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Update, Review of Strategic Options, Possible Sale
Update, Review of Strategic Options, Possible Sale.
About this update from Home Reit Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN, INTO OR FROM ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OR REGULATIONS OF SUCH JURISDICTION\n \n \n \n \n THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT UNDER RULE 2.4 OF THE CITY CODE ON TAKEOVERS AND MERGERS (THE \"CODE\") AND IS NOT AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF A FIRM INTENTION TO MAKE AN OFFER UNDER RULE 2.7 OF THE CODE AND THERE CAN BE NO CERTAINTY THAT ANY FIRM OFFER WILL BE MADE, NOR AS TO THE TERMS ON WHICH ANY OFFER, IF MADE, MAY BE MADE\n \n \n \n \n THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION\n \n \n \n \n FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16 February 2023\n \n \n \n \n Home REIT plc\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (\"Home REIT\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Update and Review of Strategic Options, Including Possible Sale of Company\n \n \n \n Following the announcement on 19 January 2023, the Board has been working with its advisers on a number of critical workstreams which are summarised below.\n \n \n This has been hampered by the unexpected recent resignations of its two brokers, Alvarium Securities and Jefferies International. Immediately following those resignations, the Board undertook a beauty parade for a financial adviser and appointed Smith Square Partners on Monday 13 February 2023.\n \n \n The Board yesterday received a report (the \"Report\") from Alvarium Home REIT Advisors Limited (the \"Investment Adviser\") on rent collection and the operational performance of the Company's portfolio following a detailed review undertaken by Simpact Group (\"Simpact\"), a specialist social housing property manager engaged by the Investment Adviser. Simpact has completed its first period of engagement with the Company's tenants during January and February 2023. This has highlighted a serious deterioration in rent collections for the quarter to November 2022 and identified serious challenges in rent collection for December 2022 and January 2023. For the quarter ending November 2022, only 23% of rent has been collected, meaning that out of a £14,827,147 quarterly rent roll, only £3,401,615 has been paid. In addition, the rent forecast to be collected for the coming months is highly uncertain as the Investment Adviser deals with a combination of issues surrounding the tenants' abil...