Will ARA Asset Management CEO John Lim’s next prediction come true?

SINGAPORE (July 21): One of John Lim’s key predictions was that demand for Grade-A offices in Singapore would not crack despite surging supply.

Since then, the new supply has been quickly soaked up and many commercial property market watchers are now predicting that office rents will rise over the next couple of years. Lim had also said emphatically that shares in his ARA Asset Management — which were trading at $1.20 then — offered real value to investors.

Shares in ARA subsequently rallied, partly because Lim took the company on a roadshow. Then, on Nov 8, the company unveiled plans to go private at $1.78 a share, which was nearly 30% more than its volume weighted share price over the preceding month.

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