESMA Legal Entity Identifier
("LEI"): 549300D8G4NKLRIKBX73