Real estate veteran Donald Han is a tireless proponent of all things real estate. "If you slit my vein open, you will see nothing but real estate DNA there," quipped the chief executive officer of the manager of SGX-listed Sabana Reit. "I'm not someone who understands or is interested in commodities, gold, or crypto-currencies, but I think, eat, drink and sleep real estate," he grinned. Mr Han,...
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Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT) is looking to acquire a one third interest in Waterway Point, a large suburban mall located in Punggol, from its sponser Frasers Property in a S$440.6 million deal, it announced on Thursday. At the same time, FCT is launching an equity fund raising exercise, S$245.3 million of whose total proceeds will go towards partly financing the acquisition. The acquisition of...
Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust's (Suntec Reit) manager has closed the book of orders for its private placement of new units in the Reit to raise gross proceeds of about S$200 million. The bulk of the proceeds will go towards financing potential acquisitions of properties in Australia, ARA Trust Management (Suntec) Limited said on Thursday before the market opened. On Wednesday night, the...
Issues with tenants are "unavoidable" but are unlikely to concern real estate investment trusts (Reits) as most of them are diversified and have measures in place, said DBS Group amid news of some Reits being briefly impacted after CWT's parent defaulted on a loan agreement. "It's unavoidable, things happen to tenants," said DBS head of capital markets Eng-Kwok Seat Moey on Thursday, when asked how...
After a good run this year, S-Reits are likely to remain in vogue amid a more dovish Federal Reserve and room for further growth. Analysts pointed to hospitality and industrial Reits among their preferred sectors on the back of easing supply, although some highlighted that valuations in general have tightened and investors might do well to accumulate on pullbacks. "While investors could eye near-term...
Sabana Reit's divestment of a Tuas industrial building is off for now after the purchaser did not obtain approvals from JTC. The buyer Kim Soon Lee (Lim) Heavy Transport is not prepared to further extend the long-stop date, the Reit said in a Singapore Exchange filing on Saturday. In September 2018, Sabana had proposed to sell the building at 1 Tuas Avenue 4 for S$11.18 million in cash, 52 per cent...
Starhill Global Reit (SGREIT) secured greater visibility over the long-term outlook for two Kuala Lumpur malls after inking fresh master tenancy agreements for the Malaysian properties. In a Singapore Exchange filing on Monday night, the Reit's manager said that it had entered into new conditional agreements for the Starhill Gallery and Lot 10 malls in Bukit Bintang with the current master tenant,...
CapitaLand Commercial Trust, Singapore's biggest office landlord, is among suitors in talks about a potential acquisition of the Duo office and retail development in the city, people with knowledge of the matter said. The real estate investment trust has been negotiating the purchase of a 39-story office building called Duo Tower, along with the connected Duo Galleria mall, according to the people. The...
Serviced residence Ascott Raffles Place Singapore, which is housed within a restored 1950s heritage building, is set to be sold off for S$353.3 million by Ascott Residence Trust (Ascott Reit). The sale price is 64.3 per cent above the property’s latest valuation of S$215 million as at Dec 31, 2018, Ascott Reit said in a stock exchange filing on Wednesday (Jan 9). It said that the buyer is an...
Singapore's CapitaLand is buying the owner of a clutch of real estate investment trusts from state investor Temasek in a deal valued at S$11 billion that the developer said will create the largest diversified property group in Asia. CapitaLand will buy the holding companies of the business of the Ascendas-Singbridge Group, which manages Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust, Ascendas India Trust and...