Valor buys £146m west London industrial park

Valor Real Estate Partners has agreed to acquire the Tera 40 industrial park in Greenford, West London, for around £146m from Lothbury Investment Management. The industrial estate comprises four modern distribution properties totalling 340,650 sq ft that are fully let to Tesco, Palletways, Royal Mail and Micheldever. The estate sits on a 19-acre site, providing up to 285 car parking spaces and up to 63m clear yard space. The buildings on the estate average a site coverage of about 40%. Valor said Greenford is one of London’s most competitive industrial submarkets, with the reallocation of land for residential uses seeing total industrial stock decline more than 13% since 2013. Continued strong demand from e-commerce and logistics businesses is supporting a low level of vacancy and driving rental growth. Valor head of UK investment Jeremy Achkar said: “This prime last mile estate represents a rare opportunity to acquire modern distribution space at scale in one of West London’s most competitive sub-markets. “We view the real estate as impossible to replicate and replace, and its functionality and location is entirely consistent with our deployment strategy across London.” Lothbury IM executive director Ed Hockley said: “This asset has been in the fund since inception and Lothbury developed the majority of the estate ourselves, demonstrating the strength of our in-house development capability and the conviction of our core/active approach to investing. “The asset is now too large for the fund and is being sold to mitigate asset concentration risk.” Valor was represented by Cogent Real Estate and Simmons & Simmons, while Lothbury were represented by Gerald Eve and Travers Smith. See more occupational sales comparable for Greenford>> To send feedback, e-mail pui-guan.man@eg.co.uk or tweet @PuiGuanM or @EGPropertyNews Photo © Valor Real Estate Partners