JLL’s Gross sales & Investments staff has bought two NSW quick meals retailers for a mixed $10 million demonstrating the continuing demand from traders.
JLL bought a Hungry Jacks leased funding in Lithgow for $7.25 million reflecting a 5.1% internet return by the use of public public sale, to an interstate Victorian investor. JLL Joint Heads of Metropolitan Gross sales – NSW Gordan McFadyen, Dylan McEvoy together with Sebastian Fahey and David Mahood from JLL’s Retail investments negotiated the gross sales.
Mr McFadyen stated “the lengthy lease, strategic location to Lithgow’s premier regional hall and the Hungry Jacks power of covenant had been the enticing features that suited the non-public investor.”
Mr McEvoy stated “we’re witnessing elevated interstate curiosity from traders, specifically from Victoria, with traders searching for to diversify their portfolio together with scale back their publicity to increased land tax and funding based mostly expenses for investing in Victoria.”
That very same month, JLL bought KFC Ingleburn off-market to a non-public purchaser for $3.06 million, on a pointy yield of 4.4%, representing the primary Sydney metropolitan fast-food drive-through funding sale in 2024.
JLL Retail Investments Govt – NSW, Sebastian Fahey stated “the sale was a strategic promote down for the purchasing centre proprietor to understand liquidity for future growth alternatives on the centre. The sale allowed the house owners to understand the sharp yields that quick meals continues to realize and demonstrates the demand for different purchasing centre house owners.”
The JLL staff bought the KFC by way of JLL’s non-public database which has seen a forty five% improve in lively purchasers trying particularly for quick meals investments prior to now 12 months.
JLL Retail Investments Govt – NSW, David Mahood acknowledged, “We’re seeing a pattern of traders pivoting from service station investments and focusing purely on quick meals alternatives which we now have seen within the current Lithgow transaction which exhibits the expansion within the fast-food sector during the last 5 years.”
JLL’s current fast-food report highlights these metropolitan yields throughout Australia averaged 4.42% over the primary half of 2024 with the current outcomes of Griffith Group’s “Warrawong” portfolio realising a mean yield of 4.49% additional cementing the theme of hungry traders in search of bond like protected haven investments.