Sparkassen Immobilien revealed the revaluation of the next part of their properties. Following last November revaluation of Slovak and Czech properties, company now revalued its Hungarian and Romanian properties. The value of their portfolio there increased by 17% of EUR 23m. Company will continue to revalue its Austrian and German portfolio in 2Q07 and 3Q07 respectively and management expects significant increases in fair value of these properties as well.
Our view: When the company announced revaluation of their Slovak and Czech properties this added EUR 0.34 to NAV of EUR 8.38/share and the latest revaluation adds another EUR 0.34 to NAV/share, implying thus that current NAV of EUR 9.06, which is based still on mix of revalued (Czech, Slovak, Romanian and Hungarian) and non-revalued properties (Austrian, German). Note that company is still rather conservative when applying yields of 7% in the CEE region, when these are close to 6% or even below 6% in some cases. Current estimate of NAV shows that stock is traded at 1.45x P/NAV which is rather high, however this most probably reflects expectations about revaluation of Austrian and German portfolio which amounts to almost 60% of the overall portfolio. Based on the assumption this would be revalued by 15%, NAV would jump to approx. EUR 9.8/share, which would put P/NAV in line with the peers of 1.35x. Note that company has no properties in Poland, so we can’t expect the revaluation there. Sparkassen Immo will release its FY2006 figures on 17 April 2007.