CRT Property Investments Ltd has increased its portfolio of commercial properties after investing £2.7 million in two Nottinghamshire based units with the support of real estate asset management company, Blue Marble Asset Management.
In an off-market purchase, Birmingham-based Blue Marble Asset Management assisted with the acquisition of the freehold of a 34,000 sq ft prime industrial space in Blenheim Park, Nottingham. The semi-detached units 6A and 6B are currently let to Ferraris Piston Service Limited and Trent Aero Engineering Ltd, part of the MEL Group.
Simultaneously, Blue Marble Asset Management also provided strategic support in the purchase of a unit at Millennium Business Park in Mansfield. The property includes 0.4 acres of expansion land, for the development of a 7,000 sq ft new build industrial unit. The 10,500 sq ft industrial unit is let to tenant Takbro Limited.
Property Investment and Development Director for CRT Property Investments Ltd, Shaun O’Brien comments: “Strategically investing in property within Nottinghamshire made commercial and social sense to us as an organisation. Not only is the county a fantastic place to do business, but as a former mining community we are ensuring that we drive investment back into the coalfields.
“We would like to thank Blue Marble for their assistance with these purchases, their support has been extremely valuable throughout the entire process.”
Tim Matthews, Chief Executive of Blue Marble Asset Management, comments: “These industrial investments meet the requirements of our client for strong income streams to fund their work in improving the quality of life in Britain’s former mining communities.
“Blue Marble works hard to understand all its clients’ requirements, attitude to risk and aspirations on returns and provides the strategy and investments which most suit them.
“Both investments deliver not just a strong yield, but represent good opportunities to add value by pro-active management which is our forte. We continue to look for off-market investments in key market sectors and geographical areas on behalf of our clients.”
CRT Property Investments Ltd is a subsidiary of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust, the only organisation dedicated to supporting the coalfield communities to help themselves.
Responding to the challenge from Government to become self-financing, the property investment company will provide a return that will continue to allow the Coalfields Regeneration Trust to create programmes that meet with the diverse and complex needs of the communities throughout the UK.
With some 5.5m people living in these areas, and many falling into the 30% most deprived in the country, there is still a lot of work to be done to restore these communities to the thriving villages and towns they once were.
