Hong Kong investor LKK Health Products Group, owner of the Walkie-Talkie building in London, has bought a mixed-use scheme close to the skyscraper from the Thackeray Estate.
Thackeray instructed BNP Paribas Real Estate to sell Eastcheap Estate, EC3, for £45.5m in October, having fully let it earlier that month.
It is understood that the deal reflected a yield of 4.52%.
LKK acquired the Walkie-Talkie in July 2017 for £1.28bn. The business is run by chairman Sammy Lee, who is the great grandson of oyster sauce inventor and company founder Lee Kum Sheung.
The freehold estate, on the site of a former medieval food market, comprises 31,838 sq ft across three self-contained buildings, including the gothic-featured Grade II listed 33 Eastcheap, which provides 8,873 sq ft of space.
The two other buildings are the 15,419 sq ft 25 Eastcheap and the 7,546 sq ft 39 Eastcheap.
The estate is let to 13 office and seven retail tenants, including ETFS Securities, Prospect Wealth Management, restaurant Blacklock and coffee chain Black Sheep, at a passing rent of just under £2.2m per year, equating to £70.96 per sq ft overall with an average weighted unexpired term of 10 years.
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