This is one REIT that give you no surprises. It has been almost a year since I wrote Why I Bought Into Mapletree Commercial Trust. Today, Mapletree Commercial Trust has announced their 2QFY18/19 financial results. Distribution Per Unit (“DPU”) grew by 1.3% to 2.27 Singapore cents driven by higher contribution from VivoCity, MBC I and MLHF.
Mapletree Commercial Trust’s flagship shopping mall, VivoCity achieved healthy growth in shopper traffic and tenant sales of 5.8% and 2.8% respectively in 2Q FY18/19. In addition, the speculation in Investing Note forum that the hypermart will be replaced came true. FairPrice will replace VivoMart with a new integrated concept by 1H FY19/20. This should further boost shopper traffic at VivoCity.
The overall portfolio committed occupancy stood at 98.7% which I think is overall healthy.
Here are the 2QFY18/19 financial results compared with 2QFY17/18.
2QFY18/19
(S$’000) 2QFY17/18
(S$’000) Change Gross Revenue 109,918 107,210 2.5% Net Property Income...