Top 10 Highest-Yielding Singapore REITs: Live Snapshot

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Introduction

The highest-yielding name in this Singapore REIT snapshot is not the one with the longest distribution record. That contrast stands out immediately. Sasseur REIT leads the ranking with a current yield of 9.23%, yet its continuous distribution streak stands at 9 years, while CapitaLand Ascendas REIT has distributed for 22 years and ranks fourth by yield at 7.59%.

This article ranks 10 Singapore-listed REITs by current yield, using a live snapshot of the highest yield singapore reit segment covered in Finance Pulse Research data. In plain terms, yield here refers to the annualized distribution relative to the current market price, expressed as a percentage. Higher yield can signal stronger income generation, but it can also reflect weaker prices, changing distribution levels, or unusual valuation conditions.

The scope is narrow by design. Every entry in this table is Singapore-listed, even though the underlying assets span China-focused, US-focused, Europe-focused, Pan-Asian, and Singapore-focused portfolios. Readers looking for broader screens can cross-check this snapshot with the top yield rankings, the full REIT screener, and market access information on broker coverage.

Methodology

This ranking uses current yield as the primary sorting field. In the supplied dataset, current yield is the percentage shown under each REIT's current_yield, and the 10 entries are already ordered from highest to lowest on that metric. Supporting fields provide additional context rather than changing the rank. These include five-year average yield, NAV premium or discount, distribution safety score, years of continuous distributions, and five-year distribution growth.

Several of those fields require a quick definition. NAV premium or discount measures the gap between market price and reported net asset value per unit, with negative values indicating a discount and positive values indicating a premium. Distribution Safety Score is shown on a 0-100 scale where higher indicates stronger payout coverage based on the underlying Finance Pulse Research methodology. Aristocrat status identifies whether a REIT qualifies under the database's distribution consistency framework; in this snapshot, only one entry carries that flag.

The source framework references market and macro data inputs from Yahoo Finance, World Bank, FRED, and exchange-direct materials, alongside Finance Pulse Research derived metrics. The freshness stamps in this dataset show a REIT snapshot date of 2026-06-06, a real yield snapshot date of 2026-06-11, and a fetch date of 2026-06-12.

Inclusions and exclusions matter. This is not a complete list of all REITs in Asia, and it is not a list of all Singapore income securities. It is a ranked slice of 10 Singapore-listed REITs available in the current database extract. Known limitations also apply: yield changes with market price, NAV comparisons can become distorted when reported asset values lag market conditions, and anomaly flags in the raw data may reflect stale NAV data, illiquid trading, or structural factors rather than a clean valuation signal. Readers can compare methodology details with the broader ranking hub and the screening tools.

Main Ranking Table and Analysis

The table below presents all 10 entries in the live snapshot. Because the list contains fewer than 15 entries, the most useful approach is to focus on tiers, valuation gaps, and payout quality signals rather than broad statistical summaries.

Beyond the headline numbers, the ranking forms three visible yield tiers. The top spot sits alone: Sasseur REIT at 9.23%. A middle band runs from 7.73% down to 7.23%, covering ARA Hospitality Trust, Sabana Industrial REIT, CapitaLand Ascendas REIT, and IREIT Global. The bottom half clusters much more tightly, from 6.85% to 6.49%, a narrow spread that includes CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust, CapitaLand Ascott Trust, Starhill Global REIT, Mapletree Industrial Trust, and Cromwell European REIT. That compressed lower tier matters because small rank changes there can come from modest price moves rather than major distribution shifts.

A different pattern emerges when current yield is compared with five-year average yield. Some names now sit well above their own historical yield baselines, which can indicate lower prices, higher distributions, or a mix of both. CapitaLand Ascendas REIT shows 7.59% versus a five-year average yield of 5.658%, while CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust shows 6.85% against 4.439%. Sabana Industrial REIT also stands above its five-year average at 7.63% compared with 6.493%. By contrast, ARA Hospitality Trust's 7.73% is below its 8.142% five-year average, and IREIT Global's 7.23% sits far below its 13.717% historical average. Those gaps reveal how the same headline yield can carry very different context across entries.

The picture changes further once valuation and payout durability are layered in. ARA Hospitality Trust carries an _anomaly_nav note: its 286.36% NAV premium is explicitly flagged as an extreme figure that may reflect stale NAV data, an illiquid market, or structural factors. IREIT Global also has an anomaly flag, with a NAV discount of -55.09% that the dataset warns may reflect similar distortions. Those two figures therefore require caution in interpretation rather than face-value reading. Elsewhere, discounts are substantial but not anomaly-tagged, including -35.23% for Cromwell European REIT and -26.1% for Starhill Global REIT, while premiums include 19.24% for Mapletree Industrial Trust and 10.02% for CapitaLand Ascendas REIT.

Zooming into the individual entries from a payout-history angle adds another layer. CapitaLand Ascendas REIT combines a 22-year distribution streak with 12.875% five-year distribution growth, making it one of the stronger growth-and-history combinations in the table. Cromwell European REIT stands out differently: it is the only aristocrat in the list, and its five-year distribution growth reaches 14.95%, the highest positive growth figure here, even though it ranks tenth by current yield. At the other end, IREIT Global posts the weakest five-year distribution growth at -13.689%, paired with a Safety Score of 0. The data therefore shows that the top-yield list includes both expanding and shrinking distribution profiles, rather than a single uniform income pattern.

Country Distribution

Stepping back to the aggregate level, the country picture is unusually simple: every REIT in this ranking is listed in Singapore. The country distribution table therefore has a single row, but it still provides useful structure for interpreting the market.

