Mayfair Capital Investment Management Limited

Our clients benefit from...

Expertise of the Mayfair Capital team
- The founders of Mayfair Capital, James Thornton and Guy Brogden, have 60 years of experience between them. With the recent addition of Ned Pumphrey and Robert Palmer, who each have over 25 years of experience, Mayfair Capital's team has been further strengthened in 2010. The team has considerable access to 'off market buying opportunities' through their extensive contacts.
Strong track record
- Mayfair Capital has a strong track record and has shown it's ability to time the market. James and Guy called the peak of the market in early 2007 and took the decision to take profits from the MC Property Growth Fund through the realisation of assets held. The Fund achieved 16.59% p.a. return for its clients.
Client focus
- Putting our clients first is one of Mayfair Capital's core values. Mayfair Capital has over 350 clients comprised of professional investors, charities and institutions, the latter including a number of pension schemes.
Internal research and thought leadership
- Mayfair Capital is an innovative business leader. It does not simply follow or track its peers. The Property Income Trust for Charities was the first exempt, unauthorised unit trust open to charities to invest in commercial property where purchases are exempt from Stamp Duty Land Tax. The Fund has recently marked its fifth anniversary and offers an attractive yield to new investors.
  
  The recently launched MC Property Unit Trust is a 'first' for a fund of funds manager.
Alignment of interests
- Co-investment by the management team and performance incentives ensures alignment of interests with Mayfair Capital's investors.

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Mayfair Capital is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The Company is authorised to promote and manage pooled property funds.

Mayfair Capital News

January 2012

Property Income Trust for Charities acquires three assets for £28.5m in Q4, 2011

The transactions include a wholesale cash & carry warehouse in Rochester, let to Booker, with a lease having 15 plus years unexpired and providing for annual rental increases of 3% per annum. A retail warehouse in Redditch let to Matalan with over 15 years unexpired has also been acquired whilst the Fund completed on a new multi-let office investment in Guildford which completed on 10^th January 2012. These total some £28.5 million and generate an overall yield to the Fund of 6.7%.

The Fund is also contracted on a forward commitment to purchase a Travelodge in Teddington to be completed in April/May 2012. With these purchases the weighted unexpired lease length will increase to 10.3 years whilst 40.5% of portfolio income will be subject to minimum or inflation linked reviews. Gross assets will stand at c. £147m once this asset is acquired.

Borrowings on the Fund post the new acquisition activity will represent a loan to value of 25%.

The Fund has entered 2012 in a position where it is fully invested, therefore reducing the potential for ‘cash drag’ in early 2012 on the distributions to investors.

Mayfair Capital Property Unit Trust

Mayfair Capital Property Unit Trust entered 2012 with approximately 70% of committed equity invested. No further purchases or sales were completed during the final quarter of 2011 however a number of asset management initiatives were successfully finalised including new lettings at Carters Lane, Milton Keynes, Park Royal Industrial Centre, Harlow Mill Business Centre and Rochester Trade Park. The fund continues to seek out opportunities to invest into core/core plus UK commercial property and has two opportunities under offer for a total of £15m.