Supermarket Income REIT has invested 拢34m (鈧41m) to buy a Sainsbury鈥檚 superstore in northern England.

The UK supermarket real estate investor said it acquired the 50,000sqft store located on a 13-acre site in Hessle from Reassure.

The asset was originally developed in the early 1980s and supermarket chain Sainsbury鈥檚 has a long history of trading from the site. The asset is being acquired with an unexpired lease term of 14 years.

The company said the acquired asset includes an adjoining 21,000sqft Homebase store with an unexpired lease term of four years.

Ben Green, director of Atrato Capital, the investment advisor to Supermarket Income REIT, said: 鈥淭his Sainsbury鈥檚 superstore is ideally located for both online and offline grocery sales and adds to Supermarket Income REIT鈥檚 growing portfolio of omnichannel stores.鈥