Mercatus Co-operative hires JP Morgan for strategic review, seen to have bundled 4 Singapore retail assets for potential sale
The 4 assets are Jurong Point, AMK Hub, Mercatus’ half-stake in Nex and 110,000 sq ft of strata space in Thomson Plaza
Kalpana Rashiwala
FIRST, it was NTUC Income Insurance that began a sale process for its Income At Raffles office building in Collyer Quay. Then, another co-operative in the NTUC stable, Mercatus, is now said to have bundled 4 of its retail properties in Singapore for sale.
JP Morgan is marketing the bundled package and the price expectation is “in excess of S$4 billion”, The Business Times understands.
The 4 retail assets are: Jurong Point, AMK Hub in Ang Mo Kio, Mercatus’ half-stake in Nex (integrated with the Serangoon bus interchange and MRT station) and some 110,000 sq ft of strata space in Thomson Plaza (roughly half of the mall) — totalling about 1.5 million sq ft of net lettable area (NLA).
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