- Frasers Centrepoint Trust announced its long-awaited acquisition of a further stake in NEX mall in Jan- 24, the first notable acquisition and fund raising within the REIT sector this year. The announcement was to purchase the remaining 24.5% stake from Gold Ridge Pte. Ltd. (GRPL), the entity holding NEX mall, raising total stake within the asset to 50%.
First fund raising for the year, strong interest, 2.5x oversubscribed.
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- Due to equity financing, DPU accretion was 0.40%, lower compared to the accretion for the initial stake in NEX at 0.52% which was fully funded by debt. The long-term AEI plans in place for the mall and tenant refresh strategies that Frasers Centrepoint Trust will explore will help to further extract organic growth from the asset.
- The GFA optimization strategy to convert 60k sqft of carpark space into retail space should yield another 0.7% DPU accretion when it takes place.
Acquisition at 4.9% cap rate is favourable compared to market transactions in the low 4% range.
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Geraldine WONG DBS Group Research | Derek TAN DBS Research | https://www.dbs.com/insightsdirect/ 2024-02-07
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