Llanelli Star

STORE SOLD IN £66M DEAL

- SION BARRY Business Editor sion.barry@walesonlin­e.co.uk

A TESCO store in Llanelli has been bought for £66.8m.

The deal sees FSTE 250 listed real estate investment trust Supermarke­t Income REIT plc (SUPR) effectivel­y becoming the new landlord with Tesco a rent paying tenant.

The 82,000 sq store was developed for Tesco in 1989 and occupies a 10 acre site at Parc Trostre. It also provide a 16-pump petrol filling station and 753 car parking spaces.

A TESCO store in Llanelli has been bought for £66.8m.

The property investment in the store at the Parc Trostre Retail Park has been acquired by FSTE 250listed real estate investment trust Supermarke­t Income REIT plc (SUPR), from M&G.

The deal sees SUPR effectivel­y becoming the new landlord with Tesco a rent paying tenant. The 82,000 sq ft store was developed for Tesco in 1989 and occupies a 10acre site at Parc Trostre. It also provide a 16-pump petrol filling station and 753 car parking spaces.

The store is an online hub, with 10 home delivery vans and a dedicated click-and-collect facility. It is being acquired from M&G with an unexpired lease term with Tesco of 12 years, with annual and upwardsonl­y retail price index-linked rent reviews (subject to a 5% cap and 0% floor).

Ben Green, director of Atrato Capital, the investment adviser to SUPR, said: “This acquisitio­n further strengthen­s SUPR’s portfolio of top trading omnichanne­l supermarke­ts. The store has strong trading fundamenta­ls, comes at an accretive acquisitio­n yield and is subject to annual index-linked rent reviews.”

SUPR has a property investment portfolio of 74 supermarke­t sites across the UK.

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The Tesco store at Parc Trostre.

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