A UNIQUE 123,000 SQ FT CITY CENTRE MIXED-USE ESTATE THE CASTLE QUARTER ESTATE 02
QUEEN CARDIFF ST DAVID’S JOHN MORGAN CENTRAL CARDIFF CENTRAL PRINCIPALITY RIVER STREET CASTLE 2/THE HAYES LEWIS QUARTER SQUARE STATION STADIUM TAFF
CARDIFF IS THE CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY IN WALES. IT IS THE COUNTRY’S CHIEF COMMERCIAL CENTRE AND BASE FOR MOST NATIONAL CULTURAL A UNIQUE 123,000 SQ FT AND SPORTING INSTITUTIONS. CITY CENTRE MIXED-USE ESTATE 03 THE CASTLE QUARTER ESTATE 04
INVESTMENT SUMMARY
A unique 123,000 sq ft mixed-use Estate
Three Grade II listed Edwardian / Victorian Arcades
113 units across the Estate
One of the top City Centre Locations in the UK
Significant asset management and development opportunities
Mixed-use Estate with a highly diverse tenant spread with 40% Leisure, 27% Retail, 13% Hair & Beauty, 9% Residential and 10% Office
Freehold (85% of gross income)/part leasehold(15% of gross income)
Asset held in a Jersey Property Unit Trust (JPUT)
Offers are invited in excess of £19,500,000 (Nineteen Million Five Hundred Thousand CARDIFF IS ONE OF THE UK’S FASTEST GROWING Pounds) which reflects a net initial yield of 7.5% with a residual capital sum of CITIES WITH A PREDICTED 42% POPULATION £450,000 applied to the development GROWTH RATE OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS. at 10 High Street. The pricing assumes standard purchaser’s costs in Wales at 05 7.69%. Exceptionally low capital value of £158 per square foot. THE CASTLE QUARTER ESTATE 06
INVESTMENT RATIONALE
Located in a growth hotspot with projected population growth of over 42% in the next 20 years
Cardiff city centre is experiencing unprecedented investment and large scale development adjacent to the Estate
Diverse income profile with the largest tenant only accounting for 11% of the rent roll
Defensively positioned from an extensive mix of independent leisure and retail operators with strong local followings
Spanning 113 units with a wide range of unit sizes allowing the cultivation of small and medium sized operators and the ability to grow them throughout the Estate
Many of the tenants have been in TENANT LONGEVITY: occupation for 10+ years 58% OF THE TENANTS HAVE % OF INCOME BY SECTOR BEEN IN THE ESTATE FOR OVER 5 YEARS TOP 5 TENANTS BY GROSS INCOME Flexible lease terms and experiential leisure/retail environment well positioned to benefit from structural changes in the 10% 10% 10% 11% 11% 11% occupational market 5% 5% 5% 27% 27% 27% 13% 13% 13% 30% 30% 30% 4% 4% 4% 4% 4% 4% 47% 47% 47% 3% 3% 3% Significant rental discount to surrounding 9% 9% 9% retail locations with current Arcade rents at 73% 73% 73% c.£30-50 psf ZA, which is a discount to the 12% 12% 12% Morgan Quarter at £60 psf ZA and to 40% 40% 40% 11% 11% 11% St David’s 2 at £200 psf ZA
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TENANCIES & INCOME ANALYSIS
The Castle Quarter ownership is let to 101 tenants (including under offer deals) producing a current gross income of £1,651,039 pa and a net income of £1,537,953 after deduction of headrent and shortfalls. More detailed information is set out in the tenancy schedule.
The average rental tone is £30-£50 per sq ft Zone A in the Arcades which reflects excellent value for the strength of the location and compares very favourably with the Morgan Quarter where the average rent is c. £60 Zone A.
The rental tone for the prominant entrance/High Street units is c. £65 Zone A.
Sector Total % of Total % of Rent Total Rent Area (sq ft) Total Area
Leisure £666,050 40.3% 35,317 28.6%
Retail £452,810 27.4% 30,118 24.4%
Hair & £221,670 13.4% 14,125 11.5% Beauty
Office £159,489 9.7% 19,314 15.7%
Residential £151,020 9.2% 24,420 19.8%
Total £1,651,039 100% 123,294 100%
It is our opinion that the rental value as of today’s date would lie in the region of £1,676,345 pa after deduction of the headrent and assumed residential shortfalls into perpetuity. 09 THE CASTLE QUARTER ESTATE 10
INVESTMENT TO DATE
£1m invested over four years transforming the Castle Quarter into a vibrant incubator for entrepreneurs across leisure, hair & beauty, retail and offices.
