UK Mortgages Ltd: Refinancing of Malt Hill No.1 Completed

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7 June 2019

UK MORTGAGES LIMITED
(a closed-ended investment company incorporated in Guernsey with registration number 60440)
LEI 549300388LT7VTHCIT59

Refinancing of Malt Hill No.1 Completed

The Board of UK Mortgages Limited (“UKML”) and TwentyFour Asset Management LLP (“TwentyFour”) are pleased to announce that following the previously announced exercise of the Portfolio Option on the loans underlying the Malt Hill No.1 plc securitisation, the deal has now been fully redeemed, and the loans have been refinanced into a new warehouse facility with Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets plc, called Cornhill No.6.

This represents the completion of the first full cycle for UKML’s first investment. The pool was initially purchased in November 2015 from Coventry Building Society, securitised into Malt Hill No.1 in May 2016 for an expected 3 year term, and now refinanced as anticipated into Cornhill No.6.

As previously reported, the pool size has reduced since acquisition from approximately £310m to around £200m and this refinancing allows the Fund to re-lever the portfolio, thereby optimising returns for the Fund on the remaining loans whilst simultaneously releasing capital for further investment. 

Furthermore, a significant proportion of the loans will reach the end of their current fixed rate period during the remainder of 2019 and it is likely that a number of these borrowers will chose to redeem their loans, most likely refinancing with another lender. Therefore the warehouse has been specifically structured in such a way that as loans redeem, further capital can be released, maintaining the leverage level and therefore returns for the fund. The warehouse also has the ability to add further loans should a suitable pool become available.

Performance of the pool remains exceptional with just 2 loans from over 1100 in arrears at the end of April 2019, and no loans have ever had cause to be foreclosed. The low weighted average Loan-to-Value ratio of 62.6% gives a further indication of the quality of the pool.

Further information:

TwentyFour Asset Management LLP
Rob Ford
Silvia Piva
020 7015 8900

Numis Securities Limited, Corporate Broker
Nathan Brown
Hugh Jonathan
020 7260 1000
 

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