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VIVIDEND INCOME FUND LIMITED - Acquisition Of A New Property And Renewal Of Cautionary Announcement

Release Date: 01/03/2013 14:00
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Acquisition Of A New Property And Renewal Of 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 A NEW PROPERTY AND RENEWAL OF CAUTIONARY ANNOUNCEMENT

1.   THE ACCESS PARK KENILWORTH ACQUISITION

     1.1 Linked unitholders of the Company are hereby advised that the Company has entered into the following
         agreements, which if successfully concluded will result in Vividend acquiring 90% of the Property known as
         Access Park Kenilworth (“the Access Park Kenilworth Property”) situated at 81 Chichester Road, Kenilworth
         Cape Town (“the Access Park Acquisition”):
         • The M5 Acquisition Agreement between Vividend, Kovacs Investments 272 Proprietary Limited and
             Kovacs Investments 340 Proprietary Limited; and
         • The Southern Value Acquisition Agreement between Vividend, Momentum Property Investments
             Proprietary Limited, Forum SA Trading 143 Proprietary Limited and Kovacs Investments 338 Proprietary
             Limited.

     1.2 The effective date of the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition shall be the date of transfer of the Access Park
         Kenilworth Property into the name of the Company, which, subject to fulfilment of the conditions precedent,
         is expected on or about 1 May 2012.

2    THE ACCESS PARK KENILWORTH OPTION

     2.1 The remaining 10% of the Access Park Kenilworth Property not held by Vividend post the Access Park
         Kenilworth Acquisition is subject to separate Option Agreements, which encompass the following salient
         terms:

             2.1.1.1 Put Option: Forum SA Trading 143 Proprietary Limited and Kovacs Investments 272 Proprietary
                      Limited shall be entitled to require Vividend to acquire that portion of the Access Park
                      Kenilworth Property that Vividend does not own post the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition,
                      being 10%, at a forward acquisition yield, as calculated at the exercise date of such Put Option,
                      of 8.35%. The Put Option is capable of being exercised by Forum SA Trading 143 Proprietary
                      Limited and Kovacs Investments 272 Proprietary Limited between 24 and 60 months from the
                      effective date of the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition; and

             2.1.1.2 Call Option: Vividend shall be entitled to require Forum SA Trading 143 Proprietary Limited and
                      Kovacs Investments 272 Proprietary Limited to sell that portion of the Access Park Kenilworth
                      Property that Vividend does not already own post the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition, being
                      10%, to Vividend at a forward acquisition yield, as calculated at the exercise date of such Call
                      Option, of 8.00%. The Call Option is capable of being exercised by Vividend between 0 and 60
                      months from the effective date of the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition.

2.   RATIONALE FOR THE ACQUISITION

     2.1 The Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition is consistent with the Company’s strategy of identifying and acquiring
         properties that provide sustainable value enhancement to Linked Unitholders from the effective date of their
         acquisition.
     2.2 The Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition introduces a globally unique high-quality, well established, defensive
         and historically resilient property, both in terms of income growth and tenant demand, to the Property
         Portfolio of Vividend

     2.3 From the Effective Date of the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition Vividend will retain the expertise and
         management skill of the founding vendor via the remaining 10% of the Access Park Kenilworth Property not
         acquired by Vividend.

     2.4 The Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition, while dilutionary in terms of Linked Unit distributions post the
         acquisition, provides defensive and resilient longevity and growth potential to the Company’s earnings,
         which is considered appropriate in the current economic climate.

3.   PURCHASE CONSIDERATION

     3.1 The purchase consideration applicable to the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition is R483,381,862, escalating
         at R158,920 per day from 1 July 2013, payable in cash against transfer of the Access Park Kenilworth Property
         into the name of the Company.

     3.2 The Company will fund the purchase consideration via a combination of a) debt secured from local banking
         partners b) a partially (54.1%) underwritten renounceable claw-back rights offer, in terms of which 99 817
         808 new Linked Units will be offered to Linked Unitholders recorded in the register at the applicable record
         date to be determined (“the Claw-back Rights Offer”), at a subscription price of 540 cents per Claw-back
         Rights Offer Linked Unit, in the ratio of 52.24 Claw-back Rights Offer Linked Units for every 100 Linked Units
         held at the close of trade on the applicable record date to be determined.

     3.3 The full details of the Claw-back Rights Offer will be announced on SENS and set out in a separate circular to
         be sent to Linked Unitholders in due course.

