REIW ASIA Awards for Excellence: voting begins now!

Now is the time for you to decide the winners and cast your vote for the REIW Asia Awards for Excellence!

This is the first awards of its kind in Asia to honour industry players for their ability to demonstrate growth, outperformance and adaptability to changing market conditions and/or client needs within the real estate sector.

Below you will find the short lists of your nominations for the six coveted awards. Simply take the survey that follows to decide this year’s winners. Voting ends on 15 June 2012!

The winners will be announced at the REIW Asia 2012 Industry Gala Dinner on Wed, 27 June 2012 at the Marina Bay Sands Singapore. To secure your place at this leading industry event, please visit www.reiwasia.com.

NOMINEES FOR:

Best Asian REIT manager

• ARA Asset Management
• Frasers Centrepoint Asset Management
• CapitaCommercial Trust Management
• Not voting for this category

Best Asian PERE fund manager

• ARA Asset Management
• The Blackstone Group
• MGPA
• LaSalle Investment Management
• Not voting for this category

Best property advisory/consultancy

• CBRE
• Jones Lang LaSalle
• Not voting for this category

Asian property transaction of the year

• Agricultural Bank of China’s acquisition of 50 Connaught Road Central in Hong Kong for HK$4.88 billion (US$629 million).
• New World Development’s purchase of Channel 1 shopping mall in Shanghai for 1.46 billion yuan (US$229 million).
• CapitaMalls Asia’s acquisition of Suzhou Shopping Mall in China for S$637 million.
• Acquisition of Twenty Anson in Singapore by CapitaCommercial Trust for S$430 million.
• Purchase of 15 modern logistics facilities in Japan for US$1.6 billion (JPY122.6 billion) by Global Logistic Properties Limited and China Investment Corporation.
• Mapletree Investment’s purchase of Festival Walk in Hong Kong for US$2.4 billion.
• Not voting for this category

Financing deal of the year (Debt Capital Markets)

• Hotel Properties Limited’s S$150 million perpetual securities.
• Global Logistics Properties Limited’s SS$250 million perpetual bond issue.
• CapitaLand’s CMBS for Raffles City (Silver Oak’s US$ 645 million CMBS).
• Not voting for this category

Financing deal of the year (Equity Capital Markets)

• Mapletree Commercial Trust’s S$950 million IPO.
• New World Development ‘s US$1.59 billion chain rights issue
• Cache Logistics Trust’s private placement of 60 million new units.
• Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust’s private placement of 150 million new units
• Not voting for this category

* One vote per person. Multiple voting from the same person will not be considered.

* Voters may not vote for their own company.

* All votes must come from a company email address. Votes from personal email addresses will not be valid.

* Only one vote may be cast for each award category.

* Voting closes on 15 June 2012.

So make yourself heard and cast your vote here

Thank you for your participation! For comments or enquiries, please contact Pauline Oh at +65 6322 2762 or pauline.oh@terrapinn.com