Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT), a Retail and Office Trust with assets currently based in Singapore, proposed on Tuesday to acquire Phase 1 of the offices and business park assets, Mapletree Business City (MBC) from Sponsor Mapletree Investments.
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This acquisition is huge. The value of the asset to be acquired at $1.78 bil is much much bigger than the latest Frasers Logistics and Industrial Trust IPO (Current Dividend Yield 6.25%)
And it looks to expand MCT Market Capitalization by 30%.
What is interesting about this acquisition is that it comes at a period where the key operating area, which is Singapore is in a midst of a challenging retail, office and industrial leasing scenario.
Not just that, ......