4.   THE ACCESS PARK KENILWORTH PROPERTY

     Details of the Access Park Kenilworth Property, as at the expected effective date, are as follows:

         Property Name        Geographical         Sector        Cost (Rand)       GLA (m2)      Cost per    Average
          and Address           Location                                                           GLA         Gross
                                                                                                  (Rand)    Rental per
                                                                                                             m2 per
                                                                                                              month
                                                                                                              (Rand)
        Access Park Value     Western Cape          Retail      R483,381,862        18,995       R25,447       R158
           Centre, 81
        Chichester Road,
        Kenilworth Cape
             Town

5.   PROPERTY SPECIFIC INFORMATION

     Details regarding the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition, as at the expected effective date, are set out below:

       Property Name        Purchase           Average           Lease         Vacancy by      Property      Value per
        and Address           Yield         Escalation (%)      Duration        GLA (%)         Value       GLA (Rand)
                            attributable                          (years)                       (Rand)
                             to Linked
                            Unitholders
                                 (%)
           Access Park          8.6%              10%               2.1            0%        477,000,000         R25,112
          Value Centre,
          81 Chichester
              Road,
           Kenilworth
           Cape Town

Notes:
          a)       The Purchase Yield attributable to Linked Unitholders assumes a 40% Loan to Value (LTV) gearing
                   limit with an annual interest cost of 8.0%, which is the current indicative cost available to the
                   Company from its local banking partners.
          b)       National and anchor tenants with low levels of default risk (‘A Type’ Tenants) constitute 20% of the
                   GLA and 14% of the Gross Rentals within the Access Park Kenilworth Property.
          c)       Save for costs associated with the transfer of the Access Park Kenilworth Property, which are
                   estimated at R1,500,000, no expenditure will be incurred by the Company in connection with the
                   Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition.
          d)       The value of the Access Park Kenilworth Property of R477 000 000 was arrived at by P Burmeister of
                   Active Blue Valuation Services cc as at 13 February 2013. P Burmeister is an independent valuer and
                   is registered as a professional associate valuer in terms of the Property Valuers Profession Act, No
                   47 of 2000.

6.    CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

      The Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition is subject the following material conditions precedent:

     a)   The satisfactory completion of a due diligence investigation, to be performed by the Company on the Access
          Park Property and associated letting enterprise by 22 March 2013;

     b) The Company obtaining the appropriate irrevocable funding commitments from existing and/or new debt
        funders, in relation to the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition, by 12 April 2013;

     c)   The Company obtaining the appropriate irrevocable undertakings to subscribe for additional equity from new
          and/or existing Linked Unitholders by 12 April 2013;

     d) Competition Commission approval, in terms of the Competition Act 89 of 1998 by 30 April 2013;

     e)   Linked Unitholder approval of a) the Access Park Acquisition b) the issue of any Linked Units required to
          conclude the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition, in terms of the JSE Listing Requirements, by 30 April 2013;
          and

     f)   The South African Revenue Service (SARS) issuing a binding directive by 30 April 2013 to the effect that either
          a) any transfer duty payable by the Company in respect of the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition shall be
          entitled to be reclaimed as notional input tax for VAT purposes, thereby enabling the Company to obtain a
          refund of the entire amount of transfer duty paid by it b) VAT is payable in respect of the Access Park
          Kenilworth Acquisition at a rate of 0%.

      The Company is entitled to waive the conditions precedent set out in paragraphs a), b), c) and f) above.

7.   WARRANTIES

     Kovacs Investments 272 Proprietary Limited, Kovacs Investments 340 Proprietary Limited, Momentum Property
     Investments Proprietary Limited, Forum SA Trading 143 Proprietary Limited and Kovacs Investments 338
     Proprietary Limited have each provided warranties and indemnities to the Company that are standard to a
     transaction of this nature.

8.   PRO FORMA FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF THE ACCESS PARK KENILWORTH ACQUISITION

     The pro forma financial information in relation to the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition is still in the process of
     being finalised and will be published in due course.

9.   FORECAST FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE ACCESS PARK KENILWORTH ACQUISITION

     The forecast financial information in relation to the Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition is still in the process of
     being finalised and will be published in due course.

10. CATEGORISATION

     The Access Park Kenilworth Acquisition is a Category 1 acquisition in terms of the Listings Requirements of the JSE
     Limited requiring Linked Unitholder approval. Accordingly, a circular detailing the terms of the acquisition and
     convening a general meeting will be posted to Linked Unitholders in due course.

11. RENEWAL OF CAUTIONARY ANNOUNCEMENT

     Linked Unitholders are referred to the cautionary announcement dated 6 February 2013 and are hereby advised
     to continue exercising 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 Access Park Kenilworth
     Acquisition is made.



1 March 2013
Cape Town

Sponsor
PSG Capital (Pty) Limited

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