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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.

News and Press Releases
14 Jun 2018

Investors Chronicle: Profit from the deal of the year

Simon Thompson updates his buy recommendation, in detail.

News and Press Releases
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.

News and Press Releases
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.

News and Press Releases
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.”

News and Press Releases
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.

News and Press Releases
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.

News and Press Releases
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.”

News and Press Releases
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.

News and Press Releases
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.

News and Press Releases
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.”

News and Press Releases
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.

News and Press Releases
11 May 2017

Shares Magazine – First Property is greedy when others are fearful

“…at 51p the shares look an interesting prospect…”

News and Press Releases
04 Apr 2017

Investors Chronicle: Primed for an earnings beat

Simon Thompson reiterates his buy recommendation saying ‘I feel that my 56p target price is not only achievable, but likely to be surpassed.’

News and Press Releases
07 Mar 2017

AIM Journal (March edition, p7): First Property investments yield NAV increase

A good precis on the investment case by Andrew Hore, including the prospects for dividend growth.

News and Press Releases
06 Mar 2017

Investors Chronicle: Engineering reratings

“Simon Thompson reiterates his buy recommendation and comments on further operational progress, pointing out house broker Arden Partners upgrade to forecast earnings. He states his price target of 56p now “looks conservative”.