Fprop in the News

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12 Jul 2022

Estates Gazette: H Samuel chain loses out in landmark pandemic rent arrears arbitration award

Fprop wins first known arbitration award under the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022 – testament to our tenacious pursuit of what is rightfully and contractually due.

14 Jun 2018

Investors Chronicle: Profit from the deal of the year

Simon Thompson updates his buy recommendation, in detail.

05 Dec 2017

Pensions Age Awards

First Property Group plc has been shortlisted for the Property Manager of the Year 2017 at the upcoming Pensions Age awards.

13 Oct 2017

Investors Chronicle: Trading Plays

Simon Thompson says First Property Group is “Building earnings momentum” and reiterates his 65p price target with a “buy” recommendation.

18 Jul 2017

Investors Chronicle: On the upgrade trail

Simon Thompson writes “…scope for earnings multiple expansion and upgrades…to drive the share price…the risk:reward ratio remains skewed to the upside…given the obvious potential for earnings upgrades, I now rate them a buy at 56p and have a new target price of 65p.”

17 Jul 2017

Property Week: First Property launches £182m English office fund

First Property Group has established a new seven-year term fund with eight institutional investors to invest in office blocks and business parks across England.

17 Jul 2017

IP Real Estate: UK pension schemes invest in First Property fund to capitalise on Brexit

… The asset manager said it had now raised some £250m of equity commitments from third parties since the UK referendum in June last year – partly to take advantage of the slowdown in the UK commercial property market.

17 Jul 2017

Evening Standard: I hope Habib is right

Jim Armitage writes “Habib’s bet is based on two related assumptions: that Britain’s economy won’t suffer from leaving the EU; and that the big developers are wrong to be running for the hills.”

16 Jun 2017

Investors Chronicle: Small cap gems

Simon Thompson once again backs First Property in his list of ‘Small-cap gems’ and advises investors to run profits.

14 Jun 2017

Interactive Investor:10 exciting small-cap shares the analysts have missed

Using Stockopedia tools, Ben Hobson ran a screen for AIM stocks with low broker coverage, above-average earnings growth and below-average industry valuations on a price-to-earnings basis, which identified First Property Group.

08 Jun 2017

Motley Fool: Managing plenty of growth

Ian Pierce notes that “High growth potential and bargain valuation are rarely terms used to describe the same company…but with an increasingly healthy balance sheet, a decent 2.8% dividend yield and fair valuation I’ll definitely be taking a closer look at First Property Group in the coming quarters.”

22 May 2017

All Street Research – Business insights from Small Cap Leaders (May 2017)

The report…“takes the lid off 50 of the companies driving the new and old productive economy…It samples and distils the views of 50 dynamic business leaders on economic value.” First Property Group is profiled on page 68.