Investors Chronicle: ‘First Property is a shrewd operator’

May 5, 2020

Simon Thompson analyses First Property Group’s recent announcements on sales we’ve completed, new leases we’ve signed, and our share price. The columnist reports the sale of our share in the CH8 tower in Warsaw “generating an eye-catching internal rate of return (IRR) of 63 per cent since its acquisition in 2014” and argues “there is still a glaring valuation anomaly still to exploit…”

He adds: “Effectively, you are getting a free ride on these investments and a fund management business that manages £602m of third-party assets even though the company has a track record of outperformance, delivering an IRR of 25 per cent (including dividends) since 2006.”