Sentinel snaps up retail centre in Dandenong


May 11, 2016

Brisbane­-based Sentinel Property Group has beefed up its Melbourne portfolio acquiring a large format retail centre in Dandenong for $29.8 million.

The busy property syndicator has picked up the fully­ leased Home Quarter complex in Melbourne’s south­east, anchored by nine national retail tenants. The deal, which market sources say was struck on a yield around 8 per cent, was negotiated by Leiba Commercial’s Marc Leiba. It is Sentinel’s third retail acquisition in Melbourne. Last year the syndicator, which controls a diversified portfolio of property funds across the eastern seaboard, purchased the City West Plaza homemaker centre in Sunshine. Another syndicate fund owns 138 Bourke Street in the CBD leased to the Virgin Active health club.

Trust asset

The Dandenong centre will be held as a stand­-alone asset in the Sentinel Dandenong Trust, which has a forecast distribution of 9 per cent in the first year, Sentinel managing director Warren Ebert said. The centre’s tenants include Super Retail Group, Fantastic Furniture, The Good Guys, Clark Rubber, Officeworks, Godfreys, Subway and Chipmunks Playland. Mr Ebert said last week’s drop in interest rates would bolster the fund’s prospects, providing a “leg up” for income producing assets. “Where else can you get the yields that you achieve out of commercial property?”.

Growth in turnover at big box retailers was driving rental growth and, in turn, property prices which would continue to steer the group’s focus on retail assets, particularly in Victoria, he said. Last month, Sentinel snapped up the DFO Cairns retail centre in north Queensland for $39.7 million. Since being established by Mr Ebert in 2010, it has rapidly grown a national portfolio of 45 retail, industrial, office, land and tourism assets.

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