To the Directors of Shaftesbury PLC
In accordance with your instructions, we have undertaken a valuation of the various commercial and residential freehold and long leasehold property interests as at 30 September 2011 (the “date of valuation”) held by Shaftesbury Carnaby Limited, Shaftesbury Covent Garden Limited, Shaftesbury Chinatown Limited, Shaftesbury Charlotte Street Limited and Shaftesbury Soho Limited, which are subsidiary companies (collectively referred to as the “Subsidiary Companies”) of Shaftesbury PLC (the “Company”), as referred to in our Valuation Reports dated 23 November 2011 (“our Reports”). Our Reports were prepared for accounts purposes.
All properties have been subject to external inspections between August and November 2011 and a number were subject to internal inspections.
The valuations have been made in accordance with the appropriate sections of the current Valuation Standards (“VS”), and United Kingdom Valuation Standards (“UKVS”) contained within the RICS Valuation Standards – Global and UK, 7th Edition (the “Red Book”). We confirm that we have sufficient current knowledge of the relevant markets, and the skills and understanding to undertake these valuations competently. We also confirm that where more than one valuer has contributed to the valuations the requirements of VS 1.6.4 of the Red Book have been satisfied. Finally, we confirm that we have undertaken the valuations acting as External Valuers, qualified for the purpose of the valuation.
In accordance with VS 1.9 and UKVS 4.3, we are required to make certain disclosures in connection with this valuation instruction and our relationship with the Company and the Subsidiary Companies. John Bareham is the signatory of our Reports and he has been the signatory of Reports addressed to the Subsidiary Companies since September 2006. DTZ Debenham Tie Leung has been carrying out this valuation instruction for the Company, and now the Subsidiary Companies, for a continuous period since 1996. As well as preparing our Reports, we also undertake valuations of certain of the properties referred to in our Reports for other purposes, such as secured lending and for inclusion in shareholders’ circulars. There are no current fee-earning instructions between DTZ Debenham Tie Leung and the Company or the Subsidiary Companies other than valuation instructions. However, in addition to valuation instructions, there are other previous fee-earning relationships between DTZ Debenham Tie Leung and certain of the Subsidiary Companies or the Company itself. These relate to our previous appointment as property and asset managers in respect of the properties known as Wellington House (6-9 Upper St Martin’s Lane, 6-8 Shelton Street & 7-13 Mercer Street), 10/11, 12, 13/14, 16-19 & 20 Upper St Martin’s Lane, 124, 125/126, 127/130 (inc 1-3 Slingsby Place), 132/135, 136/137, 138 (Beckett House), 140-142 & 143 Long Acre, 1, 3-5 &15/17 Mercer Street, London WC2 (all of which are owned by Longmartin Properties Limited, a joint venture company owned in equal shares by the Company and the Mercers’ Company); to our previous involvement in advising the Company and Longmartin Properties Limited in respect of landlord and tenant and other matters; to our previous involvement in advising the Company or some of the Subsidiary Companies in connection with the acquisition or disposal of certain properties and to our previous involvement on behalf of the Company, or certain of the Subsidiary Companies, in acting as letting agents in respect of certain of the office accommodation.
DTZ Debenham Tie Leung is a wholly owned subsidiary of DTZ Holdings plc (the “Group”). In the Group’s financial year to 30 April 2011, the proportion of total fees payable by the Company and the Subsidiary Companies to the total fee income of the Group was less than 5%.
In accordance with the provisions of Guidance Note 3 of the Red Book, in undertaking our valuations, we have lotted together certain individual properties to form a separate property (a “Property” or “Properties”) in the manner we consider to be most likely to be adopted in the case of an actual sale. We consider that lotting the properties together on the basis reflected in our valuations would allow a purchaser to capitalise on the estate management advantages and opportunities available from such comprehensive ownership.
