Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts
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Equity real estate investment trust companies carry out the actual business of running real estate businesses. These are what people are usually referring to when they speak or write "REIT."
As of 2004, the market cap of publicly traded real estate trusts was $308 billion. Since the U.S. commercial real estate market is about $4 trillion, there's still a lot of room for growth.
What are Real Estate Investment Trusts -- the law that creates them, and how this creates income for you
What are the advantages of REITs -- they are terrific for income investors
What are the disadvantages of REITs -- no income investment is perfect
What are the risks of REITs -- so long as real estate value and income goes up and down in cycles
How do Real Estate Investment Trusts grow -- these companies continue to expand in income and profits
What is NAREIT -- the trade association for REITs
In the past four decades some real estate companies have branched out, giving investors the opportunity to profit from nearly every kind of commercial real estate available:
What are UPREITs -- one technical structure of real estate investment trusts
What are DOWNREITs -- another technical, legal way to structure real estate investment trusts
What are Paired-Share Real Estate Investment Trusts -- some REITs have subsidiaries
What is a Taxable REIT Subsidiary -- some REITs own subsidiaries with income that is legally taxable
What is a cap rate -- REITs should earn the industray capitalization rate
What are Funds From Operations -- a creative accounting term with which to evaluate REIT financials
What are Adjusted Funds From Operations -- the REIT version of net income per accounting principles
What is the Price to Funds From Operations Ratio --P/FFO
What are Real Estate Limited Partnerships -- a form of real estate investment no longer in existence
UMH Properties, Inc -- United Mobile Homes
Kimco Realty -- neighborhood and community shopping centers
Regency Centers -- shopping centers anchored by grocery stores
Realty Income -- single tenant commercial properties
Public Storage -- operating storage space
Brandywine Realty Trust -- office and industrial properties
Brookfield Properties -- superior commercial real estate properties
BRE Properties -- residential properties in southern California
Boston Properties -- class A office buildings in Boston Massachusetts
Mack-Cali Realty -- East Coast USA office and office/flex properties
Cousins Properties Incorporated -- Sunbelt commercial properties
Duke Realty -- largest commercial real estate REIT
Health Care REIT -- healthcare industries commercial properties
Highwoods Properties -- southern and Midwestern US commercial properties
Hospitality Properties Trust -- hotel management
HRPT Properties Trust -- office properties
Kilroy Realty Corporation -- high quality commercial property in southern California
Liberty Property Trust -- commercial office and flex properties in both the US and UK
Lexington Realty Trust -- single tenant, net lease commercial properties
Maguire Properties -- class A office properties in southern California
National Retail Properties -- single tenant commercial properties
Corporate Office Properties Trust -- office properties
Pennsylvania REIT -- retail properties in Pennsylvania
SL Green Realty Corporation -- office buildings in Manhattan New York
Universal Health Realty Income Trust -- healthcare facilities
AMB Property Corporation -- leading developer of distribution facilities
BioMed Realty -- specialized real estate for life sciences industry properties
Developers Diversified Realty Corporation -- shopping centers
Digital Realty Trust -- IT datacenters REIT focusing in IT needs of companies
EastGroup Properties -- focused on industrial properties in the U.S. Sunbelt states
Equity One REIT -- neighborhood and community shopping centers in the south
First Potomac Realty Trust -- owning industrial and flex properties
First Industrial Realty -- international distribution centers for supply chain
Federal Realty Investment Trust -- retail property development, redevelopment and management REIT
Gladstone Commercial -- leasing business real estate and making mortgage property loans to small businesses
Inland Real Estate Corporation -- retail shopping centers in the Upper U.S. Midwest states
Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation -- net leasing commercial industrial properties to long term tenants
Mission West Properties -- research and development properties in Silicon Valley California
New Plan Excel Realty Trust -- retail neighborhood and community shopping center REIT
Prime Group Realty Trust -- Prime Group commercial real estate in and around Chicago Illinois.
Parkway Properties -- office real estate property in southern United States and Chicago
ProLogis Trust -- world's largest owner, manager and developer of distribution facilities for supply chain needs
PS Business Parks -- leasing office, industrial and flex space
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers -- leading manager and owner of factory outlet centers saving consumers money on brand name products
Weingarten Realty -- large REIT of neighborhood and community retail shopping centers
Agree Realty -- development and ownership of retail shopping centers, single tenant or grocery anchored
AIMCO -- Apartment Investment and Management Company, largest owner and operator of apartment complexes
Acadia Realty -- many shopping centers in the Northeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic
AmREIT REIT -- they invest in "irreplaceable corner," high quality commercial retail properties in major markets
Archstone-Smith real estate investment trust -- luxury apartment communities in major metropolitan areas
Avalon Bay Communities -- real estate investment trust owning and operating luxury apartment communities in high barrier to entry, major metropolitan areas
Saul Centers -- neighborhood and community shopping centers, and office properties
CLB & Associates Properties -- regional malls and community centers, retail shopping
Cedar Shopping Centers -- owns and operates shopping centers anchored by supermarkets
Equity Residential REIT -- "America's Choice for Apartment Living" is their slogan
Feldman Mall Properties -- invests in enclosed retail shopping malls
General Growth Properties -- large enclosed shopping malls REIT
Glimcher Realty Trust -- regional, super regional and community shopping malls real estate investment trust
Getty Realty Corp REIT -- service stations, convenience stores and petroleum distribution centers
Kite Realty Group -- quality neighborhood and community shopping centers
Macerich Company -- REIT that invests in major retail shopping centers in growing markets
Ramco-Gershenson Properties -- buys and manages shopping centers REIT
Simon Property Group -- regional shopping malls REIT
Taubman Centers -- high quality regional malls in the U.S., and being developed in Macao China and South Korea
Urstadt Biddle Properties -- community retail shopping centers in the Northeast United States
American Campus Communities -- real estate investment trust providing high quality housing for the college student market
Associated Estates Realty Corporation -- apartments for affluent markets
AMLI Residential Properties REIT -- provides high quality, expensive apartments for temporary corporate needs
American Land Lease -- manufactured home communities (MHC) for retirees, many age-restricted
Colonial Properties Trust -- owns many commercial real estate properties in the United States Sunbelt area -- the southern states
Camden Property Trust -- one of the largest multi-unit apartment building real estate investment trusts in the United States
Education Realty Trust -- real estate investment trust providing housing for college students
Equity Lifestyle Properties -- high quality resort properties REIT
Essex Property Trust -- REIT that acquires, develops, redevelops and manages multifamily apartment communities
Gables Residential -- REIT slogan -- Taking Care of the Way People Live and Forever Great
Home Properties -- owning and operating over 38,000 apartments
Investors Real Estate Trust -- REIT focused on commercial real estate properties in the Upper Midwest of the United States, plus Texas
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc -- largest provider of brand name, luxury and upscale hotels, especially the Marriott brand name
Mid-America Apartment Communities -- creating apartment buildings with slogan Creating Great Places to Call Home
One Liberty Properties -- REIT that owns and operates commercial properties with long term leases
Post Properties -- providing upscale multifamily apartment units
Sun Communities -- real estate investment trust for manufactured home communities and recreational vehicle parks
UDR, Inc -- REIT providing high quality apartment buildings
Vornado Realty Trust -- large REIT with office buildings in New York City and Washington DC, retail properties and Merchandise Mart
More REITs based in the United States
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