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Demand for Malaysian Islamic real-estate investment trusts may withstand a sluggish property market as their steady rental income is popular with pension funds amid a shortage of Shariah-compliant assets. Johor Corp plans to list the RM900 million (S$333 million) Al-Salam REIT, Kamaruzzaman Abu Kassim, the company's president said. The prospectus will be registered by July and the trust expects to deliver returns of around 6.3 per cent in 2016, he said. Al-'Aqar Healthcare REIT, majority owned by Johor Corp, returned 11.7 sen a unit to shareholders. That worked out to a dividend yield of 8.4 per cent based on its year-end closing price.