real estate investment trust
A real estate investment trust owns and manages a portfolio of office buildings and shopping centers.
Noun: A real estate investment trust is a company that owns, operates, or finances income-generating real estate. It allows individuals to invest in large-scale, income-producing real estate portfolios in a manner similar to how they invest in other industries—through the purchase of stock. These shares are typically traded on major stock exchanges.
A real estate investment trust is a specific type of investment vehicle. It is used to describe the company or trust itself. * Many retirees include real estate investment trusts in their portfolios for dividend income. * The real estate investment trust specializes in owning shopping malls across the country.
- "to qualify as a real estate investment trust": Refers to a company meeting specific legal and tax criteria (e.g., distributing most of its taxable income to shareholders) to be classified as this type of trust.
- The corporation restructured its assets to qualify as a real estate investment trust.
- REIT (noun): The standard acronym for "real estate investment trust."
- The healthcare REIT performed well this quarter.
- Equity REIT (noun): A type of REIT that owns and operates income-producing real estate.
- Mortgage REIT (noun): A type of REIT that provides financing for income-producing real estate by purchasing or originating mortgages and mortgage-backed securities.
- Property trust: A term sometimes used interchangeably, particularly in certain regions.
- Real estate trust: A less common, more general synonym.
- Publicly traded REIT: A REIT whose shares are listed on a national securities exchange.
- Investing in a publicly traded REIT offers high liquidity.
- Private REIT: A REIT that is not registered with the SEC and whose shares do not trade on national stock exchanges.
- The private REIT is only available to accredited investors.
A real estate investment trust owns and manages a portfolio of office buildings and shopping centers.
- an investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate assets; shares can be bought and sold in the stock market