Property Share gets maiden nod for SM REIT

MUMBAI/BENGALURU: Technology-enabled commercial real estate investment platform Property Share has become the first entity to receive the small and medium real estate investment trust (SM REIT) licence from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) under the newly notified SM REIT regulations.

The fractional ownership platform has secured the approval under the name of Property Share Investment Trust (PSIT). Property Share will become the investment manager to PSIT.

“Any regulated product comes with significant benefits for investors like high net worth requirements for the investment manager, compliance and reporting standards, transparency, investor protection mechanisms, and marketing restrictions,” said Kunal Moktan, cofounder of Property Share. “We look forward to continue working closely with Sebi in launching the IPO of the first SM REIT scheme in the weeks to come.”

The company is now planning to file papers for its first SM REIT scheme for an asset spread over 250,000 sq ft in Bengaluru in the next two weeks. It is looking to list the fully-leased asset valued at Rs 330 crore by the end of September following the regulator’s approval, Moktan told ET.

This commercial property is fully leased to a US-based technology company and the asset’s annual yield is 9%.