Case Studies
- Significantly Reducing Rates Liabilities
- Adding value through Facilities Management
- Fast track development enables important European contract wins
- Adding value and saving money
- Securing future value and flexibility
- Houses in Multiple Occupation
- Value Enhancement and Removal of Planning Restriction
- Residential Development
- Office Block Management
- Industrial Property Sale
- Commercial Property Portfolio
- Meeting Clients Investment Objectives
- An Old Master Brought Up to Date
- Seeing What's Best for the Business
- Up to the Challenge
- Thinking Ahead of the Game Pays Dividends
- Maximising Potential and Value
- A Little Bit of Digging Can Pay Dividends
- Development, Sale and Lease Back
- Rapid Disposal and Rent Uplift after Fire
- An Unexpected Windfall for Car Giant
- A Refit Under Budget & A Smooth Relocation
- Resolving a Logistical Challenge
- Recognising the Alternatives to Relocation
- Reducing Rates Liabilities by over 10%
- Green Belt Planning Permission
- Warehouse Refurbishment for Vitacress
- New HQ for The Royal Yachting Association
- New Build for Hyland Edgar Driver
- New Premises for Fastener Stock
- Property Acquisition for Compass Group
Meeting Clients Investment Objectives
Vail Williams act for The Rufford Foundation, an independent grant making charitable trust concentrating on nature conservation projects.
The Foundation has a small property holding which they were seeking to expand in order to improve their income returns from their capital.
Their requirement was for a ‘bond-type’ investment that was secured on a good covenant, with a long lease and incorporated fixed rental uplifts with a maximum lot size of £3 million. These types of investments are in high demand and not easy to locate in the current market.
Vail Williams’ Investment team searched the market on their behalf and identified a suitable investment at The Bridges, Ringwood, Hampshire which comprised a prominent petrol filling station and convenience store located at the A35 trunk road outside Ringwood.
Vail Williams successfully negotiated the purchase of the investment at a figure of £2.63 million to show the Foundation an initial yield of 6% and an equivalent yield of 7.5% net of purchase costs.
The property was entirely let to the Co-operative group for a further 17 years with annual rental increases of 2% p.a.
Ross Barbour, a Trustee of the Rufford Foundation commented, “We were very happy with the service that Vail Williams provided for us in securing an investment that so aptly met our current investment requirements in what is a difficult market”.
