REIT watch

During a results briefing by City Developments (CDL), CEO Sherman Kwek said the group is exploring establishing a REIT listed on the Singapore Exchange for its commercial assets in UK and would most likely aim for a listing in 1Q2021.

Are consumers likely to shop less amid a pandemic? Sasseur REIT's chairman Vito Xu thinks otherwise.

SINGAPORE (Mar 5): Visitor arrivals and tourist receipts rebounded last year. Which, if any, of the hotel real estate investment trusts (REITs) could benefit?

SINGAPORE (Feb 19): Much has been written about the future of retail, including digitalisation and the challenges brick-and-mortar malls face. Managers of retail real estate investment trusts have to juggle several balls such as tenant mix, tenant sales,

SINGAPORE (Feb 19): Frasers Centrepoint Trust is fortunate in that its two biggest suburban malls are in areas where there is little or no competition and its portfolio continues to notch up higher rents and net property incomes. Altogether, FCT owns six

SINGAPORE (Feb 12): On Jan 29, ESR-REIT announced that its manager was in exclusive discussions with the manager of Viva Industrial Trust to acquire all the units in VIT by  way of a trust scheme of arrangement. The period of exclusivity expires on March

SINGAPORE (Feb 5): Singapore-focused office real estate investment trusts are being increasingly seen as a proxy for rising GDP growth. Their distribution per unit (DPU) yields are below 5%, yet their unit prices continued to rise last year. Perhaps they

SINGAPORE (Jan 29): Industrial property rents have been drifting lower in the last 24 months. This has been reflected in the results reported by four industrial real estate investment trusts since the start of the year. Their net asset values per share ha