Refurbishment of offices in Victoria and Tottenham Court Road will be complete by mid-2012

Derwent has spent £76m on two office buildings in the West End which it plans to refurbish.

The property developer has purchased 1 Page Street in Victoria for £45m and the Network ΢Ȧ in Tottenham Court Road for £31m.

The refurbishment of the ten-storey, 118,000ft² 1 Page Street building will be completed by mid-2012, according to Derwent, while the 15,200ft² of vacant space in the Network ΢Ȧ will be ready by the end of 2011.

Chief executive officer John Burns said that the purchase of the Network ΢Ȧ gave Derwent the potential to redevelop the site. He said: ” Acquiring the headlease gives us direct control of the property and the possibility of an exciting scheme in the future.”

Derwent revealed its results this morning. EPRA profit-before-tax fell 10% to £55.3m for the year ended Decemeber 31 2010, while net asset value per share increased by 27% to 1,474p.