Charter Hall Retail REIT announced the successful completion of a $210 million debt refinancing. The existing fiscal year 2021 debt facility has been replaced with a $40 million facility maturing on fiscal year 2022 and a $170 million facility maturing in fiscal year 2023. The REIT now has no debt maturing until fiscal year 2022.

The company announced a distribution of 14.28 cents per unit for the half year ending December 31, 2018. This represents a 2% increase on first half of fiscal year 2018 distribution per unit. Record date is December 31, 2018. The dividend will be payable on or around February 28, 2019. Securities trade ex-distribution is December 28, 2018.