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First Property predicts return to growth

Wed, 09th Jun 2010 08:08

Earnings are set to grow again at Central Europe focused property fund manager First Property after a couple of years of being buffeted by economic headwinds."The core business has continued to develop throughout the period and our earnings are now set to grow again as we invest our new UK commercial property fund," said First Property's chief executive, Ben Habib."We expect the value of assets under management to increase by £100m or 30% over the next 12 to 24 months," Habib added.The company said that the fund raising for its mandate to invest in income producing commercial properties in the UK on behalf of three pension funds was completed towards the end of the financial year and therefore fees from this contract have made little contribution to the year just ended.So far First Property has acquired four properties on behalf of this fund, with an aggregate value of £21m, and there are a further five properties under offer with an aggregate value of an additional £20m.The company's profit on ordinary activities before tax declined to £2.79m in the year to 31 March from £3.86m the year before, largely as a result of poor interest rates dampening its return on its cash balance, a reduction in earnings of First Property Services, and the absence of the payment of performance fees within First Property Asset Management.Revenue eased to £10.4m from £11.2m a year earlier while assets under management dipped 3% to £300m from £310m.Though absolute performance may have been depressed by the economic environment the company was quick to point out that it retained its ranking as the best performing fund manager versus the IPD CEE Benchmark, now for the four year period to 31 December 2009. It was also ranked as the best performing fund manager versus the IPD Polish Benchmark over the same period.As the company rushed through a second interim dividend to beat the introduction of tax changes for high earners it has not declared a final dividend.
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9 Apr 2014 08:27

First Property Says Profit To Be In Line As It Returns To Poland

LONDON (Alliance News) - First Property Group PLC Wednesday said it expects to pretax profit for the year ended March to be broadly in line with broker forecasts which it attributed to earnings from new investments made in three income-producing commercial properties in Poland acquired during the

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13 Mar 2014 13:21

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: First Property Executives Exercise Options, Sell Shares

LONDON (Alliance News) - First Property Group PLC said its Chief Executive Ben Habib and Finance Director George Digby exercised options over 750,000 and 500,000 options respectively, granted under the company's share option scheme at an exercise price of 16.5 pence per share on Wednesday.

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13 Mar 2014 13:21

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: First Property Executives Exercise Options

LONDON (Alliance News) - First Property Group PLC Thursday said Chief Executive Ben Habib and Finance Director George Digby have respectively exercised options over 750,000 and 500,000 shares granted pursuant to the First Property Group Share Option Scheme, at an exercise price of 16.5 pence each

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25 Feb 2014 10:57

First Property Says Partnership Firm Has Raised GBP25.4M

LONDON (Alliance News) - First Property Group PLC Tuesday said its new partnership Fprop PDR has raised GBP25.4 million in cash commitments from clients of an unnamed global investment business bringing its total cash resources to GBP41 million. Fprop PDR has completed the purchase of an of

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10 Feb 2014 09:07

First Property Group Buys Polish Shopping Centre For EUR4.3 Million

LONDON (Alliance News) - First Property Group PLC Monday said its Polish-focused fund, in which it has a 76.2% stake, has acquired an unnamed special purpose limited liability company (SPV) whose sole asset is a multi-let shopping centre in Ostroweic, southern Poland, in a deal worth EUR4.3 milli

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4 Feb 2014 10:27

First Property Sells Bracknell Office Building For GBP2.1 Million

LONDON (Alliance News) - First Property Group PLC Tuesday said it has exchanged contracts for the sale of its vacant office building in Bracknell, Berkshire, for GBP2.1 million to an unnamed UK housing association. The property fund management group said the sale price is expected to result

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29 Jan 2014 10:39

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: First Property Non-Executive Buys Shares

LONDON (Alliance News) - First Property Group PLC Wednesday said non-executive director Peter Moon bought 22,133 shares at a price of 24.85 pence per share. Following this transaction, Moon holds 331,631 shares, which represents 0.29% of the share capital. Shares in the commercial pro

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27 Nov 2013 11:52

First Property Group Interim Results Dented By Warsaw Office Block Sale

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24 Oct 2013 13:12

First Property taps into housing market with investment tie-up

Commercial property fund manager First Property Group (Fprop) is hoping to tap into the Government's support for the housing market and the impact this is having on the residential development market through a new partnership with clients of an unnamed global investment business. The closed-ended t

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24 Oct 2013 11:17

First Property Partners With Investment Business To Convert Offices For Residential Use

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26 Sep 2013 20:12

First Property Group To Convert Office Acquisitions To Residential Buildings

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5 Dec 2012 14:45

First Property Group reveals 13 per cent drop in profits

Commercial property fund management company First Property Group has revealed a 13 per cent decline in pre-tax profit for the six months ended September 30th. Profit before tax (from continuing operations) totalled £2.21m, down from £2.54m the same period the previous year, while assets under mana

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21 Sep 2012 07:40

First Property sells office building in Warsaw

First Property, the commercial property fund management group, has pocketed a tidy profit on the sale of one of its two directly owned properties, an office building in Mokotow, Warsaw. The company, which bought the building in November 2007, has raised PLN 11.95m - about £2.3m - from the sale whic

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14 Sep 2012 07:52

AuM down at First Property Group despite good trading

First Property Group, a commercial property fund management group, will say at Friday's annual general meeting that trading has continued well and in line with the firm's expectations, despite the difficult economic conditions. It's clients have also performed well, but the weakening euro has resu

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29 Nov 2011 13:30

First Property results show polish

Interim profits shot higher at commercial property fund management group First Property as it reaped the benefit of being heavily invested in its own funds. The Poland and UK-focused firm saw a 79% rise in pre-tax profit to £2.54m for the six months ended 30 September from £1.42m at the interim sta

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