This concentration is a feature of the dataset rather than a surprise in itself. The topic is a live snapshot of Singapore REITs, so Singapore accounts for all 10 entries, with an average yield of 7.285%. The same country-level distribution block also shows an aristocrat count of 1 and an average NAV discount figure of 15.627, a data point that signals broad valuation dispersion within the group rather than uniform pricing.

Switching from country labels to portfolio exposure reveals more diversity than the single-country table first suggests. The listed vehicles are Singapore-based, but their property income streams are not all domestically anchored. The ranking includes China-focused, US-focused, Europe-focused, Pan-Asian, Singapore-focused, and Singapore/US mandates. That mix means a Singapore REIT ranking can still embed overseas property cycles, foreign currency exposure, and differing tenant demand conditions across retail, hospitality, industrial, and office assets.

That structure reflects how the Singapore REIT market has developed as a regional listing hub. Analysis indicates that Singapore's REIT platform supports vehicles with cross-border asset portfolios while keeping reporting, listing, and investor access centralized in one market. As a result, a country breakdown by listing venue alone can look concentrated even when the operational footprint is geographically broad. Readers comparing listed markets can use the brokers guide for access pathways, review broader yield rankings, or filter by mandate on the REIT screener.

Sector Analysis

The picture changes at the sector level. Four sub-sectors appear in the top 10: Retail, Industrial, Hospitality, and Office. Retail and Industrial each contribute 3 entries, while Hospitality and Office each contribute 2.

Retail leads by average yield at 7.603%, narrowly ahead of Hospitality at 7.275% and Industrial at 7.257%. Office trails at 6.86%. That ranking, however, changes when distribution history enters the frame. Hospitality has the longest average streak at 19.0 years, followed by Industrial at 18.0, while Retail falls to 15.7 and Office to 13.0. In other words, the highest average sector yield here does not align with the longest average payment continuity.

Cross-sector composition also matters. Retail's average is lifted by the presence of the highest-yielding REIT in the full ranking, while Industrial's three entries are spread across the upper and lower half of the table, giving it a more balanced yield profile. Hospitality's two entries sit in the upper-middle and lower-middle ranks rather than at the extremes, which helps explain its relatively stable sector average. Office, by contrast, combines one mid-table name and one bottom-ranked name, and the sector's average streak of 13.0 years is the shortest among the four groups.

Cross-referencing with safety metrics reveals another layer. Industrial includes two entries with Safety Scores of 25 and one with 0, while Office includes two entries both at 0. Retail contains a mix of one Safety Score of 0 and two at 25. Hospitality splits evenly between 0 and 25. Since Distribution Safety Score runs on a 0-100 scale where higher indicates stronger payout coverage, this distribution suggests that yield leadership does not cluster neatly with payout coverage across sectors. The screening database is useful for sorting those combinations more precisely.

Cross-Metric Observations

Viewed through a five-year lens, the dataset shows that high current yield does not necessarily pair with positive distribution growth. Sasseur REIT leads on current yield at 9.23%, yet its five-year distribution growth is -4.316. ARA Hospitality Trust ranks second at 7.73% with growth of -3.427, and Sabana Industrial REIT ranks third at 7.63% with growth of -3.866. By contrast, some lower-ranked names show positive growth: CapitaLand Ascott Trust records 7.345, CapitaLand Ascendas REIT posts 12.875, and Cromwell European REIT reaches 14.95. The data reveals a clear disconnect between ranking position and distribution growth direction.

Another trade-off appears in the relationship between yield and Safety Score. Five names carry a Safety Score of 25, and five carry 0. Since the score is presented on a 0-100 scale where higher indicates stronger payout coverage, the split is stark rather than gradual. The top four ranks include two names at 0 and two at 25, while the bottom two ranks are both at 0. That pattern suggests payout coverage signals are mixed across the table instead of tightly linked to headline yield.

Finally, NAV positioning introduces a separate dimension. Deep discounts appear alongside both low and mid-ranked yields, and premiums also span the ranking. The anomaly-tagged 286.36% premium for ARA Hospitality Trust and the anomaly-tagged -55.09% discount for IREIT Global are the most obvious examples of why valuation metrics require context. Extreme values in REIT datasets can reflect stale NAV data, illiquid trading, or structural factors, and the annotations in this snapshot explicitly point to those possibilities.

Data Sources and Methodology

This snapshot uses Finance Pulse Research database fields dated across three timestamps. The REIT snapshot date is 2026-06-06, the real yield snapshot date is 2026-06-11, and the dataset was fetched on 2026-06-12. Those dates matter because yields, premiums or discounts, and ranking positions can change as market prices move, while NAV figures often update on a different schedule from prices.

Coverage in this article is intentionally limited to the 10 entries provided in the ranking extract. Countries outside Singapore are not yet covered within this specific list, even though several of the listed REITs hold assets outside Singapore. Sector coverage is also limited to Retail, Industrial, Hospitality, and Office in this dataset. Other REIT segments are not yet covered here.

Known caveats remain important. Current yield is a market-price-sensitive metric. NAV premium or discount can become distorted when underlying asset values are reported less frequently than traded prices. Distribution growth figures summarize a five-year change but do not capture the path taken year by year. Anomaly-tagged NAV readings in this dataset warrant added caution for interpretation. Readers looking for broader ranking rules, database coverage, and filtering logic can review the top yield rankings, the full screener, and market access notes in the broker directory.

Related Analyses

For readers extending this snapshot, the top yield rankings provide broader ranked lists across income-oriented securities covered by Finance Pulse Research.

The REIT screener allows filtering by yield, sector, geography focus, streak length, and valuation fields shown in this article.

The brokers guide outlines platform access and market coverage for readers tracking Singapore-listed securities across regions.

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any kind. Data as of 2026-06-12.

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