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Punch Taverns has bought 69 pub freeholds from owner ING Real Estate Income Trust for more then £17m.
The pubs, located principally in Wales, Hertfordshire and South-west England were held under the Scorpio Inns name and operated under a sale-and-lease back arrangement with Punch Taverns.
Punch exercised the first of three options to buy the portfolio last month, buying the freeholds on a third of the boozers for just less than £3m.
Although Punch’s third and final option to acquire the remaining Scorpio pubs doesn't mature until October 2016, both parties instead agreed to seal the deal ahead of schedule for £17.55m in total.
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