Residential Secure Income PLC Dividend Declaration (1300U)

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RNS Number : 1300U

Residential Secure Income PLC

21 November 2019

21 November 2019

Residential Secure Income plc

Dividend Declaration

Residential Secure Income plc ("ReSI") (LSE: RESI), which invests in affordable Shared Ownership, retirement and Local Authority housing, is pleased to declare an interim dividend of 1.25 pence per Ordinary Share for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 September 2019.

0.500 pence of the dividend will be paid as a Property Income Distribution ("PID") in respect of the Company's tax exempt property rental business and 0.750 pence will be paid as an Ordinary UK dividend ("non-PID"). The dividend will be paid on 27 December 2019 to Shareholders on the register as at 6 December 2019. The ex-dividend date is 5 December 2019.

Including this interim dividend, the Company will have paid 5 pence per Ordinary Share for the financial year ended 30 September 2019, in line with our target at IPO and reaffirmed in our 2018 Annual Report.

Over time, ReSI expects its dividends to increase broadly in line with inflation, and targets a total return in excess of 8% per annum(1) . ReSI intends to pay dividends to Shareholders on a quarterly basis and in accordance with the REIT regime.

(1) These are targets only and not a profit forecast. There can be no assurance that the targets will be met.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

 
  ReSI Capital Management Limited / TradeRisks 
   Limited 
   Ben Fry 
   Alex Pilato 
   Mark Rogers 
   Jonathan Slater                                  [phone] 
  Jefferies International Limited 
   Stuart Klein 
   Gary Gould                                       [phone] 
                                                    [phone] 
    FTI Consulting                                   Email: [e-mail] 
    Richard Sunderland 
    Claire Turvey 
    Richard Gotla 
 

NOTES:

Residential Secure Income plc (LSE: RESI) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) listed on the premium segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange with the objective of delivering secure inflation linked returns by investing in affordable shared ownership, retirement and Local Authority housing throughout the UK.

ReSI targets a secure, long-dated, inflation-linked dividend of 5.0 pence per share p.a. (paid quarterly) and a total return in excess of 8.0% p.a. and has to date committed c. GBP300 million, assembling a portfolio of 2,678 properties.

ReSI aims to make a meaningful contribution to alleviating the UK housing shortage by meeting demand from housing developers (Housing Associations, Local Authorities and private developers) for long-term investment partners to accelerate the development of socially and economically beneficial new affordable housing.

ReSI's subsidiary, ReSI Housing Limited, is registered as a for-profit Registered Provider of Social Housing, and so provides a unique proposition to its housing developer partners, being a long term private sector landlord within the social housing regulatory environment. As a Registered Provider, ReSI Housing can acquire affordable housing subject to s106 planning restrictions and housing funded by government grant.

ReSI is managed by ReSI Capital Management Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TradeRisks Limited which has an 18 year track record of executing transactions within the UK social housing sector and, to date, has arranged funding of over GBP10 billion in the social housing, care and other specialist residential property sectors.

Acquisitions by ReSI are limited to homes with sufficient cashflows, counterparty credit quality and property security to be capable of supporting long--term investment grade equivalent debt.

ReSI does not manage or operate stock and uses experienced and credit-worthy third party managers.

Further information on ReSI is available at www.resi-reit.com

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