Overview
BMO Commercial Property Trust (formerly F&C Commercial Property Trust : FCPT) is a vehicle for investors who wish to gain exposure to prime UK commercial property. It aims to provide shareholders with an attractive level of income together with the potential for capital and income growth from investing in a diversified UK commercial property portfolio. Dividends are paid monthly.
You can access the fund’s website here
Research History
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11 Feb 2021 9 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – February 2021
Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments Performance data January’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. The UK’s vaccination programme has lifted optimism for a speedier opening of the economy than first feared at the start of the year. Property companies that reported positive valuation figures for the […]
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14 Jan 2021 12 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – January 2021
Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments Performance data December’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. The boost of coming out of the second national lockdown in early December was short lived as Christmas was cancelled for most of the UK with COVID-19 cases spiking. It did little […]
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12 Nov 2020 12 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – November 2020
Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments Performance data October’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. October finished with the threat of a second lockdown looming over the UK as COVID-19 cases continued to rise. However, this did not dampen demand for shares in some of the companies […]
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09 Oct 2020 14 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – October 2020
Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments Performance data September’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. There was an eclectic mix of property companies to feature in the top price movers for September. Top of the tree was private rented sector and residential development specialist Sigma Capital Group, […]
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10 Sep 2020 12 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – September 2020
Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments Performance data August’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. There were some interesting price rises during the month of August as investors’ search for returns took them to property companies that have seen their share prices severely depressed during the Covid-19 […]
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13 Aug 2020 12 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Monthly Roundup – August 2020
Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments Performance data July’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. A number of REITs and property companies saw big share price gains over the month of July as covid-19 restrictions started to ease across the UK and greater economic stimulus was revealed. […]
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22 Jul 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s Property Summer Conference – week 3
COVID-19 is creating havoc in some parts of the property sector but others are thriving. On Wednesday 22nd July we held the third of our summer property webinars where the managers of BMO Commericial Property Trust, Standard Life Investments Property Income, Hibernia REIT and Grit Real Estate Income Group gave presentations on their fund, the property sector as a […]
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07 Jul 2020 16 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – July 2020
Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments Performance data June’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. Uncertainty caused by the covid-19 pandemic continued to weigh on property stocks in June and we had the first real casualty in Intu Properties, which collapsed into administration. A number of companies […]
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10 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – July 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over June: CQS New City High Yield – […]
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07 May 2020 6 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – May 2020
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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15 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – May 2020
Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments Performance data April’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. Following two months of heavy falls as the covid-19 pandemic took hold and the UK was put on lockdown, many property companies saw a bounce in their share price in April, although […]
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10 Mar 2020 16 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – March 2020
Real Estate Roundup Kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments Performance data February’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. Property stocks tumbled in February as fears over the spread of Covid-19 spooked financial markets around the world and resulted in the largest sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis. There were just […]
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10 Jan 2020 9 min read
QuotedData’s Real Estate Roundup – January 2020
Real Estate Roundup Performance data December’s biggest movers in price terms are shown in the chart below. December was a good month for listed property companies, with the sector experiencing a bounce following the convincing majority the Conservative party won at the general election. For the second month in a row, estate agency group Countrywide […]
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10 Oct 2019 30 min read
Retail property market – ready for a renaissance?
Ready for a renaissance? There have been few structural shifts in the property sector as profound as the one currently taking place in retail. Consumer spending patterns have drastically changed over the past five years, with online sales now accounting for 19.7% of all retail spend in the UK (August 2019, source: ONS), compared to […]
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30 min read
Retail property market – ready for a renaissance?
