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Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and Chinese shopping mall operator Grandjoy Holdings Group have received regulatory permission to create China’s first publicly listed real estate investment trust (REIT), according to a South China Morning Post report.
The new program will allow individual Chinese investors to buy shares in rent-yielding properties for the first time and also provide the company with another exit route for its real estate funds’ investments.
Grandjoy is the property arm of state-owned conglomerate Cofco.