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VIF - Vividend Income Fund Limited - Acquisition of new properties and

Release Date: 22/06/2012 09:16
Code(s): VIF
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VIF - Vividend Income Fund Limited - Acquisition of new properties and cautionary announcement Vividend Income Fund Limited Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa (Registration Number 2010/003232/06) JSE Alpha Code:VIF ISIN: ZAE000150918 ("Vividend" or "the Company") ACQUISITION OF NEW PROPERTIES AND CAUTIONARY ANNOUNCEMENT 1 THE SASOL KENT STREET ACQUISITION Linked unitholders of the Company are hereby advised that the Company has entered into an agreement with The Sasol Pension Fund to acquire two Sasol Group tenanted properties and associated letting enterprises ("the Sasol Kent Street Properties") situated at 272 Kent Avenue Ferndale Randburg and 316 Kent Avenue Ferndale Randburg ("the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition"). The effective date of the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition shall be the date of transfer of the Sasol Kent Street Properties into the name of the Company, which, subject to fulfilment of the conditions precedent, is expected on or about 1 November 2012. 2 RATIONALE FOR THE ACQUISITION The Sasol Kent Street Acquisition is consistent with Vividend`s strategy of identifying and acquiring properties that have free cash flow yields that provide adequate value enhancement to linked unitholders from the effective date of their acquisition. The Sasol Kent Street Acquisition provides further quality, stability, longevity and growth potential to the Company`s earnings by introducing blue-chip medium-term triple net leases into the Company`s lease profile. 3 PURCHASE CONSIDERATION The purchase consideration applicable to the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition is R155 600 000 (one hundred and fifty five million six hundred thousand rand), payable in cash against transfer of the Sasol Kent Street Properties into the name of the Company. The Company will fund the purchase consideration through a combination of debt financing and new equity raised from new and/or existing linked unitholders. Details of the debt financing and equity raising will be announced in due course. 4 THE SASOL KENT STREET PROPERTIES Details of the Sasol Kent Street Properties, as at the expected effective date, are as follows: Property Geographical Sector Cost/Value GLA Cost Average Name and Location per GLA Gross Address Rental/m2 316 Kent Gauteng Commercial R129,000,000 13,347m2 R9,665 R63.05 Street, Ferndale Randburg 272 Kent Gauteng Commercial R26,600,000 2,565m2 R10,370 R59.14 Street Ferndale Randburg R155,600,000 15,912m2 R9,779 R62.42 5 PROPERTY SPECIFIC INFORMATION Details regarding the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition, as at the expected effective date, are set out below: Property Purchase Average Lease Vacancy % Tenant & Lease Name and Yield Escalation Duration by GLA Type Address attributable to Linked Unitholders 316 Kent 10.83% 8% 3.5 0% Sasol Oil Street, years Ferndale Randburg 272 Kent 9.00% 9% 2.6 0% Sasol Gas Street years Ferndale Randburg Total 10.52% 8.16% 3.35 0% years
Notes: a) The Purchase Yield attributable to Linked Unitholders assumes a 30% Loan to Value (LTV) gearing limit with an annual interest cost of 8.3%, which is the current indicative cost available to the Company from its bankers. b) National or corporate tenants with low levels of default risk (`A Type` Tenants) constitute 100% of the GLA and 100% of the Gross Rentals within the Sasol Kent Street Properties. c) Both the Sasol Oil and Sasol Gas leases are triple net leases, whereby the tenant is responsible for all operating costs associated with the properties d) Save for costs associated with the transfer of the Sasol Kent Street Properties, which are estimated at R300,000, no expenditure will be incurred by the Company in connection with the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition. e) The cost of each property is considered to be its fair market value, as determined by the Directors of the Company. The directors of the Company are not independent and are not registered as professional valuers or as professional associate valuers in terms of the Property Valuers Profession Act, No 47 of 2000. 6 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT The Sasol Kent Street Acquisition is subject the following conditions precedent: a) The satisfactory completion of a due diligence investigation, to be performed by the Company on each property and associated letting enterprise by 12 July 2012; b) The trustees of The Sasol Pension Fund passing the required resolution by 11 July 2012; c) The Company obtaining the appropriate irrevocable funding commitments from existing and/or new debt funders, in relation to the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition, by 12 August 2012; d) Competition Commission approval, in terms of the Competition Act 89 of 1998 by 12 September 2012; e) The Company obtaining the appropriate irrevocable undertakings to subscribe for additional equity from new and/or existing linked unitholders by 12 September 2012; and f) Linked unitholders approving the issue of any Linked Units required to conclude the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition, in terms of the JSE Listing Requirements, by 12 October 2012. The Company is entitled to waive the conditions precedent set out in paragraphs a), c) and e) above. 7 WARRANTIES The Sasol Pension Fund has provided warranties and indemnities to the Company that are standard to a transaction of this nature. 8 PRO FORMA FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF THE SASOL KENT STREET ACQUISITION The pro forma financial information in relation to the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition is still in the process of being finalised and will be published in due course. 9 FORECAST FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE SASOL KENT STREET ACQUISITION The forecast financial information in relation to the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition is still in the process of being finalised and will be published in due course. 10 CATEGORISATION The Sasol Kent Street Acquisition is a Category 2 acquisition in terms of the Listings Requirements of the JSE Limited. 11 CAUTIONARY ANNOUNCEMENT Linked unitholders are advised to exercise caution when dealing in the Company`s securities until a full announcement regarding the pro forma financial effects and the forecast financial information in relation to the Sasol Kent Street Acquisition is made. 22 June 2012 Cape Town Sponsor PSG Capital (Pty) Limited Date: 22/06/2012 09:16:00 Supplied by www.sharenet.co.za Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited (`JSE`). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.

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