CapitaLand, through its mall business CapitaLand Mall Asia, acquire a portfolio of four office and retail properties in Japan’s Greater Tokyo Area, for about 51 billion yen (S$636.3 million) including transaction costs.
CapitaLand currently also owns and manages four shopping malls in Japan – namely Olinas Mall, Vivit Minami-Funabashi and La Park Mizue in Tokyo; as well as Coop Kobe Nishinomiya-Higashi in Kobe.
The Ascott Ltd, CapitaLand’s wholly owned serviced residence arm, owns and manages 46 properties with more than 3,500 apartment units in Japan. The group’s Japan portfolio also includes a 20 per cent stake in an office building – the Shinjuku Front Tower.
The acquisition will strengthen its foothold in Greater Tokyo, the world’s most populous metropolis, and increase the group’s total asset size in Japan to about S$2.5 billion.
The portfolio comprises two office buildings in Yokohama, Yokohama Blue Avenue and Sun Hamada; one office building in Tokyo, the Kokugikan Front; and, one shopping mall in Saitama, the Seiyu & Sundrug.
The long-term forecast of Greater Tokyo’s office market remains positive. The vacancies in central Tokyo expected to stay below 5 per cent through to 2025.
The Seiyu & Sundrug has a gross floor area (GFA) of close to 400,000 square feet, thus growing CapitaLand’s retail footprint in Japan by about 25 per cent to over 2 million sqft in GFA. Seiyu & Sundrug, in Saitama Prefecture, is the largest suburban mall within a three-kilometre radius.
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