CapitaLand Ascendas REIT (CLAR) is Singapore’s first and largest listed business space and industrial real estate investment trust (REIT). It was listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST) in November 2002. CLAR has since grown to be a global REIT anchored in Singapore, with a strong focus on tech and logistics properties in developed markets. As at 30 June 2025, its investment properties under management stood at S$16.8 billion. It owns a total of 229 properties across three segments, namely Business Space & Life Sciences; Industrial & Data Centres; and Logistics. These properties are in the developed markets of Singapore, the US, Australia, and the UK/Europe. These properties house a tenant base of approximately 1,790 international and local companies from a wide range of industries and activities, including data centres, information technology, engineering, logistics & supply chain management, biomedical sciences, financial services (backroom office support), electronics, government and other manufacturing and services industries. Major tenants include DSO National Laboratories, Sea Group, Stripe, Entserve UK, Singtel, DBS Bank, Seagate Singapore, Citibank, and Pinterest. CLAR is listed on several indices. These include the FTSE Straits Times Index, the Morgan Stanley Capital International, Inc (MSCI) Index, the European Public Real Estate Association/National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (EPRA/NAREIT) Global Real Estate Index, the Global Property Research (GPR) Asia 250 Index and FTSE4Good Developed Index. CLAR has an issuer rating of ‘A3’ by Moody’s Investors Service. CLAR is managed by CapitaLand Ascendas REIT Management Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CapitaLand Investment Limited, a leading global real asset manager with a strong Asia foothold.
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