JR Capital has bought the City office of SBP Law for £5.5m – a net initial yield of 4.15%.
The 5,270 sq ft office at 52 Carter Lane, EC4, provides more than nine years of income at a passing rent of £46 per sq ft. The price paid reflects a capital value of circa £1,000 per sq ft.
JR Capital, a family office business and investment manager, represented a private investor from the Middle East. The vendor was a private South African investor.
John Collier-Wright, founder and chief executive of JR Capital, said: “It has been a busy summer. This is the second investment we have completed in the past month, the fifth this year with one more due to complete next week after having also recently exchanged contracts on a long-let leisure investment in east London.
“This deal fits our strategy of buying defensive assets with secure medium-term income in central London, which helps to underpin some of the higher yielding and value-added deals in our portfolio.
“On the back of unprecedented demand from foreign investors for central London assets due to the weak sterling and low long-term interest rates, we remain bullish on London despite some of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit.
“Having deployed circa £125m of equity in the past 12 months, we expect to remain busy throughout the rest of the year.”
Farebrother represented JR Capital; GVA advised the vendor.
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