RNS ANNOUNCEMENT
3 April 2013
F&C COMMERCIAL PROPERTY TRUST LIMITED
ISSUE OF EQUITY
The following announcement was due to be released on 25 March 2013. Please be advised that pursuant to DTR5.6.1 the total number of ordinary shares and voting rights in the Company, announced at month end, included this allotment.
The Board announces that F&C Commercial Property Trust Limited ("the Company") has allotted and issued, conditional only an admission to listing on the UKLA's Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange, a further 1,000,000 ordinary shares of 1p each ("Ordinary Shares"), which rank pari passu with the existing shares in issue. The Ordinary Shares have been issued at a price of 101.8p per share, being just over a 3 per cent. premium to the net asset value announced by the Company on 10 January 2013. It is expected that the new shares will be admitted to listing and to trading at 8.00 a.m. on Thursday 28 March 2013.
As announced by the Company on 10 May 2012, the net proceeds of the allotment will be earmarked for commitments to new properties and capital investment generating future income.
Following this issue, the total number of ordinary shares will be 758,715,702 and the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 758,715,702.
The above figures may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
All Enquiries
Richard Kirby, F&C REIT Asset Management plc
Tel. 0207 499 2244
Graeme Caton, Winterflood Securities Limited
Tel: 0203 100 0268