Cromwell sells Direk distribution centre for $63.05m – 19pc over book value
Cromwell Funds Management, on behalf of the Cromwell Property Trust T12, has sold a seven year old cold storage investment in South Australia’s Direk, to New York based investment bank Moelis.
The Rand Transport Distribution Centre is trading for $63.05 million – or 18.96 per cent over book value.
The vendor acquired 26-34 Caribou Drive, as one of three seed assets in 2013 for $32.75m – an ‘as if complete’ price.
About 27 kilometres north of Adelaide’s CBD, it is rented for 15 more years to Rand Transport, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anchorage Capital Partners.
JLL’s Adrian Rowse and Tony Iuliano marketed the industrial investment for Cromwell.
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Hamish Wehl, Cromwell’s head of Retail Funds Management, said the Rand Distribution Centre disposal “was a fantastic result for C12 unitholders” (story continues below).
“Cromwell expects to make a special distribution of the sale proceeds…upon settlement of the property,” the executive added.
As at 30 June 2020, the trust had delivered returns of 13.5pc annualised yield.
In a statement, the vendor said this fund replicates Cromwell’s other unlisted property trusts insofar as having a seven year initial investment period, innovative construction funding structure and long leases.
Cromwell sold one of C12’s other seed assets in 2015 – a seven storey office at 10-16 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne (which in June we reported was the subject of a mixed-use hotel and residential redevelopment proposal).
The other – a seven floor commercial building leased to the Australian Taxation Office in Dandenong and worth about $100m – is intended to be retained, with Cromwell set to put a proposal to unitholders to extend the trust term.
“Details of any such proposal will be sent to all unitholders and would require a…vote to proceed with any extension,” a company statement said.
