£2,000,000

Office for sale

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Offers over

£2,000,000

(£177.18/sq. ft)

Office for sale

Foregate Street, Chester CH1

11,288 sq. ft

Local area information

Property location

Nearby amenities

  • University Church Free School 0.2 miles
  • Chester 0.3 miles
  • St Werburgh's and St Columba's Catholic Primary School 0.4 miles
  • Bache 1.2 miles

These distances are calculated in a straight line. The actual route and distance may vary.

Read our area guide for Chester to find out more about the local area.

Features and description

Investment consideration

• Chester is the largest City in Cheshire West, serving as its commercial and administrative centre.
• Substantial two storey property. With a car park roof resurfaced 2024 with 10-year warranty.
• Located on one of Chester's busiest arterial roads with over 25,000+ vehicles per day (source Nimbus).
• Fully let to three commercial tenants, with additional car parking income.
• Total rental Income: £164,489.16 (50% secured by blue chip companies).
• MyDentist passing rental devalues to a low level of £10.72 overall - considered highly reversionary at next review.
• Additional Service charge income £9,600pa.
• Leases on irr terms with full Building insurance premium reimbursement.
• Property held in spv, (no debt) for sale as 100% shareholding (meaningful sdlt savings).
• Offers over £2m, reflecting 8.02% initial return net of (reduced sdlt) purchasing costs at 2.5%. This rises to 8.7% including service charge contributions.
Chester

Chester is one of the strongest retailing centres in the UK and a major national tourist destination. In addition, the city is the administrative centre for Cheshire and serves a resident population of approximately 120,000, rising to over 560,000 within 20 km (12.5 miles).

It is located approximately 32 km (12 miles) south of Liverpool, 56 km (35 miles) south-west of Manchester and 331 km (205 miles) north of west of London.

It has excellent road and rail connections to Liverpool and Manchester, via the M53/M56/ M6 networks and is the springboard into North Wales via the A55 expressway, and mainline rail route to Holyhead.

The historic nature of Chester City Centre is also a significant tourist draw, attracting an estimated eight million overnight visitors to the city each year, generating annual revenue of £1.2 Bn and supporting over14,000 jobs.

This property being a 5-minute walk from Chester Mainline Railway station, and just a few metres away from Prime pitch City Centre Retailing.
Demographics

The Chester area has a very strong services employment base employing some 81% of the city's working population.

There has been a number of large, high profile service sector employer relocations to the city over the past 10-15 years, with some 32% of the Urban Area Population (uap) now employed in the banking, finance and business sectors, (compared with 17.5% nationally).

Over 60% of the uap is employed in growth industries, (compared with 53% nationally).

Class Groupings: 27% of the uap are Class ab compared with 23.5% nationally.

Home Ownership: 68.3% of houses owner occupied, compared with 62.5% nationally.

Car Ownership: 83.3% of the Chester uap own either one or two cars compared with 78% nationally.

Chester University employs approximately !, 900 staff and attracts nearly 20,000 students to its campus's pa .
Property

This property was originally constructed as the main motor vehicle showroom for 'Henleys', and when acquired by the current owners some 25 years ago, had previously been used as their main HQ, originally serving a much larger site behind, which has now been redeveloped for apartments.

This property presents as two storeys to the front, but much of the first floor to the rear of the offices is actually given over to car parking accessed by a vehicle ramp from City Road.

The first-floor office suite also derives its access from this car park.

The ground floor comprises two large commercial spaces, Both having full height shopfronts and each sharing a rear loading/ service corridor accessed by doors and roller-shutter protected, leading onto a shared level access service yard on Russel Street.

The larger unit 1 is tenanted to Whitecross Dental Care Ltd t/a MyDentist, who relocated a smaller practice in 2023. This property has been completely remodelled to create 17 surgeries and ancillary space, and has a rear frontage to Ethos Plaza.

Unit 2 is occupied by Kutchenhaus, a designer kitchen business which has a number of outlets across North-West England.

The office suite at first floor is accessed from the roof level and is occupied by Relive Physiotherapy, who expanded a smaller business into this suite a few years ago.
Accommodation

Unit 1: 7,228 sq ft (671 sq m)
Unit 2: 2,476 sq ft (230 sq m)
Offices: 1,584 sq ft (147 sq m)
Tenants

Unit 1 : MyDentist
Whitecross Dental Care trade as MyDentist and are one of the UK's largest dental businesses. They have been trading in the UK for over 25 years with over 500 trading locations, treating over 4 million patients and with a turnover of £334.4m (2023 accounts). They have an international credit score of B and net assets of £13.4m
The guarantor company, First Choice Dental Limited (Co. Number 05943470) has an international credit score of A, with Current assets of £195.37m (2023 accounts).

Unit 2 : Kutchenhaus
ma Design (Chester) Limited, company number 11264203, are a nw franchisee partner for this exclusive German Kitchen Brand. The parent company having over 24 UK outlets across the UK. They established this showroom in 2018, and the March 2023 filed accounts show net assets of £158,261.

Offices : Relive Physiotherapy Ltd.
Relive Physiotherapy expanded their existing business relocated to Foregate Street in 2022. The two-director business operates this as a single outlet for their business.
Price

Offers sought over £2m.
Service charges

The leases contain fixed service charge payments. The landlords manage the property on an 'as and when' basis. The main potential expense is considered to be the flat roof, which has been recovered in 2024 at a cost of £160,000. The purchaser collects and either keeps or spends these monies at their discretion.

EPC's
Available on request.
Tenure

Freehold, subject to the tenancies described above.
Proposition

The asset is available by way of a sale of the entire company shareholding .
Costs

Each side will be responsible for their own legal costs
Aml

Purchasers will be required to submit to and satisfy such Anti Money Laundering checks as may be required
Viewing

Strictly by arrangement with the above sole agents Kenneymoore.
Subject to contract

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