Retail ready for a renaissance? There have been few structural shifts in the property sector as profound as the one currently taking place in retail. Consumer spending patterns have drastically changed over the past five years, with online sales now accounting for 19.7% of all retail spend in the UK (August 2019, source: ONS), compared […]
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07 Oct 2019 7 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – October 2019
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford New research Over September, we published notes on India Capital Growth, Jupiter Emerging & Frontier, International Biotechnology Trust, JPMorgan Russian Securities, Civitas Social Housing, Montanaro European Smaller Companies and JLEN Environmental Assets. We also launched a monthly real estate roundup, beginning with reviews of August and September. In […]
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05 Jul 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2019
Investment Companies Roundup New research Over June, we published notes on CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income, Standard Life Private Equity and Shires Income. You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com. In this issue Performance data – there was a greater appetite for risk in June as […]
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08 May 2019 6 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – May 2019
Economic & Political Roundup A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of the […]
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22 Mar 2019 2 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – March 2019
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – March 2019 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of February 2019. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. JPMorgan Chinese, Fidelity China and Pacific Horizon benefited from a booming Chinese market in […]
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12 Oct 2018 2 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – October 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – October 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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11 May 2018 2 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – May 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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18 Apr 2018 2 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – April 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – April 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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10 Jan 2018 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – January 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – January 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of December 2017. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. January Investment Companies Roundup Winners and losers in December Infrastructure India’s share price […]
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14 Sep 2017 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – September 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – September 2017 – is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to […]
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16 May 2017 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – May 2017 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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07 Dec 2016 1 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – December 2016
Our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of November 2016. december-investment-companies-roundup
News
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29 Jan 2021 1 min read
BMO Commercial Property Trust’s NAV nudges up
BMO Commercial Property Trust’s net asset value (NAV) has nudged up slightly in the quarter to the end of December 2020. The group posted a 0.5% increase in NAV to 117.5p per share, with its property portfolio up 0.2% in the period to £1,227.9m. The stable valuation was down to the strong performance of its […]
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03 Dec 2020 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 December 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 3 December 2020: Jupiter UK Growth’s board has agreed in principle to a voluntary winding up of the company and the offer of cash or a rollover into an open-ended UCITS fund, the Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund. The rollover fund’s investment objective is to achieve capital appreciation by investing primarily in […]
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12 Oct 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 October 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 12 October 2020: Henderson Alternative Strategies reports that cash accounts for about 74% of the portfolio as at 9 October 2020. The manager expects that the cash level will rise to about 79% by mid-November 2020. Given the high percentage of cash in the portfolio, the current intention is to put forward […]
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04 Aug 2020 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 August 2020
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 August 2020, as BP cuts its dividend for the first time in a decade: BMO Commercial Property is to reintroduce a monthly dividend from this month at 0.25p per share (half the previous rate). The NAV return for the three months ended 30 June 2020 was -2.9%. The retail and leisure […]
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17 Apr 2020 2 min read
Property valuations take a dive
We got the first real insight into the impact covid-19 is having on property valuations this week, with both Picton Property and BMO Commercial Property Trust announcing portfolio values for the quarter to 31 March 2020. BMO’s portfolio fell in value by 3.8% over the course of the period, while Picton’s was at a much […]
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16 Apr 2020 2 min read
BMO Commercial Property Trust reports hit on NAV due to covid-19
BMO Commercial Property Trust’s net asset value (NAV) fell 5% in the quarter to 31 March 2020 as the covid-19 pandemic hit the value of its portfolio. The unaudited NAV per share was 124.3p compared to a NAV of 130.9p per share at the end of December 2019. The NAV is based on the external […]
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17 Sep 2019 2 min read
BMO Commercial Property Trust reports interims in tough climate
BMO Commercial Property Trust reports interims in tough climate – BMO Commercial Property Trust (BCPT), formerly F&C Commercial Property Trust, has reported interim results to 30 June 2019. The company invests in a number of sectors, including industrial warehouses, office buildings, retail and student housing. The company also has the mandate to invest upto 15% of […]
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1 min read
QuotedData’s other news 17 September 2019
In QuotedData’s other news 17 September 2019 – Civitas Social Housing, announced the appointment of Liberum Capital Limited as joint corporate broker to act alongside Cenkos Securities PLC, the company’s existing corporate broker. PRS REIT, the new build private homes investors, provided a trading update covering the two months to end-August 2019, since the end of its […]
