Wharf Real Estate Investment Company Limited (Wharf REIC) is a listed real estate portfolio company. It is a subsidiary of private company Wheelock & Co. (formerly listed), as well as a sister company of fellow listed company

The Wharf (Holdings) The Wharf (Holdings) Limited (), or Wharf (九倉) in short, is a company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong. As its name suggests, the company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing, and it was originally known as Th ...

. Wharf REIC owned a few shopping centres and commercial buildings in Hong Kong (via Wharf Estates Limited and other subsidiaries such as listed company Harbour Centre Development) and in Singapore (via Wharf Estates Singapore and subsidiaries), namely: Harbour City complex,

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Wheelock House Wheelock House () is a commercial office building located on Pedder Street in Central, Hong Kong. Wheelock House is a Class A office space completed in 1984 and has 24 storeys. One of its architects was Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd while the real estate ...

, Crawford House, The Murray,

Plaza Hollywood Plaza Hollywood () is a large shopping centre in Diamond Hill, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is part of Galaxia, a residential estate of Wharf Holdings. The shopping centre opened in 1997, and includes four levels surrounding a central atrium. It has ...

Wheelock Place Wheelock Place (), (Tamil ) is a 21-floor office tower and shopping mall on Singapore's Orchard Road. Background The building was designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1994 as Lane Crawford Place (). It is now owned by Wharf Estates Sing ...

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etc.

History

Wharf Real Estate Investment Company Limited (Wharf REIC) was formed as a spin-off of

in 2017. Before the spin off, in 2016, The Wharf also acquired

from the parent company Wheelock & Co. and from the chairman

Peter Woo Peter Woo Kwong-ching, GBM, GBS, JP (; born September 5, 1946) is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman. He was the chairman of Wheelock and Company Limited ()and The Wharf Holdings Limited () until 19 May 2015. As of April 2021, his net wort ...

, which the assets were later injected to the REIC. In February 2018, Wharf REIC replaced The Wharf (Holdings) as the component of the blue chip index

Hang Seng Index The Hang Seng Index (HSI) is a freefloat-adjusted market- capitalization-weighted stock-market index in Hong Kong. It is used to record and monitor daily changes of the largest companies of the Hong Kong stock market and is the main indicator ...

. In December 2019, Wharf REIC acquired

and

and the company

Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Wharf Estates Singapore Pte. Ltd., formerly Marco Polo Developments Limited, Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Limited and Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., engages in property development and investment in Singapore. It is a subsidiary of ...

from Wheelock & Co.

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