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News and Press Releases
25 Nov 2019

Investors Chronicle: “Bargain basement property play”

Simon Thompson: “First Property’s shares are back in bargain basement territory. Buy.”

Audio
22 Nov 2019

Interim Results for the six months to 30 September 2019 (29mins)

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Videos
21 Nov 2019

IGTV: First Property Group 1H earnings

Fprop CEO Ben Habib discusses the Group’s financial results in the six months to 30 September with Victoria Scholar

Opinions
18 Nov 2019

Fprop CEE Snapshot – Q4 2019

Fprop opinion on Polish & Romanian property markets.

Audio
18 Sep 2019

ReachX: What are the trends in European commercial property investment? (7m, 43s)

First Property Group’s CEO Ben Habib explains what’s happening in the market with ReachX Contributing Editor Gaurav Sharma.

Opinions
02 Aug 2019

Fprop CEE Snapshot – Q3 2019

Fprop opinion on Polish & Romanian property markets.

Opinions
16 Jul 2019

The Property Chronicle: Thinking outside the box

Fprop CEO, Ben Habib, discusses his most important investment guideline – to think from first principles and always be prepared to jettison guidelines and ignore received wisdom.

Audio
10 Jul 2019

The Property Voice podcast: Property Heavyweights (1hr, 04 mins)

Richard Brown interviews Ben Habib, CEO of First Property Group, on his investment philosophy, investment track record, etc. A good insight into the way Ben thinks.

News and Press Releases
10 Jun 2019

Investors Chronicle: First Property posts an earnings beat

Simon Thompson updates his buy recommendation and concludes with “…Trading on a 12 per cent discount to spot NAV per share, on a price/earnings (PE) ratio of 11, and offering a 3.2 per cent dividend yield, First Property shares remain on my buy list.”

Videos
07 Jun 2019

IGTV: First Property CEO says Brexit uncertainty ‘put a lid on the market’

Ben Habib explains the Group’s financial results for the year to 31 March 2019 (9m, 14s)

Audio
06 Jun 2019

Preliminary Results for year to 31 March 2019 (30mins)

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Videos
10 May 2019

Eximius Park: More than a workplace

Official opening of the new sports ground and food truck area (1m, 42s)

News and Press Releases
07 May 2019

Investors Chronicle: Bargain shares: Small-cap buying opportunities

Simon Thompson updates some existing tips and concludes in his section on First Property Group (First Property posts earnings beat)….”Trading on a 19 per cent discount to spot book value, offering a prospective dividend yield of 3.3 per cent and priced on 11 times likely EPS for the year just ended, I remain a buyer ahead of the release of the annual results in June. Buy.”

Opinions
29 Apr 2019

The Property Chronicle: How to earn double digit returns from Polish property

…we have, for many years, been earning double-digit returns from our property investments in Poland. There are many factors which have contributed to this success but, in a low-interest-rate environment, a key component of delivering such returns has been the use of leverage.

Videos
23 Apr 2019

Eximius Park: overview

We are reimagining the future of business parks (2m, 13s)

Opinions
13 Mar 2019

Letter to Estates Gazette from Ben Habib

“The real brakes on the housing market”.

Opinions
08 Mar 2019

Fprop CEE Snapshot – Q1 2019

Fprop opinion on Polish & Romanian property markets.

Audio
06 Feb 2019

Investors Champion: More than Money – casual conversations with some of the brightest business minds in Britain (15mins, 58s)

Ben Habib likes to talk about Brexit. His company, First Property Group has £100m of cash ready to invest in cheap UK assets if a hard Brexit causes the property market to crash.

Audio
22 Jan 2019

IG TV: Second Brexit referendum most likely path says First Property CEO (8mins, 20s)

Fprop CEO responds to interview questions re Brexit

Videos
16 Jan 2019

IG TV: Brexit vote impact: how will the Commons vote affect the markets?

Jeremy Naylor discusses the outlook for financial markets following the Commons vote with expert panellists Alexandra Kellert, analyst at Control Risks, Peter Dixon, Commerzbank AG’s global financial economist, and Ben Habib, CEO of First Property Group. First Property Group is introduced at 1.10-1.25 (15s) and Ben’s main speaking part is from 6.10-9.45 (3m, 35s).

News and Press Releases
12 Jan 2019

Investors Champion: Brexit deal or no deal: prepare your portfolio for either outcome

“…regardless of the outcome, these ten stocks could boost your portfolio.” First Property is the first stock pick in the five listed for “No Deal”.

Videos
10 Jan 2019

Property Week: 2019 forecast: highs, lows and predictions for the year ahead

Eight leading names from across the property sector including Ben Habib talk about their highs and lows of the past year and preview what will be big news in 2019. Ben appears from 2:09-19 (10 seconds), 8:19-36 (17 seconds) and 9:30-50 (20 seconds).

News and Press Releases
10 Jan 2019

Property Week: 2019 forecast: highs, lows and predictions for the year ahead

Eight leading names from across the property sector including Ben Habib talk about their highs and lows of the past year and preview what will be big news in 2019. Ben appears from 2:09-19 (10 seconds), 8:19-36 (17 seconds) and 9:30-50 (20 seconds).