REITs, or Real Estate Investment Trusts, are fairly confusing. Public REITs come in two different platforms – exchange-traded and non-traded.
Exchange-traded and non-traded REITs have a handful of similarities. For example, each is an investment in real estate. They’re also each required to distribute a minimum of 90% of taxable income to shareholders on an annual basis. Finally, they’re both required to file quarterly and annual reports – which isn’t uncommon for a wide variety of regulated investment options.
This, however, is where their similarities end. Exchange-traded REITs are traded publicly on a national securities exchange, while non-traded REITs aren’t. This means that non-traded REITs have significantly less liquidity, and often when investors decide to redeem non-traded REITs, there’s no guarantee they’ll be able to and if they can it may be very discounted. Sometimes it takes 10+ years for an REIT to be publicly listed, or for an REIT to liquidate its assets. Non-traded REITs are also known to have absurdly high fees, which can be damaging to the investor’s portfolio.
Read more about non-traded REITs and how they continue to rebrand themselves to get in front of investors in our article in Columbia Daily Tribune.
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