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Overseas offices, industrial properties dominate S-Reits' acquisitions

About two-thirds of office investments last year went to UK and US properties; logistics properties and data centres dominated S-Reits' purchases in first 9 months of this year

Fiona Lam

Published Thu, Oct 28, 2021 · 05:50 AM

Property investment

Singapore

DESPITE pandemic headwinds, Singapore-listed real estate investment trusts (S-Reits) have continued to scoop up high-quality assets, with a focus on office properties and data centres located abroad.

They made some S$8.9 billion in property investments in the first 3 quarters of 2021, close to the S$9.4 billion injected during the whole of 2020, according to the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies' (IREUS) analysis of data from Bloomberg and S-Reits' announcements.