Globalworth Real Estate Inv Ltd Update and EPRA Net Asset Value at 30 June 2017 (2343P)

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Globalworth Real Estate Inv Ltd

30 August 2017

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Company Update and EPRA Net Asset Value at 30 June 2017

Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited ("Globalworth" or the "Company") is pleased to release an update for its operations in 2017 and its unaudited EPRA Net Asset Value as of 30 June 2017.

The operational update includes Globalworth's:

   --     leasing update for the period extending between 1 June and 25 August 2017; 
   --     financial highlights from the six month period ending 30 June 2017; and 

-- unaudited Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income and unaudited Consolidated Statement of Financial Position as of and for the six month period ended 30 June 2017.

The Company's Interim Report and Unaudited Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements as of and for the six month period ended 30 June 2017, which will also contain these two statements, will be published in September 2017.

The unaudited EPRA Net Asset Value as of 30 June 2017 is presented in accordance with the stated intention of the Company to publish its estimated NAV on a quarterly basis.

Key highlights:

-- Successfully signed an additional 12.6k sqm of commercial GLA in our properties between 1 June and 25 August 2017, increasing our total for the year to 30.0k sqm

-- 462.8k sqm of commercial space let or pre-let, including Globalworth's stake in the new 47.0k sqm headquarter of Groupe Renault Romania's to be developed in Bucharest, with a WALL of 6.2 years as of 25 August 2017

-- Our total average occupancy of commercial standing GLA was 92.6% up from 89.7% at 30 May and 83.1% at 31 December 2016

-- 8.5k sqm of additional commercial GLA under HoT and tenant option, which would further increase occupancy of our standing properties to 94.4%

-- Net operating income ("NOI") of EUR22.0m (H1-16: EUR19.9m), up 11% as compared to H1-16 mainly as a result of the new lease agreements signed during 2016 and the addition of two leased properties to the standing commercial portfolio during H1-17

-- Normalised EBITDA(1) from ongoing operating activities of EUR18.8m (H1-16: EUR16.2m), up 16% as compared to H1-16 due to the increase in NOI and reduction in administration expenses

-- As a function of one-off debt restructuring expenses, earnings after tax of EUR6.6m negative (H1-16: EUR4.7m positive) decreased by EUR11.3m as compared to H1-16. The negative earnings after tax resulted from the full amortisation of unamortised debt issue costs of c.EUR16.1m, following the successful refinancing of the Company's debt with the issuance of the EUR550m Eurobond in June 2017 at a coupon of 2.875%. This has significantly lowered the Company's weighted average cost of debt to 3.0% at 30 June 2017, from 5.3% at 31 December 2016

-- Portfolio Open Market Value ("OMV")(2) of EUR1,045.4m (31 December 2016: EUR977.5m), up 6.9% as compared to 31 December 2016

-- Net Loan to Value of 27.4 per cent (31 December 2016: 20.7 per cent), up 6.7% as compared to 31 December 2016

-- Gross Loan to Value of 54.6 per cent (31 December 2016: 43.4 per cent), up 11.2% as compared to 31 December 2016

-- The increase in Net and Gross Loan to Value ratios as at 30 June 2017 as compared to 31 December 2016 is due to the temporary effect of the successful equity and debt raising initiatives of the Company in December 2016 and June 2017, respectively, leading to the temporary availability of significant cash and cash equivalent balances at 30 June 2017 (c.EUR284.3m) to be utilised for the execution of further investments, which in turn are anticipated to lead to an increase in NAV and reduction in the Gross and Net Loan to Value ratios

-- Net Asset Value ("NAV") of EUR688.8m (31 December 2016: EUR715.4m) and NAV per share of EUR7.61(3) (31 December 2016: EUR7.91), down 3.7% and 3.8%, respectively, as compared to 31 December 2016 mainly due to the interim dividend distribution declared in June 2017 and the full amortisation of debt issue costs, as explained above

-- EPRA(4) NAV of EUR759.8m (31 December 2016: EUR783.8m) and EPRA NAV per share(5) of EUR8.30 (31 December 2016: EUR8.57), down 3.1% and 3.2%, respectively, as compared to 31 December 2016 due to the same reasons as the reduction in NAV

IMPORTANT NOTICE / FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Announcement contains forward-looking statements. These relate to the Company's future prospects, developments and strategies. Forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as "believe", "could", "envisage", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "plan", "will" or the negative of those, variations or comparable expressions, including references to assumptions and discussions of strategy, plans, objectives, goals, future events, intentions or expectations. The forward-looking statements in this Announcement, including as to expected or estimated NOI (net operating income), GLA and WALL, are current expectations based on a number of assumptions that reflect a substantial degree of judgment and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the relevant statements. Factors that could cause actual results and outcomes (including NOI) to differ materially include, but are not limited to, those discussed under "Risk Factors" in Part I of the Admission Document of the Company dated 24 July 2013. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Announcement.

