Ascendas Reit

Ascendas Reit raises Q2 DPU by 2.3% after UK acquisitions; calls for trading halt

Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust’s (Reit) distribution per unit (DPU) rose by 2.3 per cent to 3.978 Singapore cents for its second quarter to Sept 30 from 3.887 cents a year ago, boosted by overseas acquisitions while taking into account an enlarged number of units in issue. The Reit also called for a trading halt on Friday morning, after it had released its financial results. Gross revenue...

Ascendas Reit planning to acquire 12 UK logistics properties

Ascendas Reit has entered into a share purchase agreement with two third-party vendors, Oxenwood Catalina Midco Limited and Oxenwood Catalina II Midco, to acquire 10 companies for £207.27 million (S$373.15 million). The companies own the 12 logistics properties which have a total land area of about 549,201 square metres and are sited on freehold and 999-year leasehold land. A valuation report by...

A-Reit to buy 3 Science Park buildings for S$420m

Ascendas REIT (A-REIT) has proposed to acquire the leasehold interest in the property located at 12, 14 and 16 Science Park Drive from its sponsor. The property comprises three built-to-suit Science Park buildings held under a single land title. Two of the buildings are leased to DSO National Laboratories, Singapore’s national defence research & development organisation, while the third building is...

A-REIT to acquire Australian logistics property for S$76.6 million

Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) has announced the proposed acquisition of a logistics property located in Sydney, Australia, for A$76.6 million (S$76.6 million), it said in a press release on Thursday (Dec 24). The proposed acquisition will be A-REIT’s 10th logistics facility in Sydney and the 27th in Australia, it added. The property - 6-20 Clunies Ross Street - comprises a modern high...

A-Reit to buy One@Changi City

Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) plans to acquire One@Changi City, a property at Changi Business Park, from two joint-venture partners, Frasers Centrepoint and Ascendas Pte Ltd, for S$420 million. This will partly be funded by the sale of new units that will raise at least S$408 million. A-Reit will offer, through a private placement, 90 million new units to institutional and other...

A-REIT to acquire A$1b logistics portfolio in Australia

Industrial landlord Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) is set to acquire 26 logistics properties in Australia for A$1.013 billion (S$1.013 billion) in a move to diversify geographically, its manager Ascendas Funds Management announced on Friday (Sep 18). This will be subject to post-completion adjustments, with the money payable to the real estate arm of GIC and Frasers Property Australia...

Hyflux Innovation Centre to be sold to A-Reit for S$170m

Hyflux is selling its eponymous Hyflux Innovation Centre at Bendemeer Road to Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) for S$170 million in cash and will lease the property back for 15 years, the water treatment specialist said yesterday. The deal, inked with HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) as trustee of A-Reit, will net a gain of about S$84 million over book value, rental support,...

A-REIT buys The Galen for S$126m

Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) is acquiring The Galen, a property located in Singapore Science Park II, for S$126 million. The Galen is a six-storey multi-tenanted building, with net lettable area of 21,775 square meters. The building has an occupancy rate of about 97.5 percent. In a statement, A-REIT said it will be granted a land lease of 66 years for the property and expects to...

A-Reit raises S$406m in placement

Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) said yesterday it will help fund two industrial property purchases from a private placement worth S$406.4 million. Due to strong demand, it will sell 160 million new units — up from 140 million — to institutional and other investors at S$2.54 per unit, a 3.5 per cent discount from the volume-weighted average price of S$2.6328 on Thursday. The proceeds...

A-REIT reports 4% increase in distribution per unit in Q3 2012

Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) has reported a 4.0 per cent on-year increase in distribution per unit (DPU) to 3.62 cents for its third quarter ended 31 December 2012. The amount available for distribution increased 11.9 per cent to S$81.1 million in the quarter under review. In a filing on the Singapore Exchange, A-REIT said it recorded positive rental reversion of between 5.5 per cent...

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