Frasers Commercial Trust gets a go-ahead to top-up Keypoint’s lease

Singapore Land Authority granted in-principle approval for FCOT to top-up the lease to a fresh 99-year lease.

DMG says FCOT could sell the property, jointly develop it, or retain the property for office use.

Here’s more from DMG:

Following the receipt of outline planning permission (OPP) from URA for the redevelopment of its Keypoint property into a mixed development, FCOT announced that the Singapore Land Authority has granted in-principle approval for it to top-up the lease to a fresh 99-year lease.

The stage is now set for a final decision on Keypoint. FCOT has quite a few options: It could sell the property outright to its sponsor F&N or a third party, jointly develop the property, or continue to retain the property for office use. Whichever option it eventually chooses, the OPP has given FCOT tremendous flexibility to re-shape and optimise the portfolio, in our view.

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