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25 Apr 2019 3 min read
CVAs hit F&C Commercial Property Trust
CVAs hit F&C Commercial Property Trust – F&C Commercial Property Trust has published results for the year ended 31 December 2018. Highlights are: NAV total return 3.3% and share price total return of -4.3 per cent, both lagging the 6.2% return generated by the MSCI Quarterly Property Universe Portfolio total return of 4.0 per cent Dividend […]
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17 Apr 2018 3 min read
F&C Commercial Property underperforms in 2017
F&C Commercial Property underperforms in 2017 – the NAV total return of F&C Commercial Property (FCPT ) for the year was 8.8% and the share price total return was 3.9% for the year to 31 December 2017. The total return from the portfolio was 8.7%, whereas the MSCI Investment Property Databank (‘IPD’) Quarterly Benchmark Index returned 10.3% […]
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14 Dec 2017 1 min read
F&C Commercial Property buys Bristol office
F&C Commercial Property buys Bristol office – F&C Commercial Property Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of F&C Commercial Property, has purchased a 56,059 sq ft prime office, One Cathedral Square, in Bristol for GBP33.5 million, reflecting a net initial yield of 5.0 per cent. The property is fully let to the strong covenants of the University of […]
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13 Jun 2017 1 min read
Investment Trust Insider on UK property
Brexit isn’t all bad news for UK property The past couple of weeks have seen a clutch of results announcements by the larger real estate investment (REIT) and property trusts. The periods they are reporting on incorporate the run up to the referendum vote and its aftermath, and adverse changes to the stamp duty regime. […]
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23 Dec 2016 1 min read
F&C Commercial Property sells 25 Great Pulteney Street, London W1, for £54.4m
F&C Commercial Property Trust has annnounced that, on 22 December 2016,it completed the sale of its Freehold interest in 25 Great Pulteney Street, London W1 for £54.4m, which reflects a net initial yield of 3.95 per cent. 25 Great Pulteney Street is a seven-storey building, which the trust says provides high quality, contemporary, Grade A […]
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24 Aug 2016 2 min read
Rising vacancies hold back F&C Commercial Property
F&C Commercial Property’s net asset value total return for the six month period ended 30 June 2016 was 1.4 per cent and the ungeared total return from the property portfolio was 2.0 per cent. This compares with a total return of 2.6 per cent from the industry benchmark. The changes to Stamp Duty announced in […]
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19 Aug 2016 1 min read
Property exposure through closed-ended funds
Advisers could consider using investment trusts for their clients’ property exposure. read more here
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21 Jun 2016 2 min read
F&C Commercial Property extends borrowing facilities
The Board of F&C Commercial Property has announced that it has agreed amended financing arrangements with Barclays Bank PLC to the existing GBP50 million term loan facility between SCP Estate Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and Barclays which was repayable in June 2017. The amended arrangements extend the repayment date of the […]
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05 Apr 2016 2 min read
F&C Commercial Property beats IPD index
F&C Commercial Property reports that its net asset value total return for the year was 15.9 per cent and the share price total return was 2.8 per cent. The total return from the portfolio was 14.3 per cent, which compares favourably with a total return of 13.3 per cent from the Investment Property Databank (‘IPD’) […]
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27 Aug 2015 2 min read
F&C Commercial Property outperforming in 2015
F&C Commercial Property Trust says it returned 8.2% on net assets over the first half of 2015. The return to shareholders was 5.7%. Shareholders got six, monthly dividends of 0.5p – keeping them on rack for their 6p target dividend for the year. The return on the property portfolio was 7.4%, ahead of the total […]
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06 Jul 2015 1 min read
F&C Commercial property sells 124/125 Princes Street
F&C Commercial Property has announced that, on 30 June 2015, it sold its Absolute Ownership (Scottish equivalent to English Freehold) in 124-125 Princes Street, Edinburgh for £18.05m. The property comprises a seven storey building providing a prominent retail unit and office accommodation on the upper floors. The retail unit is currently let to Urban Outfitters and […]
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10 Apr 2015 1 min read
F&C Commercial Property expects improving dividend cover
F&C Commercial Property Trust’s results for 2014 are good. The fund’s property portfolio beat the IPD Index by 2.4%, delivering a return of 20.3% compared to 17.9% for the benchmark. This helped generate a return on net assets of 22.1%. The return to shareholders was a little lower however, 18.8% as the company moved to […]
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29 Aug 2014 1 min read
F&C Commercial Property Trust reports strong growth in the first half of 2014
FCPT : F&C Commercial Property Trust reports strong growth in the first half of 2014 F&C Commercial Property Trust’s recent interims report an NAV total return of 12.2% whilst share price total return was 1.9% reflecting a narrowing of the premium to NAV during the period (4.1% as at the 30 June 2014). Performance compares favourably against […]
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21 Jul 2014 1 min read
F&C Commercial Property Trust : FCPT – Acquires Liverpool warehouse
F&C Commercial Property Trust, managed by Richard Kirby (Pictured) has acquired a brand new 151,500 square foot production and distribution warehouse (Unit 1, The Hive, Liverpool International Business Park) for £11.9m. The property is let to Johnson Controls Automotive on a 15-year lease, at a passing rent of £812k, which represents an initial yield of 6.45%. F&C […]
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29 Apr 2014 1 min read
F&C Commercial Property : FCPT – acquisitions
Back in 2012, F&C Commercial Property entered into a forward agreement to buy four pre-let office buildings in Aberdeen – once construction had finished. Two blocks were ready in March and F&C Commercial Property has just announced that it completed on the other two on 17 April. The total cost of the 300,000 sq. ft. […]
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14 Apr 2014 1 min read
F&C Commercial Property Trust : FCPT – results
F&C Commercial Property Trust, managed by Richard Kirby, has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2013 that show the fund delivering a net asset value total return of 13.0% for the year – better than the 10.9% return generated by the IPD Quarterly Universe. The company has a sizeable cash pile to deploy which, […]
