A product which provides a fixed income which is better than FD & an upside like equity.
Should you invest in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)?
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In listed REITs, Most of the completed properties are pre-leased to big companies.
Why no residential? As yields of 1-3% make them unattractive to investors.
REITs have to distribute at least 90% of their taxable income to their shareholders.
Both listed REITs trade at 6-7% dividend yield (which is also tax-free)
What about debt then? There's a restriction there too.
Not more than 49% of the total equity.
REITs are traded on the exchange (like stocks). Yes, Instant liquidity in a very illiquid product (Bulky Commercial Real Estate)
An investor can take part by buying 200 units at a time (60-70k rupees)
Under the current structure, Dividends remain tax-free (6-7% yields vs pre-tax FD yield of 5%)
On capital gains, while selling your units:
STCG of 15% on gains (if sold in less than 3 years)
LTCG of 10% on gains (if sold after 3 years)
US REITs have 5 decades of history behind them & they have continued to outperform the broader equity markets
Interesting fact: US has 194 listed REITs with a combined market cap of $1.3Trillion
This leaves an upside potential once contracts expire.
Moreover, REITs have contractual escalations of 10-15% every 3-5 years.
Directly buying RE? Get ready for 👇
- Huge Ticket Size (vs limited capital)
- Hassle of managing operational cost
- No valid data source
- Illiquid investment with high transaction costs
- Committed Occupancy & collections efficiency (higher the better)
- Weighted Average Lease Expiry (WALE)
- Sector Concentration (lesser the better) & Quality of tenants
- Healthy Balance Sheet
- Upcoming portfolio
No (in the context of India)
- Rents are a fraction of global rents
- Indian Outsourcing is a big opportunity given the resilience & performance in COVID
- Young Population needs direction via physical interactions.
Commercial RE supply is hit, especially for Single Building Projects, Speculative construction, Strata Title assets
Most are facing a cash crunch
Great for future rent scenario, if demand increases
- Slowdown in Commercial RE (follow vacancies)
- Oversupply: Renegotiation at lower rates
- Concentration risks (tenant & location wise)
- Difference b/w REIT yield & FD rate
- Broader stock market movements will have an impact on unit price
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