For further information visit www.globalworth.com or contact:

Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited

Dimitris Raptis

Tel: [phone]

Panmure Gordon (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)

Andrew Potts

Tel: [phone]

Jefferies (Joint Broker)

Stuart Klein

Tel: [phone]

Milbourne (Public Relations)

Tim Draper

Tel: [phone]

About Globalworth

Globalworth is a real estate investment company active in the SEE and CEE regions with a prime focus on Romania. The Company is internally managed by c.70 professionals and its portfolio comprises high quality real estate investments valued at c.EUR1.0 billion at 30 June 2017, all located in Romania.

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(1) Calculated as profit before finance cost, depreciation, amortisation of other non-current assets, gain on acquisition of subsidiaries, fair value gain on investment property, and other non-operational and / or non-recurring income and expense items.

(2) Portfolio OMV is based on appraised valuations performed by Coldwell Banker as of 30 June 2017.

(3) The number of ordinary shares used to calculate Net Assets Value "NAV" per share as of 30 June 2017 were 90,465,754 (31 December 2016: 90,396,948). If the 1,072,962 shares that will be issued during 2017 is taken into account, the diluted NAV per share at 30 June 2017 would amount to EUR7.53 per share (31 December 2016: EUR7.82 per share).

(4) "EPRA" The European Public Real Association Estate is a non-profit association representing Europe's publicly listed property companies.

(5) The number of ordinary shares used to calculate the EPRA Net Assets Value "EPRA NAV" per share as of 30 June 2017 were 91,538,716 (31 December 2016: 91,469,910).

Note all numbers in this announcement are unaudited.

Leasing Update (1 June - 25 August 2017)

Globalworth's momentum in leasing spaces in its properties continued in the period extending between 1 June and 25 August 2017. During this period, the Company successfully negotiated the take-up of 12.6k sqm of commercial space within its buildings, with tenants such as Microsoft, Cegedim, Nielsen and others, increasing its total for the year to 30.0k sqm.

Overall, Globalworth continues to benefit from an increasing demand for high quality office space in the Bucharest real estate market and its internal leasing capabilities. The Company has successfully negotiated the take-up of approximately 268k sqm of commercial GLA within its buildings since the beginning of 2014, confirming its position as one of the most successful investors and developers in the Romanian commercial real estate market.

The average occupancy rate of our standing properties continued to increase reaching to 92.6% on 25 August 2017 from 89.7% on 30 May, as a result of additional take-up of space in our properties and the acquisition of Green Court Building "C".

The most notable change in occupancy rate in our portfolio was in our Globalworth Plaza property where occupancy has now reached 79.5%, representing an increase of +39.6% from 30 May 2017. Occupancy has further increased in our flagship Globalworth Tower and City Offices properties which as of 25 August were 98.1% and 41.9% respectively (from 96.3% and 34.5% as of 30 May 2017).

In addition, we are currently at different stages of discussions / negotiation with a number of tenants for leasing the available spaces in our portfolio, and most notably have signed Heads Of Terms ("HoT") and have options available to tenants for the take-up of an additional 8.5k sqm of office space in certain properties which should they materialize would result in occupancy rate in Globalworth Plaza, Gara Herastrau office and City Offices to exceed 90%, 93% and 52% respectively. Our average occupancy including the aforementioned leases currently under HoT and tenant options would reach 94.4%.

New contracts signed between the beginning of June and 25 August 2017 included well-known national and multinational corporates such as Microsoft (Globalworth Plaza) for 3.6k sqm, RCS-RDS (City Offices) for 2.7k sqm, Amoma (Globalworth Plaza) for 2.3k sqm, Cegedim (Globalworth Plaza) for 1.2k sqm and Nielsen (Globalworth Plaza) for 1.2k sqm.

Tenancies in our portfolio have been signed with over 120 national and multinational corporates from 20 countries, operating in 27 different sectors / industries.

The WALL remaining on the commercial lease space in the Company's portfolio was approximately 6.2 years (at 25 August 2017).

 
       Commercial Contracted Rent Expiration Profile 
                        (% of total) 
----------------------------------------------------------- 
  Year     2017    2018    2019     2020    2021    >=2022 
--------  ------  ------  ------  -------  ------  -------- 
    %      3.3%    0.8%    1.4%    13.6%    8.0%     72.9% 
--------  ------  ------  ------  -------  ------  -------- 
 
