The sale of the building follows a flurry of activity in Singapore’s commercial property market since last year. A Malaysian-led group bid $2.6 billion in 2016 for a rare site in Singapore’s Marina Bay district, while Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund acquired an office building from BlackRock Inc. for a record $3.4 billion last year.

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