The Complete Guide to Investing in Reits How to Earn High Rates of Return Safely

The Complete Guide to Investing in Reits How to Earn High Rates of Return Safely

by Mark Gordon
The Complete Guide to Investing in Reits How to Earn High Rates of Return Safely

The Complete Guide to Investing in Reits How to Earn High Rates of Return Safely

by Mark Gordon

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Overview

Currently, there are nearly 200 publicly traded real estate investment trusts (more commonly referred to as REITs) in operation in the United Sates with a combined $500 billion in assets. An estimated two-thirds of REITS are traded on national stock exchanges. A REIT is a real estate company that offers its shares to the public. By doing so, a REIT stock becomes like any other stock that represents the holder s ownership in a business. However, REITs have two distinct features: REITs manage groups of income-producing properties and must distribute 90 percent of profits as dividends. The Complete Guide to Investing in REITs will teach you everything you need to know about REITs and how you can earn high rates of return.

In this book, you will learn about publicly and privately held REITs, Net Asset Value (NAV), Adjusted Funds From Operations (AFFO), Cash Available for Distribution (CAD), the benefits associated with REITS, dividend reinvestment programs (DRiPs), capitalization rate, equitization, leverage, positive spread investing, securitization, and straight-lining. You will also learn about equity, mortgage, and hybrid REITs and the more specific types, including residential, office, industrial, and retail.

The Complete Guide to Investing in REITs will walk you through finding the appropriate REIT for you. This book will also teach you how to manage your REIT, how to limit your personal risk, how to understand REIT performance, and how to analyze REITs. By reading this book, you will know and understand the pitfalls of investing in REITs, you will know how REITs behave as an investment class and how to best integrate them into your portfolio, and you will know what economic issues affect real estate and the effects these have on REITs.

This book is not merely for the novice investor who wants to learn everything possible about real estate investment trusts; professional investors, financial planners, and investment advisors will also find valuable information in this book. Ultimately, The Complete Guide to Investing in REITs will help you stabilize and grow your portfolio and earn high rates of return by providing you with vital information and practical guidance.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781601384621
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/12/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 3 MB

Table of Contents


Dedication 5 Introduction 11 Chapter 1 What is a REIT? 19 A Trio of Options 24 Leveraging Predictability 28 Big But Getting Bigger 33 Chapter 2 Real Estate Investments 35 The Spin Cycles 37 Break It Down 40 The Big Picture 51 Chapter 3 The ABCs 53 From Theory to Practice 60 The Net Answer 65 Chapter 4 Real Estate Investment Trusts: A History 69 The 1960s 72 The 1970s 75 The 1980s 78 The 1990s 81 The 2000s...and Beyond 85 Chapter 5 REITs on the Street 87 A Street Fight 95 Chapter 6 Office REITs 101 Property, Property, Property 103 Individual Stories 107 Chapter 7 Residential REITs 117 Renting Versus Owning 120 Individual Stories 124 Chapter 8 Retail REITs 133 A Two-Way Street 136 Individual Stories 139 Chapter 9 Industrial REITs 149 Going Global 153 Individual Stories 155 Chapter 10 Healthcare REITs 165 Recession Proof 169 Individual Stories 171 Chapter 11 Self-Storage REITs 179 A Growing Industry 182 Individual Stories 184 Chapter 12 Hotel/Motel REITs 195 Individual Stories 200 Chapter 13 Other REITs 209 Specialty REITs 210 More REITs 212 Individual Stories 215 Chapter 14 The Value of a REIT 225 Operational Funds 228 Growth Methods 231 Expense Sharing 234 Rent Bumps 234 Percentage Rent 234 Property Improvements 235 Tenant Upgrades 235 Reinvestment 235 Proper Valuations 238 Chapter 15 REITs and the Individual Investor 241 The Individual 243 Getting Going 252 Chapter 16 REITs and Risks 259 Trend Lines 263 Coming Soon 270 Glossary 271 Author Biography 281 Sources 282 Index 283
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