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PIONEER PROPERTY GROUP ASA
Highlights of the report
Total
revenue for 2022 was MNOK 77.2 compared
to MNOK
45.5 in 2021.
Pre-tax profit for 2022 was
MNOK 76.6 compared to MNOK
300.7 for 2021.
PPG acquired four development properties,
two preschools, and
one office property
over the period and sold all of the shares in
Odin Bidco AS to existing shareholders
in Odin Bidco.
The building of two retail properties were
completed, increasing
the retail property count to
six.
PPG paid four quarterly dividends to the holders of preference
shares in total NOK 9.75 per preference share
and additional
dividends of 5.939 per share held by Eidissen Consult AS and
Grafo AS, and 5.164 per share held by Klevenstern
AS and Mecca
AS.
Operations and strategy
Pioneer Property Group ASA
an investment company,
mainly within real estate
. PPG is a
public limited company
, the
Company's registered office is Rådhusgata
23, 0158
Oslo
,
Norway
. PPG has since the beginning of 2020 expanded its real
estate activities into new areas
and the current portfolio is
contain different
segments than only preschool, therefore,
PPG
now reports based on the characteristics of the properties
and
hence report on the following segments:
1.
Preschools
2.
Hotel Properties
3.
Retail Properties
4.
Property Development
5.
Office Properties
PPG acquired its first office property
in March 2022, Office
Properties is a new segment for the 2022-reporting
period.
The focus area for PPG will be to continue
to invest in real estate
within these segments and seek to enter into long-term
triple-
net leases with leading operators. PPG's real estate
portfolio per
year-end 2022 consisted of three propert
ies in the Preschools
segment, six properties in Retail properties
segment, six
properties in the Hotel properties segment,
one office property
in addition to four properties in the Property development
Key material events during 2022
COVID-19 represented an extraordinary
situation in the
beginning of 2022, and all restrictions are now lifted. The
pandemic has impacted PPG directly in the two first
months of
2022, as lease income from hotel properties were
lower as lease
payments are made based on a percentage
of the hotels
turnover.
Hotel revenue and lease income recovered from
march and by year end 2022, lease income normalized. Lease
agreements on other segments are triple-net
and not linked to
operational utilisation of any kind.
During 2022, PPG has declared quarterly dividends to the
holders of preference shares
in total NOK 9.75 per preference
share. As per the articles of association §5, the annual preferred
dividend to the holders of preference share
increased by NOK 1
per preference share from
01. July 2022 to 2.500 per quarter.
Furthermore PPG paid additional dividends of NOK 5.939 per
share held by Eidissen Consult AS and Grafo AS, and NOK 5.164
per share held by Klevenstern AS and Mecca AS.
In 2022, PPG has increased the real estate portfolio
and its
investment activity,
especially within the development property
segment.
The largest single transaction was carried out
in May 2022,
when
PPG sold its 8.2 % stake in Odin Bidco AS, which owns a
real estate portfolio of
~256 preschools at mainly long-term
triple-net contracts primarily in the Nordics. Pioneer
Property
Group ASA entered into
an agreement regarding the sale of all
the shares owned by PPG in Odin Bidco AS to the existing
shareholders in Odin Bidco AS. Closing of the transaction
took
place on June 6th. The agreed purchase price for the Shares
was
MNOK 372.1 generating a profit of MNOK 25.7.
The second largest transaction was
the purchase of properties
and shares from Hospitality Invest AS' direct
and indirect
subsidiaries.
-
Gaustadskogen Eiendom AS (77%),
-
Tjuvholmen Eiendom AS (100%)
-
Norab Eiendom Vest
AS (100%),
All companies are single purpose companies with tenants
owned by Norlandia Health & Care Group AS. In addition, the
transaction also included 23.6% of the shares in Norlandia
Holding AS which owns certain hotels operated
by Norlandia
The board of directors’ report for Pioneer Property Group ASA
(PPG) 2022