Acquisition / Disposal

Where Business Works PRESS RELEASE 3 July 2007 SEGRO ADDS TO ITS HEATHROW PORTFOLIO AND DISPOSES OF OVER £100M OF OTHER UK PROPERTIES IN DEAL WITH LEGAL & GENERAL SEGRO, the leading provider of flexible business space in Europe, has reached agreement with Legal & General Property to acquire the Airlinks Trading Estate, Heston (near Heathrow airport) for £31m and in parallel to sell to Legal & General a portfolio of estates, across various sites in the UK, for £103.3m. The Airlinks Trading Estate is currently held by Legal & General in its Industrial Property Investment Fund (IPIF) which will absorb the portfolio of sites being sold by SEGRO. Andrew Gulliford, Director of Corporate Acquisitions, SEGRO plc said: "This transaction is a further example of our policy of actively managing and recycling our UK portfolio. We continue to acquire in prime business centres, such as the Heathrow area, where we are already well positioned and remain very positive about the opportunity for rental growth. Overall we remain net sellers in the UK, particularly where assets are no longer a good fit with the strategic clusters that form our core portfolio." Paul Edwards, Fund Manager IPIF said. "We are very pleased with the portfolio of sites we have acquired as they are a strategic fit with the objectives of the IPIF. These assets are located in the South East and require intensive management of a large number of tenant relationships. This matches the core management skills employed by the IPIF." The Airlinks Industrial Estate comprises a ring-fenced industrial estate, built in the 1980s, of 24 units ranging from 2,321 sq.ft to 47,014sq ft and totalling 154,403sq ft. It is contiguous to SEGRO's existing Heston Centre holding, providing management efficiencies and the opportunity for combined active management of occupiers. The estate is fully let, with an average unexpired term of circa 3 years. Current rental income is £1,597,525 pa. The portfolio being sold comprises six sites - Redlands Industrial Estate, Coulsdon; Cobbett Park, Guildford; Ermine Business Park, Huntingdon; Clock Tower Road, Isleworth; Weston Industrial Estate, Weston-super-Mare; and Molly Millers Lane, Wokingham. The six sites total 893,040sq ft in 118 units. Vacancy on the portfolio is currently 10% by floor area and the unexpired term averages 6.5 years. Current rental income is £4,635,306 per annum. King Sturge represented SEGRO in the transaction. - ENDS - For further information contact: The Maitland Consultancy Colin Browne Liz Morley Tel: 020 7379 5151 Peter Ogden About SEGRO SEGRO is the leading provider of Flexible Business Space in Europe. Headquartered in the UK, SEGRO is listed on the London Stock Exchange and on Euronext in Paris. The company is a UK Real Estate Investment Trust ("REIT") with operations in eleven countries, serving a diversified customer base of over 1,760 customers operating in a wide range of sectors, representing both small and large businesses, from start ups to global corporations. With investment property assets of £5.0 billion (£6.0 billion including trading properties and development assets) and 4 million sq m of business space, SEGRO has an annual rental income in excess of £300 million. www.segro.com

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