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Treasury’s CREO swings into profit

Treasury Holdings’ AIM-listed subsidiary China Real Estate Opportunities (CREO) reported China Real Estate Opportunities swung into a pretax profit of £15.04m in the six months to end of June from a loss of 3.07m last year.


 


The investor and developer, which targets schemes in China, said the value of its property portfolio increased by 18% to £712m compared with £606m last year, benefiting from valuation gains and the strength of the yuan against sterling.


 


That equated to EPRA NAV per share of £9.74, an increase of 16.8% since 31 December 2007.


 


NAV per share has increased by 26.8% since the company floated at £7.68 in July 2007.


 


It added that its acquisitions pipeline remained strong.


 


CREO said that in the face of challenges in the debt and equity markets it was exploring a number of financing structures to underwrite the short- to medium-term growth of the portfolio.


 


Ray Horney, chairman of CREO, said: “The first half of 2008 has been a period of significant activity as the company moves forward with both its development and asset management programs.”


paul.norman@rbi.co.uk


 

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