Equity REITs With High Yields

When investing in equity real estate investment trusts (REITs), it is important to remember that these own the real estate and generate revenues through collecting rents. Over a 10-year trailing period, equity REITs focused on industrial properties saw annualized returns of 17.1%, the second-best-...

Over a 10-year period, equity real estate investment trusts (REITs) tend to have a higher annualized return than mortgage REITs, which have an average return of 8.2%. Meanwhile, mortgage real estate investment trusts tend to have a higher five-year average dividend yield of 10.8%, which is much...

When investing in real estate investment trust, there is a common misunderstanding about the the difference between mortgage REITs and equity REITs. Mortgage REITs do not own any properties, rather they earn money from the interest on outstanding loans. With equity REITs, the firm...