The Intelligent REIT Investor Guide: How to Sleep Well at Night with Safe and Reliable Dividend Income

The Intelligent REIT Investor Guide: How to Sleep Well at Night with Safe and Reliable Dividend Income Description

Brad Thomas, the author of The Intelligent REIT Investor Guide, takes you step-by-step through both fundamental and complex concepts in the sustainable, profitable world of real estate investment trusts.

This book covers the history, language, ideas, and research you’ll need to make intelligent investments in this expanding asset class, from historical industry performance to the equations used to determine important metrics in REIT equities. Learn how you may improve your judgement while making short- and long-term investments in publicly traded REITs.

Here’s what you will learn in this course:

• Acknowledgments xi
• A Building Block for REITs xiii
• Chapter 1 REITs: What They Are and How They Work 1
• Chapter 2 REITs Versus Competitive Investments 15
• Chapter 3 REITs over the Decades 27
• Chapter 4 Residential REITs 41
• Chapter 5 Retail REITs 57
• Chapter 6 Office, Healthcare, Self-Storage, and Lodging REITs 71
• Chapter 7 Technology REITs 83
• Chapter 8 Specialized REITs 101
• Chapter 9 REITs: Mysteries and Myths 113
• Chapter 10 REITs: Growth and Value Creation 123
• Chapter 11 Searching for Blue Chips 143
• Chapter 12 Breaking Down the REIT Balance Sheet 153
• Chapter 13 REIT Preferred Stocks 163
• Chapter 14 The Quest for Investment Value 173
• Chapter 15 Building a REIT Portfolio 187
• Chapter 16 Investing in Global REITs 203
• Chapter 17 Management Matters 211
• The Intelligent REIT Glossary 221
• The Intelligent REIT Investor 233
• Afterword 239
• Index 241