Mapletree Commercial Trust (“MCT”) is a Singapore-focused real estate investment trust (“REIT”) established with the principal investment objective of investing on a long-term basis, directly or indirectly, in a diversified portfolio of income-producing real estate used primarily for office and/or retail purposes, whether wholly or partially, as well as real estate-related assets.
MCT was listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (“SGX-ST”) on 27 April 2011 and is the third REIT sponsored by Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd (“MIPL” or the “Sponsor”), a leading real estate development, investment and capital management company headquartered in Singapore.
As at 31 March 2018, MCT’s portfolio comprised five properties located in Singapore, namely:
- VivoCity, Singapore’s largest mall, located in the HarbourFront Precinct;
- Mapletree Business City I (“MBC I”), a large-scale integrated office and business park complex with Grade-A building specifications, located in the Alexandra Precinct;
- PSA Building, an established integrated development with a 40-storey office block and a three-storey retail centre known as the Alexandra Retail Centre (“ARC”), located in the Alexandra Precinct;
- Mapletree Anson, a 19-storey premium office building located in Singapore’s Central Business District (“CBD”); and
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch HarbourFront (“MLHF”), a premium office building located in the HarbourFront Precinct
The portfolio has a total Net Lettable Area (“NLA”) of 3.9 million square feet, valued at S$6,682 million*.
MCT is managed by Mapletree Commercial Trust Management Ltd. (“MCTM” or the “Manager”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MIPL. The Manager aims to provide unitholders of MCT (“Unitholders”) with a relatively attractive rate of return on their investment through regular and steady distributions, and to achieve long-term stability in Distribution per Unit (“DPU”) and Net Asset Value (“NAV”) per Unit, while maintaining an appropriate capital structure for MCT.
* Based on the independently appraised values by Knight Frank Pte Ltd and CBRE Pte Ltd as at 31 March 2018 as disclosed in MCT’s announcement dated 24 April 2018.