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A REIT, or real estate investment trust, is a company that owns, operates or finances real estate. Investing in a REIT is an easy way for you to add real estate to your portfolio, providing diversification and access to historically high REIT dividend payments. How Does a REIT Work? A REIT owns different kinds of income-producing real estate, such as shopping malls, hotels, office buildings, apartments, resorts, self-storage facilities, warehouses and even cell phone towers. Most REITs concentrate on one type of real estate, though some include multiple property types. Generally, a REIT leases out the properties that it owns and collects rent as its chief source of revenue. Some REITs don’t own property, choosing instead to finance real estate transactions and generate income from the interest on the financing. To • Invest at least 75% of total assets in real estate. • Derive at least 75% of its gross income from rents from real property, interest on mortgages financing real property or from real estate sales. • Pay at least 90% of taxable income as shareholder dividends each year. • Be an entity that is taxable as a corporation. • Be managed by a board of directors or trustees. • Have a minimum of 100 shareholders. • Have no more than 50% of its shares held by five or fewer individuals. Why Invest in REITs? You might consider investing in a REIT for a few key reasons: Get Exposure to Real Estate One of the primary reasons to invest in REITs is the exposure they provide to...

Outlook For REITs The last year has not been good to REITs. As of February 15, 2023, the S&P U.S. REIT index was down more than 11% over the prior 12 months. By comparison, the S&P 500 dipped only 7.2% in the same time frame. There is some positive news: year to date the S&P U.S. REIT index is outperforming the S&P 500. Investment manager Hazelview Investments sees Potential For Recession Fitch's With inflation at a 40-year high running at more than 6.4%, dividend stocks offer one of the best ways to beat inflation and generate a dependable income stream. Download “Five Dividend Stocks To Beat Inflation,” a special report from Forbes’ dividend expert, John Dobosz. 10 Best REIT Investments REITs return value to shareholders in two ways—share price appreciation and dividend yield. As a reminder, The REITs shown in the table below outperform that index, with yields ranging from 4.48% to 10.8%. REIT Yields Vs. Stock Yields: Remember The Taxes Looking at the list above, you might conclude that REIT yields seem higher than traditional stock yields. You’d be correct, in a sense. REITs have a special tax status that requires them to pay out at least 90% of their taxable income to shareholders. For the REITs that are profitable, that requirement can lead to a higher-yielding investment than, say, blue-chip stocks or investment-grade debt. Still, the practical difference between REITs and dividend stock yields will be less than you'd think. Most REIT dividends are taxed as ordinary ...

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• Real estate investment trusts (REITs) can offer investors a unique combination of inflation hedging, income potential, and capital appreciation. • REITs invest in a wide variety of types of real estate. Among the potential winners are REITs that invest in hotels, casinos, and strip-malls. • REITs also have unique tax and reporting complexities that other types of investments may not. • Careful security selection by experienced managers can help find attractively priced opportunities in volatile markets and manage the risks of investing in REITs. Historically, when inflation has risen, real estate has tended to fare relatively well. While past performance offers no guarantees about what may happen in the future, that track record may make this a good time to find out more about REITs, which are companies that own, operate, or finance income-generating real estate including offices, apartments, shopping centers, hotels, and more. Most REITs are publicly traded and enable investors to earn dividends from real estate without having to buy individual properties. REITs offer the potential for capital appreciation of stocks (and potential exposure to stock market volatility), income in the form of dividends, and also the benefit of exposure to underlying real estate that has tended to gain in value during inflationary times. Furthermore, despite the benefits they potentially offer investors in inflationary times, many REITs may be temporarily mis-priced amid market volatility. ...

• Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are required to pay out at least 90% of income as shareholder dividends. • Book value ratios are useless for REITs. Instead, calculations such as net asset value are better metrics. • Top-down and bottom-up analyses should be used for REITs. Top-down factors include population and job growth. Bottom-up aspects include rental income and funds from operations. What Qualifies as an REIT? Most REITs lease space and collect rents, then • Invest at least 75% of total assets in real estate, cash, or U.S. Treasuries • Earn at least 75% of gross income from rents, interest on mortgages that finance real property, or real estate sales • Pay a minimum of 90% of taxable income in the form of shareholder dividends each year • Be an entity that’s taxable as a corporation • Be managed by a board of directors or trustees • Have at least 100 shareholders after its first year of existence • Have no more than 50% of its shares held by five or fewer individuals By having REIT status, a company avoids corporate income tax. A regular corporation makes a profit and pays taxes on its entire profit, then decides how to allocate its after-tax profits between dividends and reinvestment. A REIT simply distributes all or almost all of its profits and gets to skip the taxation. While a handful of hybrid REITs run real estate operations and transact in mortgage loans, most REITs are the equity type—the REITs that focus on the “hard asset” business of real estate o...