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Pension, endowment, and foundation funds control over $12 trillion in total assets, with approximately $900 billion invested in real estate.
REIT transaction activity is expected to keep accelerating in the second half of 2021.
Will the gap be closed through underperformance in what may be an overvalued private real estate market, overperformance in what seems very clearly to be an undervalued listed REIT market, or a little of both?
Analysts say supply/demand imbalance is the greatest opportunity ahead for health care REITs.
Analysts say broader market playing "catch up." to REITs.
Occupancy rates are indicators of property fundamentals that reflect the interaction of supply and demand.
Kansas-based REIT QTS Realty Trust, Inc. acquired the site for $18 million in 2014 and redeveloped it into a 475,000 square-foot data center.
There is a high barrier to entry to invest directly in commercial property and most U.S. families do not invest in commercial property unless they have significant financial resources, according to data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF).
Apartment, hotel REITs among strongest performers in first half of 2014.
REITs have made important changes over the past decade in their overall leverage ratios, as well as the composition and structure of their debt.
The yield spread to Baa corporates as of the end of 2016 was in the bullish part of its historic range—and if a wide variety of estimates of the past relationship between spreads and forward-looking returns continues to hold, that currently bullish spread would suggest relatively bullish future total returns for investors in exchange-traded Equity REITs.
FFO rose 5.6% as the economy reopened and REITs display resilience with strong balance sheets, low leverage ratios.
Dirk Brounen is professor of real estate economics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.