Works completed by the landlord and not put through the service charge.
Works include extensive Estate rebranding and redecoration, replacing shop frontages, rewiring Castle Arcade and roofing works.
Service Charge Cost Building Usage Budget per sqft 1/1/18-31/12/18
Leisure Retail Castle Arcade £152,600 £3.8 Office High Street/Duke Leisure Retail £114,900 £2.5 Street Arcade Office Office 1-7 Castle Street £24,870 £2.5 Retail Leisure 29-32 High Street Residential £7,900 £0.9 upper floors Castle Chambers Residential £4,900 £0.9 Residential £305,170
SERVICE CHARGE
Service charge period runs from 1st January 2018 to 31st December 2018.
Service charge budget for the year ending 31st December 2018 is £305,170 as detailed in the table.
Low landlord void costs due to nil vacant rates on Grade II listed units.
Low Arcade service charge costs at a c. 15% discount to the Morgan Quarter and c. 60% discount to St David’s 2. 11 THE CASTLE QUARTER ESTATE
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ASSET MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES
Capture significant reversion across the Estate given discount to surrounding retail.
Capture customer/tenant demand for leisure operators within the Castle Quarter (Council supportive by providing A3 consent).
Promote late night events such as the monthly pop up cinema and food festival.
Opportunity to extend opening hours throughout the week and target complimentary operators following implementation of late night openings on Thursday to Saturday.
Develop 8-10 High Street as student accommodation (planning consent granted on 13/04/17, reference: 17/00338/MNR). The building has planning consent to develop the existing vacant upper floors into student apartments containing 30 beds in order to address the severe shortage within the City Centre. An illustrative development appraisal is available on the data room. 15 THE CASTLE QUARTER ESTATE 16
ESTATE OVERVIEW
THE CASTLE QUARTER IS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE PRIME RETAILING CORE, HAVING FRONTAGES ONTO ST JOHN STREET, DUKE STREET, HIGH STREET AND CASTLE STREET.
The Castle Quarter comprise a dominant leisure/retail asset in the centre of Cardiff with frontages to three Arcades, of which two are held freehold arcade and one held long leasehold. Spread across 123,000 sq ft, the Estate stretches from St John Street in the north to Castle Street in the south.
The leisure element includes tenants such as Pizza Express, Vintage Tea and Coffee, Gin & Juice, Madame Fromage, Castle Coffee and Craft Devil Brewery. Retailers include STA Travel, Wallys, Proline Skates, Lazarou Barbers, Habos Vintage and Crystals Jewellery.
The office accommodation extends to 19,314 sq ft and includes a mix of national and local established tenants.
The current residential accommodation totals 11,666 sq ft, comprising 13 residential units above the existing retail units with self-contained access on High Street. There is also further upper floor accommodation which has planning consent for a 30 bed student accommodation scheme.
There are significant asset management opportunities across the Estate, especially to increase the leisure element which has increased to approximately 40% of the current income. Hermes are currently carrying out a development at Church Street, Cardiff, which is contiguous with the Duke Street Arcade and we understand deals have been agreed with The Botanist, Honest Burger, Pho and Mowgli, further demonstrating the potential of this location as the dominant leisure destination.
The current opening hours of The Castle Quarter are: - Mon- Wed: 8am – 6pm - Thursday-Friday: 8am – 9pm - Saturday: 8am – 6pm - Sunday: 10.30am – 5pm 17 The three Arcades are Grade II Listed and are located in the Cardiff Central Conservation Area. As such empty rates are not charged on For identification purpose only. vacant units. THE CASTLE QUARTER ESTATE CARDIFF
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THE OWNERSHIP IS PREDOMINANTLY HELD FREEHOLD
A small part of the ownership comprising at Duke Street Arcade and part of High Street Arcade is held long leasehold for a term of 125 years from 2nd December 1989 at a current head rent of £75,166 pa, reviewed 5 yearly on an upwards only basis, to the higher of the passing rent at the review date or 25% of the “rents” received or payable for the 12 month period ending 25th December immediately before the review date. The property is next subject to a rent review in February 2019.
The leasehold tenure gross income accounts for c. 15% of the overall income.
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