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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT REITSGETTING STARTED IN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) offer small investors the chance to participate in a broad range of real estate opportunities across most major property sectors and geographic locations. But to make the most out of this proven investment vehicle, you must first gain a firm understanding of it.
Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts provides an accessible introduction to the benefits and performance characteristics of REITs and examines the role they play in a well-diversified investment portfolio.
Divided into three comprehensive parts, Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts covers a wide variety of issues within this field, including:
- The legal and financial history of REITs
- How REITs behave as an investment class and how they are best integrated into an investor's portfolio
- The fundamental economic issues that affect real estate and how they impact REITs
- Specific methods for analyzing REITs as an investment
- Different types of REITs: residential, office, industrial, retail property, and more
Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts is a valuable road map to an investment that can help stabilize and grow your portfolio for years to come.
Synopsis
An accessible introduction to Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
The growth of REITs as an asset class has created an excellent opportunity for small investors to participate in the ownership of institutional-quality real estate. Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts examines the benefits and performance characteristics of REITs in easy-to-understand terms. This user-friendly resource is filled with practical guidance and vital information that will help readers get up and running in the REIT market- from picking the right REIT to understanding how to purchase and monitor them. Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts is a valuable road map to an investment vehicle that can help investors stabilize and grow their portfolios for years to come.
Richard Imperiale (Union Grove, WI) is founder and President of the Uniplan Companies, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-- based investment advisory holding company. Uniplan specializes in providing clients with consistently superior risk-adjusted returns managing equity, REIT, and micro cap specialty portfolios. Imperiale is the author of The Micro Cap Investor (0-471-47870-9) and J.K. Lasser Pro Real Estate Investment Trusts (0-471-21166-4).
Synopsis
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT REITS
GETTING STARTED IN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) offer small investors the chance to participate in a broad range of real estate opportunities across most major property sectors and geographic locations. But to make the most out of this proven investment vehicle, you must first gain a firm understanding of it.
Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts provides an accessible introduction to the benefits and performance characteristics of REITs and examines the role they play in a well-diversified investment portfolio.
Divided into three comprehensive parts, Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts covers a wide variety of issues within this field, including:
* The legal and financial history of REITs
* How REITs behave as an investment class and how they are best integrated into an investor's portfolio
* The fundamental economic issues that affect real estate and how they impact REITs
* Specific methods for analyzing REITs as an investment
* Different types of REITs: residential, office, industrial, retail property, and more
Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, Getting Started in Real Estate Investment Trusts is a valuable road map to an investment that can help stabilize and grow your portfolio for years to come.
About the Author
Richard Imperiale is President and founder of the Uniplan Companies, a Milwaukee,Wisconsin-based investment advisory holding company. Uniplan and its affiliates manage and advise over $450 million in client accounts. Uniplan specializes in providing clients with consistently superior risk-adjusted returns managing equity, REITs, and micro cap specialty portfolios. Imperiale is also the author of The Micro Cap Investor and J.K. Lasser Pro Real Estate Investment Trusts, both published by Wiley.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART 1: Getting Started in REITs.
Chapter 1: Real Estate as an Asset Class.
Chapter 2: The History of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
Chapter 3: REITs as an Asset Class.
Chapter 4: REITs as a Portfolio Diversification Tool.
Chapter 5: Integrating REITs into an Investment Portfolio.
PART 2: Real Estate Economics and Analysis.
Chapter 6: Real Estate Market Characteristics.
Chapter 7: Real Estate Development.
Chapter 8: Partnerships and Joint Ventures.
Chapter 9: Analyzing REITs.
Chapter 10: Advanced Financial REIT Topics.
PART 3: Public Real Estate Sectors.
Chapter 11: Residential REITs.
Chapter 12: Manufactured Home Community REITs.
Chapter 13: Office REITs.
Chapter 14: Industrial REITs.
Chapter 15: Retail Property REITs.
Chapter 16: Hotel REITs.
Chapter 17: Health Care Properties.
Chapter 18: Self-Storage REITs.
Chapter 19: Other REIT Sectors.
Appendix A: Real Estate Mutual Funds.
Appendix B: Real Estate Investment Trusts.
Glossary.
Index.