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ABOUT A-REIT
Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (“A-REIT”) is Singapore’s frst and largest listed business space and industrial real estate
investment trust (“REIT”) with a diversifed portfolio of 101 properties in Singapore and 1 property in China.
The China portfolio comprises a business park property in Beijing. The focus is to cater to higher value-add industries such as IT
and software companies as well as corporate headquarters of multi-national companies and large local corporations.
A-REIT has a customer base of over 1,100 international and
local companies from a wide range of industries and activities,
including research and development, life sciences, information
technology, engineering, light manufacturing, logistics service
providers, electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing
services and back-room offce support in service industries.
Ascendas Funds Management (S) Limited (“AFM”) is the
manager of A-REIT (the “Manager”).
The Manager’s objective for A-REIT’s properties is to provide
sustainable returns to unitholders of A-REIT (“Unitholders”)
through a three-pronged strategy of:
• Value-adding investments comprising development as
well as acquisition of income-producing properties with
strong underlying real estate fundamentals;
• Organic portfolio growth through proactive portfolio and
asset management; and
• Prudent capital and risk management.
Suburban offce, corporate
headquarters as well as research
and development space
Warehouses and
distribution centres
Retail frontage with
warehousing facility
Vertical corporate campus with
high offce content combined
with high specifcations
mixed-use industrial space
Low offce content combined
with manufacturing space /
stacked-up manufacturing
space
A-REIT’s portfolio comprises the following segments:
BUSINESS &
SCIENCE PARKS
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL
PROPERTIES /
FLATTED FACTORIES
LOGISTICS &
DISTRIBUTION
CENTRES
WAREHOUSE
RETAIL FACILITIES
HI-TECH INDUSTRIAL
PROPERTIES /
DATA CENTRES
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