Publicly-quoted investment fund Hibernia REIT said it is well-positioned to benefit from any Brexit upside — in the form of UK-based companies looking to relocate to Dublin — and is adequately funded to take advantage of property acquisition opportunities.

Shares in Hibernia REIT dipped marginally by 1.01% on the Irish Stock Exchange yesterday as it released its latest trading update covering the period to the end of June 2016.

Publicly quoted property investment fund Hibernia REIT is targeting a 50% increase in total rent roll over the next two years, which would lift its rental income from nearly €40m to €60m.

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Further signs of property sector momentum were evident yesterday, with the country’s main two publicly quoted property investment funds reporting strong financial and operational progress.

Property investment company Hibernia Reit has acquired an 80-unit apartment complex in Dundrum, south Dublin for €28.05m in an off-market transaction.

Hibernia REIT has proposed a move that would see it directly employ its current management team if approved by shareholders.

Hibernia Reit yesterday said it had acquired two more properties in the Dublin Docklands for €4.6m. Both are on Lime Street in the South Docks area and are part of the strategic development zone designated by Dublin City Council.

Publicly-quoted property investment fund, Hibernia Reit has acquired a prominent city centre office block in Dublin, for nearly €50m, marking its second major investment inside a month.

Hibernia REIT is to lodge a planning application that could see the Garda regional headquarters, on Dublin’s Harcourt Square, replaced by up to 300,000sq ft of prime office development.

The garda headquarters building on Harcourt Street is to be acquired by Hibernia REIT in a €70m off-market purchase.

Publicly quoted property investment fund, Hibernia REIT has noted a strong start to 2015 and has said it sees there being a number of acquisition opportunities becoming available in the Dublin commercial property sphere over the next year and a half.

Hibernia REIT [real estate investment trust] expects the unprecedented level of sales in the Irish commercial property market to continue to drive strong performance for the investment trust in 2015.

Property investment fund Hibernia REIT plans to raise a further €300 million through a secondary share offering.

Hibernia REIT — one of the new breed of property investment funds to have floated in the past year — is in negotiations with a number of potential lenders in the hope of establishing debt facilities to be used to fund its purchasing activity.

Publicly-owned property fund Hibernia REIT has said it sees significant further commercial and residential acquisition opportunities in Dublin, having already spent nearly 90% of the equity it raised in its December float.

An Irish property investment company has secured a €90.7m deal to buy adjoining office buildings in the heart of Dublin’s financial district.

A total of €1.7bn in capital has been invested in Irish real estate this year, including direct investment of €800m.

A property investment company has secured a €52.25m deal to buy the Observatory Building in Dublin city centre from Nama.

Hibernia REIT has acquired a building and development site in the popular Dublin docklands area for a combined sum of €27.6m.

The Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) continue to pick up landmark properties in Dublin, while in London Ballymore hunts €2.4bn finance to construct 3,000 houses.

One of the main beneficiaries in the recovery of the Irish property market looks set to be the real estate investment trusts (REIT), who are poised to pick up Nama’s best assets.

The Hibernia REIT has paid €47m for New Century House in Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) which houses Bank of Ireland.

The newly-launched Hibernia real estate investment trust raised €365m in an initial public offering to become the second REIT to launch in Ireland this year as the property market stabilises.

A new Ireland-based property investment firm is to raise around €350m from a dual share listing in Dublin and London and begin establishing a portfolio next year.

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