 
                        % of Contracted        Selected Tenants of Commercial 
 Tenant Origin:               Rent                        Portfolio 
---------------------  ----------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 Multinational               84.5%        ABB, Abbott Laboratories, 
                                           Adecco, ADP, Anritsu Solutions, 
                                           Bayer, Baker Tilly, Billa, 
                                           BRD, Bunge, Capgemini, Carrefour, 
                                           Cegeka, Clearanswer, Colgate-Palmolive, 
                                           Continental, Credit Agricole 
                                           Bank, Dacia / Renault Group, 
                                           Delhaize Group, Deutsche 
                                           Telekom, EADS, Elster Rometrics, 
                                           Ericsson, EY, Ferrero, GfK, 
                                           General Motors, Grant Thornton, 
                                           Honeywell, Hewlett Packard 
                                           Enterprise, Huawei, Intel, 
                                           Legrand, Litens Automotive, 
                                           Merck, Mood Media, NBG Group, 
                                           Nestle, Orange, Piraeus 
                                           Bank, Procredit Bank, Saipem, 
                                           Sanofi, Schneider Electric, 
                                           Skanska, Starbucks, Stefanini, 
                                           Subway, Telekom, Tradeshift, 
                                           Tripsta, UniCredit, Valeo, 
                                           Vodafone, Wipro, Worldclass, 
                                           Zara / Inditex 
---------------------  ----------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 National                    11.1%        CITR, Creative Media, Enel 
                                           Muntenia, GlobalVision, 
                                           NNDKP, NX Data, Patria Bank, 
                                           RINF 
---------------------  ----------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 State Owned Entities        4.4%         Hidroelectrica, Ministry 
                                           of European Funds 
---------------------  ----------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

 
                                                 30 June 2017        30 June 2016 
                                                  (Unaudited)         (Unaudited) 
                                                      EUR'000             EUR'000 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 Revenue                                               34,938              32,035 
 Operating expenses                                  (12,957)            (12,147) 
 Net operating income                                  21,981              19,888 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 Administrative expenses                              (3,224)             (3,593) 
 Acquisition costs                                      (303)                (21) 
 Fair value gain on investment property                   682               5,420 
 Gain on acquisition of subsidiaries                    2,639                   - 
 Gain on sale of subsidiary                                 -                 272 
 Share based payment expense                              (3)                (11) 
 Depreciation on other long-term assets                  (76)               (101) 
 Foreign exchange loss                                  (229)                (82) 
 Other operating expenses                             (1,493)               (431) 
 Other operating income                                     5               3,166 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
                                                      (2,002)               4,619 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 Profit before net financing cost                      19,979              24,507 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 Finance cost                                        (27,330)            (19,329) 
 Finance income                                           583                 146 
 Share of loss of joint ventures                         (23)                   - 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 Profit /(loss) before tax                            (6,791)               5,324 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 Income tax expense                                       195               (631) 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 Profit / (loss) for the period                       (6,596)               4,693 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 Other comprehensive income                                 -                   - 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 Attributable to equity holders of the parent         (6,596)               4,693 
----------------------------------------------  -------------  ---  ------------- 
 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

 
                                               30 June       31 December 
                                                  2017              2016 
                                           (Unaudited)         (Audited) 
                                               EUR'000           EUR'000 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
 ASSETS 
 Non-current assets 
 Investment property                         1,048,110           980,892 
 Goodwill                                       12,349            12,349 
 Advances for investment property               10,883             2,454 
 Investments in joint-ventures                   1,675                 - 
 Other long-term assets                            634               722 
 Other receivables                               1,183             1,183 
 Prepayments                                     1,039             1,022 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
 Non-current assets                          1,075,873           998,622 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
 Current assets 
 Trade and other receivables                    10,585            10,807 
 Guarantees retained by tenants                    319               277 
 Income tax receivable                             250               411 
 Prepayments                                       297               348 
 Cash and cash equivalents                     284,296           221,337 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
                                               295,747           233,180 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
 Total assets                                1,371,620         1,231,802 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
 
 EQUITY AND LIABILITIES 
 Equity 
 Issued share capital                          538,567           538,114 
 Unpaid share capital                            8,584             8,584 
 Share based payment reserve                     1,626             2,139 
 Retained earnings                             140,059           166,557 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
 Equity attributable to ordinary 
  equity holders of the parent                 688,836           715,394 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
 Non-current liabilities 
 Interest-bearing loans and borrowings         556,878           375,570 
 Deferred tax liability                         73,630            70,575 
 Guarantees retained from contractors               33                33 
 Deposits from tenants                           2,643             2,261 
 Trade and other payables                        1,857             2,188 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
                                               635,041           450,627 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
 Current liabilities 
 Interest-bearing loans and borrowings           1,610            38,665 
 Guarantees retained from contractors            2,563             2,394 
 Trade and other payables                       19,396            20,726 
 Other current financial liabilities             3,004             3,574 
 Finance lease liabilities                           -                 4 
 Deposits from tenants                             980               374 
 Dividend payable                               19,902                 - 
 Income tax payable                                288                44 

---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
                                                47,743            65,781 
---------------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- 
 Total equity and liabilities                1,371,620         1,231,802 
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