Balbriggan Retail Park for €1.2m

Partially let site in receivership; current rent role of €108,000 expected to increase to €120,000 by 2019

2-6 Balbriggan Retail Park: agent estimates that it cost around €100 per sq ft to develop the warehouses which can now be bought for €32 per sq ft
2-6 Balbriggan Retail Park: agent estimates that it cost around €100 per sq ft to develop the warehouses which can now be bought for €32 per sq ft

A partially let retail warehouse park in Balbriggan, Co Dublin, comes on the market today at a guide price of €1.2 million.

DTZ Sherry FitzGerald is selling the investment on the instructions of Duff & Phelps, which was appointed receivers by Bank of Ireland.

The selling agent estimates that it cost about €100 per sq ft to develop the warehouses, which can now be bought for €32 per sq ft. Included in the sale are five of the six individual buildings, extending to 3,460sq m (37,247sq ft). Three of these have been let at €4 to €6 per sq ft, while the other two are vacant. The current rent roll of €108,000 is due to increase to €120,000 by 2019.

The tenants in the three occupied buildings are Platinum Gym, DP Gymnastics and PJ’s Play Centre. There are 164 car parking spaces on the 1.17-hectare (2.89acre) campus, which occupies a prominent location on the road linking the M1 (Dublin-Belfast) motorway to Balbriggan town.

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The €1.2 million guide price will give a new owner a net initial yield of 8.6 per cent after standard purchasing costs of 4.46 per cent are taken into account.

Johnny O’Connor of DTZ said he expects a high level of interest because of the management, lot size,location and potential for capital appreciation. The investment also had good rental growth prospects.

Jack Fagan

Jack Fagan

Jack Fagan is the former commercial-property editor of The Irish Times