Clearbell completes sale of five assets from its Polaris portfolio

8 December 2023

Clearbell Property Partners II LP (“Clearbell”), a fund managed by Clearbell Capital LLP, has today announced the sale of five assets in its industrial Polaris portfolio for a combined total of £24.85 million.

The assets, comprising five industrial sites totalling over one million sq ft., were sold to separate buyers in off-market sales. In Sheffield, the two largest assets, Davy Markham Industrial Park and Sheffield Parkway, have been sold to a Midlands based property company and a real estate investment fund respectively.

In Middlesborough, Clearbell has completed the sale of 1&2 Queensway, to Leader Online Ltd. having welcomed new tenants to both units on the site. The smallest of the sites, Hutton Business Park in Rotherham has also been sold. In the six months prior to sale, the units had been fully let.

The final of the five assets, PM House in Sheffield, was sold to a private buyer at auction for £2.3m.

Clearbell acquired the Polaris portfolio comprising assets predominantly in the North of England, in August 2015. Clearbell acquired the portfolio to benefit from the growing momentum in the industrial market, and to reposition secondary assets to drive investor returns.

Rob West, Managing Partner, Clearbell Capital, said: “The completion of sales on these five key assets is an important step for our Polaris Portfolio and a clear demonstration of our patient, principled and forensic approach. These sales demonstrate that liquidity has returned to well-priced industrial assets. Our investment and asset management teams have done well to capitalise on this, growing income across the portfolio before returning capital to investors.”

Clearbell was advised by CPP and Gerald Eve.

Source: Clearbell