QUESTION FIVE

You work for a real estate developer. Your company currently owns a highly strategic piece of land surrounding a large and densely populated residential area. Your company is planning to build a shopping complex with basement parking and other amenities on the land. Given the desirability of the location, your company sees no problem in getting tenants. There have already been many inquiries from interested businesses. The expected cost of the entire project is RM200 million. Construction will take years. As the Islamic Finance expert, your boss has asked you to propose an appropriate sukuk structure to finance the project. He wants a sukuk structure that would be easily marketable. The intended tenor of the sukuk is 20 years.

(a) What sukuk structure would you propose? Justify your proposal. Briefly explain why it is better than other structures.

(10 marks)