10th Feb 2025 15:34
10 February 2025
SOCIAL HOUSING REIT PLC
(the "Company" or, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")
RESULT OF GENERAL MEETING
The Board of Social Housing REIT plc is pleased to announce that, at the Company's General Meeting held today, the resolution was voted on by way of a poll and was passed by shareholders.
As a result, the Investment Policy has been amended to increase the maximum exposure to any one Approved Provider to 35% of the Group's gross asset value, with the maximum aggregate exposure to the top two Approved Providers not to exceed 55%. The revised Investment Policy will become effective immediately.
Resolution 1 was proposed as an ordinary resolution. The results of the poll are set out below.
Resolution | Votes For | % | Votes Against | % | Total votes validly cast | Total votes cast as % of issued share capital* | Votes Withheld** | |
1 | To approve the amendments to the Company's investment policy | 202,575,358 | 99.91 | 174,252 | 0.09 | 202,749,610 | 51.53 | 147,238 |
*Excluding treasury shares.
**A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.
Every shareholder has one vote for every Ordinary Share held. As at 6 February 2025, the issued share capital of the Company consisted of 393,916,490 Ordinary Shares. The Company holds 450,000 Ordinary Shares in treasury, which do not carry voting rights. Therefore, the total voting number of voting rights in the Company is 393,466,490 Ordinary Shares.
The full text of the resolution can be found in the Notice of General Meeting dated 22 January 2025, a copy of which is available on the Company's website at www.socialhousingreit.com/investors/
In accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.2 a copy of the resolution passed will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT:
Social Housing REIT plc | Via Brunswick Group |
Chris Phillips | |
Atrato Partners Ltd Adrian D'Enrico Michael Carey Chris McMahon |
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Akur Limited (Joint Financial Adviser) |
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Siobhan Sergeant | |
Tom Frost | |
Anthony Richardson | |
Stifel (Joint Financial Adviser and Corporate Broker) | Tel: 020 7710 7600 |
Mark Young | |
Rajpal Padam | |
Madison Kominski | |
Brunswick Group (Financial PR Adviser) |
Tel: 020 7404 5959 |
Nina Coad | |
Robin Wrench | |
Mara James |
The Company's LEI is 213800BERVBS2HFTBC58.
Further information on the Company can be found on its website at www.socialhousingreit.com.
NOTES:
The Company primarily invests in newly-developed social housing assets in the UK, with a particular focus on specialised supported housing. These operational residential assets deliver long-term sustainable income and are managed by Approved Providers (being Housing Associations, Local Authorities or other regulated organisations in receipt of direct payment from local government). The portfolio comprises investments into properties which are already subject to a lease with an Approved Provider, as well as forward funding of pre-let developments, but does not include any direct or speculative development.
The Company was admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 8 August 2017 and was admitted to the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and migrated to trading on the Main Market on 27 March 2018. The Company operates as a UK Real Estate Investment Trust ("REIT") and is a constituent of the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT index.
Related Shares:
Social Housing