A high proportion of the total value of the Subsidiary Companies’ properties and Properties is accounted for by properties and Properties situated in adjacent and/or adjoining locations in four specific areas of the West End of London: Carnaby Street and its environs, Chinatown and the adjoining area immediately west of Wardour Street (south of its junction with Shaftesbury Avenue), and the areas around Seven Dials in the western part of Covent Garden and a block of properties to the east of the Central Covent Garden Piazza with its main frontage to Wellington Street. These areas are all dominated by retail and restaurant uses. In our opinion, at the date of valuation, this particular unusual confluence of ownership and use characteristics may cause some prospective purchasers to regard parts of the portfolio when combined as having a greater value than the aggregate of the individual values of the combined properties and Properties which make up those parts.
As required by the provisions of the Red Book, in undertaking our valuations, we have valued each property or Property separately, rather than valuing the portfolio as a whole or in combinations of parts. The “total” valuation figure below is the aggregated value of the separate properties or Properties within the various categories of tenure referred to below.
All valuations were on the basis of Market Value. We have assessed Market Value in accordance with VS 3.2 of the Red Book. Our opinion of the Market Value of each of the properties or Properties has been primarily derived using comparable recent market transactions on arm’s length terms.
We have not made any allowance for vendor’s sale costs nor for any tax liabilities which may arise upon the disposal of any of the properties or Properties. We have made deductions to reflect purchasers’ normal acquisition costs.
A full explanation of the Assumptions made in our valuations and details of the sources of information are contained within our Reports.
We have measured certain of the properties, or parts of properties, either on site or by scaling from floor plans. The Company, its managing agents or professional advisers have provided us with the floor areas of the remaining properties or parts of properties.
We have read the majority of the leases and related documents provided to us in respect of the commercial properties. Where we have not read leases, we have relied on tenancy information provided by the Company.
Certain properties were subject to works of repair or refurbishment at 30 September 2011, or were subject to outstanding retentions and fees in respect of projects already completed at that date. In these instances, the Company advised us of the amount of the outstanding costs. The costs will be borne by the Company as they are not recoverable from tenants. We have reflected these costs in our valuations. The total amount of such costs is £5,031,000 and details of the individual sums are included in our Reports.
As referred to above, we have lotted together certain individual properties to form a number of separate Properties. In the case of three Properties which comprise a number of individual properties, the majority of such properties are held freehold but certain of them are held on long leases. In order to divide our valuation of these Properties between the categories of freehold and long leasehold, we have undertaken notional apportionments of value between the freehold elements and the long leasehold elements which together comprise the relevant Properties. The amounts arising from these notional apportionments of value have been included in the figures representing the freehold and long leasehold categories below. The amounts arising from the notional apportionments do not themselves represent the Market Value of the two elements.
The Subsidiary Companies own a number of properties on a freehold basis where they also hold long leasehold interests within the freehold and have not merged the interests. For the purposes of the freehold/long leasehold split below, we have included such properties within the freehold category.
Having regard to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the aggregates of the Market Values, as at 30 September 2011, of the freehold and long leasehold property interests owned by the Company and the Subsidiary Companies, subject to the Assumptions and comments in our Reports dated 23 November 2011, were as follows:-
A long lease is one with an unexpired term in excess of 50 years
The contents of our Reports are confidential to Shaftesbury PLC, Shaftesbury Covent Garden Limited, Shaftesbury Carnaby Limited, Shaftesbury Chinatown Limited, Shaftesbury Charlotte Street Limited and Shaftesbury Soho Limited, for the specific purpose to which they refer and are for their use only. Consequently, and in accordance with current practice, no responsibility is accepted to any other party in respect of the whole or any part of the contents of our Reports or this summary report. Before our Reports or this summary report, or any part thereof, are reproduced or referred to, in any document, circular or statement, and before its contents, or any part thereof, are disclosed orally or otherwise to a third party, the valuer’s written approval as to the form and context of such publication or disclosure must first be obtained. For the avoidance of doubt such approval is required whether or not DTZ Debenham Tie Leung are referred to by name and whether or not the contents of our Reports or this summary report are combined with others.
John Bareham BSc (Hons) MRICS
Senior Director
RICS Registered Valuer
DTZ Debenham Tie Leung Limited
48 Warwick Street
London W1B 5NL