26/10/2017
The RO is pleased to announce the sale
of Discovery House, located on Vision Park in Cambridge, for £3.8 million. The RO
have now realised over £40 million from the recent sale of properties within
its portfolio.
Discovery House is a 9,034 sq ft office
building arranged over two storeys and is completely self-contained. Vision
Park is located about three miles north of Cambridge, just off junction 32 of
the A14. It has been owned by the RO since 2014 with Internet Watch Foundation
(IWF) in occupation.
The purchaser of the property is The
Royal London Mutual Insurance Society who also own five other office properties
on Vision Park. The price reflects a Net Initial Yield of 5.08% and a capital
value per sq. ft. of £421, a reflection of the popularity and strength of the
Cambridge office market.
The RO has been busy re-investing
capital as it looks to expand its exposure to the South East with more than £20
million of purchases having been made over the last fifteen months.
Over the next decade the RO has a
prospective development programme with a gross development value in excess of
£200 million and the business owns or manages over 1,000,000 square foot of
office, industrial, retail and hotels across the UK, predominantly in the South
East of England.
David
Kershaw, General Manager, RO Real Estate commented:
“We are always looking for opportunities
to expand and this sale gives us further scope to re-invest in the South East,
an area of the country we feel offers significant potential for growth.”
The Royal London Mutual Insurance
Society were advised by XLB LLP and Gowling WLG (UK) LLP and the RO was advised
by Maclay Murray & Spens LLP.
