Manulife

In the first transaction of an entire Singapore office building this year, DBS Group announced on Friday evening that it is selling PwC Building at 8 Cross Street to an indirect subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corp. The deal values the 28-storey office block at S$747 million, which works out to S$2,100 per square foot based on its net lettable area of 355,704 sq ft. The property is on a site with a...

CANADIAN financial services group Manulife has started pre-marketing for an initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore of its US office Reit (real estate investment trust), a plan it had shelved for nine months due to market conditions. It is now said to be aiming for a May 20 listing. A report by FinanceAsia on Tuesday, which cited bankers familiar with the situation, said the deal could raise...