The country’s first real estate investment trust, AREIT Inc. will acquire P11.26 billion worth of office properties from sponsor Ayala Land Inc., a move that will further bulk up its portfolio of leasable assets.
AREIT disclosed to the Philippine Stock Exchange that it had entered into a deal with ALI for the issuance of 252.136 million of its primary common shares in exchange for six Cebu-based office buildings with a total gross leasable area of 124,299 square meters. This would mark the second property-for-share swap transaction between ALI and AREIT.
The office assets to be infused into AREIT are eBloc Towers 1 to 4 located at Cebu IT Park, ACC Tower and Tech Tower located at Ayala Center Cebu, primarily leased by major BPOs in the country. They have an overall occupancy rate of 97 percent.
The deal scales up AREIT’s assets under management to 673,000 sqm or P64 billion, a 213 percent jump since the company went public.
This growth exceeds AREIT’s target to double in size within two years from its initial public offering.
Since its IPO, AREIT delivered on its growth plans, resulting in 92 percent percent total shareholder return from dividend yield and price appreciation.
“We are focused on delivering our commitment to grow our assets, diversify our geographic and tenant base and create more shareholder value with increasing dividends and price appreciation. With this new asset infusion, we foresee AREIT’s dividend per share to increase, in addition to the recently concluded asset infusions last year”, said AREIT president and CEO Carol T. Mills.
SOURCE: Bilyonaryo
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