As reported in the Australian Financial Review, the properties were sold in an off-market deal representing a yield of 4.63 per cent.
ABL partners Stephen Sharp and Tyrone McCarthy led the team acting on the deal. Other team members included Senior Associate Brianna Youngson, Lawyer Crosby Radburn and Law Graduate Tamsen Kempster.
Tyrone congratulated the client on the transaction: "We're pleased to have supported Charter Hall on this quality investment representing value for all equity holders."
In Charter Hall’s announcement, Managing Director and Group CEO David Harrison commented: "We are proud to further expand our strong relationship with Wesfarmers and Bunnings Group. Across the Charter Hall platform we now have in excess of $2.4 billion invested in 59 Bunnings stores, 50 of which are located in metropolitan locations.
"This transaction represents our seventh Bunnings portfolio acquired since 2006 when we first recognised the strength of the Bunnings business, the relatively low rents per square metre of lettable area and the large prime sites Bunnings typically occupy.”
Earlier this year, ABL also advised Charter Hall on its acquisition - via a Charter Hall managed fund, with Charter Hall and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund as investors - of a 49 per cent stake in the Ampol Property Trust and on the development and long-term lease of two new high-tech Coles Customer Fulfilment Centres to be built in Melbourne and Sydney.
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