Polish office and shopping mall owner Echo Polska Properties (EPP) beat its prelisting dividend forecast by 2.2% in the four months to December 2016. The company, which owns assets worth about €1.4bn, released its maiden annual results on Thursday after listing in September 2016. Although distributable earnings of €34m were marginally below the €34.3m forecast in its prelisting statement, EPP achieved a clean-out distribution per share for the period to end August that was 0.5% ahead of forecast at 2.44 euro cents. Its dividend for the four months to December 31 of 3.14 euro cents was 2.2% ahead of forecast. EPP can grow to own €3.5bn in assets by 2022, according to CEO Hadley Dean.

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