Real estate securities | Dimitrios Neilas
Real estate securities are ways to invest in real estate properties without actually having to purchase any specific land, buildings or properties. These might include office buildings, housing or commercial properties, such as shops. In 2014, the estimated number of real estate security companies was 456 with a total value of $1.7 trillion. This is likely to have grown in the past two years. The advantage of real estate securities is that they allow owning properties, but investors will not have to commit a huge amount of capital. In this post we will examine a couple of aspects of this part of the global equity market. REIT’s Nowadays, most of the real estate securities that are sold and traded are from real estate investment trusts (REITs). Twenty years ago, these kind of entities did not even exist yet. However in the present day, most public property owner’s are structured as REITs, which is a corporate entity that allocates income from rental payments to shareholders i